March 2, 2023

• Meta is updating its approach to platform penalties, in line with recommendations from its independent Oversight Board, which will put more focus on explaining why content has been removed, as opposed to arbitrary suspensions. Click here to learn more.

• Microsoft is bringing access to iMessage on Windows through its Phone Link app. Read the full article here.

• TikTok announced that it’s launching Sounds for Business, a collection of sounds that are designed as templates for easy marketing content creation. Click here to learn more.

• Canva, the online graphic design platform, launched Canva for Campus, a new paid subscription for universities and colleges.. Read the full article here.

• LastPass says that a bad actor was able to steal corporate and customer data by hacking an employee’s personal computer and installing keylogger malware. Read the full article here.

Holidays: 3/3/23

• Day of Unplugging

• World Wildlife Day

• Caregiver Appreciation Day

• National Anthem Day

• World Hearing Day

• Employee Appreciation Day

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March 1, 2023

• Meta now has a team dedicated to building tools powered by artificial intelligence, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post on Monday. This could eventually include “AI personas” designed to help people in “various ways” in addition to new AI tools across its apps and services. Click here to learn more.

• Meta has announced a new initiative to help young people avoid having their intimate photos distributed online, with both Instagram and Facebook joining the ‘Take It Down’ program, a new process created by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), which provides a way for young people to safely detect images of themselves on the web. Read the full article here.

• Canada has become the latest jurisdiction to ban TikTok on government-owned devices, with the Canadian Government calling on staff to remove the app from all government mobile devices by March 1st, due to concerns around potential data collection and misuse. Click here to learn more.

• You now have more ways to target your ads on LinkedIn, with the platform adding a range of new Service interest attributes, and over 120 new Product interest options, to help refine your audience targeting. Read the full article here.

• Spotify’s heart icon is changing to a “plus” button that lets you save music and add songs to specific playlists. Read the full article here.

• Snapchat is the first social platform to jump aboard the generative AI bandwagon, with the launch of a new chatbot element for Snapchat+ subscribers called ‘My AI’, which will integrate ChatGPT into the platform, and provide AI-generated responses to queries. Click here to learn more.

Holidays for the month of March 2023:

• Nutrition Month

• Women’s History Month

• Social Work Month

• Peanut Month

• Craft Month

• International Ideas Month

• Caffeine Awareness Month

• Rising Star Month

• Credit Education Month

• Cheerleading Safety Month

• Umbrella Month

• Music in Our Schools Month

and tomorrow is:

• International Rescue Cat Day

• American Citizenship Day

• Hospitalist Day

• Old Stuff Day

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February 28, 2023

• Microsoft has once again accidentally offered the Windows 11 upgrade to PCs with unsupported hardware. Click here to learn more.

• When Elon Musk took over Twitter in October last year, the company had around 7,500 staff,

  By January, Musk claimed that Twitter’s headcount was down to around 2,300 staff in total – a reduction of around 70%

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• TikTok has announced a new set of official measurement partners, which will provide third-party data on TikTok ads placement and performance, in order to provide more reassurance to ad partners. Click here to learn more.

• If you are in the market for a new Mercedes, you’ll be able to watch Tiktok on the screen. Read the full article here.

Holidays 3/01/23:

• Peanut Butter Lover's Day

• Asiatic Fleet Memorial Day

• Baby Sleep Day

• Wedding Planning Day

• Public Risk Management Awareness Day

• Zero Discrimination Day

• World Music Therapy Day

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February 27, 2023

• Meta, Facebook’s parent company, is releasing a new AI language generator named LLaMA. Click here to learn more.

• One of the Google Pixel’s best photo-editing features, “Magic Eraser,” is now making its way to other Android and iOS devices. But it won’t be free. Read the full article here.

Holidays 2/28/23:

• Chocolate Souffle Day

• Pancake Day

• Floral Design Day

• Essay Day

• World Spay Day

• Science Day

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February 24, 2023

• Recap of this week’s news.

Holidays:

On Saturday

• International Sword Swallowers Day

• Quiet Day

And on Sunday

• Letter to an Elder Day

• Black Lives Matter Day

• Carnival Day

• Carpe Diem Day

• Tell a Fairy Tale Day

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February 23, 2023

• Meta reiterated its push to monetize messaging, and enable businesses to tap into the growth of private messaging across its apps. Click here to learn more.

• Microsoft evidently hasn’t been daunted by the often wild outbursts of its AI chatbot Bing and is launching the service on iOS and Android mobile apps today as well as integrating the bot into Skype and adding voice access. Read the full article here.

Holidays 2/24/23:

• Tortilla Chip Day

• Discover Girl Day

• Skip the Straw Day

• Trading Card Day

• World Bartender Day

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February 22, 2023

• Google has released optimization features designed to improve battery life and memory usage on machines running the latest version of its Chrome desktop web browser. Click here to learn more.

• A new tweet by Elon Musk suggests the company is preparing to open source its algorithm as soon as next week. Read the full article here.

• Instagram’s testing a new way to provide more transparency on Reels content, by listing the location of the profile that created the clip on the video itself. Click here to learn more.

• Microsoft is preparing to launch a new version of Microsoft Teams next month that has been rebuilt from the ground up to significantly improve its system resource usage on PCs and laptops. Read the full article here.

Holidays 2/23/23:

• Diesel Engine Day

• Digital Learning Day

• Hospitality Workers Appreciation Day

• Dog Biscuit Day

• Play Tennis Day

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February 21, 2023

• Google Meet’s launching new 360-degree virtual backgrounds for video calls on mobile. Click here to learn more.

• Microsoft, which is in early testing with its new Bing chatbot experience, has provided some early pointers on this, explaining to ad agencies that, soon, it will allow paid links within AI-generated responses to search results, along with contextual pop-ups around relevant queries. Read the full article here.

• LinkedIn has added another way to keep track of your messaging chats in the app, with the ability to ‘star’ chosen conversations. Click here to learn more.

• WhatsApp has started to roll out picture-in-picture mode for video calls on iOS. The feature, which WhatsApp first started testing last year, should let you open up other apps during video calls without any disruptions. Read the full article here.

Holidays 2/22/23:

• Walking the Dog Day

• Be Humble Day

• Cook a Sweet Potato Day

• Inconvenience Yourself Day

• Recreational Sports & Fitness Day

• Single Tasking Day

• Supermarket Employee Day

• World Thinking Day

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