[ad_1] It’s not entirely clear how pigeonet would’ve worked, but the report says the drones were designed to carry small solid-state drives filled with media. That suggests that they were meant to relay information between traditional mobile infrastructure from afar and people’s phones. What’s crystal is that Facebook didn’t conceptualize the technology as a complete […]
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Facebook says it accidentally deleted some of Mark Zuckerberg’s posts
[ad_1] It’s not clear exactly what posts vanished beyond the 2007-2008 time frame, but they include a post about the acquisition of Instagram in 2012 as well as news of company chef Josef Desimone’s death in 2013. The company stressed that it believed people should have access to previous company news through its blog and […]
Three years of Oculus figuring out VR
[ad_1] The Rift’s launch capped a whirlwind three years that started with the release of the first Rift developer kit, which also came out in March — March 29th, 2013, to be precise. The first Rift developer kit came out as a Kickstarter project the company launched in August of 2012. Oculus raised well over […]
Facebook COO says it’s ‘exploring’ restrictions on who can go live
[ad_1] Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg took to the Instagram blog this evening saying “We have heard feedback that we must do more – and we agree.” Despite the lack of credibility big tech companies have when it comes to dealing with dangerous hate groups, the post’s title claims “We Can Win Against Hate.“ Specifically citing […]
Facebook will only stream six MLB games this season
[ad_1] The MLB Network will produce dedicated Watch broadcasts with interactive and social elements. The games will be available in the US (except for blackout areas where the games air on local stations) and several international markets. Facebook and the MLB have yet to decide which games will stream on Watch, though the platform will […]
Christchurch, we need more than digital-security theater
[ad_1] That’s why I thought that article might be good to share, to help people avoid the trauma of viewing videos like that. After all, these videos are injected without consent into our online spaces with the intent to harm us, and inspire further violence. There was one huge problem: The article’s instructions require you […]
Facebook expands Ad Library and tightens ad rules ahead of EU elections
[ad_1] If you do see political ads that don’t have that disclosure, it might be because they started running before Facebook enforced the new rules. According to The Guardian, the requirements are not retroactive, and previous campaigns will remain unaffected. Facebook will block any political ads from unverified sources starting mid-April, though, and is encouraging […]
Turing Award winners include AI giants from Facebook and Google
[ad_1] Hinton, for instance, proved that a then-rare backpropagation algorithm could help neural networks solve problems that were previously unfeasible. LeCun was instrumental to developing technologies behind modern computer vision, while Bengio helped foster generative adversarial networks (that is, pitting a creative network against another that serves as a kind of quality control) that can […]
Facebook pulls 2,632 bogus accounts and pages in latest crackdown
[ad_1] Most of them, 1,907, were Russia-linked accounts either posting spam or (to a lesser degree) touching on Ukranian politics, including Russia’s annexation of Crimea. The 512 Iranian accounts, groups and pages frequently rehashed Iranian state media and stoked tensions in the Middle East. The remaining 212 accounts and pages from Macedonia and Kosovo falsely […]
‘No Man’s Sky VR’ puts the universe on your headset for free
[ad_1] No Man’s Sky VR doesn’t lock virtual-reality fans in a mode of their own, but instead incorporates VR players into the existing game universe. VR astronauts can join games with non-VR friends, and they can expect all the same updates that the core game receives in the future. No Man’s Sky Beyond is a […]