F8 proved there’s no escape from Facebook

During a keynote about privacy at F8, Facebook's Chief Security Officer Alex Stamos shared an image of the world that used light to show the sheer size of the company's network. It was intended to highlight all the places where people are using a Fac...

Developers would rather ignore Cambridge Analytica at F8

Facebook is ready to turn the page on the Cambridge Analytica user privacy scandal, and CEO Mark Zuckerberg made that perfectly clear yesterday during his F8 opening keynote. "I'm going to go through all of that head-on in just a minute, because I th...

Facebook: AI will protect you

Artificial intelligence is a key part of everything Facebook does, from chatbots in Messenger to powering the personalized recommendations you get on apps like Instagram. But, as great as the technology is to create new and deeper experiences for use...

Facebook trained image recognition AI with billions of Instagram pics

Training deep learning models to recognize image,s as well as objects within those images, takes quite a bit of effort. Often, each training image has to be labeled by humans and when you're using millions of images, that process becomes rather labor...

Facebook and Nike just gave hypebeasts a reason to use Messenger

Nike hasn't been coy about how much it loves using augmented reality to sell hyped sneakers, since the technology can be used to fight the bots (automated systems) that are so beloved by resellers. And today, at the F8 developers conference, Facebook...