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Today we're announcing plans for a digital wallet for Libra, a new global currency powered by blockchain technology.

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Rapid recent progress in the field of computer vision (CV) has had a significant real-world impact, opening possibilities in domains…

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This week, several Facebook researchers are gathering in Munich for the AAAI International Conference on Web and Social Media (ICWSM).…

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What we did Social media can increase social capital, provide entertainment, and enable meaningful discourse. However, threats to safety experienced…

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Social Science One and Facebook this week hosted training for more than 50 independent researchers announced last month by the…

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We’re making an update to improve comment ranking on public posts.

We spoke with Mevan Babakar, Head of Automated Factchecking at Full Fact in the UK, about the organization and its approach to fighting false news – both on and off Facebook.

Watch isn't just a place to find videos and shows you love — it's a place where you can explore and engage with other people who love them, too.

To help raise awareness and make it easier for people to find opportunities to donate, we're launching our Blood Donations feature in the US.

We are launching a new market research app called Study from Facebook

The Aria is a set of initiatives to dramatically increase PrestoDB efficiency. Our goal is to achieve a 2-3x decrease in CPU time for Hive queries against tables stored in ORC format. For Aria, We are pursuing improvements in three areas: table scan, repartitioning (exchange, shuffle), and hash join. Nearly 60 percent of our global [...]

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At today’s Systems @Scale conference, we presented Delos, a fundamentally new architecture for building replicated storage systems. Its modular, layered design provides flexibility and simplicity without sacrificing performance or reliability. Delos enables fast time-to-deployment for new storage systems — we deployed an initial version in production within eight months — as well as safe, rapid [...]

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By Kenny Yu     Chunqiang (CQ) Tang At today’s Systems @Scale conference, we presented Tupperware, our cluster management system, which orchestrates containers on millions of servers to run nearly all of our services. Since we first deployed Tupperware in 2011, our infrastructure has expanded from one data center to a fleet of 15 geo-distributed data [...]

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Joelle Pineau, the Co-Managing Director of Facebook AI Research (FAIR) and head of FAIR Montreal, is one of six recipients…

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Immersive AR/VR can demand unprecedented eye-tracking performance. Eye tracking should be precise, be accurate, and work all the time, for…

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Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, Google and Amazon signed on to the Christchurch Call to Action to curb terrorism and extremist content online.

People who have broken certain rules on Facebook will now be restricted from using Facebook Live.

By Janelle Gale, VP of HR and Arun Chandra, VP of Scaled Operations The work we do to connect people around the world would not be possible without the talented and dedicated people who do contract work at Facebook. They are employed by outside vendor partners to work either part-time or full-time and provide important […]