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Facebook, Carnegie Mellon build first AI that beats pros in 6-player poker

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Facebook hosts 2019 Networking and Communications Faculty Summit

On June 26, Facebook hosted a Networking and Communications Faculty Summit for 25 academic researchers and PhD students with backgrounds…

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Facebook 2019 Diversity Report: Advancing Diversity and Inclusion

Over the last six years, we have worked hard to make our commitment to diversity and inclusion more than sound bites. Our company has grown a lot. So has our approach.

OIL+VCache: File abstraction for distributed systems

For years, developers have open()ed a file, write()n to it, then read() from it on a local filesystem. In distributed systems, however, these actions involve multiple processes across different hosts at different places in the network. Each of these hosts — or the network itself — could fail independently and unexpectedly. How should a storage [...]

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Addressing Sensational Health Claims

In order to help people get accurate health information and the support they need, it’s imperative that we minimize health content that is sensational or misleading.

DLRM: An advanced, open source deep learning recommendation model

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A Second Update on Our Civil Rights Audit

We want to make sure we’re advancing civil rights on our platform, and we’re sharing a second report that details our efforts.

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We’re Updating Our Terms of Service to Better Explain How Facebook Works

People should have clear, simple explanations of how online services work and use personal information.

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A Conversation with Mark Zuckerberg, Jenny Martinez and Noah Feldman

As part of his 2019 personal challenge, Mark Zuckerberg shared the latest in his series of discussions on the future of technology and society.

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Global Feedback and Input on the Facebook Oversight Board for Content Decisions

We hosted six in-depth workshops and 22 roundtables attended by more than 650 people from 88 different countries who pushed us to consider multiple angles for how this board could function and be designed.

Q&A with 2019 Innovator Under 35 Noam Brown

The MIT Technology Review has named Facebook AI Research Scientist Noam Brown one of this year’s Innovators Under 35 for…

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Offering Greater Transparency for Social Issue, Electoral or Political Ads in More Countries

We are rolling out our transparency tools globally for advertisers wanting to place ads about social issues, elections or politics.

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Making Housing More Affordable in the Bay Area

Together, we can make needed change in our community.

Neural Code Search: ML-based code search using natural language queries

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New machine learning inference benchmarks assess performance across a wide range of AI applications

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Understanding Social Media and Conflict

At Facebook, a dedicated, multidisciplinary team is focused on understanding the historical, political and technological contexts of countries in conflict.

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Boost with Facebook Touches Down in Chicago

We are excited to be in Chicago at the second US Boost with Facebook event of 2019, where we’re hosting two days of in-person trainings for entrepreneurs, small business owners and job seekers. In addition to celebrating our local partners, we are announcing new courses for small businesses on Facebook Blueprint.

Facebook’s open source browser contributions

Thanks to some powerful new technologies, web applications have come a long way in the past decade. But the performance of these web applications still lags behind that of their native counterparts. Like many complex applications on the web, our desktop Facebook.com website is slower to load than our native mobile Android app on the [...]

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