Many of Meta’s products, such as search, ads ranking and Marketplace, utilize AI models to continuously improve user experiences. As the performance of hardware we use to support training infrastructure increases, we need to scale our data ingestion infrastructure accordingly to handle workloads more efficiently. GPUs, which are used for training infrastructure, tend to double [...]
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See how Victoria M. uses Facebook to promote female empowerment and women's health.
The post Creating a Safe Space to Learn About Women’s Health on Facebook appeared first on Meta.

Lace up your cleats in virtual reality as an NFL quarterback on Meta Quest 2.
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Data center optimization has always played an important role at Meta. By optimizing our data centers’ environmental controls, we can reduce our environmental impact  while ensuring that people can always depend on our products. With most other complex systems, optimization of energy consumption is a trial-and-error process. But experimenting on any component of a live [...]
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Community Chats blend Messenger and Facebook Groups to let people connect when, where and how they want.
The post Introducing Community Chats: Connecting Your Community in Real Time on Messenger and Facebook appeared first on Meta.

We’re sharing our approach to making Community Chats trusted spaces in Messenger and Facebook.
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The XR Startup program will aim to boost the emerging tech ecosystem in India and help build the foundation for the metaverse.
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We’ve open-sourced MemLab, a JavaScript memory testing framework that automates memory leak detection. Finding and addressing the root cause of memory leaks is important for delivering a quality user experience on web applications. MemLab has helped engineers and developers at Meta improve user experience and make significant improvements in memory optimization. We hope it will [...]
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The PyTorch Foundation will help maintain open collaboration and standardize resources for AI research.
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We created unique identifiers within URLs on Facebook to prevent the unauthorized scraping of people's data.
The post Deterring Scraping By Protecting Facebook Identifiers appeared first on Meta.

The first-ever mixed reality drag fashion show, Queens of the Metaverse, offers a glimpse into how the LGBTQ+ creative community is using our technologies to inspire a new wave of creation in drag fashion.
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What the research is: The continued emergence of large social network applications has introduced a scale of data and query volume that challenges the limits of existing data stores. However, few benchmarks accurately simulate these request patterns, leaving researchers in short supply of tools to evaluate and improve upon these systems.  To address this issue, [...]
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Meta’s overall network usage and traffic volume has increased as we’ve continued to add new services. Due to the scarcity of fiber resources, we’re developing an explicit resource reservation framework to effectively plan, manage, and operate the shared consumption of network bandwidth, which will help us keep up with demand and limit network disruptions during [...]
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Meta currently operates 14 data centers around the world. This rapidly expanding global data center footprint poses new challenges for service owners and for our infrastructure management systems. Systems like Twine, which we use to scale cluster management, and RAS, which handles perpetual region-wide resource allocation, have provided the abstractions and automation necessary for service [...]
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We’re unveiling a showcase of digital creators across multiple countries who are displaying innovative approaches to content across our apps.
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Launching a new campaign in Europe to show the potential social & economic impact of the metaverse.
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Meta is introducing Velox, an open source unified execution engine aimed at accelerating data management systems and streamlining their development. Velox is under active development. Experimental results from our paper published at the International Conference on Very Large Data Bases (VLDB) 2022 show how Velox improves efficiency and consistency in data management systems. Velox helps [...]
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When we focus on minimizing errors and downtime here at Meta, we place a lot of attention on service-level indicators (SLIs) and service-level objectives (SLOs). Consider Instagram, for example. There, SLIs represent metrics from different product surfaces, like the volume of error response codes to certain endpoints, or the number of successful media uploads. Based [...]
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Flipper and JS: why we added JavaScript support to a mobile debugging platform

The RapiD development team at Meta has been busy working on the next major version of RapiD—our next generation OpenStreetMap (OSM) editor enhanced with open datasets.

The Linux-kernel project is open source and is available to developers with all skill levels to contribute, including those with limited coding skills.

Over the coming year, some apps with access to certain types of user data on our platforms will be required to complete the annual Data Protection Assessment.

Announcing the winners of the 2022 Privacy-Enhancing Technologies request for proposals

Meta Research PhD Fellowship Spotlight: Improving social media experiences using computational social science

Over the coming year, some apps with access to certain types of user data on our platforms will be required to complete the annual Data Protection Assessment.

Meta graphics research at SIGGRAPH 2022