One of our goals over the next decade is to build stronger privacy protections for everyone who uses our apps…
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Whether it’s iterating on Facebook’s News Feed ranking algorithm or delivering the most relevant ads to users, we are constantly exploring new features to help improve our machine learning (ML) models. Every time we add new features, we create a challenging data engineering problem that requires us to think strategically about the choices we make. [...]
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After an injury that cut her gymnastics career short, Lori found a community of likeminded adult gymnasts on Facebook.
The post Inspiring Adults to Get Back in to Gymnastics appeared first on About Facebook.

Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
The post Facebook Fellow Spotlight: Empowering women in rural communities through research in HCI appeared first on Facebook Research.

The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In today’s blog, we will cover the module cm...

We're defaulting young people into private accounts, limiting how advertisers reach them and making it harder for suspicious accounts to find them.
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We’re using AI to find and remove underaged accounts, and developing new ways to verify people’s ages.
The post How Do We Know Someone is Old Enough To Use Our Apps? appeared first on About Facebook.

Today is the first day of the Increasing Diversity in Innovation conference, an event we've helped organize to support underrepresented inventors.
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This work was a collaboration with Martin Jankowiak (Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT). What the research is: Sparse axis-aligned…
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We’re rolling out features across our apps to help people cheer on their teams during the Tokyo Games.
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Tracy M.G., a mom of four with congenital glaucoma, created the Facebook group Mommies with Guides to allow blind parents to celebrate their unique relationships.
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Protecting the privacy of the people and businesses using our technologies is an integral part of our mission to give people the power to build community and bring the world closer together.

For today’s interview, we have Eric Kuecks who is a Production Engineer on the Core Data Staging team at Facebook. The Core Data Staging team works on integration testing for the cache and database stack at Facebook. While working on this team, Eric ha...

You can now decide how much sensitive content you see in Explore on Instagram.
The post Introducing Sensitive Content Control appeared first on About Facebook.

The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In today’s blog, we will cover the trait Any...

We’re introducing the ability to join a group call, even after it’s started, with joinable calls on WhatsApp.
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We're sharing three tips for creating content and showing you how Facebook Business Suite can make posting content easier for your business, every step of the way.

Machine Learning (ML) researchers who would like to work with data that must be encrypted, either for legal reasons or to ensure privacy, historically have had very limited tools for building secure ML systems.

Support for COVID-19 vaccines is high on Facebook and growing.
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When the pandemic forced Tammy to shut down her trolley tour business, she found a 1970s ice cream truck she found on Facebook Marketplace.
The post Serving Sweets and Spreading Joy From The ChillMobile appeared first on About Facebook.

Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
The post Facebook Fellow Spotlight: Pioneering self-monitoring networks at scale appeared first on Facebook Research.

We're publishing our first quarterly update on the Oversight Board, sharing information about cases Facebook referred to the board and our progress implementing the board's recommendations.
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We’re sharing actions we took against a group of hackers — removing their ability to abuse our platform, distribute malware and hack people’s accounts across the internet.
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Training AI models at a large scale isn’t easy. Aside from the need for large amounts of computing power and resources, there is also considerable engineering complexity behind training very large models. At Facebook AI Research (FAIR) Engineering, we have been working on building tools and infrastructure to make training large AI models easier. Our [...]
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This year, we made progress increasing representation in our workforce, identified areas for improvement and expanded our investments to support diverse communities.
The post Facebook Diversity Update: Increasing Representation in Our Workforce and Supporting Minority-Owned Businesses appeared first on About Facebook.

Send short sound clips in Messenger with Soundmojis to express yourself.
The post 🔊 Introducing Soundmojis on Messenger for 🌎 Emoji Day 🥳 appeared first on About Facebook.

For years, people have been asking us to create a true multi-device experience that allows people to use WhatsApp on other devices without requiring a smartphone connection. Today, we’re announcing the rollout of a limited public beta test for WhatsApp’s updated multi-device capability.  With this new capability, you can now use WhatsApp on your phone [...]
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What the research is: We propose a method for sample-efficient optimization of the trade-offs between model accuracy and on-device prediction…
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We're investing over $1 billion in programs that give creators more ways to earn money on Facebook and Instagram.
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A piece in today’s Washington Post alleges that it is not in Facebook’s financial interests to discourage extremism on our…
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Today we’re announcing new ways to spotlight subject matter experts in Facebook Groups.
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We’re launching Security Checkup on Instagram to help people keep their accounts secure.
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The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules.

Our infrastructure supports thousands of services that handle billions of requests per second. We’ve previously discussed how we built our service encryption infrastructure to keep these globally distributed services operating securely and performantly. This post discusses the system we designed to enforce encryption policies within our network and shares some of the lessons we learned [...]
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What the research is: The Ribbon filter is a new data structure that is more space-efficient than the popular Bloom filters that are widely used for optimizing data retrieval. One of the ways that Bloom, and now Ribbon, filters solve real engineering problems is by providing smooth configurability unmatched by other filters. Bloom filters work [...]
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We’re sharing information about the eight networks we removed in June as part of our regular CIB reports.
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Step inside the world of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child with Curtain Call on Portal and discover new stories in the Story Time library.
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Artificial Intelligence is often described as a “black box”; we plug inputs in and the AI model gives us an output back, but we don’t have an easy way to understand how the model came to produce that output. The process to train AI generally goes like ...

The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities in the form of standalone modules. In this series of blog posts, we will cover some of the modules that make up the Gazebo library. In today’s blog, we will cover the Dupe trai...

Each year, PhD students from around the world apply for the Facebook Fellowship, a program designed to encourage and support…
The post Facebook Fellow Spotlight: Shaping the future with neural program synthesis and adversarial ML appeared first on Facebook Research.

Cloud gaming on Facebook is now available to over 98% of people in the US and we redesigned Play.
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When Buck was unveiled at Facebook Mobile DevCon in 2013, it was a fast Android build system. Since then, it's expanded to support building applications written in 15+ languages and targeting platforms from mobile phones to servers to smart devices to ...

We're launching a Women's Safety Hub and forming a team of expert advisors to help us develop new policies, products and programs that better support the women who use our apps.
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We're expanding our pop-up vaccine clinics into new cities and replacing our office clinic with a mobile truck.
The post Bringing COVID-19 Vaccines to Underserved Communities in the US appeared first on About Facebook.

We’re launching Bulletin, a set of publishing and subscription tools to support creators in the US.
The post Introducing Bulletin, A Platform for Independent Writers appeared first on About Facebook.

Today we filed two separate legal actions against the perpetrators of online scams who violated our Terms and Advertising Policies.
The post Combating E-Commerce Scams and Account Takeover Attacks appeared first on About Facebook.

The Rust library Gazebo contains a collection of well-tested Rust utilities. These aren’t meant to be deep or complex ideas, just small things we think can make the experience of Rust programmers a little bit easier. This post is the first in a series ...

Today, Facebook joined the EU Climate Pact and outlined four ways we'll take action against climate change.
The post Facebook Joins European Climate Pact and Pledges Action to Build a Greener Europe appeared first on About Facebook.

We have been monitoring an uptick in phishing attempts on Android embedded browsers (also known as webviews), so beginning in August, we will no longer support FB Login authentication on Android embedded browsers. Prior to this date, we will continue t...

We will be hosting a talk about our work on, “A Platform Agnostic Observability System for AI Accelerators” during our virtual Systems @Scale event at 10:20 a.m. PT on Wednesday, June 30, followed by a live Q&A session. Please submit any questions to systemsatscale@fb.com before the event. Accelerators are special-purpose hardware devices optimized for specific [...]
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Connectivity is an integral part of Facebook’s mission to bring people closer together, and the COVID-19 pandemic has only heightened the demand for critical internet access. According to the latest edition of our Inclusive Internet Index, nearly 70 percent of people around the world believe that increased internet usage in all aspects of their lives [...]
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For today’s interview, we have Daniel Xu who is a Production Engineer on the Linux userspace team at Facebook. The Linux userspace team works on a wide variety of systems tools, libraries, and services, all of which deal directly with the Linux kernel....

This Pride Month, we’re recognizing the role of allies in supporting LGBTQ+ communities.
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We’re sharing details on our newest state of the art advancements that are making our AI systems smarter at recognizing products.
The post Advancing AI to Make Shopping Easier For Everyone appeared first on About Facebook.

We’re announcing new ways to shop across our apps, along with solutions for businesses to personalize shopping with ads, and investments in technologies that will shape the shopping experiences of tomorrow.
The post New Ways to Shop for Products You Love Across Our Apps appeared first on About Facebook.

We're releasing our 2020 Sustainability Report, showing the progress we made on our sustainability goals.
The post How We’re Helping Fight Climate Change appeared first on About Facebook.

The Core Data Science (CDS) team at Facebook works with a variety of teams on an ever-changing range of projects…
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