Inspired by the rich culture and talent represented by the tribal and indigenous communities of India, we are extending our collaboration with the Ministry of Tribal Affairs to launch the second phase of the Going Online As Leaders (GOAL) program. GOA...

Beginning tomorrow, June 28, 2022, we will begin introducing Reels to several endpoints on the Instagram Platform.

We built three new AI models to make sound more realistic in mixed and virtual reality experiences.
The post Introducing AI Models That Understand How the World Around Us Sounds appeared first on Meta.

New research reveals SMBs that use digital channels in Italy can grow their revenues by 20% and customer base by 30%.
The post Taking a Deep Dive Into the Digitisation of Italian SMBs appeared first on Meta.

As a continuation of our Fellowship spotlight series, we’re highlighting a 2021 Meta PhD Fellow in Human-Centered Computing, Reza Ghaiumy Anaraky.

Today, we’re announcing the launch of an online course to help our developers successfully implement the Facebook Login solution.

We’re renaming Facebook Pay to Meta Pay.
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We’re testing new ways for people to verify their age on Instagram, allowing us to provide age-appropriate experiences. 
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We’re launching new creator tools on Facebook to help grow the EMEA creator economy.
The post New Ways for EMEA Creators to Grow Their Businesses on Facebook appeared first on Meta.

We’re adding several more ways that creators can make money on our platforms as we build for the metaverse.
The post Helping Creators Build a Business Now — And for the Metaverse appeared first on Meta.

Read our beginner's guide on NFTs.
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We're announcing an important settlement with the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) that will change the way we deliver housing ads in the United States.
The post Expanding Our Work on Ads Fairness appeared first on Meta.

Listen to LGBTQ+ leaders discuss how the community can feel safe and empowered in VR.
The post How Intersectional LGBTQ+ Leaders Envision a Safe Space in the Metaverse appeared first on Meta.

-Transparent memory offloading (TMO) is Meta’s data center solution for offering more memory at a fraction of the cost and power of existing technologies -In production since 2021, TMO saves 20 percent to 32 percent of memory per server across millions of servers in our data center fleet We are witnessing massive growth in the [...]
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Announcing the winners of the 2022 Silent Data Corruptions at Scale request for proposals

In our A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started ...

Meta Research PhD Fellow Spotlight: Helping the human condition with virtual reality

Today we are releasing Facebook SDK v14.0 and additional updates to our Facebook Platform SDKs.

Python is widely touted as one of the most developer-friendly languages, thanks to the fast feedback loop that comes from not needing to compile.

WhatsApp announces first research award opportunity on privacy-aware program analysis

What the research is: Federated learning with differential privacy (FL-DP) is one of the latest privacy-enhancing technologies being evaluated at Meta as we constantly work to enhance user privacy and further safeguard users’ data in the products we design, build, and maintain. FL-DP enhances privacy in two important ways: It allows machine learning (ML) models [...]
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In today’s blog, we’ll go over the steps involved in building your own copy of the SharedSpaces sample in Unity.

Core Data Science (CDS) is a central science organization that drives impact for Meta and the world through use-inspired advancements to our fundamental understanding of the intern...

The promise of cloud gaming is a promise to democratize gaming. Anyone who loves games should be able to enjoy them and share the experience with their friends, no matter where they’re located, and even if they don’t have the latest, most expensive gaming hardware. Facebook launched its cloud gaming platform in 2020 to give [...]
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In our A Contributor’s Story series, our major open source contributors and community members give us insight into the projects they are working on, the successes and challenges contributors face when developing, and best practices for getting started ...

For today’s blog post, we have Damir Temir, a LabGraph contributor working on issues and code efficiency through the MLH Fellowship.

Within large-scale services, durable storage, distributed leases, and coordination primitives such as distributed locks, semaphores, and events should be strongly consistent. At Meta, we have historically used Apache ZooKeeper as a centralized service for these primitives. However, as Meta’s workload has scaled, we’ve found ourselves pushing the limits of ZooKeeper’s capabilities. Modifying and tuning ZooKeeper [...]
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Caches help reduce latency, scale read-heavy workloads, and save cost. They are literally everywhere. Caches run on your phone and in your browser. For example, CDNs and DNS are essentially geo-replicated caches. It’s thanks to many caches working behind the scenes that you can read this blog post right now. Phil Karlton famously said, “There [...]
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PhDs come to work at Meta Research from a wide variety of disciplines related to computer science and engineering. Research Scientist Shaz Qadeer joined Meta to work on blockchain [...]

In line with our efforts to maintain a thriving developer ecosystem, we are introducing a new process known as access verification.

Today, we are releasing Facebook Graph API v14.0 and Marketing API v14.0. As part of this release, we are highlighting changes below that we believe are relevant to parts of our developer community.

Messenger from Meta helps small businesses respond to a widening digital divide with meaningful connections and outcomes. Get started with vertical-specific best practices.

For May, we nominated Lav Varshney, an associate professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering and the Coordinated Science Laboratory at University of [...]

Meta Open Source is officially transferring Jest, its open source JavaScript testing framework, to the OpenJS Foundation.  With over 17 million weekly downloads and over 38,000 GitHub stars, Jest is the most used testing framework in the JavaScript ecosystem and is used by companies of all sizes, including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and Stripe. We believe [...]
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More than 3 billion people around the world rely on our services each month. On mobile, around 57 percent of people on Facebook for Android and 49 percent of those on Facebook for iOS use the app in a language other than English. Delivering the best experience for these people, in their own language, is [...]
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Building infrastructure that can easily recover from outages, particularly outages involving adjacent infrastructure, too often becomes a murky exploration of nuanced fate-sharing between systems. Untangling dependencies and uncovering side effects of unavailability has historically been time-consuming work. A lack of great tooling built for this, and the rarity of infrastructure outages, makes reasoning about them [...]
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Over the years, Meta has invested in a number of storage service offerings that cater to different use cases and workload characteristics. Along the way, we’ve aimed to reduce and converge the systems in the storage space. At the same time, having a dedicated solution for critical package workload makes everyone happier. Having this in [...]
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A review of campaign partnerships between Data for Good at Meta, UNICEF, the Yale Institute for Global Health, and the Public Good Projects

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Reality Labs Chief Scientist gives talk on augmented reality at the 2021 IEEE International Electron Devices Meeting - Meta Research

Meta confirmed as a 2022 garden sponsor at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show.
The post Joe Perkins Partnership Confirmed for RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2022 appeared first on Meta.

Discover an innovative and accessible way for small businesses to access tips and training.

Opeyemi Sofoluke talks personal branding, career planning—and what businesses can do to create a workplace where Black talent can thrive.

Our services are now back online and we’re actively working to fully return them to regular operations.

Watch now to learn how Lidl successfully digitised its weekly leaflet.

Boost your fashion brand with insights from Facebook and the British Fashion Council.

Get the best tips to reach new customers, drive discovery and create more personalized shopping experiences this holiday season with Facebook Shops.

Facebook WiFi is an easy, affordable way for you to connect people, provide a digital experience to engage offline customers, and improve customer retention.

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.

Reflections and insights on inclusion and a lack of Black women in leadership from a special panel conversation between BRiM and Bloom in Colour.