Facebook creates new unit to build a “metaverse”
axios.comFacebook announced Monday it was forming a new Metaverse product group to advance its efforts to build a 3D social space using virtual and augmented reality tech. The big picture: In an interview with journalist Casey Newton, Facebook CEO Mark … Read more
Facebook Took Our Election Ad Money. Then Bulk-Deleted Our Pages
bozhobg.medium.comParliamentary elections in Bulgaria (EU country) were on the July 11th. We (a center-right opposition coalition) were running Facebook pages for each candidate, and spent our digital advertising budget on a portion of them, promoting genuine content authored by candidates … Read more
Facebook drops funding for interface that reads the brain
technologyreview.comThe UCSF team made some surprising progress and today is reporting in the New England Journal of Medicine that it used those electrode pads to decode speech in real time. The subject was a 36-year-old man the researchers refer to … Read more
Facebook extends its work-at-home policy to most employees
cnbc.comMark Zuckerberg, Chairman of Facebook, speaks on the second day of the 56th Munich Security Conference. The fight against propaganda campaigns and other attempts at manipulation costs Facebook billions every year. Tobias Hase | picture alliance | Getty Images Facebook … Read more
Facebook deals with PCIe faults to keep our data centers running reliably
engineering.fb.comPeripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) hardware continues to push the boundaries of computing thanks to advances in transfer speeds, the number of available lanes for simultaneous data delivery, and a comparatively small footprint on motherboards. Today, PCIe connectivity-based hardware delivers … Read more
Facebook still ‘secretly’ tracks your iPhone
forbes.comSo, this isn’t good. Your iPhone settings enable you to tell Facebook you don’t want your location tracked. It’s clear and non-ambiguous. Why then, if you tell Facebook “never” to access your location, is the data harvesting giant doing exactly … Read more
Facebook Calls Links to Depression Inconclusive. These Researchers Disagree
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Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban
aje.ioThe social media giant failed to block a bid that could ban it from sending data about its 410 million European users to the United States. Ireland’s data regulator can resume a probe that may trigger a ban on Facebook’s … Read more
Facebook moderator: ‘Every day was a nightmare’
bbc.comShe said her experience drove her to give evidence: “I just had such a feeling that I needed to do it,” she added in her testimony. “I need to speak for the people that are too afraid, that feel they … Read more