Facebook envisions a future in which you’ll learn to play the drums or whip up a new recipe while wearing augmented reality glasses or other devices powered by artificial intelligence. To make that future a reality, the social network needs its AI systems to see through your eyes. “This is the world where we’d have …
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Some Facebook, Instagram and Messenger users reported Friday that the apps weren’t working for them, days after the social media giant experienced a massive outage. Facebook then fixed the problem, which the company said arose from a “configuration change” that impacted users globally. “Sincere apologies to anyone who wasn’t able to access our products in the last couple of hours. We …
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A day after Facebook experienced a massive outage, the social network’s executives and engineers gathered via video to chat about the company’s efforts to bring more people online. The impact of the six-hour outage wasn’t lost on Facebook Chief Technology Officer Mike Schroepfer. People couldn’t message their family and friends and businesses couldn’t promote their products. “It is a good …
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Facebook said late Monday that the company believes a “faulty configuration” change caused a widespread outage that lasted roughly six hours. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication,” Facebook’s vice president of engineering and infrastructure, Santosh Janardhan, said in a blog post. …
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Facebook’s massive outage is reportedly putting a big dent in the social network’s pocket. Fortune and Snopes estimate that the world’s largest social network has already lost at least $60 million in revenue since its apps, including Instagram and WhatsApp, went offline at about 8:30 a.m. PT/11:30 a.m. ET on Monday. Both outlets estimated the revenue loss for Facebook as …
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Twitter said Thursday that users worldwide will be able to tip others with bitcoin, the popular digital currency. The company is also exploring a way for users to track and showcase nonfungible tokens, a new form of crypto assets, on the platform. NFTs can be used to represent the ownership of unique digital or physical items such as art, music …
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Apple is doubling the minimum capacity of the iPhone 13 and the maximum capacity of the iPhone 13 Pro, the company said at its product event on Tuesday. The iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 Mini will offer 128GB, 256GB and 512GB. The iPhone 12 and 12 Mini feature 64GB, 128GB and 256GB.The iPhone 13 Pro and iPhone 13 Pro Max will …
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Facebook reportedly exempted millions of high-profile users, including celebrities and politicians, from some or all of its community standards, apparently contradicting the social network’s public statements that its rules apply to everyone. The Wall Street Journal, citing internal documents, reported Monday that the world’s largest social network created a program known as Cross Check, or XCheck, that shielded public figures …
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LinkedIn is rolling out dark mode worldwide on Monday, giving its more than 774 million members the option to browse the business-oriented social network with white text on a dark background. A comparison of light and dark mode on LinkedIn. LinkedIn The Microsoft-owned social media company confirmed this year that it planned to release dark mode, but work on the feature …
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When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the social network was working on its first smart glasses, he tried to dial down the hype. The glasses, he suggested during the Facebook Connect conference in September 2020, would be just a step toward a more ambitious project. “They’re not yet augmented reality glasses,” Zuckerberg said, referring to technology that places digital …
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