Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

Facebook hires 3,000 people to combat the disturbing videos and live videos that have been popping up on the site, Hulu launches its live TV service, yesterday was not too good of a day for tech stocks and GM launches GM Maven to help on-demand drivers rent cars for $229 a week. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

Posted by lydiagilbertsonBeing a small or startup publishing company is hard. The digital advertising industry is broken. Larger companies like Vox and Buzzfeed are some of the only online publications that can hope to monetize their content effectively. Smaller niche publications often have an even harder time attracting return visitors or getting people outside of their current active users to see their content at all. Already at a disadvantage, most small publications are also understaffed and underfunde... →

Mark Zuckerberg believes Facebook has leapfrogged Snapchat in the race to provide visual communication thanks to the launch of Facebook’s augmented reality Camera Effects platform. On today’s strong earnings call after Facebook beat estimates in Q1 2017, Zuckerberg said “I think we were a little bit late to the trend initially around making cameras the center of how… Read More... →

Facebook had another strong quarter to start 2017, scoring $ billion in revenue and $1.04 EPS in Q1. It earned that from 1.94 billion users, up from 1.86 billion last quarter, up a faster 4.3 percent compared to 3.91 perecent last quarter. Mobile now counts for 85 percent of its ad revenue, compared to 84 percent last quarter. Facebook beat analyst estimates on revene, which was $7.83… Read More... →

If you’re a big fan of some more mid-core or hardcore games on your smartphone, you might periodically get a reminder to pop in the game to do something. But that requires booting up the game — and it may also require digging through a labyrinth of menus to figure out what you’re trying to accomplish. Blackstorm Labs is trying to make the process of getting into that game… Read More... →

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В течение 2017 года Facebook наймёт 3000 модераторов, которые будут отслеживать агрессию и другие противоречащие правилам соцсети действия в записях и видео пользователей. Об этом сообщил глава компании Марк Цукерберг.... →

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A week after news broke of multiple videos of suicides posted on Facebook remaining on the site for hours, the company has announced a new plan to hire 3,000 more people for its operations team to screen for harmful videos and other posts to respond to them more quickly in the future. Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook said that this would be in addition to the 4,500 people already… Read More... →

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Microsoft’s new Surface laptop gets released and it costs $999.00, YouTube gets a new redesign with support for dark mode, Facebook denies allegation of gender bias and a beekeeper builds a deep learning app to save the bees. All this on Crunch Report. Read More... →

The head of computer vision at Facebook’s virtual reality subsidiary, Oculus, has been replaced following his arrest related to an underage sex sting operation, TechCrunch has learned. Dov Katz was arrested at an Embassy Suites outside of Seattle in late December after allegedly soliciting sex from an undercover officer who he believed, at the time of meeting, was a 15-year-old girl.… Read More... →

Facebook may have an issue with gender bias, according to a recent report by the Wall Street Journal. Based on an analysis by an engineer at Facebook, which Facebook told TechCrunch is “incomplete and inaccurate,” code written by female engineers at Facebook gets rejected more often than code written by men at the company. “As we have explained, the Wall Street Journal… Read More... →

This morning Facebook’s AI Research (FAIR) lab released an update to fastText, its super speedy open source text classification library. When it was initially released, fastText shipped with pre-trained word vectors for 90 languages, but today it’s getting a boost to 294 languages. The release also brings enhancements to reduce model size and ultimately memory demand. Text… Read More... →

Facebook is sidestepping the app stores by now allowing everyone to play no-download HTML5 “Instant Games” inside of Facebook Messenger. Launched in the US in November, Instant Games are now globally available with 50 titles to play from Pac-Man to 8 Ball Pool. Plus, Facebook is rolling out two new features it announced at its F8 conference earlier this month. Developers can make… Read More... →

Facebook has denied it offers tools to advertisers to target users when they are in vulnerable emotional states. Read More... →

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Facebook запустил облегчённую версию приложения Messenger в 150 новых странах, включая Россию и Украину. В Messenger Lite можно пользоваться всеми основными возможностями сервиса: обмениваться текстовыми сообщениями, фото и ссылками, отправлять эмодзи и стикеры, а также редактировать списки участников групп. Приложение занимает менее 10 МБ. «Если у вас старая модель смартфона с небольшим объёмом памяти и низкой производительностью, […]... →

Social media giants Facebook, YouTube and Twitter have once again been accused of taking a “laissez-faire approach” to moderating hate speech content on their platforms. Read More... →

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