Свежие новости и отзывы о Facebook

EXCLUSIVE: When the gold rush happens, selling shovels can be lucrative. You could say that Kochava, a mobile attribution and measurement company, is one of the first to show up to sell shovels now that Facebook has set off a new kind of gold rush. Facebook yesterday provided a way for brands to use chatbots as […]... →

Соцсеть Facebook объявила о создании hardware-подразделения — Building 8. Инвестиции в его запуск составят сотни миллионов долларов, пишет The Verge со ссылкой на сообщение компании.... →

Talent wars may never cease in Silicon Valley. Facebook today announced it has hired former Google Vice President of advanced technology and projects, Regina Dugan, to head up a new group dubbed Building 8. According to a company statement, Dr. Dugan’s department will combine R&D with product development, and focus on technologies that “fluidly blend physical and digital… Read More... →

Facebook is conducting a lot of research into how to capture social interaction in virtual reality so that it will seem real. In addition to a demo on how to do selfies in a 360-degree VR photo, Facebook showed how researchers are trying to make social interaction in VR indistinguishable from real life, so that […]... →

At its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, Facebook demonstrated its latest in artificial intelligence (AI) research efforts. Not surprisingly, they are about video. Video implies a whole bunch of individual images put together. So it logically flows from Facebook’s progress around object recognition and image caption generation using AI. “You can imagine us […]... →

Facebook is making big strides in using its artificial intelligence systems for image recognition, but it’s also working on bringing this technology to video. As the company demoed at its F8 developer conference in San Francisco today, it has a team working on automatically tagging people in videos. As Facebook’s director of machine learning Joaquin Quiñonero Candela said during… Read More... →

6 лет назад Facebook пытался доказать инвесторам, что его надо сравнивать с почтовыми системами. На практике почта в домене @facebook.com оказалась никому не нужна и соцсеть не испытывает от этого проблем.... →

Microsoft and Facebook are announcing today that the Facebook-led React Native open-source software for native mobile app development is getting Universal Windows Platform (UWP) support. The new UWP development software is available now. But Microsoft will be sharing the code as part of the React Native project, said Christine Abernathy, developer advocate for Facebook’s open-source […]... →

Mike Schroepfer, Facebook’s chief technology officer, just showed how to take a selfie of yourself and a friend inside a virtual reality 360-degree photo. He showed off the demo during a keynote at the F8 event in San Francisco today. It’s part of Facebook’s plan to make VR, which can be a solitary experience, more […]... →

Facebook today is showing off its latest unconventional equipment for bringing better Internet connectivity to more people. There are two new projects: the Terragraph antennas for distributing gigabit Internet in densely city environments using both Wi-fi and cellular signals, and the Aries array of radio antennas for delivering wireless signals to devices in rural areas […]... →

Probably the most impressive of Facebook’s connectivity projects is its solar-powered Aquila drone for enabling Internet access in remote areas. But while the technology behind Aquila is impressive, more traditional terrestrial connectivity systems are often still more practical. Today, Facebook announced two new connectivity projects at its F8 developer conference, Terragraph and… Read More... →

Oculus wants to let you go anywhere in the world instantly and even take a photo while you’re there, and today it demoed how at F8. Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer show how 360 photos will appear as handheld sphere in Oculus’ social den, and when smashed against your face, you’ll instantly teleport there. With a VR selfie stick, you’ll be able to take a photo of… Read More... →

React Native was originally developed by Facebook to allow its developers to take React, a framework for helping developers build single-page apps the company developed in-house, and allow them to use these same skills to build native mobile apps for iOS and Android. As the company announced at its F8 developer conference today, React Native has now been used by more than 500 companies… Read More... →

Chatbots, Live video, and VR technology are all on the docket for Facebook’s F8 developer conference, and you can watch the livestream here at 9:30am PST with Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote starting at 10am. There’ll also be more streamed sessions all day today. Read More... →

Телеканал «Дождь» организовал прямую трансляцию своего эфира в Facebook, используя недавно запущенный в соцсети сервис видеотрансляций Live.... →

What does Facebook’s new chatbot platform mean for your business and the future of mobile? Find out at TechCrunch Disrupt NY, where Facebook Messenger’s head of product Stan Chudnovsky will offer insights on the next wave of messaging. Stan’s been in social since before Facebook even started. An SVP at Tickle, went on to co-found gaming company WonderHill that sold to Kabam.… Read More... →

Omnipresent publishing platform WordPress.com has gained a triumvirate of new share buttons today, with bloggers now able to offer readers easy options to share across WhatsApp, Telegram, and Skype. Adding to the existing share-button options, which include the likes of Twitter, Facebook, and Reddit, this latest move makes a great deal of sense for Automattic, […]... →

Основатель кулинарного проекта Koolinar Александр Бадерко продал его. Об этом он написал на своей странице в Facebook. Подробности сделки не раскрываются. Проект запущен в 2007 году. Он представляет сообщество, где посетители делятся рецептами, находят товарищей по вкусу. Пользователи могут порекомендовать свое любимое «вкусное» место на карте Google Map, в также создавать свои сообщества.... →

Facebook позволит компаниям размещать рекламу в Messenger. Об этом стало известно на конференции для разработчиков F8. Рекламодателям будут доступны два формата – Sponsored Messages и Click To Message. С помощью Sponsored Messages компании смогут отправлять сообщения тем людям, которые ранее инициировали с ними чат. Этот формат в настоящее время находится на стадии тестирования. Доступ к нему получило небольшое число рекламодателей. С помощью объявлений формата Click To Message в новостной ленте можно буд... →

We’re standing on the edge of the chatbot revolution, and I’m reminded of how I felt when those first apps hit the store in 2007. Only this time, the apps talk back. And following its announcement at Facebook’s F8 developer conference yesterday — where it became the first commerce platform to announce an integration with […]... →