This Is What Facebook's Drone Looks Like
• http://motherboard.vice.com, BY JORDAN VALINSKYMore details have been revealed about Facebook's ambitious Internet.org plan to hook up the entire world with the internet.
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More details have been revealed about Facebook's ambitious Internet.org plan to hook up the entire world with the internet.
At today's Facebook F8 event in San Francisco, Mark Zuckerberg and other folks on the team announced a bunch of new features, most of which were leaked ahead of time.
In recent months, Facebook has been quietly holding talks with at least half a dozen media companies about hosting their content inside Facebook rather than making users tap a link to go to an external site.
Facebook will soon support videos shot with 360-degree camera technology (the same way Google Maps' Street View photos are captured). These videos allow you to change the perspective you see by clicking and dragging on the screen.
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Facebook just updated its community guidelines to clamp down on misconduct on the site, which means that scrolling through your news feed will be that much less interesting, but probably a little bit safer; .....
In countries like Zambia, Tanzania, or Kenya, where very few have access to the Internet, Facebook is bringing its own version of the net:
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Former White House intern Monica Lewinsky is continuing her post-scandal career with a TED talk later this month.
Pavel Durov, founder of the Russian social network VKontakte, was home alone in his apartment in St. Petersburg on a weekend when a contingent of men in camouflage uniforms knocked violently on his door.
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Hedge fund giant David Tepper cut his entire stake in Chinese ecommerce site Alibaba as well as his position in Facebook, according to his fund's 13F filing.
Last week, Google announced that its Youtube service would default to using HTML5 video instead of Flash.
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The US State Department has openly discussed shutting down RT, the Russian news network. Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland was asked about the idea of shutting the company down at a meeting at the Brookings Institution. She said no, pay
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Software giant Facebook has released as open source some software modules which are capable of speeding up image recognition, language modeling and other machine learning tasks.
Facebook is doing everything it can to monopolize your time online, ramping up efforts in video, messaging, and news, among other media.
There's an unwritten agreement every user makes with Facebook when they sign up for the service. Facebook is free and fun to use, but it will track your activity and content to help its advertisers.
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A prominent Tibetan writer says Facebook deleted her post on the self-immolation of a monk in Sichuan Province, raising concerns about politically motivated censorship.
But it's also filled with wonderful people. And those folks have been so moved by Thomas, a kind-hearted homeless man, they are going to give him more than $103,000 -- probably a lot more.