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    533 Million Facebook users, 7 Million Australians just had their details leaked online for free

    Over the weekend, Alon Gal, the CTO at Hudson Rock & running Under The Breach reveled that details from a 2019 Facebook hack have now been leaked online for free. At the time the hack occurred, it was concerning that the massive dataset of more than 533,00,000 Facebook users were posted for sale, but opening that up to the world to consume means this...

    Facebook use 800 Tesla V100 GPUs to train AI to turn any 2D photo into a 3D photo

    Facebook has supported 3D photos for a couple of years now and I have a couple of friends that use them frequently to great effect. Not all phones though, are capable of taking a 3D photos, lacking the dual-cameras necessary to derive depth information. Thanks to some new AI work by Facebook, that's about to change. Photos taken from a single lens, can now have...

    Workplace by Facebook is now free for all education and not-for-profits

    Facebook have launched a new initiative called Workplace for Good. This offers makes their paid Workplace product, available to all educational institutions and not-for-profits, for free. Normally US$3.00 per month, per person, Workplace is currently being used by thousands of nonprofits and educational institutions and with the price now being free, will likely draw many, many more thousands to the platform. If you're not familiar with Workplace, its a...

    Facebook Messenger adds filters to support Socceroos in World Cup

    The start of the World Cup is just a few days away, and this Saturday night, Australia will play their first match. To celebrate the big occasion, Facebook Messenger is releasing new World Cup themed features, camera effects and hidden games. Football fans across Australia will have access to a special patriotic green & gold face paint, as well as festive wigs to support the...

    Facebook prioritising ‘trusted news’ determined by surveying users

    Last week Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced an update to new changes, announced last week, to the News Feed algorithm which heavily prioritised social interactions with family and friends over public content, including news, video, and posts from brands. This means public posts you see will account for just 4% of your News Feed. This is a big change for the service. Today Zuck shared...

    Facebook Messenger’s new feature, World Effects for visual messaging

      Facebook Messenger is introducing a new feature to the Messenger Camera known as World Effects. This  allows people to drop 3D objects in their surroundings and interact with digital objects in their physical spaces. That sounds an awful lot like augmented reality and another Snapchat-like feature. You can show your love for something something with a 3D heart ❤ or point at something with an...

    Get ready to watch a whole lot more video on Facebook with Watch tab.

    Facebook increasingly becoming a video service. Will millions of live streams per day, combined with videos posted by users, Facebook are now going to surface that video to you, which will no doubt have you spending even more time on the service each month. Zuckerberg says, Watching a show doesn't have to be passive. It can be a chance to share an experience and bring people...

    Facebay Marketplace comes to the web

    Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local area buy, swap, sell groups and posting photos of their goods with a description and price. Over the years Facebook has moved to support this user behaviour on their platform and some time ago introduced the ability to post items...

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    Get ready to watch a whole lot more video on Facebook with Watch tab.

    Facebook increasingly becoming a video service. Will millions of live streams per day, combined with videos posted by users, Facebook are now going to...

    Facebay Marketplace comes to the web

    Facebook has quickly become the place to buy and sell second hand goods. The Marketplace happened fairly organically with users creating groups for local...

    Facebook talks up connected AR experiences. Watch the F8 developer keynote to see the future

    Overnight Facebok's annual developer event, F8 kicked off with a keynote from CEO and Founder Mark Zuckerberg. Zuck spoke about major changes coming to...
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