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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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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Facebook is running toward 2 Billion active users

In a post on Facebook, Founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the service has now grown to a massive 1.8 billion people. This is...
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Zuck details the tech behind Aquila

After two years of development, on June 28th Facebook completed the first successful flight of Aquila. If you're not familiar with the project, Aqila is...
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How to stream to Facebook Live from your PC or drone

  During Facebook's F8 developer conference keynote, Founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg announced a Facebook Live API. This API will allow developers to build apps...
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Facebook adds Bump feature to connect with circular glyph

Mark Zuckerberg just announced a new way to connect to other Facebook users. You can now scan a bizarre looking circular glyph that uniquely...
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Facebook just did something awesome for you and your kids

The jobs of the future won’t be in manufacturing, they’ll be in writing the software that drives the robots in the factories. Programming is...
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Excel 2016 can easily interrogate the Facebook Graph API

There’s a number of headline features in Office 2016 that we’ve covered in previous posts, but after spending some time with the latest...
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Zuck working on using drones and satellites to connect the next billion

Mark Zuckerberg’s most famous for Facebook, but his work on internet.org could be even more important. A Connectivity Lab is working on new...
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Oculus Rift consumer version coming Q1 2016

The most popular VR headset on the planet, Oculus Rift is finally ready for prime time, in the first quarter of next year. With...
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The latest from Facebook’s F8 conference

Every year Facebook holds a developer conference known as F8. Deveopment on the Facebook platform in 2015 focuses on changes to Messenger, Comments, Video,...
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Facebay gets an update for buying and selling in groups

Over the years Facebook has evolved to be a platform not just for friends, family and businesses to share, but groups provide a...
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Facebook opens F8 registration to developers, every FB product on show

Developers can now register for F8, Facebook’s global developer conference. F8 is on March 25th and March 26th at San Francisco’s Fort Mason...
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Facebook expands artificial intelligence and machine learning efforts

Artificial intelligence isn’t just for the bad guys in video games, it’s also being worked on by Facebook. According to Yann LeCun,...
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Facebook Home now supports Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr

An update to Facebook Home is delivering expanded network support. Home users can now add Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest and Tumblr to Android lock...
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