Phishing seems like a problem that will be here for the long haul, so I welcome any tools to combat it with open arms. Today Facebook announced one: a service for domain owners or concerned users that watches for sketchy versions of web addresses that might indicate a phishing attempt in the offing.
View More Facebook tool warns developers of phishing attacks dangling lookalike domainsCategory: F8 2018
Facebook teases major VR display upgrades with Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototype
For the last couple of years the hardware upgrades that VR headsets have been getting have been pretty stale; there might be a resolution bump or the addition of eye-tracking or new controllers, but most of the advances have seemed to be on the software side. Facebook is focusing on some more fundamental display issues […]
View More Facebook teases major VR display upgrades with Oculus ‘Half Dome’ prototypeFacebook animates photo-realistic avatars to mimic VR users’ faces
Facebook wants you to look and move like you in VR, even if you’ve got a headset strapped to your face in the real world. That’s why its building a new technology that uses a photo to map someone’s face into VR, and then sensors to detect facial expressions and movements to animate that avatar […]
View More Facebook animates photo-realistic avatars to mimic VR users’ facesFacebook’s open-source Go bot can now beat professional players
Go is the go-to game for machine learning researchers. It’s what Google’s DeepMind team famously used to show off its algorithms, and Facebook, too, recently announced that it was building a Go bot of its own. As the team announced at the company’s F8 developer conference today, the ELF OpenGo bot has now achieved professional […]
View More Facebook’s open-source Go bot can now beat professional playersFacebook is using your Instagram photos to train its image recognition AI
In the race to continue building more sophisticated AI deep learning models, Facebook has a secret weapon: billions of images on Instagram.
View More Facebook is using your Instagram photos to train its image recognition AIFacebook announces PyTorch 1.0, a more unified AI framework
Though Facebook’s focus on Day 1 of its F8 conference centered on the company’s recent struggles and their relationship with the phrase “taking broader responsibility,” Day 2 shifted most of the pizazz to the technical advances its giant team has made over the past year. Today, the company announced PyTorch 1.0, a new iteration of […]
View More Facebook announces PyTorch 1.0, a more unified AI frameworkWatch Facebook’s F8 2018 Day 2 keynote right here
Facebook is hosting its F8 developer conference in San Jose this week. Yesterday, it kicked off with a keynote from CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who addressed the company’s latest scandals, including Cambridge Analytica, election meddling, and fake news. But he also spoke of his commitment to Facebook’s mission of connecting the world, and his optimism for the future. […]
View More Watch Facebook’s F8 2018 Day 2 keynote right hereIn-app purchases are coming to Facebook’s Instant Games on Android and the web
Facebook is adding support for in-app purchases to its Instant Games platform, the company announced during a session on gaming at its F8 developer conference this afternoon. The feature will allow game developers to add another form of monetization beyond advertising to their games on select platforms, but not on iOS. Instead, support for in-app […]
View More In-app purchases are coming to Facebook’s Instant Games on Android and the webNew Oculus Venues app organizes live VR events under one roof
Oculus made good on a lot of their promises from last year at today’s F8 keynote, one of the big ones that we heard a lot more about was Oculus Venues, an app the company has developed to house live sporting events, comedy shows and concerts shot in VR. The unified app will feature content […]
View More New Oculus Venues app organizes live VR events under one roofFacebook will soon bring 3D photos to the news feed
Facebook made a small but interesting announcement at the end of its F8 keynote today: you’ll soon be able to post 3d photos to your newsfeed. For now, we know very little about this feature — or even how you’ll capture these photos — but chances are you’ll see them pop up in your friends’ […]
View More Facebook will soon bring 3D photos to the news feedOculus hopes Boggle will help VR users get social in updated Rooms app
Among all of the other announcements that surfaced today during the F8 keynote, only one of the announcements involved Boggle. Oculus announced a bug update to its social platform, Oculus Rooms which brings a redesigned space with cool new features designed to keep people coming back to the app. This is a big update to […]
View More Oculus hopes Boggle will help VR users get social in updated Rooms appFacebook wants weird ‘VR memories’ to take you back to your childhood
While Facebook execs had plenty of updates to share at Tuesday’s F8 keynote, there were far less announcements focused on the weird and experimental things that Facebook is trying to leverage AI and VR to do. That was, except for the company’s last announcement, something it’s calling “VR memories,” a weird feature which will take […]
View More Facebook wants weird ‘VR memories’ to take you back to your childhood