Facebook is finalising plans to launch its own crypto-currency next year. It is planning to set up a digital payments system in about a dozen countries by the first quarter of 2020.
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Facebook 香港新辦公室增至四層 佔地 6.8 萬呎+新增直播室
Facebook 香港辦公室正式開幕。Facebook 大中華區總裁梁幼莓表示，新辦公室籌備約一年，位於鰂魚涌太古坊一期，佔地四層共 6.
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Facebook stops blocking some blockchain ads
Facebook still won’t let you advertise for cryptocurrencies, exchanges, binaries, or ICOs without prior approval.
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Project Libra: Facebook to launch stablecoin-based payments network
Facebook’s long-rumored stablecoin will be at the center of a brand new payments network, according to a report in The Wall Street Journal. Project Libra, as the blockchain initiative is called internally, will reportedly involve a stablecoin backed by government currency.
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Facebook open-sources Ax and BoTorch to simplify AI model optimization
At its F8 developer conference, Facebook today launched Ax and BoTorch, two new open-source AI tools. BoTorch, which, as the name implies, is based on PyTorch, is a library for Bayesian optimization. That’s a pretty specialized tool.
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Facebook announces a new design
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a major redesign for the world’s largest social network, including both its mobile apps and website, to emphasize interactions in Facebook Groups.
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Facebook’s role in Brexit — and the threat to democracy
In an unmissable talk, journalist Carole Cadwalladr digs into one of the most perplexing events in recent times: the UK’s super-close 2016 vote to leave the European Union. Tracking the result to a barrage of misleading Facebook ads targeted at vulnerable Brexit swing voters — and linking the same players and tactics to the 2016 US presidential election — Cadwalladr calls out the “gods of Silicon Valley” for being on the wrong side of history and asks: Are free and fair elections a thing of the past?
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Facebook is using AI to map population density around the world
Facebook has always been a company with global ambition, but few projects illustrate this better than its ongoing attempt to map the world’s population density using AI. The company first unveiled this work back in 2016 when it created maps for 22 nations.
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