YOU NO LONGER NEED a Facebook account to make use of the social network’s separate Messenger service. Ideal for those who want to use Facebook Messenger without having to put up with a News Feed full of baby pictures and Buzzfeed quizzes, now all you need to use the service is a phone number. Louis Boval, a software engineer at Facebook, said in a blog post: “With Messenger, we’ve been focused on creating the best messaging experience possible by giving people a fun and easy way to connect and express themselves […]
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Mark Zuckerberg made a donation of $5 million to a college fund for undocumented immigrants. The Facebook CEO and his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave the money to the “I’m In” campaign launched by TheDream.us, a national scholarship fund for undocumented immigrants. The fund targets students who came to the U.S. as children and received Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival status, an immigration policy started by President Obama that gives them exemption from deportation and allows them to work. Zuckerberg wrote on his Facebook page that he sees the fund’s efforts […]
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For Facebook and Google, it’s not enough for computers to recognize images… they should create images, too. Both tech firms have just shown off neural networks that automatically generate pictures based on their understanding of what objects look like.Facebook’s approach uses two of these networks to produce tiny thumbnail images. The technique is much like what you’d experience if you learned painting from a harsh (if not especially daring) critic. The first algorithm creates pictures based on a random vector, while the second checks them for realistic objects and rejects […]
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