UC Berkeley’s Niloufar Salehi on restorative justice in social media
Victims of stalking, harassment, hate, election interference, and other abuses have for years argued that we need to rethink the way social media functions....
Apple’s EU antitrust case targets App Store limits on Microsoft and Facebook gaming apps
(Reuters) – Facebook and Microsoft’s grievances over how their gaming apps appear on Apple’s App Store may feed into an EU investigation into the...
Facebook Gaming app debuts amid fight with Apple over instant games
Facebook launched its standalone Facebook Gaming app on iOS today but complained loudly that Apple wouldn’t let it launch the instant games that are...
Facebook develops AI algorithm that learns to play poker on the fly
Facebook researchers have developed a general AI framework called Recursive Belief-based Learning (ReBeL) that they say achieves better-than-human performance in heads-up, no-limit Texas hold’em...
PlayStation pulls ads from Facebook and Instagram for boycott
Facebook and Instagram users won’t see any official PlayStation content in their feeds this July. Sony Interactive Entertainment (SIE) revealed it is halting all...
Facebook advances VR rendering quality with neural 4×4 supersampling
Rendering 3D graphics for the latest high-resolution displays has never been an easy task, and the challenge level increases multiple times for VR headsets...
Facebook reveals holographic optics for thin and light VR headsets
Today’s virtual reality headsets are universally big — closer to goggles than glasses, and even then, larger and heavier than modern ski goggles. While...
Facebook releases AI development tool based on NetHack
Facebook researchers believe the game NetHack is well-tailored to training, testing, and evaluating AI models. Today, they released the NetHack Learning Environment, a research...
Facebook acquires Lone Echo VR game maker Ready At Dawn
Facebook has acquired Ready At Dawn Studios, the maker of the Lone Echo series of virtual reality games as well as console games like...
AppsFlyer measures in-app advertising for Facebook gaming campaigns
AppsFlyer announced it can measure the results of in-app advertising on Facebook gaming campaigns, tracing the growth of revenue associated with a group of...