Facebook said Tuesday that it will shut down its facial recognition system and delete the faceprints of more than 1 billion people amid growing concerns about the technology and its misuse by ...

Facebook’s long-awaited change in how it handles political advertisements is only a first step toward addressing a problem intrinsic to a social network built on the viral sharing of user posts. The ...

Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition program and deleting more than 1 billion users' faceprints, a company official said Tuesday. The move means more than one-third of Facebook’s daily ...

As the data centers that run the computing world have become more powerful and sophisticated, just like their marketing executives, they produce a lot of hot air. Facebook says it has developed a new ...

Facebook has a big problem with fake accounts — and the company knows it. In just three months, Facebook might take down almost as many fake accounts as there are real ones on the site. The social ...

Facebook doesn’t want its hardware like Oculus or its augmented reality glasses to be at the mercy of Google because they rely on its Android operating system. That’s why Facebook has tasked Mark ...

Facebook announced today that, as promised, it has launched an automated system that will prevent advertisers from using racial categories in ads for housing, employment and credit. The system will ...

Algorithmic recommendation systems on social media sites like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter have shouldered much of the blame for the spread of misinformation, propaganda, hate speech, conspiracy ...

Facebook said it has cooked up a first of its kind data center cooling system that can handle more extreme conditions. The company's StatePoint Liquid Cooling (SPLC) system was developed by Nortek Air ...

The company cited "growing societal concerns" for its decision. Meta, the newly named parent company of Facebook, announced Tuesday that it was shutting down its use of a facial recognition system on ...