Meta is using AI to create low-carbon concrete for its data centres
27 April 2022
Meta has used AI to develop concrete that emits 40 per cent less carbon, but researchers say that other concrete mixtures can already achieve that
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It is only human to treat the metaverse with scepticism – here’s why
16 February 2022
Meta and Microsoft's new virtual reality projects have been met with suspicion by many, but history has shown that people are often right to be wary of technological change, says James Ball
Meta is building the world's largest AI-specific supercomputer
24 January 2022
Facebook’s owner wants extraordinary computing power to develop AI models to recognise speech, translate languages and power 3D worlds
Why is Facebook ditching face recognition and will it delete my data?
4 November 2021
Users of the social network will have their face data deleted, Facebook's parent company Meta has announced, but it is less clear what will happen with the AI algorithms trained on that data
Why has Facebook changed its name to Meta and what is the metaverse?
29 October 2021
Facebook has rebranded itself as Meta in an attempt to own the metaverse, a concept for a 3D version of the internet that a number of companies are working on
Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram back online after global outage
5 October 2021
Facebook and its other services, including WhatsApp and Instagram, were offline on Monday evening after a "faulty configuration change"
Pegasus spyware scandal: Can Silicon Valley stop government snooping?
20 July 2021
Spyware sold for use in anti-terror investigations is reportedly being misused by governments to watch journalists and politicians – Silicon Valley firms are battling to end it
Facebook AI aims to identify deepfake images and trace their creators
16 June 2021
Facebook has developed an artificial intelligence that it claims can detect deepfake images and even reverse-engineer them to figure out how they were made and perhaps trace their creators
Trump ban decision shows the limits of a Facebook 'Supreme Court'
5 May 2021
Facebook's independent Oversight Board has said the social media giant was right to ban former US president Donald Trump, but has declined to decide whether it should be permanent – punting the decision back to Facebook
Facebook says its AI could help find drug combinations to treat cancer
16 April 2021
Facebook claims that its new artificial intelligence can predict the way drugs interact with each other inside cells, but other researchers say it may not translate into results that will be useful in humans
