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US tech giants look to call the shots on AI

Facebook, Microsoft, IBM, Google and Amazon have joined forces to form a new super-club with the aim of managing the development of artificial intelligence.

SpaceX explosion – if in doubt, blame aliens

The spectacular explosion of SpaceX – the rocket carrying a Facebook Internet.org satellite – has yet to be explained, so we might as well blame it on aliens.

WhatsApp stretches definition of improved customer experience

WhatsApp has announced it will be changing its terms and conditions which will see it share user data with Facebook, allowing the parent company to hone its advertising.

Facebook unites with Unity in renewed gaming play

Facebook and gaming developer Unity have announced a partnership targeting online, 3D and VR gaming development as part of Facebook Arcade.

Facebook tackles clickbait in News Feed – and what happened next blew my mind

Facebook has revealed its latest drive into the world of artificial intelligence through an update to News Feed which detects clickbait headlines and automatically ranks them lower.

Facebook opens VR, drones and infrastructure lab “Area 404”

Facebook has opened a dedicated lab space for its telecoms infrastructure, drones and VR research projects – “Area 404″.

Facebook bigs itself up as a conversation platform – watch out Twitter

Facebook has reported healthy growth in advertising revenues over the last quarter, and also outlined its ambitions to take on Twitter and traditional search engines.

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Facebook demos portable internet-delivery drone Aquila

Facebook has provided an update on its aviation-based internet connectivity project Aquila, revealing results of recent early phase trials.

Facebook continues infrastructure push with OpenCellular

US social networking giant Facebook has added another string to its networking bow with the OpenCellular open source wireless access platform.

Facebook lobbies FCC for 5G spectrum sharing

Following the FCC’s announcement over 5G spectrum allocation proposals, Facebook has written a filing requesting an open and share-based spectrum policy.

E3 launches show virtual reality is becoming actual reality

Facebook, Bethesda Softworks and Sony are among the names to have announced new made-for-VR games at E3.

Facebook and Microsoft team up to lay “highest capacity” Atlantic cable

Microsoft and Facebook have announced plans to roll out a subsea cable infrastructure connecting the US and Spain, as the latter continues to make a physical network infrastructure play.

Android benefits from iPhone stagnation as Facebook dominates Google Play

Android has gained smartphone share in nearly all major markets, according to the latest data from Kantar Worldpanel, benefitting from Apple’s slowdown and the terminal decline of Windows Phone.

WhatsApp launches desktop companion app

WhatsApp has introduced a desktop version of its smartphone application, which allows users to access and send messages to other users.

Mobile drives tripling of profit at Facebook

Advertising on mobile has driven significant revenue growth for Facebook in Q1, comprising 82% of its total ad revenue and facilitating the tripling of net income to $1.5bn.

Facebook boosts wireless connectivity push with Terragraph and Project ARIES

Social media giant Facebook has doubled-down on bringing connectivity to under-served environments with the launch of two new terrestrial connectivity systems.

Facebook claims its messaging platforms are now three times bigger than SMS ever was

Social media giant Facebook kicked-off its f8 developer conference with a major messaging push as well as a renewed focus on virtual reality.

Facebook offers telcos TIP for open systems development

Facebook’s new Telecom Infra Project (TIP), unveiled at Mobile World Congress, could do for the telecoms equipment industry what the Open Compute Project (OCP) did to the data centre, it claims.

India bans sponsored data while US binges-on

India’s telecoms regulatory authority (TRA) has curtailed sponsored data services in the country, while American operators continue to load up on free or otherwise subsidised data services.

Facebook and Google dominate 2015 US apps chart

Media market tracker Nielsen has published its data on the most used smartphone apps in the US over the course of this year and it’s dominated by Facebook and Google.