New York University professor Yann LeCun has spent the last 30 years exploring artificial intelligence, designing "deep learning" computing systems that process information in ways not unlike the ...

When asked to head Facebook’s Applied Machine Learning group — to supercharge the world’s biggest social network with an AI makeover — Joaquin Quiñonero Candela hesitated. It was not that the ...

With the launch of a way for people to connect with each other in mentoring relationships, and to look for jobs, Facebook has over the last year or so slowly been encroaching on LinkedIn’s territory ...

Facebook today is talking for the first time about FBLearner Flow, a piece of software that manages machine learning models for employees throughout the social networking company. It's similar in some ...

After writing several articles intended to act as basic introductions to Artificial Intelligence such as Machine Learning and Deep Learning, I thought it would be good to look at some examples of how ...

In 2019, Facebook took down on average close to 2 billion fake accounts per quarter. Fraudsters use these fake accounts to spread spam, phishing links, or malware. It’s a lucrative business that can ...

is a Senior Producer on Decoder. Previously, he reported on the technology and gaming industries for more than a decade. Inside a 350,000-square-foot building in the hills of Prineville, OR, slotted ...

The social networking giant's $2 billion bet on the virtual reality pioneer is bringing into focus the real costs of becoming a mass market consumer electronics maker. Ian Sherr Contributor and Former ...

When Naika Venant killed herself in January, the Miami-area teen broadcast the event for two hours on Facebook’s popular video live-streaming feature, Facebook Live. A friend of hers saw the video and ...

I’m a voracious learner. In addition to reading magazines, books, blogs, tweets, and faces, I persistently look for patterns, connections, anomalies and what’s new. I tolerated school only because it ...

I wrote a column last year about how my teenage daughter was scandalized when she saw my profile on Facebook . “Gross!” was her verbatim reaction. I never joined Facebook to spy on my kids, and I ...