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How much money would backers have made from Facebooks Oculus Rift acquisition?

2014-03-26 21:00:41| Extremetech

If Kickstarter backers were actually rewarded equity in a project that they helped fund, how much money would the backers of the Oculus Rift have made from Facebook's two billion dollar purchase?

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Facebook's Hack language builds on PHP

2014-03-21 15:32:55| InfoWorld: Top News

Seems Facebook wasn't satisfied with merely building a virtual machine for PHP, HHVM, which compiles that language to C++ for faster execut

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Facebook's Hack programming language builds code safety into PHP

2014-03-20 20:15:01| InfoWorld: Top News

Facebook has released a programming language called Hack, which marries the ease of PHP with the rigorous safety controls of older languages such as C++. PHP programmers should easily understand Hack, which replicates many of the same features and functions of PHP, and adds a few of its own for greater productivity, said Bryan O'Sullivan, a Facebook engineer on the project.

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Facebooks facial recognition software is now as accurate as the human brain but what now?

2014-03-19 18:38:15| Extremetech

Facebook's facial recognition research project, DeepFace (yes really), is now very nearly as accurate as the human brain. DeepFace can look at two photos, and irrespective of lighting or angle, can say with 97.25% accuracy whether the photos contain the same face. Humans can perform the same task with 97.53% accuracy. The end goal of DeepFace we can only guess at, but it's probably tracking your face across the entirety of the web, and in real life, as you move from shop to shop, producing some very lucrative behavioral tracking data indeed.

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