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Facebook Boosts Its Open Source Mojo With New Project
Facebook looks and feels like a single application, like Microsoft Word or Adobe Photoshop. But behind the scenes, in the company's data centers, you'll find that the world's most popular social...
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You May Not Use WhatsApp, But the Rest of the World Sure Does
If you did a double-take yesterday when Facebook announced that it was spending an astounding $19 billion to buy mobile messaging software company WhatsApp, you’re forgiven. After all, the software...
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Facebook Paper Has Forever Changed the Way We Build Mobile Apps
Facebook efforts to advance the art and science of mobile software development both inside and outside the company are part of an enormous change in recent years across Silicon Valley and beyond. A...
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3-D Printers Could Help Build Tomorrow’s Massive Data Centers
The tech world has now applied 3-D printing to data centers, those massive computing warehouses that underpin the internet and the software services that drive our largest corporations. An outfit...
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Zuckerberg Phones Obama for Answers About NSA Spying
When you’re Mark Zuckerberg, you can do things a little differently from everyone else. Worried about a pesky construction project next-door? Drop $30 million and buy up a four-pack of your neighbor’s...
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Facebook Fights Back Against the NSA Spy Machine
Mark Zuckerberg was angry enough to phone the President when he read recent reports that the NSA was using fake Facebook websites to intercept the social network’s traffic and infect private computers...
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Facebook Introduces ‘Hack,’ the Programming Language of the Future
Facebook engineers Bryan O’Sullivan, Julien Verlaguet, and Alok Menghrajani spent the last few years building a programming language unlike any other. Working alongside a handful of others inside the...
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Forget the NSA. Tech Companies May Be Reading Your Email Too
How often are the cloud companies snooping on their customers themselves? You can now read polished and detailed “transparency reports” that explain how often Google, Facebook, and Microsoft respond...
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Google and Facebook Team Up to Modernize Old-School Databases
Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Google have teamed up to create what they call WebScaleSQL, a custom version of MySQL designed just for large scale web companies. Their changes to the database will be...
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Facebook Will Build Drones and Satellites to Beam Internet Around the World
Mark Zuckerberg is putting together a lab where a team of Facebook engineers will build flying drones, satellites, and infrared lasers capable of beaming internet connections to people down here on...
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