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Facebook has open-sourced the precision PCIe timing card it created for its servers. It combines frequencies from a miniature atomic clock and GPS receiver, both on the card, with FPGA-based qualification that combines the two. The local clock is there for when satellite signals are not available, or are unreliable – for example during a spoofing attack. With it, “anyone ...

The government is to set up a Digital Markets Unit within the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) to oversee a pro-competition regime for tech sites including those funded by digital advertising, such as Google and Facebook. Around £14 billion was spent on digital advertising in the UK in 2019, around 80 per cent of which was spent on Google and Facebook, and the ...

Facebook’s ill-starred crypto-currency initiative Libra took another hit yesterday when Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com dropped support for the project. The latest defections followed last week’s hit when PayPal, Visa, MasterCard, eBay, was  Stripe and Mercado Pago abandoned the project. That leaves from the original list of participating partners: PayU, Farfetch, Lyft, Spotify, Uber, Iliad SA, Vodafone, Anchorage, Bison Trails, Coinbase, ...

An exodus of support from Facebook’s proposed crypto-currency initiative, Libra, is threatening its credibility while a report by the G7 says Libra must not be launched until safety measures have been demonstrated. Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe and Mercado Pago have all pulled out. That leaves from the original list of participating partners: PayU, Farfetch, Lyft, Spotify, Uber, Iliad SA, ...

Policing on-line hate from within a single platform, such as Facebook, can make the spread of hate worse, and will eventually generate global ‘dark pools’ in which hate will flourish, is one of the findings the finding in a recent scientific paper in Nature. The paper was written after analysis using a “first of its kind” mapping technique, according to ...

Facebook is said to have acquired the 22 year-old Silicon Valley SoC IP company Sonics as part of its efforts to build a chip design team. Last year Facebook’s chief AI scientist Yann LeCun said that Facebook needed ICs which could analyse live video and take it down while it was still streaming if it was offensive. Using existing technology ...

Facebook is abandoning its plan to provide internet access via drones which will result in the closure of its drone building plant in Bridgwater in Somerset. The plant belonged to Ascenta, a UK drone building company bought by Facebook. The four year-old drone initiative, called Project Aquila, was seen as a way to bring internet access to people in poor ...

Check out this striking image. It's Aquila, the Facebook Internet-bearing drone, undergoing its second round of testing.

Mark Zuckerberg tells graduating Harvard students yesterday that they should help people find purpose.

Facebook reveals that it is developing technology to allow people to type directly to their phones using just their thoughts.