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Facebook policy to stop vaccine misinformation only worked temporarily

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Between November 2020 and February 2021, Facebook introduced policies to cut down on misinformation related to covid-19 vaccines, but they only worked for about six months Technology 15 February 2022 By Chris Stokel-Walker As part of its policy on covid-19 misinformation, Facebook removed posts with false claims about vaccines Sipa US/Alamy Policies put in place … Read more

Meta: Rogue black hole: First truly isolated stellar-mass black hole found

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Rogue black holes are usually detected by the matter falling into them, but the first truly isolated black hole has been found because of the way it bends the light of a distant star Space 3 February 2022 By Alex Wilkins Artist’s illustration of a rogue black hole Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski An isolated stellar-mass black hole … Read more

Supercomputers: Meta is building specialised machine for running AI

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Facebook’s owner wants extraordinary computing power to develop AI models to recognise speech, translate languages and power 3D worlds Technology 24 January 2022 By Matthew Sparkes Meta’s RSC supercomputer Meta Facebook’s parent company, Meta, is building the world’s most powerful AI-specific supercomputer to develop better speech-recognition tools, automatically translate between different languages and help build … Read more