Roundup of Facebook's F8 Conference - Day twoFacebook's F8 conference recently took place in San Francisco and revealed some of the latest products from the social media platform. Take a look at some of the highlights from Day One and Day Two. • Connectivity Lab: Facebook’s Connectivity Lab is working on a range of new technology solutions to help connect the unconnected and improve the experience of the underserved. Today we announced two new terrestrial systems focused on improving the speed, efficiency, and quality of internet connectivity around the world: Terragraph, a wireless system for dense urban areas; and ARIES, a proof-of-concept research project to provide wide-coverage connectivity to areas with low population density. Image via Facebook Newsroom • Artificial Intelligence: The Applied Machine Learning team gave attendees a glimpse into the AI backbone that powers various Facebook experiences. The team’s ongoing research efforts will enable even better ways for people to connect, with new capabilities such as language translation, image understanding that allows photos to be searched for and classified by the image context rather than tags, and classifying videos in real time to help navigate the increasingly rich content people create every day. • Open Source:
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