Facebook is ending use of facial recognition software, the company said in a blog post Tuesday, a major move by a Silicon Valley giant to step away from the controversial tech.

Facebook said Tuesday it plans to stop using facial-recognition software that could automatically recognize people in photos and videos posted on the social network, marking a massive shift both ...

Facebook's camera roll cloud processing feature puts your all your photos and videos into the hands of Meta.

The Facebook free-for-all began in May, when the Palo Alto company invited hundreds of software developers to build their own features for the social-networking site and pocket the proceeds.

With 1.3 billion daily users, the Facebook site and its apps are the most-used pieces of software in the world. Only a handful of software companies have ascended to a similar echelon of ubiquity ...

Yes, you can still build software on top of Facebook -- Zynga-style. Each month, more than 260 million people play games from Zynga and other outfits on the site.

Every time one of its 1.65 billion users uploads a photo to Facebook and tags someone, that person is helping the facial recognition algorithm. Its accuracy rate is said to be higher than the FBI's.

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 ...

Software testing before deployment can be a long, winding and tedious process because software development itself is a complex process. At Facebook Inc., where apps are used by hundreds of millions of ...

Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney quit the company Tuesday to protest CEO Mark Zuckerberg's policies on hate speech and their impact on people of color. He is one of thousands of ...

The software engineer accused Facebook of "providing a platform that enables politicians to radicalize individuals and glorify violence." See also: Black Lives Matter: Turning words into action ...