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The machine will be capable of training AI models on real-world data sourced from the company’s platforms.

Facebook on Monday said it will shut down its facial recognition system for privacy reasons, and will delete more than 1 billion “facial recognition templates” it has collected over the years.

Several revealing findings are outlined in a cache of disclosures made to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission by Frances Haugen, a former Facebook product manager, and provided to Congress in redacted form by her legal counsel.

A whistleblower testified that the company prioritized profit while stoking division, undermining democracy and harming the mental-health of its youngest users.

Facebook users around the world have been unable to access its family of social-media apps, including the main social network, photo-sharing app Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp.

2Africa, also funded by China Mobile and MTN Group, is set to be one of the largest subsea cable projects in the world.

Dubbed Apricot, the infrastructure project will link Japan, Singapore, Taiwan, Guam, the Philippines, and Indonesia.

The transpacific conduits will expand capacity across the ocean by 70 percent, according to Facebook.

The long-haul network stretches from downtown Indianapolis east, to the Indiana/Ohio border.

Companies leased three times more multi-tenant data center capacity last year than in 2019.