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Mark Zuckerburg has made some big announcements at the 2018 F8 Conference.

One among them is new dating feature which lets users do more than just displaying their relationship status as single or committed.

The Facebook dating feature will be integrated into the main mobile app, but wannabe dates would be able to create dating profiles which will be separate from their Facebook profile.

While not many details are revealed, the interface of Facebook’s dating feature would be quite similar to other apps like Tinder and Bumble. However, it takes a different approach by allowing users to find their dates in Groups and Events.

Facebook will use things like preferences, common interests, and mutual friends to push potential match suggestions in front of the users. One thing that gives a sense of satisfaction that people’s dating activities would become a matter of public display. Facebook says that what people do within the dating feature won’t be visible to their friends.

The development puts the Facebook in direct competition against the leaders like Tinder. In fact, stocks of Match Group (Tinder’s parent company) fell by around 20% after Mark Zuckerberg announced the feature. More details about Facebook’s dating feature will be known later this year when it will be available for testing.
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Here’s how Facebook dating will work.
Opt-in to a create a profile with just your first name. Your profile won’t be visible to friends, users who aren’t on the dating feature, and it won’t show up in the News Feed.

You’ll browse Events in your city and Groups that match your interests. You can select to ‘unlock’ one for dating. You’ll then see the profiles of other dating users who’ve unlocked that surface.

You can browse through people’s profiles that show off a few of their photos plus some basic information about them. You’ll be shown people based on mutual interests and friends, plus other data Facebook has on you.

If you both are interested, you’ll be able to start a conversation with someone in a special inbox that’s separate from Messenger and WhatsApp. For safety, only text can be sent for now.


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Recent changes to Facebook have cost Mark Zuckerberg an eye-watering $3.3bn (£2.4bn) from his personal fortune.

Don’t go thinking that Mr Zuckerberg’s going to be left destitute anytime soon though, as despite losing enough money to bankrupt an entire nation it only represents a drop in 4.4 per cent of his net worth.

So what caused Mark to lose that much money? Well, changes to Facebook’s news feed, which will prioritise posts from family and friends over businesses went public on Thursday.

The resulting fallout caused the site’s share value to drop by four per cent and by the close of business on Friday the website’s shares were trading at $179.37, down more than 4.4 per cent on Thursday’s price of $187.77.

According to Forbes this means that Mark would have personally taken a hit of $3.3bn.
Commenting on the recent changes to the site Mark explained:

We built Facebook to help people stay connected and bring us closer together with the people that matter to us.

But recently we’ve gotten feedback that public content – posts from businesses, brands and media – is crowding out the personal moments that lead us to connect more with each other.

Based on this,” he added, “I’m changing the goal I give our product teams from focusing on helping you find relevant content to helping you have more meaningful social interactions.


Some critics, however, believe there’s a more sinister reason for Facebook encouraging people to share more of their private lives on the site.

They believe that Facebook is facing a phenomenon known as ‘context collapse’ which basically means that as users share less about themselves online the data that Facebook sells to advertisers becomes less valuable.

By getting to people to once again share personal information on the site they may be able to increase Facebook’s commercial value.

Unfortunately for Facebook though, the markets reacted badly to the news causing the loss in value.

Mark will be glad to hear however that experts believe the dip is only a blip and his shares will recover in value.

In addition, it’s worth noting that this time last yeas Facebook shares were only worth around $127 (£92) so the company’s value is still up by more than 40 per cent.

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Apple is quelling concerns about its new face scanning technology—a notable and novel feature of the iPhone X–with the release of a technical paper on the phone-embedded technology.


First revealed at Apple’s keynote in early September, Face ID is an update to the now standard and optional Touch ID that grants entry into a phone through a fingerprint.


Apple detailed the advanced technology behind the facial recognition system. The new security feature authenticates a phone’s owner through its TrueDepth camera system. The camera maps the geometry of someone’s face, then Face ID uses neural networks for “matching and anti-spoofing” so only the phone owner can unlock the device.


However, while Apple said the probability that a random person could unlock an iPhone X with Face ID is approximately 1 in 1,000,000, the probability of a false match is different for twins, similar-looking siblings, and children under the age of 13. They explain that Face ID has an issue with under-developed facial features that are less distinct.


The white paper also dove into the way TrueDepth detects, analyzes and matches a face, along with how Face ID can be used with Apple Pay.


“To make a payment within apps and on the web, you confirm intent to pay by double-clicking the [phone’s] side button, then authenticate using Face ID to authorize the payment,” the paper explains.


For the security feature to first be enabled, a passcode is required. Then moving forward, the software detects your face and grants phone entry without the device’s six-number code. Apple said the FaceID isn’t meant to replace a password, just make it easier to unlock your phone in a pinch.


Apple also outlined the six circumstances in which a passcode is in fact required.
The device has just been turned on or restarted.
The device hasn’t been unlocked for more than 48 hours.
The passcode hasn’t been used to unlock the device in the last 156 hours (six and a half days) and Face ID has not unlocked the device in the last 4 hours.
The device has received a remote lock command.
After five unsuccessful attempts to match a face.
After initiating power off/Emergency SOS by pressing and holding either volume button and the side button simultaneously for 2 seconds.
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