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Microsoft and Facebook plan to lay internet cable under the sea

The tech giants’ new cable will stretch 6600 kilometres across the Atlantic Ocean, from Virginia to Spain

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Technology

Free speech has met social media, with revolutionary results

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Boris Johnson

Humans

How your Facebook feed will affect your Brexit vote

Insight

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Technology

What your social media profile photo says about your personality

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Technology

One Per Cent

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Six GIFs about things you didn't know about GIFs

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Technology

Facebook learns about the world like kids do – only faster

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Technology

A social network built for donating aims to fix slacktivism

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Facebook neural nets and reading of children's books

Technology

Facebook’s AI is learning by reading loads of children’s books

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Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

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Facebook can map more of Earth in a week than we have in history

Facebook’s incredible mapping feat shows that neural networks are starting to do serious volumes of work seriously fast. Here’s why it matters

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Technology

Web of lies: Is the internet making a world without truth?

Features

Technology

As internet giants brush up against regulation, who’s using who?

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Humans

Did Facebook help Cruz beat Trump in crucial Iowa vote?

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Should Facebook turn in ISIS supporters?

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