2016-01

The White House just announced its plan to give more students the opportunity to learn to code in schools. This is an effort I really believe in. I started coding when I was 10. My dad let me play...

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Every year, I take on a personal challenge to learn new things and grow outside my work at Facebook. My challenges in recent years have been to read two books every month, learn Mandarin and meet a...

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February 4 is Facebook’s 12th birthday! Our anniversary has a lot of meaning to me as an opportunity to reflect on how far we've come together as a community. When I wrote the first code for...

The ancient Chinese game of Go is one of the last games where the best human players can still beat the best artificial intelligence players. Last year, the Facebook AI Research team started creating...

The global refugee crisis is the worst the world has faced since World War II with millions of people forced from their homes. Four out of five people on Facebook are connected to someone directly...

I found this interesting. It's a basic technical description of how we stitch together virtual reality and 360 videos efficiently enough to stream live on your phone. Video is growing quickly on...

I’m traveling to Europe again next month! I’ll start my trip in Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, where I’ll be talking with Jessi Hempel about Internet.org and our plans to use solar-powered...

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Happy Republic Day to everyone celebrating in India! I’m grateful that I’ve been able to visit India many times and experience the spirit and diversity of the world’s largest democracy. Every time...

A major earthquake just struck northeastern India and we've activated Safety Check to help people in the area let friends and family know they're safe. The tool is here:...

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Check out this well-researched piece that goes deep into our many different projects to solve one of the greatest challenges of our generation -- connecting everyone in the world. This story by...

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My personal challenge for 2016 is to build a simple AI -- like Jarvis from Iron Man -- to help run my home and help me with work. I'm planning on writing up some thoughts every month on what I've...

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This is a neat 360 video from the surface of Mars. You can look around like you're actually on the planet. NASA produced it by stitching together photos taken by NASA’s Curiosity Mars Rover, using...