A team at Facebook has detailed how it used artificial intelligence to analyse billions of images to create extremely accurate population maps which could be used bring internet connectivity to those ...

DURHAM – Visible and infrared light can carry more data than radio waves, but has always been confined to a hard-wired, fiber-optic cable. Working with Facebook’s Connectivity Lab, a Duke research ...

Fiber optic cables are the gold standard of a good internet connection, but laying them can be expensive, and in some parts of the world, a physically daunting task. So in remote corners of the globe, ...

Facebook Inc. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is launching a Connectivity Lab, a team of scientists tasked with bringing the Internet to remote places on the planet using new techniques, ...