Facebook has always been a company with global ambition, but few projects illustrate this better than its ongoing attempt to map the world’s population density using AI. The company first unveiled ...

Population density maps are always good fun. And this one showing US states is no exception. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content. As ...

Facebook's quest to get the world online is paying some unexpected dividends. Its Connectivity Lab is using image recognition technology to create population density maps that are much more accurate ...