Meta summed up the results of the year on its projects and spoke about seven new technologies, which it launched together with teams from Europe, Africa and Asia. In the blog, the companies noted that this year they tried to solve social problems, including solving global issues of providing the world's population with a stable connection to the Internet.

Instagram Lite is a mobile social network client that takes only 2 MB of memory on the device, in comparison, the classic client takes just over 30 MB. The app is available for Android, and was developed by the Meta team from Tel Aviv, together with colleagues from New York. The development is positioned as an alternative for users with budget and weak devices. While working on Instagram Lite, the teams drew on the experience of the Facebook Lite application and also offloaded some of the code to the cloud. This freed up the resources of user gadgets;

DINO is a computer vision technology that provides methods for more efficient analysis of the content of photographs and videos. The tool was developed in collaboration with researchers from the French National Institute for Research in Informatics and Automation. A key feature of DINO is that AI is able to detect objects in images and videos without a target or observation. For example, DINO can understand that there is a dog in a photo without knowing what is commonly referred to as a "dog";

Expire-Span is a tool that taught artificial intelligence to forget received information. To do this, Expire-Span adds a special label "expiration date" to the data, after which the information is deleted. This allows you to create a semblance of short-term and long-term memory, as well as delete irrelevant data;

Time Card is a PCIe card that turns any server into a time tracker with instant nanosecond synchronization between data centers. The project was developed by engineers from Dublin. First of all, Time Card was created for the servers of social networks, in which a large number of posts from different time zones are published every minute. It should be noted that the project is open source, and Meta believes that Time Card is three times more accurate and compact solution than commercial counterparts;

2Africa Pearls is a submarine cable project to provide stable network connectivity to people in Africa and the Middle East. The development of the project began in 2020. The company plans to lay more than 45,000 kilometers of cable, making 2Africa Pearls the longest submarine cable system. And upon completion of the installation work, it is expected that more than 3 billion people will have access to the Internet;

Horizon Workrooms is a virtual workspace through which people from different countries and even continents will be able to communicate and interact with each other. The technology includes desktop tracking, virtual keyboard access, remote desktop streaming, video call service integration, spatial audio, and unique 3D avatars. Horizon Workrooms will be accessed via the Oculus Quest 2 VR headset;

Also in 2020, Meta launched a tool that allows you to transfer information from Facebook to other services. For example, Facebook photos, posts, events and videos can be sent to Backblaze, Dropbox, Google Photo, Koofr, Google Docs, WordPress, Blogger, Photobucket, and Google Calendar. This year, the company expanded the list of supported data types for sending, added the ability to simultaneously transfer information to different platforms, and began expanding the list of services into which you can import data from Facebook.

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