Facebook 'Find Wi-Fi' Goes Global

Heads up, travelers: Facebook is rolling out a feature that should help you stay connected when you're on the go.

Connected Traveler The feature, dubbed Find Wi-Fi, isn't technically new, only it will be new to near people. Facebook launched it in a handful of countries last year, and now the tool is going global. Every bit its proper noun suggests, Detect Wi-Fi helps you locate bachelor Wi-Fi hotspots nearby by displaying hotspots that businesses take shared with Facebook from their Page.

Facebook is now rolling out Observe Wi-Fi everywhere on iPhone and Android. In a blog post, Facebook Engineering science Managing director Alex Himel said users with access to the feature accept found it helpful when traveling, and particularly when they're in areas where prison cell data is scarce.

"Wherever you lot are, y'all can easily map the closest connections when your data connection is weak," Himel wrote.

To bank check information technology out, just open up the Facebook app, click on the "More" tab and then select "Observe Wi-Fi." In one case you turn information technology on, y'all'll exist able to browse the closest bachelor hotspots on a map, and larn more about the businesses hosting them.

If yous're traveling, you can brand notation of those places before yous step out of your Airbnb, so you'll know exactly where to become to get Wi-Fi, instead of having to wander around a foreign city aimless and disconnected.

Meanwhile, Facebook also today announced a small tweak intended to reduce low-quality links you run into in your News Feed.

"Our research shows that at that place is a tiny group of people on Facebook who routinely share vast amounts of public posts per day, effectively spamming people'south feeds," the company's VP for News Feed Adam Mosseri wrote in a blog mail. "The links they share tend to include low quality content such as clickbait, sensationalism, and misinformation."

Facebook will at present deprioritize the links from these sources, so you're less like to run across them when you visit the service.

The company also recently rolled out new policies, backed by artificial intelligence algorithms, that will sniff out and remove from News Feeds links to sites with annoying and misleading ads.

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