At Artifact, we harness the power of AI and combine it with creative product design to improve the news & content experience for our users. Lately, we’ve been looking at reducing clickbait titles in our feed, and we have something exciting to show you. In May, we added a “Mark…

Since early March, we’ve published daily updates of Rt, a measure of how COVID-19 is spreading for each state in the United States, at rt.live. We wanted to share our process for automating our daily updates, in the hope that it’s helpful for anyone setting up a similar pipeline. Goals We…

Last Friday night my wife Kaitlyn and I got a call from our friend Zack, co-owner of a beloved restaurant in Pacific Heights. He was grappling with the realities of coronavirus and his balance sheet. Should he stay open at potential risk to his staff? How long could he keep…

2016 was a huge year for Instagram — between launching Stories, our new look & icon, and big changes to Explore and Direct — we shipped more products, more quickly, and with more engineers than we ever have before. Another big change — though not quite as visible to the…

Last September, Apple announced the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus, which include cameras that capture a greater range of colors than previous models, and screens that can display that wider color range. We’ve just finished updating Instagram to support wide color, and since we’re one of the first major apps…