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The announcement was made at Atlantic Festival in Washington, D.C., where the company elucidated measures it’s taking to prevent outside electoral interference during the upcoming 2020 election cycle. The company also spoke about its general current attitude about political speech on the platform while maintaining its commitment to “Facebook’s fundamental belief in free expression and respect for the democratic process,” Clegg added. Other measures the website will undertake to ensure there will be no electoral interference include cracking down on fake accounts and expanding its staff by 30,000 people....

Not at all a simple task, but the team behind a certain navy blue social media platform just might crack this case before anyone else does. Facebook Details Its Newest Video-Focused AI Facebook has announced that it’s launching a new project, appropriately named “Learning from Videos,” which is designed to recognize and understand audio, textual, and visual components of videos that are publicly posted to the platform. If you’ve ever watched a YouTube video with auto-generated closed captions on, then you’d know that AI typically doesn’t do a very good job at registering this information....

The Himyarite Kingdom was a civilization located approximately in today’s Yemen. The Himyarites are thought to have ruled much of southern Arabia from about 115 BC up to the year 525AD, when the kingdom fell to invaders from Christian Ethiopia. For decades Judaism and Christianity had gained footholds in the region, both of which existed before the religion of Islam which was proclaimed in Arabia by the prophet Muhammad in the 7th century....

In London, CBS Outdoor is embarking on an overhaul of London Underground advertising, installing high-definition “media walls” along tube platforms and also digital escalator panels, which will begin rolling out in 24 stations by early 2008. These arrays of digital panels provide a versatile canvas upon which advertisers can flash rapidly changing messages and images. Thanks to breakthroughs like this, outdoor advertising, once dismissed as yesterday’s medium, is now the second fastest growing advertising sector after the Internet....

2018 is certainly well behind us now and the question comes up again: of who will knock Mercedes off their perch? The Silver Arrows have now won both the drivers’ and constructors’ championship for the last five years starting their dominance in 2014 with Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg. Five years later and no Rosberg have hardly damaged their control of both championships. The last couple of seasons have seen Scuderia Ferrari have a crack at Mercedes but no luck so far....

Reigning world champion Verstappen had been in dominant form all weekend at Spa but was among seven drivers to receive a grid penalty after using too many engine parts. Verstappen was 14th on the grid but streamed through the field untroubled despite a dramatic opening lap where Lewis Hamilton retired after colliding with Fernando Alonso. The Dutchman was into the podium places by lap eight and, following the first round of pit stops, he passed Ferrari’s pole-sitter Carlos Sainz to lead on lap 18....

During the previous race in Monza earlier this month, Wolff had proposed that a third car should be introduced for young drivers like Esteban Ocon, who doesn’t have a drive for next year despite doing well for Force India since joining them last year. The other Mercedes-backed drivers whose future is uncertain is Pascal Wehrlein and Formula 2 Championship lead George Russell. However, the likes of Red Bull and Sauber have already expressed apprehensions over the radical idea....

An occurrence that stood out was the inconsistency in performances between drivers of the same team. It is unusual for teammates to have a vast gap between their time sheets, given that they drive essentially the same cars. However, during the German Grand Prix we witnessed McLaren, Williams and Force India, all managing to push one racer out into the later parts of qualifying while the other was stuck back in Q1....

Universal has confirmed that its high-octane action movie franchise will be coming to an end soon. F9 is kicking off a new trilogy that will conclude what has now been rebranded The Fast Saga with a grand total of 11 movies. According to director Justin Lin, it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that Dwayne Johnson’s Luke Hobbs and Jason Statham’s Deckard Shaw could appear in the tenth and/or eleventh movies....

England bounced back from their defeat to the Czech Republic with a thumping 6-0 victory, but it was a match marred by racist abuse from sections of the support in Sofia. With England 2-0 up midway through the first half, the game was halted and a message relayed over the public address system, urging home supporters to cease their chanting. There was a further delay between England’s third and fourth goals, with the match appearing close to an abandonment as a group of fans were ejected....

Grigg kept his cool after an error from Kyle Walker in the 79th minute to slot beyond Claudio Bravo and book a quarter-final place for Paul Cook’s League One side, ending Pep Guardiola’s quest for a historic quadruple in the process. Aymeric Laporte and Fernandinho wasted glorious chances for City in the first half, but their task was complicated by Fabian Delph being sent off for a rash lunge on Max Power....

Sections of the home crowd jeered the Cameroon international at Turf Moor and sung songs of support for former Clarets player Jay Rodriguez, who was alleged by Bong to have made a racist remark during a match between Brighton and West Brom in January. Rodriguez protested his innocence and an independent regulatory commission found the accusation could not be proven. Seagulls boss Chris Hughton described the booing as “shameful” and his view was supported by the FA, which deemed it “unacceptable”....

The servers for Fable Legends – an asymmetric co-op multiplayer Fable spin-off game for the uninitiated – will shut down on April 13th. Fans of the game have until that time to play, and anyone curious about what it would entail prior to its cancellation are also free to check it out before the servers close. Since Fable Legends was a free-to-play game, it was to be financially supported via microtransactions....

Masked security forces removed the former State Duma deputy from his apartment in the city of Yekaterinburg after conducting a search in the early hours of Wednesday morning. They took him to the city’s Nevyansk Icon Museum, which was opened by Roizman in 1999, where searches are also underway, local media reported. Roizman, a former mayor of Yekaterinburg, and a vocal critic of President Vladimir Putin’s war against Ukraine, is being investigated for “discrediting the Russian army,” Russia’s TASS news agency said, citing Yekaterinburg security services....

In a post on the official Oculus site, Facebook confirmed that Sanzaru Games will be joining to the company to help “pursue a future of rich, immersive, and original VR game content.” Many PlayStation fans will known Sanzarau Games as a Sly Cooper developer but it has also released successful VR games such as Asgard’s Wrath and Marvel Powers United VR. RELATED: Facebook to Acquire Oculus VR for Reported $2 Billion...

Responding to Newsweek’s question during a press call Monday amid a series of escalations on the Korean Peninsula that included an exchange of warning shots between the armed forces of the rival neighbors, National Security Council Strategic Communications Coordinator John Kirby said that “we have been consistently concerned about North Korean provocations, not just because of the accelerated missile launches, for instance, in the last few weeks.” “It’s been a consistent concern of ours,” he added, “which is why several months ago we added some intelligence capabilities off the Korean Peninsula to help us get a little bit better insight....

Stacy Elliott, the Ohio State running back’s father, is planning to protest the NCAA’s new ruling on players rolling up their jerseys. Elliott splashed on the scene with his crop-top style jersey and people have be adoring his perfect abs ever since. MORE: Ezekiel Elliott’s crop-top jersey power | Ohio State dances during halftime | Ohio State hype video The elder Elliott went on Twitter to reveal his own form of protest next season, which is to wear the crop-top jersey to all games he attends....

Warner Bros. Discovery announced it no longer plans to release Batgirl theatrically, or even on HBO Max. This news comes after months of speculation surrounding The Flash movie as the release has been marred by multiple accusations facing its star. Miller has recently encountered legal trouble in Hawaii when they were arrested twice. The parents of teenager Tokata Iron Eyes have also accused Miller of manipulating and grooming their child, while other parents have recently spoken out about Miller’s alleged behavior as well....

“This agreement with the Sauber F1 Team is a significant step in the reshaping of the Alfa Romeo brand, which will return to Formula One after an absence of more than 30 years,” Fiat Chrysler chief executive Sergio Marchionne said in a statement. Sauber announced in a statement of their own that the team will officially be known as the Alfa Romeo Sauber F1 Team from 2018 onwards. “Working closely with a car manufacturer is a great opportunity for the Sauber Group to further develop its technology and engineering projects,” Sauber Holding AG chairman Pascal Picci said....