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Facebook Becomes the World’s Largest Corporate Purchaser of Renewable Energy In 2018, Facebook set a comprehensive goal of reaching a 75 percent reduction in operational greenhouse gas emissions. Along with that, the company promised to support its global operations with 100 percent renewable energy. In a post on Tech@Facebook, the company announced that it has now achieved its previously set environmental goal and successfully reached net-zero emissions. Moreover, it exceeded the greenhouse gas emissions goal and has reduced them by 94 percent....

At least that’s what the social-media platform’s VP of partnerships, Dan Rose, told Variety on Monday. “We’re talking to a lot of folks about live [video]," Rose said. “There are a ton of types of content that can fit under this format.” MORE: Top 25 free agents in 2016 | SN’s latest mock draft The deal is separate from the one under which NBC and CBS recently bought the TV rights, each spending $225 million to split a 10-game Thursday package the next two seasons....

The BBC first reported the company’s policy reversal, which also included changing a setting that resulted in a list of blank pages turning up when searches were conducted for Rittenhouse’s name. “After the verdict in Kenosha, we rolled back the restrictions we had in place that limited search results from returning content related to key terms including Kyle Rittenhouse,” Andy Stone, spokesperson for Facebook’s parent company Meta, said in a statement....

The Privacy Implications of Nearby Friends When you turn on Nearby Friends, Facebook warns that you are also turning on location history. By turning on location history, you create a digital record of your travels. Facebook says users can delete items from their location history, or delete their entire history. Delete your location history periodically if you’re uncomfortable with this aspect of Nearby Friends. Nearby Friends also has implications for relationships: cheating spouses, overbearing parents, and people who say they’re in one place but whose location information tells a different story....

The stakes are very high this time. Observers have pointed that the full-blown bigoted warfare of presidential campaigning that has frayed through social media in the last few months is expected to result in an unprecedented surge of misinformation, voter suppression efforts, and may even lead to the fomenting of violence. On the eve of US Elections, 2020, social network giants like Facebook and Twitter issued a warning on a post uploaded by President Donald Trump....

One of these is a new feature called “Take a Break” on Instagram, along with “nudging” teenagers away from content that could be harmful if they’re looking at it too often. Here’s what to know about the planned Instagram features. What Is the Planned “Take a Break” Feature? Facebook says it wants to play its part in ensuring that young Instagram users don’t spend too much time on the app, so it will be launching a Take a Break feature....

The driver and fan favourite Suzuka track has been tricky with the downpour making the circuit slippery and difficult to manoeuvre through. Nico Hülkenberg crashed out in the final practice session and despite the Renault mechanics’ splendid work of sending his car out for qualifying, they had to be content with P16. Marcus Ericsson too had his moment in the first part of qualifying when he lost control of his Sauber and unfortunately had to sit out for the rest of the session....

From 1950 till the 2018 Japanese Grand Prix, 993 races have been held and the driver that has been on pole position has gone on to win the race on 415 occasions (about 42% conversion rate). Thus statistics prove that starting from pole position gives the driver a significant advantage to take the chequered flag in the ensuing race. In the earlier days, drivers were given a single lap only to set their respective qualifying times....

Despite struggling with technical problems late on due to a faulty throttle, Leclerc held just enough pace to keep Red Bull’s Max Verstappen at bay, as the pole-sitter finished his team’s home race in P2. Verstappen did claim an extra point for recording the fastest lap. Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton rounded out the podium places in P3, as championship contenders Sergio Perez and Carlos Sainz both failed to finish the race at the Red Bull Ring....

The Canadian Grand Prix will run at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve, a 14-turn, 4.361-kilometer course located on the man-made Notre Dame Island in the middle of the St Lawrence River. Sunday’s race is scheduled for 70 laps and a total distance of 305.27 kilometers. MORE FORMULA 1: Full 2019 Grand Prix schedule Shocker: A Mercedes driver, either Lewis Hamilton or Valtteri Bottas, will be considered the favorite to win the Canadian Grand Prix considering one or the other has won each of the first six F1 races in 2019....

Here are some of the more hilarious reactions to Fernando Alonso’s move to Alpine: Fernando Alonso excited to join Aston Martin on a multi-year contract Fernando Alonso is excited about his move to Aston Martin in 2023.The Spaniard will be on a multi-year contract with Aston Martin, and in a press release he said: Fernando Alonso further added that the team was attracting some great talent, which could result in a jump up the field in the coming season....

According to reports in Italy, Romani joined Mercedes as a graduate aerodynamicist in 2019 before being promoted to full-time aerodynamicist in 2021. Romani opted to return to his homeland last month and now his LinkedIn activity has confirmed his departure to the Scuderia stables in Maranello. He wrote: The move comes as yet another blow for Mercedes, who have already seen an exodus of talent to other teams. Red Bull have reportedly snagged more than 50 employees for their Powertrains division from the Silver Arrows, as per Dr....

Mercedes have won the constructors’ championship in each of the past five seasons and started the 2019 campaign by taking maximum points at the Australian Grand Prix. Ferrari set the pace in pre-season testing in Barcelona but only amassed half of the Silver Arrows’ 44-point tally in Melbourne. Valtteri Bottas led a Mercedes one-two ahead of Lewis Hamilton at Albert Park, but Wolff expects the Scuderia to hit back under the lights this weekend....

Japanese marquee Honda decided to leave the sport in December 2008 and the works team folded. Honda team principal Ross Brawn was effectively out of the sport unless a buyer could quickly be found. His belief that the team had a race-winning car for 2009 led to him having the gumption to buy out Honda. The reprisal of Tyrell name was considered before the team decided to enter the championships as Brawn GP while continuing with Honda’s driver pairing of Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello....

Ron Dennis’s team got 12 pole positions from the 16 races. In a two-horse race, McLaren and Ferrari, on the back of a strong mid-season showing were locked in a tense battle with Mika Hakkinen and Michael Schumacher as their lead drivers. Ultimately, the MP4-13 chassis won McLaren their eighth constructor’s title in the season finale in Suzuka, Japan with 156 points as against Ferrari’s 133 as Schumacher retired with a puncture and Hakkinen taking the chequered flag....

Prost spent 7 years of his storied career at McLaren, raking up poles, wins and championships. He was political in the garage and exceptionally quick on the track. Though his lone McLaren year in 1980 didn’t end well, he returned to the British side to win 3 of his 4 titles and helping them win 5 constructor’s titles (1984-86, 1988, 1989) in a decade that they dominated. He was in championship contention is every year he was with them, thrice losing out narrowly....

It can be said that the new manager has brought back the Manchester United way of playing to the club. After 4 straight wins under Solskjaer, they are going to their next match [in the F.A cup] full of confidence. The wins under the new manager have been convincing, except for their last game against Newcastle United. It was a tough game and they just managed to scrape three points....

The odds were heavily stacked against the Gunners ahead of kickoff despite their superiority in the competition (having won eight of the 13 meetings prior). Although Chelsea were going into the game after an excellent league campaign behind them where they won the Premier League title, Arsene Wenger’s men were clearly in the mood to stamp their authority on proceedings. Arsenal pounced to claim an excellent victory, continuing their affinity with the FA Cup as they won against the 10 men of Chelsea....

MORE: Biggest summer transfers | Soccer’s beautiful fans | WAGs Any player in England who falls unconscious, or even appears to, will no longer be permitted to continue in a match. Any player suffering a head injury will undergo an assessment on the pitch and those who suffer two such head blows will be sent for psychometric testing. The decision of whether or not a player returns to action, crucially, will belong to club medics and not members of the coaching team nor the player himself....

The White House said earlier that there is “no evidence of a cyberattack” at this point in the investigation into the cause of the issue. During an interview with CNN, U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg confirmed there is no indication of a cyber attack, but added that the U.S. is not ruling it out at this time. Buttigieg said he directed an “after-action process” to determine root causes and recommend next steps....