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Facebook’s Last Ditch Effort to Skirt Apple’s Privacy Policy Facebook isn’t happy about Apple’s new anti-tracking policies. Apple’s App Tracking Transparency feature is set to go into effect sometime in spring 2021, and will require users to opt into certain permissions, like ad tracking. Facebook is trying to offset Apple’s new feature by providing a notification that encourages users to allow activity tracking. The prompt will appear before Apple’s privacy notification, and states that opting in will help “provide a better ads experience....

Frenchman Romain Grosjean, who races for Lotus team, feels that his first win in the international event is just around the corner. His recent performances at Germany and Hungary have given him a glimmer of hope regarding his prospects in the second half of this year. “We proved in Germany and Hungary that we can compete right at the front of the grid and I think if we can continue to improve at the same rate we will be looking pretty good for the remaining nine races,” Grosjean said in an interview on Lotus’s official website....

Formula 1 and other forms of circuit racing on four wheels was seen as a secondary sport, and we seldom saw Spanish drivers on the F1 grid in the 20th century. But just as Michael Schumacher’s championship exploits in the ’90s and 2000s inspired a generation of young German drivers to pursue their dreams of becoming Formula 1 driver, so has a certain Fernando Alonso. We’re seeing the effects of this now, as more Spanish drivers are going through the junior ranks than ever before....

Mercedes made Formula One history at the Azerbaijan Grand Prix on Sunday by becoming the only team to secure one-two finishes in the opening four races of the season. Victory for Bottas gave him a one-point lead over team-mate Hamilton, with Sebastian Vettel 35 points adrift of the Finn. Mercedes team principal Wolff is eager to ensure there will be no repeat of the conflict between Hamilton and Nico Rosberg when they fought it out for the title....

The expectation level has shot up following Bottas’ impressive win at the season-opening Australian Grand Prix two weeks ago, which showed he could be a serious rival for Mercedes teammate and defending F1 champion Lewis Hamilton. In Melbourne, Hamilton started from pole position, but Bottas zoomed past the five-time world champion and then controlled the race with aplomb. He even picked a bonus point for setting the fastest lap....

Reigning champion Hamilton also took home the fastest-lap bonus for the first time this season to regain the lead in the drivers’ standings and move seven points clear of Bottas, who had to settle for second ahead of Red Bull driver Max Verstappen. It is just the fifth time in F1 history that a team has taken the top two steps of the podium for five straight races and the third instance of Mercedes achieving the feat since 2014....

Fisichella praised Schumacher in an interview with Rai Italia, claiming that the German changed the sport forever by consistently dominating it. The Italian also expressed how proud he felt whenever he was ahead of Schumacher in a race. This shows how powerful the seven-time world champion was back then, to the point where drivers felt great to be ahead of him for a few laps. Fisichella said: Though Giancarlo Fisichella followed in Michael Schumacher’s footsteps and raced with teams like Jordan and Benetton, he never had the German as his teammate....

England manager Gareth Southgate recently voiced his frustration with Zaha, who switched his international allegiance to Ivory Coast last year after not being selected for any England squad since 2013. Zaha, who made two friendly appearances for England, committed to playing for Ivory Coast before Southgate’s permanent appointment in November. “It has a lot to do with the less glamorous clubs. The FA don’t talk to people that come to Palace games....

The wings will be replaced with an online registry instead, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. This does not affect NASA’s astronauts getting their wings, because they will still receive theirs from the space agency. “The Astronaut Wings program, created in 2004, served its original purpose to bring additional attention to this exciting endeavor. Now it’s time to offer recognition to a larger group of adventurers daring to go to space,” said FAA Administrator Wayne Monteith in a press release, the Orlando Sentinel reported....

Pep Guardiola spelled out in a meeting with his employers in Abu Dhabi that the average age of the City squad would need lowering dramatically, and the defence in particular needed a complete overhaul. No, Guardiola has not been in the Middle East since his side lost at Monaco on Wednesday. It was City’s defeat in Madrid last April which convinced Khaldoon Al Mubarak that Guardiola would need help in transforming the club from uninspiring also-rans to world beaters....

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild presents a concept that could be of major value. Fable has close ties with fairy tales, occasionally taking inspiration from classic folklore and literature to inform its side quests and setting. Fable 4 could make real-world stories central as a means of distinguishing itself, but not every fairy tale is easy to integrate into a video game. Breath of the Wild offers an excellent blueprint for fairy tale quests through its Shrine Quests, which often focus on myths and tall tales told by Hyrule’s citizens....

Generally, the donor is brain-dead but still has heart function. The face transplant recipient arrives at the hospital where the donor is being kept and prepares for the surgery. Any planned organ harvesting (including the face donation) is performed at the same time, and the face is preserved in a cold solution. Self, partial, and complete face transplant surgery are all possible depending on the amount of damage to facial tissue....

Rumors on Twitter started to spread about the dangers of FaceApp, its ties with Russia and the security issues users should consider. When the news came to light that the developers of the app were based in St. Petersburg and that the privacy policies allowed the app to have a constant data connection, many online became suspicious. But is there anything really to worry about? FaceApp and Russia “It is a Russian company which means that if they wanted to, they could probably access that data,” Matthew Green, an Associate Professor of Computer Science at Johns Hopkins University, told Newsweek....

Keeping this in mind, you start to see why Facebook remains in strong opposition of Apple’s’ new privacy options. Much of Facebook’s earnings probably come from personalized ads, after all. Facebook Tries to Convince You to Enable App Tracking In continued pushback against Apple’s iOS 14 privacy updates, the iOS apps for Facebook and Instagram have added a new notice. The pop-ups are near identical on both platforms, saying that the company (Facebook owns Instagram) uses info on your activity to help keep the app(s) “free of charge....

“We’re canceling any large physical events we had planned with 50 or more people through June 2021. Some of these we will hold as virtual events instead and we’ll share more details on that soon. Similarly, we’re extending our policy of no business travel through at least June of this year as well,” the CEO said. “We will require the vast majority of our employees to work from home through at least the end of May in order to create a safer environment both for our employees doing critical jobs who must be in the office and for everyone else in our local communities,” Zuckerberg said, implying this period could extend and that anyone with childcare worries could work from home until “at least the summer”....

Whether it’s the promise of money or free chocolate, or even a more sophisticated scheme where a ‘friend’ asks you to move some money for them, they all rely on humans falling for fake websites and fake friends. The latter is one of the things that Messenger is addressing right now. A new feature is being rolled out which will warn you with pop-up safety messages when it thinks you might be about to talk to an imposter posing as one of your real friends, helping you avoid such scams....

With Mark Zuckerberg ambitions of pioneer in augmented reality (AR)market, the CEO revealed vision of playing poker with ‘holograms of your friends on the couch next to you’. “We will build and release a pair of Ray-Ban branded smart glasses in 2021. They’ll combine innovative technology with fashion-forward style and help people better connect with friends and family,” Facebook said in a blog post. Why Trump Administration Banned WeChat But Not Facebook?...

Facebook Won’t Back Down on COVID-19 Misinformation Facebook shared its response to the Oversight Board’s recommendations in a post on the About Facebook blog. The Oversight Board began making content moderation decisions in January 2021, and ended up overturning a number of decisions initially made by Facebook. Included in the Oversight Board’s report on its moderation decisions, it listed 17 recommendations. Facebook isn’t obligated to adopt these recommendations, but it must at least consider them....

“We’ve since corrected this and BibleHub.com content can now be shared. We apologize for this error,” a Facebook spokesperson told Newsweek in an email Wednesday night. Complaints circulated on social media when a YouTube video titled Facebook bans Bible passages was posted by YouTuber and writer Paul Joseph Watson in reference to the issue. In his video, at the 1:19 minute mark, Watson shows a screenshot of a user who was denied posting a status with Biblehub....