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Speaking about the possibility Facebook could be exploited to circulate misinformation about the November 3 vote—including from President Donald Trump himself—Zuckerberg told “CBS This Morning” host Gayle King posts about ballots would be policed. He said: “If people post content that broadly is trying to delegitimize the outcome of the election, either by saying things like, ‘voting by mail will definitely lead to fraud’ or you know… things that… undermine these democratic principles of methods of voting that we know are safe, then we’re just gonna add some context to those posts....

Degrees of freedom: The Quest has the advantage of a six degrees of freedom tracking system (6DoF), while the Go had only three (3DoF). 6DoF devices can track more than just your head movements, they can keep track of your position in a room as well. This just makes for a better, more immersive VR experience. Behind the scenes: The Oculus Go was the first VR headset that you didn’t need to connect to a powerful PC (like the Oculus Rift) or a mobile phone (like the Gear VR)....

What’s More The responses take the five response emoji from Messenger — a heart, a grinning face, a surprised face, a crying face, and a furious face — and enliven them as an overlay all over. For instance, the crying emoji will show animated tears tumble from your eyes, while the heart makes a radiance of exploding hearts around your head. You can tap on the star icon to access all available effects....

Biden said Facebook was “killing people” on Friday after being asked a question about COVID misinformation on the popular social media site. White House efforts to tackle that misinformation have caused recent controversy. A Facebook spokesperson issued a statement to NBC Senior Media Reporter Dylan Byers on Friday touting the company’s efforts to encourage vaccinations. In a later statement, a Facebook official also appeared to take aim at the Biden administration....

While you already can share your Instagram posts to your Facebook account, the social network wants to try out the other way, as reported by TechCrunch on Monday. The company reportedly began testing the feature worldwide earlier this month, but currently is only making it available to a small group of users. Images of the test show a new button on the top right when you go to create a new post, displaying the Instagram logo and a toggle for on or off to allow sharing....

Lewis Hamilton has a huge lead already and Valtteri Bottas does look out of his depth against him. Looking at the margin that Mercedes enjoys over the rest of the field it does seem inevitable that Title No.6 is coming Lewis’ way sooner than later. On the other side of the grid, McLaren was able to impress by qualifying P5 and P6 and putting together a great race. There wasn’t much to talk about during the race though as it was pretty dull from start to finish....

While Lewis Hamilton and Mercedes are heavy favourites for those respective honours, personal milestones will be reached and records broken across the grid over the course of the campaign. So here, with the help of Opta, we bring you 10 fascinating facts to get you ready for the season opener in Melbourne next weekend. There are 21 races on the 2018 calendar, the most ever in an F1 season....

It was agreed ahead of the 2018 season that F1 would no longer use women on the grid, with children from local motorsport clubs instead taking this role, but this has not gone down well with Kozak. He says he is working to ensure the women will be back for this year’s Russian Grand Prix, which he oversees, claiming his compatriots are “the most beautiful”. “If we can reach an agreement we will revive this tradition,” Kozak said, as reported by Interfax....

Hamilton holds a four-point lead over Vettel in the battle for the Formula One title following his first victory of the season in a chaotic Azerbaijan Grand Prix. A late puncture denied Valtteri Bottas top spot on the podium and it was his Mercedes team-mate Hamilton who came through to secure maximum points. Vettel had to settle for fourth spot in an action-packed race which included a dramatic collision between Red Bull team-mates Max Verstappen and Daniel Ricciardo....

The breakout Ferrari star claimed pole position for a third consecutive race, having won from the front in the prior two. Leclerc’s outstanding performance - and that of Sebastian Vettel, third in his Ferrari - was unexpected by rival Lewis Hamilton, as he acknowledged, but also by the Italian team themselves. Ferrari brought upgrades to Singapore but could not have anticipated such a sensational qualifying result on a track where Mercedes and Red Bull were favoured....

According to Motorsports Italy, teams have also been asked to run their cars with provisional liveries in Barcelona during closed-door pre-season testing. F1 has been striving to ensure that fans and the media know as little as possible about the new generation of cars before the season opener in Bahrain. Their reason for doing so is to draw as much attention as possible to the season opener by giving away very little before it....

Unfortunately, that proved to be Patrick Vieira’s last kick for Arsenal as he was sold to Juventus the following summer. Then came the period when the club had some financial constraints (due to purchase of a new stadium), while, at the same time, rival clubs were taken over by the billionaires of Russia and Qatar. Hence, with unlimited spending power, they bought the players they wanted while Arsenal had to sell the players to make the profit....

A goal in the 19th minute from Liverpool which came off the head of the most unlikely outfield player to score turned out to be the eventual winner, as Klopp’s men emerged victorious in a surprisingly close game. A missed penalty and a few missed chances were the highlights alongside the goal in a semi-exciting FA Cup tie. Here are the main talking points of this game: #1 A goal to remember for Lucas Leiva Yes, you read that right....

United boss Jose Mourinho has bemoaned the fixture pile up with his club having to slot in Europa League ties alongside the EFL Cup final and Premier League games ahead of the FA Cup quarter-final. But despite the busy schedule, the Chelsea boss doesn’t think United will have any problems recovering from their clash thanks to the Football Association’s scheduling of the game and said his opponents have the squads to cope with the rigours of the game....

The midfielder, now at Monaco, left Barca for the Gunners as a 16-year-old and quickly established himself as a key first-team player in the Premier League. The Spain star was even named as club captain at the age of just 21 but chose to return to his boyhood club two years later after winning only one FA Cup during his time in north London. Fabregas found consistency difficult back at Barca, though, as he competed for midfield spots occupied by Sergio Busquets, Andres Iniesta and Xavi under head coach Pep Guardiola....

The skeleton of the woman was discovered by archaeologists in 2014. At the time, researchers believed it to be the body of a man who became known as the vampire of Kamień. A piece of brick had been placed in the mouth of the skeleton and stakes had been driven through the legs. Medieval and post-medieval “anti-vampiric” burials are found across Europe, with graves having been discovered at sites across Poland, Bulgaria and Italy....

Egocentric perception is how people see the world around them, a first-person perspective, which is difficult for AI to comprehend since it currently must rely on learning from a third-person view. Facebook AI is aiming to solve this problem to take artificial intelligence to the next level and “unlock a new era of immersive experiences.” The company gathered a group of researchers from 13 universities and laboratories across nine countries to collect large amounts of data for the project....

On Twitch, streamers have the option of marking their streams under the category “Just Chatting”, or “IRL.” While the “Just Chatting” feature is used when the streamer is engaging with fans or with other streamers, the “IRL” category is used to broadcast their everyday life experiences. Until now, Facebook Gaming had no equivalent of either categories. That is set to change, with Facebook announcing that the “Hanging out” tag can be used by creators to “connect with their audiences over their shared love for gaming....

Facebook News Expands Its Reach Facebook News is still a relatively new feature for Facebook users in the US, and Facebook is now considering bringing the feature to several other countries. If you’ve never used Facebook News before, it’s a personalized news feed from thousands of different news outlets. Currently, you can only access Facebook News from the Facebook app on Android or iOS. In an About Facebook post, Facebook announced that it has made ample progress with the US adaption of Facebook News....

On Monday, Facebook and several other related sites experienced a prolonged outage, lasting roughly six to seven hours. Following hundreds of thousands of reports worldwide, Facebook addressed the issue Monday afternoon, noting that changes made to the backend of its systems were the primary source of the outage. “Our engineering teams have learned that configuration changes on the backbone routers that coordinate network traffic between our data centers caused issues that interrupted this communication… This disruption to network traffic had a cascading effect on the way our data centers communicate, bringing our services to a halt,” Santosh Janardhan, vice president of infrastructure at Facebook, wrote in the apology....