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Lebanon Daily Voice serves Bethel Twp, Jackson Twp, Lebanon, North Cornwall Twp, North Lebanon Twp, North Londonberry Twp, Palmyra, South Lebanon Twp & South Londonberry Twp Return to your home site Thursday, jan 27 21° Notification Push Notifications Notification Sound Notification permissions are disabled. Enable them in your device's settings. Home News Try Ad-Free © 2022 Cantata Media 01/26/2022 6:42 p.m. Erin Doss Photo Credit: Palmyra police A woman has been charged after police watched a Facebook video showing her hit her son in the head with a metal baseball bat.Palmyra police officers were shown the video of Erin Doss, 43, of Palmyra, hitting her son on Jan. 12, according to a release by police. The incident happened when the son was staying at his mother's house overnight from Jan. 10 into Jan.  » Read More

The following has been provided by Northwestern State University:NATCHITOCHES, La. – Tracey Renee’ Davis, director, and Danielle Apugo, executive producer, graduates of Northwestern State University and founders of Policing Joy, a film organization focused on social justice through storytelling, won a Facebook SEEN and Blackhouse Foundation Filmmaking Grant Competition to shoot a documentary film about hair bias in schools.“Policing Joy: Black Hair Bias in K-12 Schools” is a 21-minute documentary short film that aims to stimulate a global conversation around Black girls across generations reflecting on memories around their hair styling and grooming practices in anticipation of the first day of school. The film dives into recent media coverage regarding Black girls’ experiences with hair bias in U.S. schools. In this segment of the documentary, scholars and experts offer conceptual insights into how schools often perpetuate harm that can lead to emotional distress. The turning point of “Policing Joy” comes when documentary interviewees reclaim their hair with a call to action demanding the protection of Black girls against all forms of school violence.  » Read More

By: Tech Desk | Pune | Updated: January 25, 2022 2:24:16 pm Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces their new name, Meta, during a virtual event in this file photo.( Image credit: AP) Meta Inc (formerly Facebook) is exploring plans to allow users to create, showcase and sell non-fungible-tokens (NFTs) on Facebook and Instagram, according to a recent report by The Financial Times. For the uninitiated, an NFT is a digital asset that uses blockchain technology to record who owns a digital object such as an image, video, or in-game item. While anyone can view the asset in question, only the buyer can say they are the “official” owner. According to a report by FT, teams at Facebook and Instagram are “readying” a marketplace feature that will allow users to create, and sell NFTs.  The plans are currently “at an early stage and could yet change,” Engadget reported. This development comes after Instagram leader Adam Mosseri said in December that his social network was “actively exploring” NFTs.  » Read More

GoFundMe has frozen access to the more than $4.7 million in funds raised by the trucker convoy now wending its way across the country toward Ottawa in a protest against vaccine mandates."We require that fundraisers be transparent about the flow of funds and have a clear plan for how those funds will be spent. In this case, we are in touch with the organizer to verify that information," Rachel Hollis, a spokeswoman for the crowdfunding platform, said in an email."Funds will be safely held until the organizer is able to provide the documentation to our team about how funds will be properly distributed."As of Tuesday afternoon, funds were raised from 61,100 donors, according to the GoFundMe page of the "Freedom Convoy."Tamara Lich, who is also secretary of the fledgling Western separatist Maverick Party, launched the campaign on Jan. 14. It states that the money will go toward fuel as well as food and lodgings for big-riggers taking part."Our current government is implementing rules and mandates that are destroying the foundation of our businesses,  » Read More

MENLO PARK — A big investor has bought a stake in a large office campus in Menlo Park that’s leased to Facebook in a deal worth well over a half-billion dollars, according to federal and local public documents. The deal, valued at roughly $540 million, involved the three buildings in the under-construction Menlo Gateway office campus in Menlo Park, the public records show. An affiliate of Canada-based Brookfield Asset Management, a big real estate investment firm, bought a 49% interest in the tech campus, according to a public property document filed on Nov. 30 with the San Mateo County Recorder’s Office. The seller of the stake was Alexandria Real Estate Equities, a Dec. 1 filing by Alexandria with the Securities and Exchange Commission shows. The Menlo Park office complex totals 773,000 square feet, the Alexandria SEC filing states. With the recent transaction, Bohannon Office Investors retains a 51% interest in the three-building campus. All three of the buildings are eight stories high. Facebook had previously struck a deal to rent the entire tech campus,  » Read More

Facebook’s parent company Meta on Monday said it has created what it believes is among the fastest artificial intelligence supercomputers running today.The social media giant said it hopes the machine will help lay the groundwork for its building of the metaverse, a virtual reality construct intended to supplant the internet as we know it today.Facebook said it believes the computer will be the fastest in the world once it is fully built around the middle of the year.Supercomputers are extremely fast and powerful machines built to do complex calculations not possible with a regular home computer. Meta did not disclose where the computer is located or how much it is costing to build.The computer, which is already up and running but is still being built, is called AI Research SuperCluster. Meta says it will help its AI researchers build “new and better” artificial intelligence models that can learn from “trillions” of examples and work across hundreds of different languages simultaneously and analyze text, images and video together.The way Meta is defining the power of its computer is different from how conventional and more technically powerful supercomputers are measured because it relies on the performance of graphics-processing chips,  » Read More

Cookies have now been a hot regulatory topic for some time, especially in France where the CNIL ranked cookies in its top-three investigation priorities for the last two years and initiated a variety of guidance and enforcement actions. In this context, the French authority concluded year 2021 with two significant decisions against Google and Facebook regarding the means to refuse cookies. In the two decisions, the CNIL criticized Google and Facebook for not offering internet users a means to refuse cookies as easily as they can accept them. The French authority fined Google a total of 150 million euros (€90M for Google LLC and €60M for Google Ireland Limited) and fined Facebook 60 million euros. It also enjoined both to “modify. . .the methods for obtaining the consent of users located in France to the reading and/or writing of information in their terminal, by offering them a means of refusing these operations that is as simple as the mechanism for their acceptance” with a daily penalty of €100,000 per day of delay in complying with the injunction after three months of the notification of the decision.   » Read More

Journalist Ron Donoho Journalist Ron Donoho has been covering San Diego since 1996, both as a staff employee and freelancer. He is a former editor of San Diego Magazine, San Diego Home & Garden Lifestyles and San Diego CityBeat. As a freelancer, his articles have appeared in more than three dozen national newspapers, consumer magazines and news websites. Donoho also has taught magazine writing and production at Point Loma Nazarene University and served as chief content officer at Ballotpedia.org, a national website on politics. His career has included long-form writing, investigative reporting and news writing. He also operates a travel website called “Junkets & Jaunts.” His latest venture, called San Diego Sun, is a news website financed through Meta, the new name for Facebook. It’s believed the Sun is San Diego’s newest local news media outlet. In June 2021, Donoho applied for funding from Meta through the International Center for Journalists. He was selected as one of 50 local independent journalists around the country to receive multi-year agreements in exchange for creating content to appear on Facebook Bulletin,  » Read More

Facebook (before it was rebrandeded as Meta) was approached by venture capitalists to spin off its Workplace app and make it a new company valued at over $1 billion. But Facebook declined. Workplace, Facebook's collaboration tool for businesses has gained more than seven million paid enterprise users. It was originally built as a version of Facebook for its own employees to communicate with one another. According to a report in TechCrunch, Facebook was approached by enterprise investors offering the social network a "proposition", "spin off the organisation, they said, and let us back it as a startup". A deal would have valued a newly independent Workplace as a "unicorn" (at least at $1 billion). Facebook declined the offer as it sees Workplace as a "strategic asset". "It helps make Facebook (and Meta) look like an adult," the report said, citing a source. Meta and Workplace declined to comment on the report. Founded as a "work" version of Facebook,  » Read More

An Enid man says he wants to provide others a safe place on social media to post poetry or their inspirational thoughts, so he opened a Facebook page called Minor Thoughts and Details, to share with others.Marshall Minor, a lathe operator at PT Coupling, started the page a few years ago following the death of his father. He and some of his acquaintances post their writings there, and he now wants others to feel welcome to do the same.“I just want to give people a secure outlet to express themselves where they don’t have to worry about getting negative feedback,” he said. He said he was going through several issues, and decided to use writing as an outlet for his emotions.“I actually hated poetry in high school,” he said. “But, then, it started taking off.” Minor said some of his friends and acquaintances started following the page, and now many of them contribute their own writings.While the page is public, he reminds others who want to post to the page to “use it for the purpose it was intended for,  » Read More