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Insynapse Entertainment, in conjunction with Vacaville Firefighters Association Local 3501, will hold a dance fundraiser Friday night for those impacted by the LNU Lightning Complex Fires. However, with the shelter-at-home order still in effect, the party will be hosted online so participants will be able to jam to current and classic grooves without even leaving their homes. Dancers are encouraged to put on their dancing shoes, grab some cocktails and turn their homes into a dance club for one night. DJs Ed Combong and Chriztian will be spinning two hours of dance favorites from the ’70s to today. Combong said the playlist would be an eclectic mix of hip-hop, country, Latin pop, Top 40 hits and a whole lot more. “It’s just upbeat, fun, uplifting stuff,” he said. Combong is a member of Young Professionals of Vacaville, a group of Millennials in the local business world who come together to empower the next generation of business leaders. The day after the fires, the group had talked about doing something to benefit the victims. “They were just mentioning the devastation that they had already learned (of) from the day before,” he said. “To hear of people that were affected, it really concerned me. I have two friends that I heard they lost their homes completely.” Since then, Combong has been volunteering in Solano County where he can. He talked with his social media team about doing a benefit concert. Combong has done fundraisers in the past. When a security guard at Rockin’ Jump Trampoline Park — where Insynapse are resident DJs — lost his wife in an accident, a smaller-scale benefit was held. “We donated our time,” Combong said. In addition to tunes, there will also be opportunities to donate to those in need. Vacaville Firefighters 3501 has set up a…

In July 2019, Alaphia Zoyab was on a video call with Facebook employees in India, discussing some 180 posts by users in the country that Avaaz, the watchdog group where she worked, said violated Facebook’s hate speech rules. But half way through the hour-long meeting, Shivnath Thukral, the most senior Facebook official on the call, got up and walked out of the room, Zoyab says, saying he had other important things to do. Among the posts was one by Shiladitya Dev, a lawmaker in the state of Assam for Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). He had shared a news report about a girl being allegedly drugged and raped by a Muslim man, and added his own comment: “This is how Bangladeshi Muslims target our in 2019.” But rather than removing it, Facebook allowed the post to remain online for more than a year after the meeting, until TIME contacted Facebook to ask about it on Aug. 21. “We looked into this when Avaaz first flagged it to us, and our records show that we assessed it as a hate speech violation,” Facebook said in a statement to TIME. “We failed to remove upon initial review, which was a mistake on our part.” Thukral was Facebook’s public policy director for India and South Asia at the time. Part of his job was lobbying the Indian government, but he was also involved in discussions about how to act when posts by politicians were flagged as hate speech by moderators, former employees tell TIME. Facebook acknowledges that Thukral left the meeting, but says he never intended to stay for its entirety, and joined only to introduce Zoyab, whom he knew from a past job, to his team. “Shivnath did not leave because the issues were not…

When K-pop stans aren’t using their powers of massive online coordination to troll the Trump campaign or flood police hashtags in support of Black Lives Matter, they devote that energy to, well, stanning their favorite K-pop acts. BTS ‘fandom, known as Armys, sent their beloved seven-piece straight to the top of YouTube trending on Friday when the Korean idol group dropped the video for “Dynamite,” their first ever single sung entirely in English. The rainbow-pastel daydream visuals racked up an official count of over 101 million views in the first 24 hours the video was live, YouTube confirmed to Variety on Sunday. The video smashed the previous 24-hour record holder, BLACKPINK’s “How You Like That.” The K-pop girl group set that milestone all the way back in * checks notes * June 2020, with 86.3 million views in 24 hours – but “Dynamite” had beaten that by 9 p.m. ET. We have 4 hours left and 15.3 MILLION views to achieve our goal of 100 million views on YouTube in the first day. WE CAN DO IT ARMY 💜💪 – The genre is BTS ✰ ⁷ (@BTSBAGS) August 22, 2020 “How You Like That” also set a new record upon its release for the shortest time to 100 million views, at 32 hours – meaning “Dynamite” and its 24 hours of power set a new new record. YouTube made the 24-hour stats harder for record companies to game by excising paid promotional views from the count in September last year. (The existing record holder was also a BTS song, Halsey collaboration “Boy With Luv.”) But artists with massive online followings, from K-pop acts to Taylor Swift, don’t necessarily need labels juicing the numbers when the fans’ streaming game is this focused. Of the top 10 most-viewed-in-24-hours videos on YouTube, five…

FILE PHOTO: A 3D-printed Facebook logo is seen placed on a keyboard in this illustrationBy Mathieu RosemainPARIS (Reuters) - Facebook's French subsidiary has agreed to pay more than 100 million euros ($118 million) in back taxes, including a penalty, after a ten-year audit of its accounts by French tax authorities, the company said on Monday.France, which is pushing hard to overhaul international tax rules on digital companies such as Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Apple and Amazon, has said the big tech groups pay too little tax in the country where they have significant sales.Current international tax rules legally allow companies to funnel sales generated in local markets in Europe to their regional headquarters. Some of the tech companies, including Facebook, have European or international headquarters based in countries with comparatively low corporate tax rates, such as Ireland.A Facebook spokesman said French tax authorities carried out an audit on Facebook's accounts over 2009-2018 period, which resulted in an agreement by the subsidiary to pay a total 106 million euros.The Facebook spokesman did not elaborate further on the details of the agreement. France's tax administration also did not give more details.Facebook's spokesman also said that since 2018 the company had decided to include its advertising sales in France in its annual accounts covering France.As a result, Facebook's total net revenue almost doubled in 2019 from a year earlier to 747 million euros, a copy of Facebook France's 2019 annual accounts, filed with France's companies registry and seen by Reuters, showed.Facebook France, which employs 208 people, refers to the French tax audit report in its 2019 annual accounts, saying it amounted to a tax adjustment of about 105 million euros. This includes a penalty of about 22 million, the annual accounts showed.French magazine Capital was first to report the payment of back taxes.Facebook's spokesman…

Business|Facebook to Pay More Than $110 Million in Back Taxes in FranceAug. 24, 2020Updated 9:33 a.m. ETPARIS — Facebook's French subsidiary has agreed to pay more than 100 million euros ($118 million) in back taxes, including a penalty, after a ten-year audit of its accounts by French tax authorities, the company said on Monday. France, which is pushing hard to overhaul international tax rules on digital companies such as Facebook, Alphabet's Google, Apple and Amazon, has said the big tech groups pay too little tax in the country where they have significant sales.Current international tax rules legally allow companies to funnel sales generated in local markets in Europe to their regional headquarters. Some of the tech companies, including Facebook, have European or international headquarters based in countries with comparatively low corporate tax rates, such as Ireland. A Facebook spokesman said French tax authorities carried out an audit on Facebook's accounts over 2009-2018 period, which resulted in an agreement by the subsidiary to pay a total 106 million euros. The Facebook spokesman did not elaborate further on the details of the agreement. France's tax administration also did not give more details. Facebook's spokesman also said that since 2018 the company had decided to include its advertising sales in France in its annual accounts covering France.As a result, Facebook's total net revenue almost doubled in 2019 from a year earlier to 747 million euros, a copy of Facebook France's 2019 annual accounts, filed with France's companies registry and seen by Reuters, showed. Facebook France, which employs 208 people, refers to the French tax audit report in its 2019 annual accounts, saying it amounted to a tax adjustment of about 105 million euros. This includes a penalty of about 22 million, the annual accounts showed.French magazine Capital was first to report the payment…

Google is adding some more capabilities and functionalities to its Google Assistant Snapshot feed. The snapshot feed is now spotted with YouTube Music suggestions, news, sports, and other results.Snapshot feed was introduced by Google back in March for the Google Assistant. And the company is going on enhancing the features of the app.As per a report by 9to5Google, the audio suggestion card shows a playlist from YouTube Music, podcasts, news, and others. Moreover, it also shows a 'do it again' card for the commonly used assistant commands that you use.Tapping on the 'Do it again' tab will launch the commonly used command without you having to say or type it.Back in 2018, Google introduced the 'visual snapshot' feature which showed all the information like your recent orders, weather, and other reminders set in your phone.Over the years, Google has upped the features of the Google App. Besides, it has now got customization options and it can now show you even more suggestions via new cards.It shows fresh YouTube Music suggestions along with the cover art of the playlistThe revamped Snapshot feed shows the weather at the top along with all the fresh YouTube Music suggestions. It even shows the default cover art of the playlist.Google News is also placed beside YouTube Music suggestions. This will help you get on with your daily dose of the latest happenings around the world while starting their day.Besides, there is a new sports card that shows info about all the upcoming sports events. Notably, it gives you an in-depth insight into the competition and stage details as well.It also includes team names, logos, starting time, etc. This sports card when clicked will redirect you to the full web page from where this feed was sourced.The Google Assistant Snapshot feed's "start listening for a fresh…

Photo for representation only. — iStock San Francisco, August 21 At least 235 million users of Instagram, China-based TikTok and Google-owned YouTube have been hit by a massive data leak and their personal profiles were up for grabs on the Dark Web. “The data was spread across several datasets and the most significant being two coming in at just under 100 million each and containing profile records apparently scraped from Instagram,” reports Forbes, quoting the security researchers. The third-largest was a dataset of some 42 million TikTok users, followed by nearly 4 million YouTube user profiles. — IANS

Former Dance Moms star JoJo Siwa is turning heads online with her latest makeover. The young 17-year-old performer and YouTube personality appeared with fellow YouTube star James Charles for a makeover that is the complete opposite of her youthful, ponytail look that fans have grown accustomed to at this point."This is my dream, and my nightmare at the same time," the young star said in the video. "Getting my makeup done is just, like a NO. I like to do it, I don't let anybody else do it. It's just a no. My hair, even more so."Both have a pleasant conversation about their careers, according to Entertainment Tonight, but the final product is the real draw for fans. The results are shocking for them but also shocking for Siwa."I don't know how you got me to do this!" Siwa says to Charles. "I will say it's very pretty and you did a wonderful job on the hair and the makeup. The makeup is stunning…It's obviously, it's not me. You know how I showed up here in sparkles, hot pink and neon…I feel like a different version. I feel like I'm Joelle right now."The new look sat well with most fans of the teenage star and others made it clear that they felt Siwa was already beautiful without the makeover. "Jojo Siwa is pretty. period, you don't have to qualify that by stating the makeover made her more anything. She's always been stunning and conventional beauty standards are bulls—," a fan wrote on Twitter. make sure you check out our video if you haven’t seen it! https://t.co/ahyfYqvzU6 — James Charles (@jamescharles) August 21, 2020 0commentsThat said, many fans were not too happy and took it out on Charles according to tweets from the YouTube star after the makeover video went live.…

Dark mode is one of the most significant additions Facebook By David Cohen 5 hours ago The thorough overhaul of Facebook’s desktop experience, initially introduced at F8 2019 last May, will become the only option sometime next month.Some users began seeing notifications alerting them to the imminent demise of “classic” Facebook, and the social network said on a Help Center page, “If you’re using the new Facebook.com, you can switch back to the classic Facebook temporarily. Starting in September, everyone will have the new design.”CEO Mark Zuckerberg debuted the new look at F8 2019, calling it FB5 and saying that there had been four major versions of Facebook up to that point, and this was the fifth.Changes in the new layout include: dark mode; faster load times and transitions between pages; larger fonts; a more simplified layout; and easier access to sections such as events, Facebook Watch, groups and Stories.

We are not ashamed of running yet another story, an update, on the situation with Ellen Kessler, the animal activist who has been appointed to the Colorado State Board of Veterinary Medicine.Our efforts to stop this appointment are so important especially as now she has targeted 4-H youth, saying that 4-H clubs, “teach children that animal lives don’t matter.”I just read a story on AgDaily about Victoria Banks, a member of a 4-H club in Michigan who started a Facebook page to share her 4-H projects and activities with others.The page is called Victoria’s 4-H Page and recently one of her friends shared a photo of Victoria and her hog Tequila to a group called Vegan Revolution.As you can imagine Victoria’s page was flooded with negative comments, which Victoria’s mother described as “aggressive, demeaning, vulgar, hateful and disgusting.”In other words, the animal activists were bullying a 14-year-old at a time when bullying is being blamed for many pre-teen and teen suicides.Luckily they messed with the wrong person this time.Although her parents were skeptical, Victoria decided to keep her page pubic because she respects others opinions and is not ashamed about anything that she does and has nothing to hide.“Everyone has different opinions, and I never said that anyone’s opinion is wrong because it is not like mine. Not allowing people to express them is wrong,” Victoria said in the AgDairy article. “I respect everyone for their opinion but was never rude to those who believe differently than I do.”So just as all of you supported our #showingup for rural Colorado campaign, let’s share that support for Victoria on her Facebook page Victoria’s 4-H Page.Let’s let her know that she is not alone and that her courage and convictions in the face of this onslaught from animal activists is appreciated.In other…