Новости за 24.04.2018

Facebook actually stopped harmful content from spreading. 

The company said in a press release Monday that it removed or added a content warning to 1.9 million pieces of "ISIS and al-Qaeda" content in January through March — twice the amount it removed in the previous three months. 

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Supposedly, 99 percent of that content was removed because Facebook's technology and employees found it, not because users reported it. Читать дальше...

After the Millcreek Twp. School District made national headlines earlier this month for arming its teachers with 16-inch mini-baseball bats during an in-service day, Superintendent Bill Hall reminded everyone on Monday the move is "symbolic."

Championship-winning centre Andrew Bogut on Tuesday vowed to win games and draw crowds after signing a two-year contract with Australia's Sydney Kings -- a move he said would "retire me from the NBA".

The Sox banged out 18 hits, including seven in a row to start the game off Mariners right-hander Mike Leake.

New York’s real-estate industry spent nearly $500,000 in recent weeks to boost GOP candidate Julie Killian in a special election on Tuesday that could determine whether Republicans maintain control of the state Senate. The industry’s independent expenditure group — Jobs for New York — shelled out $469,000 in the weeks leading up to the election...

Spend five minutes with Mike Maccagnan and you cannot help but like him. There’s such a soothing, disarming manner about him that it makes you wonder if his blood pressure ever spikes above its normal resting rate. Maccagnan never raises his voice and is a humble, self-deprecating sort. Simply put: He’s someone you’d enjoy hanging...

Spend five minutes with Mike Maccagnan and you cannot help but like him. There’s such a soothing, disarming manner about him that it makes you wonder if his blood pressure ever spikes above its normal resting rate. Maccagnan never raises his voice and is a humble, self-deprecating sort. Simply put: He’s someone you’d enjoy hanging...

Baby, he was born to run … With MLB putting a heavy emphasis on speeding up the game, maybe commissioner Rob Manfred should reach out to Caitlin McHugh. The wife of actor John Stamos “kind of breezed through her labor.” The 54-year-old Stamos said she needed all of 20 minutes to pitch a perfect game...

Miles Morales may be a part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe someday, but in the meantime, Sony will be giving the black-and-red Spider-Man his big screen debut with the animated “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse,” with the film’s first extended loook on Monday. Writers Phil Lord and Chris Miller introduced very rough footage showing a super-charming Morales at CinemaCon. Morales dons the Spider-Man mask in a comic world where several people are empowered to do the same. In addition to impressive fight sequences and a hot soundtrack... Читать дальше...

Kushner Companies’ out-of-the-blue attempt to buy out the co-op shareholders at fabled 417 Park Avenue set off a big buzz in the investment-sale world. The company, once again being led by founder Charles Kushner, has not said what it might do with the precious site at the southeast corner of Park and East 55th Street....

Veteran broadcaster becomes the first woman to call an MLB regular-season game on TV since Gayle Gardner in 1993.

The frequency of such incidents is maddening and untenable. Starbucks is still reeling from the consequences (I mean, it's good there were consequences...but moolah was involved...) of harassing customers for existing while Black.

Giants first baseman Brandon Belt didn’t bother watching the replay of Sunday’s epic 21-pitch at-bat. It lasted 12 minutes and 45 seconds, after all. “No, I’m not going to watch a 12-minute at-bat,” Belt said Monday before the Giants-Nationals opener at AT&T Park. “I’ve got too much stuff to do.” Belt said he saw a “quickened version” of the at-bat, the longest since at least 1988 when official pitch counts were recorded. “It was kind of cool,” he said. Читать дальше...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — After Travis Reinking allegedly stole a BMW from a Nashville area car dealer last week, police say they found it outside the apartment where he lived. Authorities recovered the car but didn't figure out who had stolen it until too late. By then, police say, the 29-year-old with a troubled past had shot four people to death early Sunday in a Waffle House restaurant not far from where he lived in Nashville. If not for the efforts of a patron who wrestled the gun away, many more would have died. Читать дальше...

The prime ministers of Australia and France will on Tuesday inaugurate a high-tech museum casting light on the role of Australian troops in World War I, as they mark a century since a key battle in the conflict.

Frederik Andersen made 32 saves as the Maple Leafs battled to a series-levelling 3-1 win over the Boston Bruins on a night of raw emotion following the deadly van attack in Toronto.

According to the Infants Act, children under 19 may consent to a medical treatment on their own under certain conditions.

Morton Williams’ lease for a 13,000-square-foot, “curated” food market at long-vacant 1251 Third Ave. at 72nd Street seems to have pumped new juice into the limping Upper East Side retail corridor. Sources said that Target is in talks to open a “new concept” fashion-focused store at 1201 Third Ave., while cosmetics chain Ulta Beauty is...

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The virtual reality (VR) market is expected to rally in 2018 after seeing slow growth from 2016 to 2017. The uptick will be largely catalyzed by the emergence of the newest headset form factor, stand-alone VR headsets, which address some of the biggest pain points that have prohibited mainstream... Читать дальше...

TEHRAN, Apr. 24 (MNA) – The prevailing fear amongst some of the most important EU leaders, mainly from France, Germany and UK, about the day that JCPOA would be rejected by the Trump administration, is driving them to take hysteric reactions; they feel that they have to do something to keep the JCPOA alive, even at the risk of having it debunked.

Those guys aren't messing around; in fact, the new season of the Top Chess Engine Competition started April 18. The first stage is underway (and is almost finished); the main point of interest is that LCZero is participating. It's an attempt to create an AlphaZero-style zero monster on far less impressive hardware. It has made steady progress the last month or so, but it's not ready for prime time yet (maybe public-access at 3 a.m.) - it's in dead last with a point and a half out of 27 games. But by next season, who knows? Читать дальше...

(Spoiler alert: Please do not read ahead unless you’ve seen the season 3 finale of “UnREAL” that aired Monday.) “UnREAL” got pretty darn real in its Season 3 finale on Monday. The two back-to-back episodes saw drama on-screen for Serena (Caitlin FitzGerald) and her suitors and off-screen for Quinn (Constance Zimmer), Rachel (Shiri Appleby) and the rest of the “Everlasting” production crew, with Rachel even leaving the show all together come episode’s end. One of the catalysts for another bit of fuss was Adam Demos’ outspoken Aussie August... Читать дальше...

Germany will put on trial Tuesday the only suspect held over what it calls a brazen Cold War-style kidnapping by Vietnamese secret agents that has badly bruised bilateral ties.

Chinese tech firms pledged on Monday to tackle gender bias in recruitment after a rights group said they routinely favored male candidates, luring applicants with the promise of working with "beautiful girls" in job advertisements. A Human Rights Watch (HRW) report found that major technology companies including Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent had widely used "gender discriminatory job advertisements," which said men were preferred or specifically barred women applicants. Some ads promised candidates... Читать дальше...