iPads have been used by doctors for many years now, but Apple reportedly has ambitions for the tablet to be placed into the hands of every hospital patient. iPads are already being made available to patients in a number of U.S. hospitals in a program intended to give them direct access to their own medical records … TechCrunch says that hospitals involved in the pilot include Jacobs Medical Center at UC San Diego, MetroSouth Medical Center in Chicago and Cedars-Sinai in Los Angeles....

When we previously talked about your Privacy on Facebook, things didn’t look good. Now Facebook is taking it down another notch. With the current communication system on Facebook, you’ll receive app alerts through the red-flag notification button at the bottom-right of your page. With a new update coming from Facebook, they instead plan to force developers to demand your email address. Yup. You read it right. Facebook apps will no longer be able to use notifications to communicate with you....

After first launching earlier this month, Facebook has today released a feature update to its new photo messaging app Slingshot. The new version allows users to reply with a reaction to photos without having to first reply with another photo. The launch version structure was a bit more convoluted as it required you to respond with a new photo as well. The new version allows you to respond with a photo, video, or just text....

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has been ordered to pay a $266 million penalty for “failing to be transparent about how it handled personal information” under new European Union data protection regulations. As reported by Bloomberg, this is the first time WhatsApp has been fined under the new GDPR law. The fine was handed down by the Irish Data Protection Commission, which said that it found violations in how WhatsApp explained “how it processed users’ and non-users’ data....

Facebook’s journey with Paper marches on with the first feature addition to the social network’s alternative app experience on iPhone and iPod touch. Although it’s not a major update, version 1.0.2 includes two additional features of note that could point to its future roadmap. First, Paper has gained new ways to share articles including via Messages and Mail. Sharing an article through Facebook’s private messaging is also available now, but it’s particularly interesting to see the platform integrate native iOS services in sharing content, especially considering it does not necessarily link back to the website (though it does include a link to fb....

The first set photos for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier have emerged, and they feature Bucky Barnes in normal, civilian clothing. Officially announced earlier this year, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first MCU show to debut on the new streaming service Disney+. A long list of shows will follow it, including WandaVision and Loki. Marvel head Kevin Feige has said the shows featured on Disney+ will tie into the films and have similar budgets....

The Griffin’s twisted and genius baby Stewie is often misunderstood on Family Guy, and could this theory explain why? Although he may look like a normal one year old child, Stewie has shown on multiple occasions in the show that he is anything but. He is much smarter than the average baby and even has the ability to talk (with his fake British accent) in complete, profanity ridden, sentences. Despite this appearance that Stewie is far superior intellectually to the average one year old, Family Guy is not very consistent with how his speech is portrayed....

Facebook continues to work on regaining the trust of users after the Cambridge Analytica revelations. After earlier pointing to instructions for removing permissions granted to apps running on the platform, the company has now streamlined the process to make it easier to do … Whenever you run a third-party app on Facebook, or allow a website to log you in via Facebook, you grant permission to access some of your Facebook data – how much depends on the app....

Fallout 4 provides a vast amount of side quests and collectibles on top of an engaging story and responsive first-person shooting combat. The game allows for an almost endless amount of exploration and side quests to engage in. Fans of the Fallout franchise will be right at home in the nuclear-devastated streets of Boston, with a huge wasteland to explore and become immersed in. One of the staple collectibles in the Fallout series is the powerful bobblehead items....

Facebook announced updates regarding mobile today at its Mobile Developer Conference in New York City continuing its effort to transition to a mobile-first platform. Changes include an improved experience with Facebook Login, easier implementation of Open Graph on mobile, a new Object API and Object Browser, a native Share Dialog and Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS. The new Share Dialog allows users in non-Facebook apps to share directly to Facebook without leaving the app....

After a handful of new features being announced in these past weeks, Facebook Messenger is adding another important function for its users. Now, the app will have a proprietary Call tab to boost voice and video calls with friends and family. According to Digital Trends, Meta – Facebook Messenger’s parent company – found that there are 40% more daily callers now compared to early 2020. In addition, Messenger users worldwide conduct more than 300 million audio and video calls on a daily basis....

Shortly after Dropbox announced it had shut down its popular Mailbox and Carousel apps, Facebook has made a similar move by removing a handful of its apps from the iOS App Store and shutting down the division that created them. Facebook’s Creative Labs project was intended to promote the creation of apps like Snapchat competitor Slingshot, and has launched several apps with some success. However, the social site has apparently decided that the time has come to shutter that initiative and the apps it has produced....

As social media continues to grow and develop, Facebook is looking to evolve. Younger users are increasingly interested in newer, more visually-oriented social media sites and apps, like Instagram and Snapchat. One of the original social networking giants, Facebook is now looking to shift focus, and find ways to grow in a changing market. Recent developments have included pushes toward “authentic” content and changes to the algorithms that promote pages and posts in the news feed....

http://youtu.be/HiqbNxRurFA Bloomberg reports that Facebook is in discussions with Apple about the possibility of adding its Facebook Home interface to iPhones. Facebook Home describes itself as ‘putting your friends at the heart of your phone’, and is effectively a skin that sits on top of Android to display social feeds and messages front-and-centre, with apps taking second place. So far, however, it hasn’t wowed Android users. Update: In a Wall Street Journal article, Facebook’s COO claims that a “lite” version of Facebook Home will be coming to iOS....

Facebook, as part of its growing efforts of transparency, is rolling out a new verification process to confirm that those who run Pages are who they say they are. Facebook announced the new process on its Facebook Business blog… The process is rolling out first to Pages with large followings in the United States. Managers of such pages will have to confirm their primary country location and add two-factor authentication to their account....

At its event last month Facebook showed us a native Share Dialog as part of its Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS update, and today Facebook announced on its blog that the feature is now available to developers. Now officially out of beta, the native Share Dialog will allow developers to implement easier sharing features into their apps using a single line of code. Facebook said it provides “a lightweight and consistent way to enable sharing from your apps,” allowing users to share data from apps without first having to login into Facebook....

If at first you don’t succeed… Facebook may have recently pulled its Snapchat-like Poke app from the iOS App Store, but the social network is gearing up to take another swipe at the messaging giant later this month, according to a new claim by the Financial Times. Facebook’s new app, currently dubbed “Slingshot” interally, will enable users to send short video messages to one another. In 2012, Facebook launched its own Snapchat rip-off called Poke, which borrowed its name from an entirely separate feature that had been available on Facebook’s website for years....

Apple has released the list of this year’s most popular iOS apps, with Facebook’s Messenger app and Warner Bros.’ Heads Up! game taking the top spots on the free and paid charts, respectively. The freemium Clash of Clans was the top grossing app of 2014. Social networks claimed all of the top five free spots, with Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram coming in behind Messenger. Between the main Facebook client, Messenger, and Instagram, the social networking company managed to capture the majority of the top five slots....

To activate it, go to this Facebook page in Firefox 17 — the latest updated version — and click Turn On. You’ll get a notification about the Facebook Messenger for Firefox being turned on. Now, no matter which site you visit, you’ll have the Facebook sidebar, allowing you to chat with your Facebook friends. Just as you would on the Facebook website. The top side also gives you notifications of your friends’ activity....

Facebook is once again involved in a controversial situation regarding privacy issues. The company has confirmed that thousands of developers have been able to access data from inactive users, which is an unexpected behavior. After the Cambridge Analytica crisis in 2018, Facebook established new guidelines that prevent developers from receiving data from users who haven’t used a third-party app connected to the social network for more than 90 days. As users can connect third-party apps with Facebook, developers can have access to personal information from those who have such apps linked to a Facebook account....