Facebook’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, and other leaders at the company took the stage at the F8 developer conference today to talk about where the platform is headed. We also got a look at the major new Facebook design headed for iOS and desktop that brings a brand new UI and logo, as well as a glimpse at new features and changes for Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp. Messenger Zuckerberg kicked off the F8 keynote and reiterated the company’s new goals of safety, privacy, encryption, and interoperability that he shared last month....

Tonight, the Facebook Pages Manager app has been updated to version 2.1 which includes the ability to upload multiple pictures per post, new Page creation right through the app, and improved insights. The app is great for owners of Facebook Pages, as it makes it easy to quickly respond to comments and check up on statistics, and is available free in the App Store. What’s New in Version 2.1 – Upload multiple photos for a single post – Edit Page admins: add new admins for the Pages you manage – Improved insights to make it easier to manage your Page – Edit Page cover photo – Create an event hosted by your Page (iPhone only) – Create a new Page – Bug fixes and performance updates

Joker’s depiction of violence is currently a topic of much debate, but the connection between the perpetrator of the 2012 shooting in Aurora, Colorado and the DC character is often misrepresented. Set to release later this month, Joker is the subject of much controversy at present, with critics citing the film’s supposedly sympathetic villain as a possible source of inspiration for would-be murderers in the real world. Of course, the Joaquin Phoenix movie is far from the only modern blockbuster to feature embellished scenes of a disturbing or violent nature, but has been singled out and subjected to additional scrutiny nonetheless....

Bethesda has officially revealed that the beta for its upcoming release Fallout 76 will launch in October. Fallout 76 will the franchise’s first online multiplayer game. While there was a lot of speculation regarding what the game would entail, it was eventually revealed that the newest addition will be a prequel to the Fallout game series. The series is famously known for its numerous video games that focus on a post-apocalyptic dystopia following the Great War, which catapulted the world into a nuclear holocaust....

Good news out there for all virtual gunrunners and bootleggers; the latest content addition to Fallout 76 will give players the ability to distill their own alcoholic beverages, and to harness the power of being drunk for greater destructive capabilities. Those who’ve been waiting for Fallout 76 to kick off its content expansion plans for 2019 will be pleased to know that this first in a long line of updates for the title will arrive this month....

Facebook has today unveiled a new app called Moments from its Creative Labs division that makes it easier to exchange pictures amongst friends who were together at an event or place, all documenting it through their own photos. Here’s how Facebook describes the problem they’re solving: Through the use of location and facial-recognition data (both areas where Facebook has invested heavily), Moments groups photos together and then asks if you’d like to share them with the people it has recognized, and vice-versa....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HxnQAlrA9E Recent Samsung ads for the Galaxy S4 have been used to highlight a unique feature of the phone that can automatically pause video when you turn your head away from your device. This has been an exclusive feature on the S4 for quite some time, but is now available to jailbroken iOS users through a new tweak called FaceHalt. While early versions of FaceHalt seemed a bit buggy and unstable, the latest build works flawlessly on both the iPhone and iPad....

A career as an actor is no different than any other career, really. It’s all about networking, climbing up the ladder, getting exposure so as to enhance the possibilities of getting attention from the higher ups… So, with that being said, it shouldn’t come as a surprise why any actor would fight tooth and nail to promote themselves whenever humanly possible. They’ve chosen a career path that centers wholly around the necessity of hype, so of course they’ll claw at the chance to get top billing on a project....

Dark mode option disappears from Facebook for iOS Facebook users have taken to other social media platforms such as Twitter to complain about the sudden disappearance of dark mode support. This includes Facebook’s support for the system-wide dark mode toggle in iOS, as well as the in-app dark mode toggle that used to be available in the “Settings” menu of the Facebook app itself. What this means is that not only will Facebook no longer respect your system-wide dark mode preferences, but there’s also no option to manually enable dark mode directly in the Facebook app....

Facebook was one of the main companies affected by Apple’s new privacy policies, which now require iOS apps to ask users if they want to be tracked by third parties. During the Q4 2021 earnings report on Wednesday, CEO of Meta (Facebook’s parent company) Mark Zuckerberg said that Facebook is “rebuilding” its ads infrastructure due to the iOS changes. According to Zuckerberg, Facebook’s ad infrastructure is being rebuilt so that the company can continue to deliver “high-quality personalized ads” to iOS users....

In Wube’s Factorio, most players are familiar with building using the building train. However, there is a method of making this process even more convenient. This is by virtue of a powerful new machine featured in the game, known as the building Spidertron! Along with the car and the tank, this is a non-rail vehicle that can be used for traversing rocky terrain in Factorio. Here we will show you how to build and engage in combat using the Spidertron in Factorio....

Facebook is moving away from its controversial plans to sell ads in WhatsApp, according to a new report from The Wall Street Journal. The report says that Facebook has “disbanded” the team that was leading efforts to find the best way to integrates ads into the service. The report explains that in addition to the team working on this project being disbanded, the work that had already been completed has been completely removed from WhatsApp’s code....

Family Guy season 16 episode “Three Directors” filters the same story through Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, and Michael Bay. While it later became a huge success, Family Guy struggled in its early years. The show debuted on Fox in 1999 and followed Peter Griffin, his family, and friends. Peter is capable of being a good father and husband, but he’s also a dimwitted, self-absorbed jerk too, which leads to no end of comic situations....

Legitimate companies track you from one website to another, building an online profile of you, selling your data and targeting you with ads. Fortunately, Apple fans can quickly put a stop to this. Tap or click here to prevent cross-site tracking on your iPhone, iPad and Mac. A healthcare system was recently involved in a data breach, exposing the medical records of millions of people. And Facebook is to blame for the whole fiasco....

It said the groups violated its rules around Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior and two new policies: Brigading and Mass Reporting. Facebook defines Brigading as networks of people work who together to mass comment, mass post or engage in other types of repetitive mass behaviors to harass others or silence them. Mass Reporting is when people work together to mass-report an account or content to get it incorrectly taken down by Facebook....

Haugen testified that Facebook takes down the “bare minimum” when it comes to harmful content, especially when content comes in languages that are not spoken prominently in developed countries as there is minimal criticism from these underrepresented users. “It can consistently underinvest in safety, and particularly, it really under invests in safety outside the United States because, disproportionately, their safety budget is spent on paving the United States,” Haugen said....

Facebook has today announced a pair of new features for its platform. The company is rolling out support for finding home service professionals via its Marketplace platform and is also making two-factor authentication easier to set up. First and foremost, Facebook has announced a pair of improvements to two-factor authentication. The company says the entire process has been “streamlined,” while it is also ensuring that people can enable two-factor without the need to register a phone number:...

The Radscorpions are one of the most common enemies that you’ll encounter during gameplay in Fallout 76. Though they’re common creatures in the game, you’ll find the need to get into a fight against them in order to complete certain quests that the game throws at you. If you’re unlucky, you’ll experience how hard it is to find these creatures when you actually need them. In this guide today, we’ll take you through every bit of information that you need to find Radscorpions in Fallout 76....

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzPEPfJHfKU] Facebook recently introduced a new feature for profiles called Timeline, and the social network giant describes it as “[telling] your life story with a new kind of profile.” The feature, as demonstrated for the web in Facebook’s promotional video shown above, places all of your photographs, interactions, status updates, and more on a timeline that starts from the day you were born. The feature works great on the desktop web and mobile version of Facebook’s website, and now Facebook plans to bring Timeline to the iPad’s Facebook application....

If you’re an avid Facebook user on the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch, the social networking giant has some good news for you. In yesterday’s 13.0 update, Facebook informs users that app updates with speed and performance enhancements will be arriving every four weeks. That’s about monthly. New features and other enhancements will come along the way, Facebook says, and those changes will be noted appropriately. Facebook seems to want users to get the latest iOS app updates as soon as possible, so it is recommending that users enable iOS 7’s Automatic Downloads feature via the iOS Settings app....