A Facebook privacy lawsuit looks likely to be settled after parent company Meta offered a total of $37.5M to settle claims by US users. The lawsuit relates to Facebook tracking user locations even after they had switched off Location Services … Where location data was not available, the app used IP addresses in order to obtain a general location for the purpose of serving ads for local businesses. The lawsuit alleged that this violated California law, as well as breaching the company’s own privacy policy – the latter meaning that any US Facebook user would have a claim against the company....

Fakeyou.com is a deep fake text-to-speech service. You can find a voice sample for almost anything, from anime, movie characters, TV show stars, hosts, real people, etc. Even if you can’t find something of your choice in the list of available choices, you can request a customized TTS sample in the voice of your choice. And all of it is free. The UI on the website is also straightforward, and accessing every sound or video available is relatively easy....

With Halloween the movie now in theaters and Halloween the holiday right around the corner, join us as we look ahead to the Fall and Winter 2018 holiday films to come. Much like last year, Hollywood’s fall started off with a bang at the box office thanks to a horror movie (The Nun), before things cooled down a bit for the rest of September and the actual start of fall. Things have since picked up in a big way this month, as movies like Venom, A Star is Born and Halloween have all torn things up when it comes to ticket sales (and, in the case of the latter two, largely impressed critics)....

Fallout 76 human NPCs won’t be coming as early as fans might have hoped, as Bethesda announced earlier today that the Wastelanders free update - the one that many believe could salvage the game as a whole - has now been delayed until Q1 2020. Wastelanders was first announced during E3 2019, when Bethesda Game Studios creative director Todd Howard alluded to the dissatisfaction of the game’s many players before suggesting that the company had heard their concerns and would be taking steady, genuine steps toward creating the game that fans wanted rather than the one they had received....

Facebook is currently testing a version of its slimmed-down Facebook Lite for iPhone. The app has previously only been available for Android. Designed for people who want to minimize data usage, Facebook Lite helps in a couple of ways … First, the app itself is just 5MB, using less data to download, and using less storage capacity on the device. (The difference is not, however, as great as Business Insider suggests: the 500MB they claim for the main app is a result of an App Store bug that saw the wrong app sizes reported....

Update: Facebook confirmed to TechCrunch it has been “testing it with a small percentage of users” since it launched last month, but the social network has “no further details to announce at this time.” The image above is a screenshot just posted by TechCrunch. A reader who claims to be seeing the Facebook App Center already live in the iOS app sent it. As noted in the report, Facebook has an “app-themed” event in San Francisco tonight where we could see more of the App Center....

With an update to iOS 14 earlier this year, Apple rolled out its new App Tracking Transparency feature to give users more control over their privacy. Now, Facebook has issued a rare mid-quarter update to investors saying that Apple’s ad changes continue to impact its business. Facebook product marketing VP Graham Mudd issued the warning in a blog post published today. Mudd writes that Facebook had already warned about the potential impact Apple’s changes could have on advertising, but the mid-quarter update signals that things aren’t improving....

With The Falcon and the Winter Soldier footage revealing a tiny bit more about the USAgent, John Walker, it makes sense that fans are speculating whether the character will actually serve as a new MCU hero or perhaps as a villain. It’s obvious that this is a federally funded approach to the superheroes of the next decade, as the U.S. government looks to find their own suitable replacement for Captain America....

You might wonder, therefore whether Facebook had a future. Do people still use it? Does it still have a place in influencer marketing? Despite its recent troubles, Facebook is still coping admirably. There are many influencers on the network, helping brands market their products and creating excellent brand awareness. The Essentials of Facebook Influencer Marketing: Why Choose Facebook for Influencer Marketing? In many ways, Instagram has grown to be the star of the Facebook stable of social media apps....

Facebook today has launched its latest app, Local, as a rebranded and updated version of its previous standalone Events app. The new app brings together businesses, restaurants, bars, and more along with events. The new app features a simple place to search for fun things to do, all made possible by Facebook’s database of 70 million business pages in addition to Facebook reviews and location sharing via friends’ checkins. TechCrunch shared today that the app’s product manager, Aditya Koolwal said the effort was meant to “make it a lot easier to do certain kind of looks ups that are very common when making plans with friends....

Several different YouTubers have posted FaceTime calls with Apple’s SVP of Software Engineering Craig Federighi in which they talk about different announcements from WWDC. The conversations include everything from iOS 15 to macOS Monterey. You can check out the videos embedded below. There’s nothing particularly revelatory in any of these videos, but they’re fun follow-ups to Monday’s keynote. Craig talks a bit about Apple Park, technologies like SharePlay, and bringing FaceTime to Android through the web....

A package from China whose paperwork described the contents as lithium ion batteries was actually found to contain fake AirPods, when checked by US Customs and Border Protection officers … The CBP says that the poor quality of the packaging was the giveaway. Once their suspicions were confirmed, likely by sending photos to Apple, the fake AirPods were formally seized and destroyed. This catch, earlier this month, was a small one, comprising just 25 units with a retail value of $4,000....

New The Falcon and Winter Solider set photos tease a scene where Bucky and Baron Zemo cross paths. From the upcoming Disney+ show, the photos hint at an encounter between James “Bucky” Barnes and Helmut Zemo in a darkened city, alongside a returning Sharon “Agent 13” Carter. Set to arrive on Disney’s streaming service sometime in late 2020, The Falcon and Winter Solider will feature the continuing adventures Bucky and Sam “The Falcon” Wilson following the events of Avengers: Endgame, where their mutual partner and friend Steve Rogers/Captain America chose to remain in the past after returning the six Infinity Stones to their rightful places in time....

It’s only been a few days since the release of the online-focused Fallout 76, but a few crafty players may have figured out ways to streamline the process of launching nukes. Leveraging cipher-cracking techniques, collaborators on the game’s official subreddit began devising strategies to figure out the required passphrases faster, enabling successful nuke launches without a full set of code fragments. Fallout 76 is the newest entry in Bethesda’s beloved franchise, shifting focus from solo play to instanced online-only exploration....

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqocJOQMVwQ&feature=youtu.be] Facebook just announced an update to Facebook for iOS and Android that helps users discover new places their friends like. The latest version of the popular app features a refreshed Nearby tab, which, according to a post on the Facebook Newsroom website, now shows recommendations from friends: The new Facebook for Android and iOS further allows users to share their own opinions by rating or recommending places. Facebook warned the update is an early release, however, and “there’s lots more to do....

. Facebook’s iOS app just got a monster update, including the following: – Made it easier to share with who you want – Added the ability to tag friends and places in posts – Added the ability to share external links from a web view – Added new design for Profile and Group Walls – Improved the sharing tool to add privacy controls on posts and match your settings on the web site Improvements and bug fixes:...

Facebook is all about helping you make new friends – and finding new excuses to analyze personal data. According to a report from CNET, Facebook wants to help people discover things they have in common with others through a new label on public conversations… Essentially, when you read a public conversation – such as the comments on a post from a brand or publisher – Facebook will show you things you have in common with people who have participated in that conversation, as seen in the screenshot below....

At this point, it’s become clear that The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is drawing inspiration from a particular story arc in the Captain America comics. The storyline in question happened in the late 1980s and involved U.S. Agent taking Steve Rogers’ place as Captain America. The Disney+ Super Bowl TV spot confirmed the fan theory that U.S. Agent would become Captain America in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier....

What Marvel Studios has planned for The Falcon and the Winter Soldier could have served as the perfect story for Captain America 4. The Disney+ series is using characters and stories from the Captain America trilogy and comic books starring Steve Rogers. Though this story focuses on two of Cap’s closest allies, it could easily have worked if Steve Rogers himself was the protagonist. Avengers: Endgame brought Captain America’s story to a close....

As it continues its quest to offer more informative and useful information to users, Facebook appears to be testing a new feature that would offer users city-specific news, events, and more. As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook is calling this feature “Today In” and testing it in select markets… Initially, Facebook is testing “Today In” with a handful of cities around the United States: New Orleans, Louisiana; Olympia, Washington; Billings, Montana; Binghamton, New York; Peoria, Illinois and Little Rock, Arkansas....