Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom director J.A. Bayona has confirmed the dinosaur seen in the movie’s most emotional scene comes from the first movie. Bayona took over the director’s chair on Fallen Kingdom from Colin Trevorrow, and the story finds the heroes of the previous adventure trying to rescue the dinosaurs on Isla Nublar from an imminent volcano eruption. After they barely escape the island, they come to realize the motives behind the people financing the dinosaur rescue are less than honorable....

Although it began as a rip-off of The Simpsons that focused on not-so-relatable domestic situations, Family Guy has since evolved into a few different shows rolled into one. When it revolves around Peter and Lois, it’s a dark satire about a failing marriage. When it revolves around Peter, Joe, Cleveland, and Quagmire, it’s a buddy comedy. And when it revolves around Brian and Stewie, it can be pretty much anything. It can be a sci-fi story about time travel or dimension-hopping; it can be a road trip story in the mold of the old Bob Hope/Bing Crosby movies, or it can be something else entirely....

Facebook, now Meta, has been teasing end-to-end encrypted chat to Messenger and Instagram for quite some time. Now, the company says it won’t happen until “sometime in 2023.” In an opinion article in the Telegraph, the global head of safety at Meta, Antigone Davis, says the company will “protect privacy and prevent harm.” Davis says Meta has a “three-pronged approach” focused on “preventing harm from happening giving people more control, and quickly responding should something occur....

Facebook File Sharing Feature The process of sharing files with others is simple, once you know where to look, and there are a couple of ways to do it. Open the chatbox with the friend you want to share files with. Then, click the options button (gear icon) at the upper-right corner of the chat window and select Add Files. That opens File Explorer and you can browse to the location of the file(s) you want to share....

What would a Fallout game be without a sizable arsenal? The sheer amount of weapon variety stays true to Bethesda’s philosophy of giving nearly unlimited choices to the player. One can wander the wasteland with guns, explosives, melee weapons, or a well balanced mixture of the three. Let it not be forgotten that Interplay’s titles, which preceded Fallout 3, also offered a similar level of freedom. Given the sheer breadth of each game’s setting, it will come as no surprise that every map is chock full of secret weapons waiting to be uncovered by the first adventurer who comes across them....

ComScore has taken a look at the most used mobile apps across the iOS and Android platforms. Though mapping is a crucial feature on smartphone and tablet devices, Facebook’s mobile application actually surpassed the usage of Google Maps on iOS and Android in 2012. ComScore says that a drop in Google Maps usage occurred this past fall because of its removal from the iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch with iOS 6....

(early beta of the functionality, above) Update: The app is now live on the App Store. A full list of new features is below. Alongside the Facebook Messenger for iPad app and updated iPhone app with video chat that we revealed earlier this week, we have also been beta testing a new “read receipts” feature. Today, Facebook is apparently rolling out the new feature to its existing iOS Messenger app, which gives you the ability to see when someone received and read your message....

Hi, fellow Linux user there! How is your social life going? This is how most of the time I think my friends ask me. They think that I am all the time messed with the terminal. Now how to explain to Windows users that Terminal does almost all my work from games to app installation. From email to personal messages. Leave them! Today I am here with an amazing terminal software call “FB Messenger CLI”....

Facebook and Apple started a sort of battle today due to the new App Store privacy guidelines that were announced earlier this year and are now being required for all developers. After running a full-page ad in US newspapers today, Facebook is now planning another similar ad for tomorrow that says Apple wants to “stop the internet from being free.” The company said it “does not require Facebook to change its approach to tracking users,” but it also suggested that Facebook should be more transparent about that....

Following TechCrunch’s finding that Facebook’s official iPad application can be found within their latest iPhone application update, Facebook shut down the find. Those who were not lucky enough to gain access early on are in the dark. Until now. iOS jail breaker extraordinaire, Chpwn, has managed to create a tweak that can easily turn any jailbroken iPad user’s Facebook for iPhone application into the full-blown iPad version. The tweak called FaceForward is dead simple: just install Facebook for iPhone on your jailbroken iPad, install FaceForward in Cydia, and run....

Marvel’s new Disney+ exclusive miniseries The Falcon and the Winter Soldier has had filming delays after recent earthquakes in Puerto Rico. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier was announced back in October 2018 as part of Marvel’s participation in the recently launched Disney+ streaming platform. Disney+ launched barely two months ago on November 12, 2019, and made big waves with its first major exclusive, The Mandalorian season one (which recently came to a close)....

Facebook announced today that it’s updating the “Transfer Your Information” tool to provide people with choice and control over their data. Whether you want to delete your Facebook account or just copy of all your info, the platform just rebuilt its Transfer Your Information tool with additional features. With this update, Facebook lets users export data for Photobucket and Google Calendar as well as giving a new data type to export: Facebook Events....

At this year’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), Apple announced significant changes to its video chat app, FaceTime. First introduced a decade ago, the app has always been popular with Apple users because of its simplicity and simple setup. But, unfortunately, the tool has never gained a huge following outside of the U.S. because it’s never been offered on Android or Windows devices. With WhatsApp, Zoom, and Microsoft Teams growing in popularity, the iPhone maker has decided this is the year FaceTime arrives on non-Apple devices....

Social media is the main way hoax messages get traction these days, so a new feature has been added to let you easily fact-check WhatsApp messages … Background WhatsApp has been using a variety of methods of fighting disinformation. As all messages are end-to-end encrypted, the company has no way to see the content, so cannot flag hoaxes this way, but it has employed other methods. One of the main ones has been to flag messages which have been forwarded many times, as that means they were likely not written by anyone you know and trust....

The eternal question when watching any kind of reality show is whether or not it’s actually “real.” Most of the time, the answer is a resounding, “Nope!” By and large, most reality shows are shot and then “written” in the editing bay as producers attempt to create a story out of raw footage. Whether or not the story reflects what actually happened during filming or the personalities of those involved depends on producers, and oftentimes, it’s misleading....

Fallout 76 is trying to make dialogue choices matter in the game’s April 7th Wastelanders update. This is huge for players who have thus far been turned off by the game’s lack of meaningful dialogue choices, and consequences for said choices, which is a feature that has been in every Fallout game since the series first appeared in 1998. Fallout 76 has faced a lot of criticism, and Bethesda hopes to answer a lot of it with the new update....

Facebook Messenger is coming to the Mac (and Windows) later this year. The company is set to announce the new app at its F8 conference at 1 PM ET, but tipped the hat slightly early thanks to a blog post published too soon. iGeneration first spotted the (now-removed) announcement. There isn’t much to go on right now apart from one screenshot of the Windows version of the app, which if you squint looks an awful lot like the Skype desktop app....

Facebook Messenger’s head of product, Stan Chudnovsky shared today that the app’s ads beta will roll out to users worldwide. The ads will be similar to those found on Instagram and Facebook and focus on creating conversations between users and businesses. Facebook started testing the ads beta within Messenger back in January in Australia and Thailand. Messenger has 1.2 billion monthly users worldwide and Chudnovsky shared details with VentureBeat that advertising will be the primary business model for Messenger:...

The likable character of Nick Valentine in the popular gaming series, Fallout, is as surprising as he is predictable. The steadfast android is a renowned detective in Diamond City. This is a makeshift settlement in Boston’s Fenway Park. Nick Valentine has a reputation as a ‘good guy,’ a robot who thrives on helping others with their problems. Still, despite his apparent predictability, there is more to him than meets the eye - he quotes from epic poems, has a quick mind and strong will, and a back story many fans don’t know about....

According to a new report from TechCrunch, Facebook is planning an extensive redesign to its Messenger application on iOS. The goal is to simplify the experience of the app, with a focus on stories and friends, which comes at the cost of certain other features. Facebook’s strategy with Messenger a few years ago was to push consumers towards communicating with brands and businesses through chat bots. The goal was to entice users to do things like shopping directly in Messenger, but now, Facebook is shifting that strategy....