Facebook today is bringing the option to take 360-degree photos with its iOS app without needing any extra hardware beyond your iPhone. Reported by TechCrunch, the new capability to capture 360-degree photos right within the Facebook iOS app is rolling out to users starting today. Although we haven’t seen the feature on any of our devices here at 9to5, keep an eye out for the new option at the top of your News Feed near the Update Status bar....

Ash Rose is one of the mutated flowers in Fallout 76. Despite its thorny reddish appearance, it is actually one of the best things that you can have a stock of. It is quite big, and it even looks like it might be poisonous. But appearance does not speak much here. This is an essential ingredient to brew some tea, to make Healing Salve, Disease Cure, and even some tasty-looking meals....

News continues to pour in after the surprise reveal of Fallout 76, and anonymous sources have now revealed that Bethesda’s newest game is set to be an online survival RPG. This would make it a momentous departure from the company’s other games in the franchise, which have stuck rather rigidly to an open-world, single-player action-RPG basis ever since 2008’s Fallout 3. The recent commotion of Fallout news began with Bethesda teasing an upcoming announcement on Twitter, then later hosting a Twitch stream displaying a television screen reading “Please Stand By” and a Vault-Tec bobblehead, both signature staples of the series....

iOS 10 lets third-party developers use the standard call look and feel from the Phone app in their own apps with something known as CallKit, and Facebook’s latest update to Messenger is already taking advantage of it. Messenger for iOS has let you make calls over the Internet to your friends for a while, and now incoming calls to Messenger will behave just like standard phone calls. This improved behavior even extends to CarPlay....

In another attempt to circumvent the App Store commission for in-app purchases, Facebook on Tuesday launched a new website to let users buy virtual items called “Stars” to support creators during livestreams. As reported by TechCrunch, Facebook Stars are usually purchased through in-app purchases on iOS and Android, but now the company will redirect users to buy Stars through its new webpage. This way, Facebook won’t have to pay the 30% fee to Apple and Google....

[vimeo 101133002 w=700 h=381] Facebook announced today that it’s rolling out a new feature for its mobile apps that will let users save content for easy access at a later date. A list of saved content from Facebook— including links to things like places, movies, TV, and music— will appear in the Facebook mobile apps in the “More” section and on the left side bar on the web. Facebook notes that it will sometimes show users reminders of saved content in the News Feed and also let users share saved lists with others (although saved items are set to private by default):...

A judge has ruled that the public cannot know the details of a battle between the US government and Facebook on whether or not the social network could be forced to decrypt Facebook Messenger calls … The U.S. Justice Department applied for a court order forcing Facebook to decrypt the calls, something which would appear technically impossible since the app uses end-to-end encryption – meaning Facebook doesn’t have the key....

When you are having a conversation with your other half, privacy would constantly be on the back of your mind. There is always this worry that what if these conversations end up at the wrong hands. While it isn’t an easy task deciphering the database of the world’s biggest social media giants, yet there is always an iota of worry. Considering the complicated relationship between Facebook and privacy, this concern is all the more justified....

According to a new report from TechCrunch, Facebook is working with developers to build chatbots and Live Chat web plugins for business clients. The tools are said to be officially announced next week at the social network’s F8 conference. Chatbots will allow for businesses to offer automated response systems for responding to inquires from potential customers. The report explains that instead of businesses having to develop their own communication systems, which many simply don’t have the resources or knowhow to do, they can use Facebook’s preexisting system....

Facebook today has officially started rolling out a new “Explore Feed” on mobile and desktop. While the company had originally tested the water with a small number of mobile users, it confirmed to TechCrunch that today marks the beginning of an official rollout. The new Explore Feed is Facebook’s way of presenting a wider breadth of content to users. As opposed to the standard posts from friends and Pages in the News Feed, the Explore Feed includes posts, articles, photos, videos, and more from sources that you don’t currently follow....

Ask a fan of the long-running animated sitcom, Family Guy, what the most appealing trait of the show is, and, well… they’ll probably point to the rapid-fire random, goofy gags that comprise much of each episode. Still, one of the other key attributes of this zany cartoon has to be its plethora of colorful characters. These run that gamut from caricatures of real figures and stereotypes, to talking animals, to the stars of the show; the Griffin family....

The iconic animated sitcom Family Guy first appeared on our television screens at the dawn of the 21st century and has since continued to amaze fans across the world for 17 successful seasons. Characters such as the frenzied Peter Griffin, his diabolical son Stewie Griffin, and his frisky best friend Glenn Quagmire, have engaged audiences for over a decade with their wild and foolish antics every Sunday on TV. With each member of the Griffin family hoarding such diverse personality traits, we thought it would be wildly interesting to sort them into the four Hogwarts houses: Where the brave reside in Gryffindor, the loyal dwell in Hufflepuff, the ones that value wisdom above all else get sorted into Ravenclaw, and the overly ambitious and cunning belong in Slytherin!...

Facebook has said that it is shutting down its controversial ‘Facebook Research’ iPhone app, after it was disclosed that the company had repackaged its banned Onavo VPN app and was paying teens and adults $20/month to install it. Update: It turns out it wasn’t even Facebook’s decision to shutdown the iOS app – it was Apple. Apple PR via Recode: Update 2: Many of Facebook’s internal iOS apps have been disabled after Apple revoked its enterprise certificate....

Facebook will be rolling out a subscription tool soon that will allow publishers to put up paywalls for certain content on the social media platform. Recode reports that Facebook has worked out a deal with Apple that will allow the company to put up a paywall on certain content. The feature is already available on Android, and will now be able to bring it to iOS, as well. “It’s resolved,” Facebook executive Campbell Brown told Recode....

A proper adaptation for Castlevania has been a long time coming. The franchise, which got its start on the NES, has a long history of top-quality games, and many were ecstatic when Netflix dropped the first season of their take on Castlevania into the monstrous horde of fans, who were eager to drink its blood and taste its flesh… or something like that. Based on the third entry in the franchise, Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse, the violent, gory, and profane Netflix series follows Trevor Belmont, the last of the exiled Belmont Clan, who meets a young sorceress named Sypha Belnades....

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will focus on Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) and Captain America’s shield. Marvel Studios’ inaugural series for Disney+ won’t premiere until next year, but production is already in full swing at Atlanta. Teaming up Steve Rogers’ best buds, Sam and Bucky (Sebastian Stan), the project will also see the return of familiar faces such as Emily VanCamp’s Sharon Carter and Daniel Brühl’s villainous Baron Zemo....

Writer Derek Kolstad teases how The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will tackle Sam Wilson’s (Anthony Mackie) assumption of the Captain America mantle. The creator of the John Wick franchise was a late addition to the roster of writers for the upcoming series. Serving as the inaugural Marvel Studios small screen project for Disney+, it is set to roll out in the fall of next year. The show will feature Falcon teaming up with Sebastian Stan’s Winter Soldier for their own adventure....

Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout is one of the latest online battle royale game that’s developed by Mediatonic and published by Devolver Digital in 2020 recently. It’s available for Microsoft Windows and PlayStation 4. Though players are loving this game, some of the PC and PS4 players are having difficulties with Matchmaking Down related issues. If you’re also one of the victims, then this guide is for you. Here we’ve shared some necessary details that you should follow before going to any judgment....

Facebook is said to be planning to launch its standalone news app with a list of media partners on board sometime next week. That’s according to Financial Times, which reports the app will be called Notify and include content from a list of media partners including CBS, The Washington Post, and Vogue. Reports of Facebook working on a separate mobile app focused on news rather than the social network first surfaced in early August....

Facebook is releasing a new app today called Mentions, an app exclusively for public figures with verified pages that previous reports noted the company was experimenting with. According to Facebook, the app is made specifically for actors, athletes, musicians, and other influencers and makes for a better experiencing when sharing content and interacting with fans. The app puts a bigger focus on sharing and viewing mentions from other users opposed to viewing content posted by others....