Facebook is out today with a big move for its Stories feature – ads for creators. While the platform is kicking off the new ad placements with a “very small” test, it’s hoping to expand it quickly and this could also mean Instagram Stories gets the same treatment before long. Facebook has pushed hard against Apple’s upcoming ad tracking transparency feature that’s set to launch in “early spring.” As it expects to see ad losses from not having the same level of personal data from users in the near future, Facebook is working on alternative ways to let creators and advertisers monetize audiences with ad stickers for Stories (via The Verge)....

Bethesda Softworks’ highly successful post-apocalyptic online role-playing game, Fallout 76, leaves no holds unbarred when depicting the dastardly effects of a nuclear war on humanity and the planet. One of the game’s many unique cuisines is the Rad Ant Lager. In order to prepare it, you will have to find the obvious ingredients – Rad Ants. It also happens to boost your carry weight, albeit temporarily. Given below is our location guide to hunting down Rad Ants in Fallout 76....

During a call with investors today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that the social network had reached over one billion mobile users. That’s up from only 945 million active users in the last quarter of last year, putting the total gain since then at about 55 million mobile users. The Facebook-owned photo app Instagram also announced a milestone today on its blog as it passed the 200 million user mark. A quarter of those users joined in just the last six months....

The Verge reports that Facebook plans to change the company name to better reflect the companies focus on “the metaverse.” A source familiar with the matter confirmed the news to The Verge. The change could come soon, as CEO Mark Zuckerberg will be speaking at the company’s Connect conference on October 28. Similar to the way that Alphabet is the parent company of Google, YouTube, and more, this change will see Facebook, the social network, be but one of many products under a parent company of a new name that includes WhatsApp, Instagram, and Oculus....

In the world of adult cartoons, few shows have had the same impact as Family Guy. This less-than-typical family is outrageous and funny to the extreme. The show has been going strong since 1999, and clocks in on over 300 episodes, with no signs of slowing down. Of course, fans everywhere couldn’t be happier about this, and there’s a big chance Family Guy will keep us laughing for many years to come....

The new Facebook calling feature, available at the moment only for US-based iPhone owners, relies on the classic VoIP concept of delivering the message. The system works pretty neat and it takes users only a couple of steps to set up a live conversation. Facebook Free-Call System: A small piece of the puzzle In order to make a phone-call using the well-known social service and to avoid direct carrier charges, iPhone owners can simply launch the dedicated Facebook Messaging application, open a conversation with a partner, tap the “i” icon in the upper-right corner and go for a “”Free Call”....

Facebook will tell you if a page is satire, as well as if it isn’t, in a new initiative. When a satirical page uses the name of a politician, for example, it will be labeled “Satire Page” to ensure that people don’t mistake it for the real person. Conversely, posts by politicians will be labeled as “Public Official” … Facebook made the announcement on Twitter. Tapping on the label will then provide more context....

Meg has always been the butt of the jokes on Family Guy. The family treats her like an outsider and rarely cares about what she gets into or how their treatment of her affects her in the moment or over time. Seth McFarlane has created a dynamic in the family that makes fans insensitive to all the horrible stuff that has happened to Meg. Every season, fans are shocked to see that they have come up with even more horrible things to do to Meg....

To log in to Facebook, we will use a Python Script that drives Selenium. The Selenium Python Script will Step 1) Open Firefox Step 2) Navigate to Facebook Step 3) Search & Enter the Email or Phone field & Enter Password Step 4) Click Login Here is a quick video on the system will work. Note: You can configure Selenium to use any browser like Chrome, Safari, IE, etc. In this tutorial, we will use FireFox What do you need to Install?...

ABC News Australia is reporting that factory workers in Southern China are being treated for poisoning from vapors they breathed in while working on Apple device screen production. Workers in one factory claim to have been poisened by the chemicals used in shining the silvery parts of Apple products – like the Apple logo on iPhones. Others blame the chemicals that go into preparing Apple’s displays. Apple would not confirm these reports and has only said it has tightened its requirements regarding workplace safety at its suppliers....

When it first premiered back in the late ‘90s, many critics dismissed Family Guy as a cheap knockoff of The Simpsons. But one of the main things that set Family Guy apart from The Simpsons – the fact that the pet dog could talk – was also one of its focal points, at least in the early seasons. Peter and Brian used to be the show’s main characters. In the years since, Brian and Stewie have gone on adventures across the spacetime continuum and across the Earth’s surface, so they’ve sort of taken over....

Facebook is further expanding its commerce efforts today, for better or for worse. The company has announced its new Facebook Pay platform, which will eventually work across Facebook, Messenger, WhatsApp, and Instagram and competes with Apple Pay. Facebook Pay will first be supported in the Facebook and Messenger applications in the United States. You’ll be able to use Facebook Pay for charity donations, in-game purchases, event tickets, person-to-person payments, and purchases from Pages and businesses on Facebook Marketplace....

Building trains in Wube’s Factorio help you transport building materials out to the new outposts for early construction or expansion. In order to come up with a building train system, you will require two different parts – a base station and a receiver or outpost station. Here we will show you how to put together your building train in Factorio smoothly. So players looking out to build the building train should look no further as they are in the right place....

Marvel’s The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will begin filming this week according to actor Sebastian Stan. The series will feature the aftermath of Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) retiring and leaving his shield to Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie). Showrunner Malcolm Spellman will write the six-episode series with Kari Skogland as director. The Falcon and The Winter Soldier will focus on the lives of Sam Wilson and Bucky Barnes stepping up to the plate when Captain America is no longer around....

Much like the lucky few selected by Vault-Tech to enjoy a new future underground, a lucky few Fallout fans will get a chance to play Fallout 76 several weeks before everyone else. The long-awaited MMORPG is scheduled for release on November 14, though it had been previously announced that some players would be allowed to beta-test the game before then. Now, Bethesda Softworks has confirmed when the testing will begin, though some players will get earlier access than others depending on the platform they use to play the game....

We learned over the weekend that Facebook was ready to roll out its rebuilt Messenger app for iOS with a new design focused on simplicity. Now Facebook has officially launched the new iOS Messenger and says that it’s 2x faster and the app size is 1/4 of the previous version. We got a look at the new two-tab design of the simplified Messenger for iOS over the weekend. It features just “Chat” and “People” in the bottom bar — no more Discover tab — to make it simpler to navigate the app and find what you need....

In another display of how native apps are beating the web, the social networking behemoth Facebook revealed intentions to launch its first native chat client for the Mac. Put simply, it brings Facebook to your desktop and lets you chat with people without logging into Facebook.com in a browser. The company posted Messenger app for iPhone in August 2011 and today released the Facebook Messenger for Windows client, bringing the Facebook Chat functionality to beige boxes....

Facebook has launched public beta testing of a new Q&A application called Hotline, as reported by TechCrunch. Hotline is a mashup of Clubhouse and Instagram Live. The web-based app allows creators to speak to an audience who can then ask questions by text or audio. Unlike Clubhouse, the host can remove inappropriate questions from the queue or remove people from their Hotline session. For the initial tests, TechCrunch says, “Facebook employees will moderate events and remove anyone that violates Facebook’s Community Standards, Terms of Service, Data Policy, or the NPE Team’s Supplemental Terms....

Every fan loves to hate supervillains. Sometimes, frankly, heroes are simply too boring. Villains manage to help keep things fresh and interesting. Whether they’re fighting a fan-favorite superhero or attempting to destroy the world, people love to discover what evil deed their favorite bad guy will commit next. However, sometimes “supervillains” aren’t actually all that evil. Villains that seem down-right diabolical on the surface can be motivated by reasonable means, and may even have good intentions....

Fallout 76 is meant to be the Fallout game for a new generation of fans, an open-world adventure in line with what the legions of Bethesda supporters have come to expect but told from a very different angle. According to reviews, however, it appears that Bethesda has stumbled in a big way with their new post-apocalyptic journey. The Fallout franchise was first revitalized by Bethesda with Fallout 3 in 2008, an open-world title that hit all the right notes on its way to numerous Game of the Year awards....