A team of Fallout 76 players managed to crash servers with their triple nuke launch. Just a few days ago those same gamers managed a nuke launch into a Fissure Site. The nuke set off a timed event and unleashed the Scorchbeast Queen, the most powerful adversary in the game. The team didn’t stop there and went in search of a new challenge, simultaneous launches. But it looks as though the Fallout 76 servers are ill suited for such an event....

With the upcoming Wastelanders update, Bethesda will finally get around to addressing one of the primary complaints surrounding Fallout 76: a lack of human NPCs. While the lack of humans in Appalachia made sense at the start, with the Scorched plague ravaging the area and driving those who remained human elsewhere, new info about the Fallout 76 Wastelanders update explains how people will fit into the game now that a vaccine exists for the plague....

Facebook updated its iPhone and iPad app today with a couple new features. Users can now attach a number of different emoticons to status updates organized into several categories based on emotion, content, and location. For example, the “Feeling” category will allow users to attach an emoticon next to a message like “Im feeling happy,” while the “Watching” and “Listening to” sections let users link to Facebook profiles associated with content they want to share....

For 16 seasons, Meg Griffin has been the butt of the jokes in Family Guy. Throughout that time, the teenage misfit has been farted on, hit with baseball bats, emotionally battered, jettisoned into spaced, held for ransom, and even wished out of existence. Though Meg first started out in the show as a relatively normal angsty teenager who’s occasionally embarrassed by her family, she’s become the black sheep who never can seem to catch a break....

Concerns over Facebook’s privacy policies don’t appear to be diminishing. Some users taking advantage of the opportunity to download an archive of all the data Facebook holds in their account are discovering a surprise: it includes videos they shot but never posted … NYMag explains the issue. So if you used Facebook’s direct video recording option, videos you discarded – and assumed were deleted – were still stored in your account....

There’s great news for fans of Fallout 76 as Bethesda confirms the game’s DLC content will be free for all. Although the company has a chequered past when it comes to microtransactions, Bethesda hopes to fund all of Fallout 76’s post-release material through the main game’s use of selling cosmetic upgrades. Instead of being an expected Fallout 3 remaster or a New Vegas sequel, Fallout 76 was a surprise announcement in the run-up to this year’s E3....

Facebook has confirmed to Mashable that it is testing a new version of autoplay videos in its iOS and Android apps – one that automatically plays the audio also as you scroll through your newsfeed. This contrasts with the normal behaviour, which autoplays the video in silent mode, a tap required to switch on the audio … It is also testing a third variant, which plays videos silently but has an icon allowing users to switch on sound for a particular session....

Updates: Facebook Messenger version 2.1.1: On top of officially rolling out free VoIP calling to all U.S. users today, Facebook also updated its Messenger iOS app to add back the “Swipe to Archive” function and improve reliability: What’s New in Version 2.1.1 – Added back Swipe to Archive – Message send reliability improvements MSN version 3.5: Remove Turkey and Italy from region list. Turkish and Italian are not supported by this new version....

Facebook is out today with a major update to Facebook Pages that includes removing “Likes,” an all-new layout for the UI, a dedicated News Feed, simpler navigation, refreshed admin controls for partial or full privileges, new insights as well as safety and integrity features. Facebook announced the new Pages experience in a blog post and said the overhaul is starting to roll out today. Here are the new key features/changes:...

This afternoon Facebook has criticized Apple over how it runs its App Store regarding a new events streaming service on the social media platform. Facebook’s comments today suggested that Apple’s 30% App Store commission is hurting small businesses during the pandemic. The criticism from Facebook came today as it launched a new service that hosts paid livestreamed events like fitness classes or seminars (via Bloomberg). Facebook says it asked Apple to skip taking a cut of App Store purchases for the new service to help small businesses and creators but it declined....

Just like any sitcom, Seth MacFarlane’s Family Guy has a number of running gags. It’s a generally inconsistent show, because it’s been canceled twice and came back with a slightly different tone each time. At first, it was a vain rip-off of The Simpsons, then it came back as a dark alternative to The Simpsons with more graphic violence and sexual content, and finally, it has settled on being a meta, self-parodying shadow of its former self....

Facebook today announced the Creator Studio app for mobile devices, including iPhone and iPad. Publishers and creators will now be able to manage the content of their Facebook pages using the new app, which was previously only available through its official website. Creator Studio allows users to manage one or more Facebook pages simultaneously in one place. You can track engagement metrics, respond to comments and messages directly in the inbox and be notified with important data about published content....

The Fall 2019 movie season (for the purposes of this preview, September to December) will include anticipated sequels, awards season contenders, and the conclusion to the Skywalker Saga. Summer 2019 started off strong thanks to Avengers: Endgame hitting theaters in late April, but struggled thereafter, as tentpole after tentpole performed below expectations at the box office. There were still a few hits along the way (John Wick 3, Spider-Man: Far From Home, The Lion King), but in general audiences seemed a bit underwhelmed by what Hollywood had on the menu....

November 2015 saw the release of Fallout 4, Bethesda Game Studio’s latest entry in the popular role-playing game series. Seven years after the developer’s previous entry, players were eager to return to the post-apocalyptic wasteland, fighting for caps and trying to survive the inhospitable environment. That anticipation translated to record sales for Bethesda, with the collectible Pip-Boy Edition selling out within hours of becoming available for preorder. Fallout 4 delivered a massive open world with innumerable side quests and miscellaneous objectives, drawing in players for potentially hundreds of hours....

Facebook today introduced Viewpoints, its new dedicated market research app that offers rewards for participating users who contribute in surveys and other tasks. That came a year after the company got involved in privacy scandals as a result of an alleged research app that collected data from users. According to an official statement, Facebook intends to improve its products, including Instagram, WhatsApp, Portal, Oculus, and Facebook itself, based on the opinion of users....

Everyone knows that reality TV is a more of a genre than an accurate description of the shows themselves. Producers fake shots and even re-stage dramatic moments that happened when the camera’s weren’t rolling– pretty much everything is actually plotted and planned out like normal scripted show. Most reality shows still retain a basic level of truth, however, depicting events that really did happen, even if they’re staged again for the cameras....

According to Anthony Mackie, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier won’t be buddies at the start of their Disney+ show. Following Steve Rogers’ (Chris Evans) decision to return to the 1940s and have a life with Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell), The Falcon and the Winter Soldier finds his two closest friends, Sam (Mackie) and Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan), adjusting to life without him while contending with a new threat. Fans of the movies know that Sam and Bucky’s relationship didn’t exactly get off to the best start, since Bucky was still a brainwashed HYDRA assassin when they first met....

It’s one thing to allow your friends to tag you in photos on Facebook. You still want to control who tags you in what photos, though. A new feature in Facebook’s revamped privacy controls let you do just that. Once enabled, if you’re tagged in a photo, you’ll receive a notification asking you whether you approve the tag. At the top right of your profile, click the DOWN arrow. Select Privacy Settings....

No devices for a year (!!) which is forever in technology terms. The 6 months wait for the iPhone was eternity. An SDK – which is based on Linux. Let’s reserve judgment until next week. No news yet. Device manufacturers like HTC will build the equipment. However, in hardware terms, since it is an open platform, they are already going to be building the same hardware anyway. Its like Dell saying we are going to build Linux compliant computers now....

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....