Facebook today has announced the latest Snapchat-like feature coming to Messenger. Called World Effects, this feature allows users to drop 3D objects using the rear camera and augmented reality, much like augmented reality features in Snapchat. The World Effects feature is very similar to Snapchat’s rear-facing augmented reality tools. You can overlay a variety of objects and text using the built-in camera. Currently, Facebook says there’s support for a heart, arrow, and robot, while there are bubbles and words that read “love,” ‘bae,” “heart,” and “miss you....

Facebook’s new product experimentation team has released a new Apple Watch app today called Kit, which is designed to easily let you “talk to your closest friends.” While Facebook Messenger already offers an Apple Watch app, the goal of Kit is to focus specifically on close contacts. Kit, which stands for Keep in Touch, was released on the App Store today and first noted by TechCrunch. To get started with the app, you first scan the QR that appears on your Apple Watch to link it to your Facebook account....

Facebook announced updates regarding mobile today at its Mobile Developer Conference in New York City continuing its effort to transition to a mobile-first platform. Changes include an improved experience with Facebook Login, easier implementation of Open Graph on mobile, a new Object API and Object Browser, a native Share Dialog and Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS. The new Share Dialog allows users in non-Facebook apps to share directly to Facebook without leaving the app....

Shortly after Dropbox announced it had shut down its popular Mailbox and Carousel apps, Facebook has made a similar move by removing a handful of its apps from the iOS App Store and shutting down the division that created them. Facebook’s Creative Labs project was intended to promote the creation of apps like Snapchat competitor Slingshot, and has launched several apps with some success. However, the social site has apparently decided that the time has come to shutter that initiative and the apps it has produced....

Earlier this week during its WWDC keynote, Apple added highly-requested support for lyrics to the Music app in iOS 10. While lyrics support wasn’t immediately live when the first beta was released on Monday, it has gradually been rolling out since then to various songs and artists. While I welcome lyrics support with open arms, Apple’s implementation of it is very basic. To access lyrics, you simply swipe from the bottom of the Now Playing screen....

I’ve used a Synology NAS to store Final Cut Pro X libraries in the past, but the process wasn’t very straightforward at the time, and performance was never good enough to convince me to use it over the long-term. This was especially true as I started to dabble more in 4K workflows. As we all know, the iMac Pro features built in 10GbE connectivity, which opens up the possibilities when it comes to using a NAS as a Final Cut Pro X storage solution....

Square Enix released a free demo for the highly anticipated Final Fantasy VII Remake on the PS4 this morning, marking the first time general audiences will have access to it. This is incredibly exciting news for the gamers around the world who have been waiting years to finally experience this critically acclaimed entry in the series remade. The demo was released at 2 a.m. EST via the official FFVII Remake Twitter account and has since received over 30,000 Likes and 13,000 retweets....

In a not so surprising move, especially because it was expected and perhaps even hurried by the online community, Facebook has announced support for hashtags. Yes, the same hashtags that Twitter, perhaps Facebook’s biggest rival, has popularized. In a blog post today, Facebook has made the announcement public, making happy its huge database of users – more than 1.1 billion: If you’ve been using Twitter and know how it works, then it will be a pleasure for you to find the hashtags coming to Facebook....

http://youtu.be/HiqbNxRurFA Bloomberg reports that Facebook is in discussions with Apple about the possibility of adding its Facebook Home interface to iPhones. Facebook Home describes itself as ‘putting your friends at the heart of your phone’, and is effectively a skin that sits on top of Android to display social feeds and messages front-and-centre, with apps taking second place. So far, however, it hasn’t wowed Android users. Update: In a Wall Street Journal article, Facebook’s COO claims that a “lite” version of Facebook Home will be coming to iOS....

Facebook, as part of its growing efforts of transparency, is rolling out a new verification process to confirm that those who run Pages are who they say they are. Facebook announced the new process on its Facebook Business blog… The process is rolling out first to Pages with large followings in the United States. Managers of such pages will have to confirm their primary country location and add two-factor authentication to their account....

At its event last month Facebook showed us a native Share Dialog as part of its Facebook SDK 3.5 for iOS update, and today Facebook announced on its blog that the feature is now available to developers. Now officially out of beta, the native Share Dialog will allow developers to implement easier sharing features into their apps using a single line of code. Facebook said it provides “a lightweight and consistent way to enable sharing from your apps,” allowing users to share data from apps without first having to login into Facebook....

If at first you don’t succeed… Facebook may have recently pulled its Snapchat-like Poke app from the iOS App Store, but the social network is gearing up to take another swipe at the messaging giant later this month, according to a new claim by the Financial Times. Facebook’s new app, currently dubbed “Slingshot” interally, will enable users to send short video messages to one another. In 2012, Facebook launched its own Snapchat rip-off called Poke, which borrowed its name from an entirely separate feature that had been available on Facebook’s website for years....

Final Space season 2 is happening, so what can fans expect from it? Final Space established a loyal following with season 1 through its unique premise, visual design, and mind-bending storyline. An animated space opera, comedy-drama, Final Space explores the unique relationship between a human astronaut and an extraterrestrial being, along with their quest to save the universe. Created by popular YouTuber Olan Rogers, Final Space is co-executive produced by TBS talk show host Conan O’Brien....

Concept This may affect multiple language implementations of query structures. The idea is pretty simple. Typically an application will use find and replace to insert sanitized data into an SQL query by its type. Imagine the following scenario: Somewhere the values for :email and :password have to be translated to their proper values. If the database engine is not actual PDO and simply PDO-like, we may have exploitable software on our hands....

Apple has released the list of this year’s most popular iOS apps, with Facebook’s Messenger app and Warner Bros.’ Heads Up! game taking the top spots on the free and paid charts, respectively. The freemium Clash of Clans was the top grossing app of 2014. Social networks claimed all of the top five free spots, with Snapchat, YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram coming in behind Messenger. Between the main Facebook client, Messenger, and Instagram, the social networking company managed to capture the majority of the top five slots....

Fargo season 4 adds Orange Is the New Black’s Uzo Aduba to the cast. Created by Noah Hawley, and inspired by the Coen brothers’ film of the same name, FX’s Fargo premiered in 2014 with Billy Bob Thorton in a leading role. The black comedy anthology series has featured some of Hollywood’s finest including, Kirsten Dunst, Colin Hanks, Ted Danson, Jesse Plemons, Jean Smart, and Ewan McGregor. Segued into television from the theater, Aduba made her on-screen debut as a nurse on Blue Bloods....

Fast Company has an extensive interview with Apple CEO Tim Cook, focusing on what has changed and what has stayed the same since he took over from Steve Jobs. The interview comes a day after FastCo published a sizeable excerpt from the book Becoming Steve Jobs, in which Cook criticized the portrayal of Jobs in Isaacson’s biography. Cook said that while much has changed, the culture–the fundamental goal of the company–remained the same....

To activate it, go to this Facebook page in Firefox 17 — the latest updated version — and click Turn On. You’ll get a notification about the Facebook Messenger for Firefox being turned on. Now, no matter which site you visit, you’ll have the Facebook sidebar, allowing you to chat with your Facebook friends. Just as you would on the Facebook website. The top side also gives you notifications of your friends’ activity....

Facebook is once again involved in a controversial situation regarding privacy issues. The company has confirmed that thousands of developers have been able to access data from inactive users, which is an unexpected behavior. After the Cambridge Analytica crisis in 2018, Facebook established new guidelines that prevent developers from receiving data from users who haven’t used a third-party app connected to the social network for more than 90 days. As users can connect third-party apps with Facebook, developers can have access to personal information from those who have such apps linked to a Facebook account....

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