Zynga’s CSR Racing 2 will be adding new Fast & Furious content to the mobile drag racing game starting next week. CSR Racing 2 has already featured Fast & Furious characters in the past, and will be adding a huge swath of new themed events that will feature new cars, challenges, and storylines for players to engage with. Fast & Furious will be a recognizable property for anyone with a passing interest in cars....
The enhanced capabilities of the iPhone XS camera is the headline feature of Apple’s latest flagship phone – even if not everyone is happy. DxOMark recently declared its video performance ‘outstanding,’ while our own tests have left us equally impressed. But putting the iPhone XS camera up against a $10,000 cinema camera would seem to be hopeless endeavor. Not quite, says one filmmaker who decided to do it … Ed Gregory said that he was inspired to conduct the test after being ‘shocked’ at how good the iPhone XS camera was at shooting video (and found no differences between the XS and XS Max)....
Update: Facebook has shared more details about the bug, including that the flaw was live from May 18-27. Facebook’s Chief Privacy Officer also gave an updated statement. In the latest installment of Facebook’s security and privacy issues, the company is letting up to 14 million users know if their posts were accidentally changed from private to public due to a bug last month. Spotted by Recode, posts from up to 14 million Facebook users that had their content set to be shared privately was changed to be publicly seen....
If you’re wondering whether you were one of the 87M Facebook users whose data was accessed by Cambridge Analytica, you may find out today. For Brits, at least, the BBC reports that users will receive one of two messages this afternoon letting them know whether or not they were affected … The news was tweeted by the BBC’s Silicon Valley reporter Dave Lee. It’s likely that the same will be true of users in the US and elsewhere....
As another busy year draws to a close, there are plenty of opportunities to build your brand online, reach new audiences and drive a flurry of sales. But where should you start with social media holiday content ideas? From crafting Christmas captions to leveraging festival calls to action, your social media strategy is about to get a dash of cheer. What better way to share your product or service with the world just in time for Christmas shopping?...
HGTV’s Flip or Flop and Christina On the Coast star, Christina Anstead, has just welcomed her new baby boy - Hudson London Anstead - to her family and posts a perfectly captured candid moment of her two older children meeting baby Hudson for the first time. The joy is written all over their faces. Christina, an expert real estate investor and house flipper, has made a name for herself in reality TV by joining her then-husband Tarek El Moussa in home renovation show Flip or Flop for 7 seasons as a married couple....
In some of my videos I like to use title cards to separate subjects being discussed. I find that title cards are especially useful when creating videos that are based around a topical list of features. One such example being a recent video where I discussed some of the top iPhone tips that everyone should know. Although it’s possible to quickly create these title cards in a third-party app like Affinity Designer, making them directly within Final Cut Pro X presents several key benefits....
A trailer for Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles Remastered Edition has been unveiled during the 2019 Tokyo Games Show, and it displays some extensive remastering. Originally developed by The Game Designers Studio and co-published by Square Enix and Nintendo for the Gamecube in 2003, Crystal Chronicles surprised longtime players by doing away with the turn-based battles and experience point systems which Final Fantasy series fans had grown accustomed to. Much of Crystal Chronicle’s gameplay was centered around the titular crystal, of which players needed to stick close to and protect during combat....
Facebook was recently caught censoring a link to a TEDx video in a private, Facebook messenger chat. When a Reddit user tried to send a link to Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald’s TEDx talk on improving early child development, Facebook refused to send the message because the action was “deemed abusive” or “was otherwise disallowed” according to a screenshot. Facebook’s moderation tries to keep activity on its site in line with its terms of service....
Facebook Message Unsend Feature is soon coming to the smartphones running on Android. This is definitely a good news for those users who may send a message unintentionally and then repent. Often it happens that we end up in a situation, where we have sent a message to someone and can’t undo it. However, Facebook Message Unsend Feature brings a respite from that. Apparently, Facebook is still developing the unsend feature....
Facebook has released an update today to its Messenger platform that makes it easy and seamless to go from a one-on-one audio or video call to a group session. Announced in a press release, Facebook noted how clunky the experience of adding more people to a call was before today’s update. Now, Messenger users can easily go from a one-on-one audio or video call to a group call with the new “add person” + icon....
From 9to5Google: Following Google’s announcement that its RSS Reader product would be retired on July 1st, apps like Feedly that relied on the Google Reader backend announced big plans to help itself and other apps through the transition. Feedly has been preparing its move to its own “feedly cloud” back end since the announcement, and earlier this month transitioned its own iOS client to the platform. Today, Feedly is officially launching the new back end and API, as well as a brand new web interface and the first apps to integrate the feedly cloud platform:...
Xbox fans will be able to enter the world of Eorzea soon, as Square Enix’s Final Fantasy XIV is set to be brought to Microsoft’s Xbox Game Pass subscription service sometime early next year. The popular massively-multiplayer online role-playing game will be included alongside other classic installments in the long-running Final Fantasy franchise, including the famous Final Fantasy VII. News of Final Fantasy games coming to Game Pass broke yesterday at Microsoft’s Inside Xbox X019 event in London, with the company announcing a whopping 40 games being added to Game Pass throughout this holiday season....
Bloodshot is about to start its next comic arc and ahead of the upcoming release, Screen Rant has a tease of what’s to come next for the Valiant Comics super-soldier. Bloodshot first appeared in the Valiant Comics title Eternal Warriors #4, making his first full appearance in the 1992 series Rai #0. The former soldier is reborn as a living weapon after he’s given powers of regeneration through nanites in his blood....
Facebook today announced a tool to export posts and notes to Google Docs, WordPress.com, and Blogger. This feature is part of the Data Transfer Project launched in 2018 to create an open-source, service-to-service data portability platform so all users across the web could easily move their data between online service providers whenever they want. This Facebook update tool extends the reach of the tool that already enables users to transfer their photos and videos to Backblaze, Dropbox, Google Photos, and Koofr....
Facebook has taken to, shocker, Facebook to explain some of the issues causing significant iPhone battery drain when using its app. The app has received a lot of criticism in the community in recent weeks with users reporting incredibly high levels of background activity time for disproportionally low time with the app actually in use. This included when iPhone users had explicitly turned off Background App Refresh in Settings. Facebook says it has started to fix battery drains issues with the latest version of the app in the App Store, version 42....
It might seem like Furious 7 was just in theaters yesterday, but we’re now quickly closing in on the release of its sequel, Fate of the Furious. The Fast & Furious franchise has changed a lot since its humble inception, but its repeated box office and, more recently, critical success has kept it going, turning it into one of the most profitable franchises of all time. While we all love comic book movies and Star Wars, having another major tentpole that represents an original - yet still unique - property is a great way to get ready for the summer movie season....
The Arrowverse’s Crisis on Infinite Earths event came with a surprise DCEU cameo of Ezra Miller’s Flash who is sharing his great time with The Flash’s Grant Gustin in behind the scenes images. The 5-hour crossover event became one of the biggest events in the superhero genre as The CW’s DC TV franchise honored DC’s live-action history. The crossover was loaded with several guest stars who brought their respective versions of iconic DC characters back to life....
Facebook introduced a new “Trending” section on the web in January to display trending stories that are frequently shared and discussed on the social network. Today, the company announced that it has improved this feature by organizing trending topics into five categories so that it’s easier for people to explore stories from different sources. More importantly, Facebook is bringing the “Trending” section to mobile devices, including all of the improvements to the web version, with support for Android and the web rolling out today and iOS coming soon....
Over the last few years, Facebook has had a slew of privacy and security blunders and more details about one of them have come to light through a new court filing as the social media company is suing the spyware company NSO Group. It turns out Facebook tried to buy controversial government spyware to monitor iPhone and iPad users. Reported by Motherboard, when Facebook was starting to build its spyware cloaked in a VPN product, Onavo Protect for iOS and Android, the social media company reached out to the controversial company NSO Group that creates spyware for government agencies....
