Facebook is one of the biggest social media platforms, and we all have used it. Some of us use it to post our pictures, share our memories, or for messaging. Many of us use it for our business or for selling some products on the Facebook marketplace. While using Facebook, many of us have to deal with different kinds of errors. There are many types of errors we can face while using Facebook....
Crowns and Kudos are two in-game currencies in Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockdown. Both these currencies help the players purchase something for their character, such as emotes or cosmetics. Getting both these currencies are somewhat in the same way, except that you can actually spend real money to buy one of these in-game currencies. As with the purpose they serve, it’s pretty the same as well. The crowns will help you purchase the items that of a good rarity in the game, whereas the Kudos act as a base currency, with which you can buy items of the lesser rarity....
With Disney’s merger with Fox underway, the rights to the Fantastic Four will be back in Marvel’s hands soon enough. Then, they’ll be free to introduce the iconic characters into the MCU. This is an exciting prospect, but every previous attempt to translate the Fantastic Four onto the big screen has been an astounding failure. That doesn’t mean that there can’t be a good Fantastic Four movie – it just means that, for one to work, the filmmakers will need to avoid past mistakes....
We knew that Apple’s attempt to expand Safari’s reach into the Windows population was at an end when the company stopped updating the Windows version a year ago, but the browser has now been erased from history as Apple’s bookmark sync tool drops support for it. iCloud Control Panel 3.0 for Windows, released yesterday, supports only Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. On OS X, however, Apple is keep to ensure we don’t use anything else....
The Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival’s Japan leg kicked off in Tokyo yesterday, bringing with it a host of announcements about the upcoming expansion. The keynote by director Naoki Yoshida was a welcome FFXIV Shadowbringers Fanfest update; it confirmed a number of rumors that had been kicking around, especially with regards to a new job and a new playable race to accompany the highly-anticipated Viera. The announcement of the Viera earlier this year as a playable race sparked a lot of discussion amongst fans as to what else Yoshida could be bringing to the table with Shadowbringers....
With Valentine’s Day on the way, it’s time for the lovers of the DC Comics universe to embrace the romance of the season, in the special one-shot DC’s Crimes of Passion. And when it comes to the most passionate love affairs DC has to offer, none can ever compare to the one shared by Green Arrow and Black Canary. Like last year’s Mysteries of Love in Space the Valentine’s special is offering fans a collection of short stories, mixing romance, drama, scandal, and even some superheroics, judging by our exclusive preview of Oliver and Dinah’s rendezvous....
One of the ideas I’ve championed for a few years now is that using the iPad for hours a day is a struggle ergonomically. When I am at my desk, I like having a large monitor, external keyboard, and external mouse. I can work for hours at a time without taking my hands off the keyboard and mouse. When I’ve tried to use the iPad in the same situation, my arm gets tired of always touching the screen....
TechCrunch continues their profiling of Facebook (once) secret projects with news that Zuckerberg and company plan a web-based alternative web store to Apple’s App Store for iOS devices. Dubbed Project Spartan, the project is a framework for apps that would use social hooks and work inside of Facebook’s ecosystem. Project Spartan will also be available on Android but according to TechCrunch, Facebook has Apple in its sights first. Yes, Facebook is about to launch a mobile platform aimed squarely at working on the iPhone (and iPad)....
With TikTok potentially facing a US ban, depending on whether or not a Microsoft acquisition goes through, a Facebook short videos feature has been spotted in testing. TikTok is of course based on short, user-created videos. As a highly popular app in the US, its withdrawal from the country would leave a huge vacuum … Among kids, TikTok is a big hit in the US. Instagram wasted no time in seeking to capitalize on this, cloning TikTok’s functionality with a new short-form video feature called Reels....
This feature is welcome and perhaps overdue for Facebook’s mainline messaging app. WhatsApp and Instagram (both owned by Facebook), for example, already have encryption and multi-factor authentication. It’s about time that Facebook implemented this feature directly into Messenger, which more and more users are turning to for daily communications instead of text or email. Secret Conversations add one more compelling reason to use Messenger instead of SMS or other unencrypted methods....
We reported yesterday that there’s a new FBI iPhone case — the bureau again asking Apple to unlock two iPhones belonging to a suspected shooter. There are obvious similarities between the San Bernardino and Pensacola cases. Not just that both relate to shootings and involve two iPhones, but also the fact that the FBI has decided to go public with its request for Apple to help… The intention was likely to apply public pressure on Apple to cooperate, but it seems to me more likely to achieve the opposite effect: Draw attention to the iPhone maker’s strong stance on privacy....
Felicity Huffman is expected to plead guilty over the college admissions bribery case that broke last month. The Desperate Housewives actress was among the dozens charged by the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for the scandal that involved the parents either faking athletic records or cheating their SAT scores to get their children to high profile universities such as Yale, Georgetown and the University of Southern California. According to the charges, Huffman allegedly paid $15,000 to a fixer, William Singer of Key Worldwide Foundation, who arranged a fake person take the SAT in lieu of her daughter, resulting to getting better scores from her Preliminary SAT....
Extreme Reality, a company that has been developing motion capture technology that Sega and others have used in PC & mobile games, today announced it is opening up its SDK to all developers. The software works with any 2D camera and allows devs to easily capture and analyze motion for games and apps. Think Microsoft’s Kinect, but with Extreme Reality motion is captured with an iOS device’s built-in FaceTime camera rather than bulky, expensive external hardware:...
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg just announced that the social network has acquired photo-sharing app “Instagram” for $1 billion. Instagram’s CEO Kevin Systrom also made a statement through the company’s blog and confirmed it will “be working with Facebook to evolve Instagram and build the network.” Zuckerberg’s full announcement is below, and Facebook’s official press release is here: I’m excited to share the news that we’ve agreed to acquire Instagram and that their talented team will be joining Facebook....
Facebook algorithms are partly programmed and partly based on machine learning, which explains why the company had to carry out research to learn that they are effectively promoting divisive content to users… The primary job of the algorithms is to maximize user engagement, so they highlight content that achieves this and reduce the visibility of content that doesn’t. An internal investigation found that one of the unintended consequences of this was that users were actively exposed to sensational and polarized content, as that drove them to respond....
Facebook has updated its Messenger app with a new video messaging feature that allows users to shoot and send short, 15-second videos from with the app. It’s certainly an interesting addition, given the impending release of the company’s “Slingshot” messaging app. Also included in the update is the ability to send an even bigger thumbs-up icon as a reply to incoming messages by holding down the “like” button. You can grab the Messenger update for free on the App Store....
Facebook today has closed another major licensing deal, this time with Global Music Rights, giving the social media giant access to hits from Pharrell, Drake, and more. Facebook also signed a deal earlier this week with Sony/ATV, bolstering its content offerings. Most notably, Bloomberg notes that Facebook’s deal with Global Music Rights is important as the group has criticized YouTube for not appropriately sharing revenue with songwriters and artists. Facebook also closed a multi-year licensing deal with Sony/ATV this Monday that will allow users to freely upload and share video from the company’s artists on Facebook, Instagram, and the Oculus Rift platform....
In a blog post this afternoon, Facebook announced that it is shutting down three of its ancillary applications: Hello, Moves, and Tbh. The latter two were acquired by Facebook, while Hello was a first-party, Android-only app during its lifespan. Facebook explains that it “regularly reviews” its applications to see which ones people use the most and that these reviews sometimes lead to the shutdown of less popular applications. Perhaps most notable is the shutdown of the fitness tracking Moves application, which Facebook acquired in April of 2014 as Apple’s own push into health and fitness tracking picked up steam....
A Facebook executive is yet again taking shots at Apple over the differing views the companies share regarding privacy. Facebook’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, explained that Facebook is open to everyone, while Apple is an “exclusive club.” As detailed by Business Insider, Clegg made the comments at an event in Berlin today. Apple and Facebook have engaged in a war of words recently, though both companies are careful not to mention the other by name....
A first look image from Marvel’s upcoming Disney+ series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier shows Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) and Sam Wilson (Anthony Mackie) teaming up. Marvel’s Disney+ shows are among the most anticipated projects of the year, and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier will be the first to debut. It follows Bucky and Sam in the wake of the events of Avengers: Endgame as they adjust to life without their best friend Steve Rogers (Chris Evans) and embark on a new adventure....
