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Facebook is rolling out a new post format on the latest version of its iPhone app called Music Stories. The new format lets you share songs and albums from popular streaming music services, starting with Apple Music and Spotify, while friends can enjoy 30-second previews of what you share. The Music Stories format also looks rich within the app. Tapping play turns the artwork in a record-like spinning animation, and a button to listen to the whole track or album on the streaming service is presented on the right....

Facebook has announced today in a blog post that the much-anticipated Messenger 4 update for mobile is rolling out today. The revamp focuses on simplifying the messaging experience by removing some of the clutter users have complained about in the past. Messenger 4 has simplified its navigation, revamping the entire bottom tab menu. It starts with one-to-one and group conversations, which are now combined into a single Chats tab. The company is also adding a new Camera button on the top right of this menu to let users easily share photos and videos to your friends and family....

If fans of The Fate of The Furious believing that the chemistry between star Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Jason Statham was too good to be purely scripted… well, you were right. It turns out that the two veteran action stars were able to gel into an on-screen twosome just as well as their characters of ‘Luke Hobbs’ and ‘Deckard Shaw’ battled like oil and water in the previous film in the series....

Warning: Minor SPOILERS ahead for Fear the Walking Dead “Channel 4”. Fear the Walking Dead’s latest episode seems to be teasing Madison Clark’s return, but whether or not she actually comes back is a tough question to answer at this point. It’s clear that Fear the Walking Dead is far from being the same show that it was just two seasons ago, and it’s certainly different from what was in the beginning....

In a blog post this morning, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg says that Facebook is exploring ways to restrict who can go “Live” on the platform. This comes after two mass shootings in New Zealand earlier this month were live streamed and repeatedly shared on Facebook. Sandberg says that Facebook is “exploring restrictions” on who can go Live. This could be based on things such as Community Standard violations. Furthermore, Sandberg writes that Facebook is investing in ways to build technology better able to identify edited versions of violent videos:...

As most of the world focuses heavily on video conferencing, Facebook’s new product experimentation team has debuted its latest experimental app dubbed “CatchUp.” As reported by TechCrunch, CatchUp focuses on allowing people to make audio calls with up to eight other people. CatchUp aims to set itself apart with a few features. First off, users can set their status as “Ready to Talk” or offline. The app also does not require a FaceBook account to use the service....

Last year, Facebook poached Regina Dugan, the head of Google’s Advanced Technology and Projects, to lead a new hardware group. Building 8’s first products are now coming into light as a new report notes the development of a HomePod smart speaker competitor and a video chat device. For those that remember Mark Zuckerburg’s security advice from last year, the rumors of these new products come with some irony. Building 8 essentially replicates ATAP within Facebook, with an earlier report noting that the company is working on everything from augmented reality to brain-scanning technology....

Last Updated: March 15, 2021 Here’s everything we know about The Falcon and the Winter Soldier TV show, which is now the second of several Marvel TV shows coming to Disney+. The Falcon & Winter Soldier series will be part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s Phase 4, which runs through 2022 and includes six feature films in addition to the Marvel TV series. The Falcon and the Winter Soldier series was first reported in October 2018, and confirmed at San Diego Comic-Con 2019 during Marvel’s presentation in Hall H....

Without using the file system, information placed in a storage medium would be one large body of data with no way to know where one piece of information stops and the next one begins. Individual files on a FAT32 drive cannot excessed 4 GB in size, which is maximum. A FAT32 partition should be less than 8 TeraByte (TB). The FAT32 contains four bytes per cluster inside the file allocation table....

Fear The Walking Dead, spin-off of AMC’s The Walking Dead, just wrapped up its fifth season. There have been many twists and turns as the group navigates how to survive in a post-apocalyptic world. The group has banded together on a mission to help those in need, and made some admirable, but also dumb, decisions along the way. They’ve expanded, met new adversaries, and honed new skills. Still, a few things don’t make sense now that we look back on the last season....

Good news for those of you who already use or have been considering an external GPU for your Mac: Apple has enhanced support for eGPU setups in macOS 10.13.4 beta. Ahead of Apple’s promise to bring better eGPU support to the Mac by spring 2018, the initial beta release for 10.13.4 brings several noticeable changes and enhancements to the fore. Notable enhancements: Hot plug eGPU boxes, no log outs required New Eject GPU menu bar button macOS 10....

But a lot has changed since 2005. As brand evolution goes, Facebook has taken events to the next level. ADD YOUR EVENT Facebook Event Photo Size Guide for 2019: Facebook Events Updates Here’s a breakdown of some of the most important features Facebook added to elevate their events product: RSVP List and Notification Facebook events provides an “RSVP” list. It displays lists of invitees grouped by their response type (“attending,” “not attending,” “may be attending,” or “hasn’t responded”)....

Farewell HomePod. It was probably Apple’s most misunderstood product, so it’s mostly unsurprising that Apple made the decision to discontinue it. There was a huge chasm between what it really was, and what most people thought it was – and Apple’s marketing didn’t help … Ask most people to tell you what a HomePod is, and they’ll tell you it’s Apple’s smart speaker. Refer specifically to the original HomePod, and they’ll say it’s Apple’s very over-priced smart speaker....

Those who love sports definitely know even more about the details of the following matches. Because we know that you like to be up-to-date with all the details from previous years of World Cup experience, we brought to you some of the best websites to keep you informed. We’ve previously covered How to watch FIFA live online and also how to watch FIFA matches on YouTube. I know many people who look for the best high-quality highlights from the World Cup, and for this reason our article today will present you with some of the most interesting options....

Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference is our Super Bowl. It’s the most important time of the year for Apple fans, journalists, and of course developers. Each year for more than 20 years, Apple has brought its community together and spent a week detailing their next major software innovations. WWDC is not just a place for Apple to show off its latest creations, it’s also a place for the Apple community to assemble in person....

With Falcon & The Winter Soldier due to start filming in November, speculation about what this show will entail for the Marvel world and its characters is at an all-time high. But while there are things fans are really hoping to see, there are also some stones that may be better left un-turned. From the specific, to the universe-affecting, from the silly to the serious, here are 5 fan theories we hope come true in Falcon & The Winter Soldier and 5 we don’t....

Back in October 2021, a grand jury in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York indicted two Iranian nationals employed by Emennet Pasargad for computer intrusion, computer fraud, voter intimidation, interstate threats, and conspiracy offenses for their alleged participation in a campaign aimed at influencing and interfering with the 2020 US Presidential Election. The Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control designated Emennet along with four members of the company’s management and the two indicted employees for attempting to influence the election....

If you thought the gaming performance of Apple’s 64-bit A7 chip was good, there is likely even better to come in future following ARM’s acquisition of 3D gaming specialist Geomerics. Geomerics specialises in photo-realistic graphics, and its technology is used in games like Battlefield 4, Inquisition and Primal Carnage. The company’s Enlighten system means that once a light-source like the sun has been positioned in a scene, Enlighten takes care of generating all the shadows, reports VentureBeat....

Facebook has been complaining about Apple since the company introduced a new privacy feature in the iOS 14 beta that forces developers to ask users before tracking them across the web. David Fischer, Facebook’s chief revenue officer, now said that every business based on advertising is “under assault” by the changes imposed by Apple. As reported by CNBC, Fischer spoke in a virtual session of Advertising Week this Tuesday about Facebook’s vulnerability to companies like Apple and Google....

After adding support for a new cross-platform video chat service through its Facebook Messenger mobile apps, Facebook has now announced that the feature is rolling out to all worldwide. The feature first launched back in April for users on iOS and Android in Belgium, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, France, Greece, Ireland, Laos, Lithuania, Mexico, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Poland, Portugal, the UK, the US and Uruguay. Today, Facebook said the feature is now rolled out globally “with the exception of a few countries” that it’s still working on:...