Source: Google News | In midterm elections, Republicans are running against … Hillary Clinton. Still.
LIVE: Facebook is launching a dating app, Mark Zuckerberg announces during the company's biggest event of the year
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Ashley Judd is taking Harvey Weinstein to court, and she intends for any judgments in her favor to benefit the Time’s Up movement.
Judd filed her suit in the Los Angeles Superior Court on Monday, as she confirmed on Twitter. She’s seeking damages for defamation, sexual harassment, and violations of California business laws governing unfair competition and intentionally interfering with a person’s livelihood.
The lawsuit stems from an incident that occurred in the late ’90s, after Judd met with The Lord of the Rings director Peter Jackson and his production partner Fran Walsh about a role in the then-in-development adaptation. Perhaps you remember this story; Jackson himself shared it late last year. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Ashley Judd sues Harvey Weinstein in lawsuit tied to 'Lord of the Rings'
Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to hit a button to share a photo or video of a playlist, song or mini-movie from another app into Facebook or Instagram’s Stories camera, where they can embellish it with effects and post it to their friends. GoPro’s integration actually lets you edit your movies inside Facebook’s apps, while you can immediately start listening to songs shared from Spotify and SoundCloud.
Facebook’s CPO Chris Cox announced the feature at Facebook’s F8 conference, saying that he’s excited to see what developers build. Other launch partners include selfie editor Meitu, lipsyncing app Musically, Indian streaming music service Saavn and more.
This platform move mirrors what Facebook did with its Open Graph launch 7 years ago at F8 2011. That let developers push stories about in-app activity to Facebook’s Ticker and News Feed. Eventually Facebook dropped the Ticker and phased out these Open Graph auto-shares in favor of explicit sharing, where the user is in full control. Facebook is taking this more cautious approach with Stories too, rather than make users worry their guilty pleasure listening or private imagery could be unknowingly shared to their Story.
The plan deviates significantly from Snapchat’s strategy, which has shunned third-party developers like music video-maker Mindie in the past. Now Snapchat lets developers create augmented reality lenses and geofilters that users can unlock, but the content creation happens in Snapchat’s app. Facebook hopes that by recruiting developers and getting them to build special content users can share to their Stories, it will avoid the feature growing stale from the same old selfies and sunsets.
Source: Tech Crunch Mobiles | Facebook and Instagram Stories open to sharing from other apps
Facebook’s massive developer conference kicked off Tuesday, but the event’s website lagged behind.
F8’s site was down at least 15 minutes before Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg was set to kick off his keynote address in San Jose, California. The social network had hyped the event on social media prior to the kickoff, making the stumble a bit awkward.
Even as Zuck addressed data privacy issues head on, the site remained down — including the livestream hosted on the event site.
f8.com is down.
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Various news outlets steamed Zuckerberg’s speech, so people could still watch the CEO crack wise about his congressional hearing and various product updates. And the F8 site was brought back online shortly after the presentation began. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Whoops! F8 website crashes as Facebook’s biggest event of the year starts
Snapchat may have pioneered the “stories” format, but it’s Instagram that’s taking it in new and exciting directions.
At Facebook’s F8 conference, Instagram announced a new way for users to share content from third-party apps directly to Stories. Same goes for sharing to Facebook StoriesSpotify and GoPro will be the first two partners for this new Stories integration.
Additionally, the app’s getting video chat, new augmented-reality camera effects from third parties, and a redesigned Explore tab.
What kind of content can Instagram and Facebook Stories junkies expect to share from third-party apps? Read more…
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Supremely easy to use • Effortless setup • High-quality lenses for a sharp image • Comfortable to wear • Affordable
Light leaks from nose cutout • Charges over microUSB • Takes 3 hours to fully charge
The Oculus Go is the first VR headset that truly makes it easy to dive into VR without the hassle of connecting a phone or PC.
I can’t think of a more messy and complicated technology in the last decade than VR. Read more…
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Source: Mashable | Oculus Go review: This is the iPhone of VR headsets