Month: May 2020

Do you need to recover deleted or missing WhatsApp messages? It’s certainly possible, and in this article we explain how to do it. Instead of archiving a WhatsApp chat, you might have accidentally deleted it. What’s the difference? Archived chats are easy to recover from within WhatsApp, whereas recovering deleted messages isn’t so easy. But
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Amazon launched an assault on Fortnite and other eSports giants Wednesday with team shooter Crucible, aiming to expand its territory in the world of game playing. Release of the free online title by Amazon Game Studios comes as people staying home to avoid the deadly coronavirus turn to video games for entertainment and social contact.
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Netflix will now cancel inactive accounts to help customers save money, in an unprecedented move for subscription-based offerings. Starting this week, it will ask members who haven’t streamed Netflix for a year if they want to keep paying for the streaming service. If these members do not respond, Netflix will automatically cancel their subscription. With
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Google has announced a new, welcome and no doubt long asked-for feature to its Maps app: wheelchair accessibility info. Businesses and points of interest featuring accessible entrances, bathrooms and other features will now be prominently marked as such. Millions, of course, require such accommodations as ramps or automatic doors, from people with limited mobility to
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OnePlus has announced a PUBG Mobile tournament featuring pro-gamers and Indian cricketers. The Chinese smartphone makers is working with global e-sports entertainment brand Fnatic to organise this tournament named ‘OnePlus Domin8′. The smartphone maker said this is a new engagement initiative for the OnePlus and PUBG Mobile community as they will be able to virtually
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A yellow robot dog called Spot which found fame online for dancing to hit song “Uptown Funk” has been deployed to patrol a Singapore park and ensure people observe social distancing. The hi-tech hound is remote-controlled and can clamber easily over all types of terrain, which its creators say means it can go where wheeled
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Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg said Thursday he was “pretty confident” his company could help prevent attempts to influence the political outcome of the US presidential election later this year. Zuckerberg told the BBC in an interview that the social network was better prepared to counter online misinformation campaigns but admitted Facebook was “behind” during the
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Construction cranes at Huawei’s headquarters busily expand an already massive faux-European campus that Walt Disney would envy, as well as an in-house “university” that trains the Chinese telecom giant’s growing global workforce. If the United States hoped to stop the company in its tracks, it hasn’t yet. An escalating US effort to block supplies of
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Facebook on Thursday said that its Messenger app will be watching behind the scenes for scammers using the smartphone communication system. Safety notices will pop up in Messenger text chats if activity taking place in the background is deemed suspicious by artificial intelligence software, according to director of privacy and safety product management Jay Sullivan.
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Sites like Omegle and Chatroulette are well-known for connecting you with strangers when you want to have a conversation with someone. Anyone. A lot of the time these conversations are weird, but what if you want to take your random chats to the next level? In this article, we list some tips to start better
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Most of the computer programs we use—whether office suites, web browsers, even video games—are configured via menu interfaces. It has almost become the default way we use our machines. But some programs require you to take a step beyond that. Instead of menus, you must edit a text file for the software to run as
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