WhatsApp lets you select specific people within a group to start a group call without disturbing anyone WhatsApp announced that it had added new video calling features just before the holidays, including participant selection for group video calls, better ... 12/13/2024 - 5:10 am | View Link
The FTC says 'gamified' online job scams by WhatsApp and text on the rise. What to know. The Federal Trade Commission said there were no task scams in 2020, there were 5,000 in 2023 and then task scams quadrupled by the first half of 2024. 12/13/2024 - 3:12 am | View Link
WhatsApp Reveals 10 Eye-Catching New Upgrades For The Holidays As calling on WhatsApp grows more popular, the company has just unveiled features in time for audio and video calls this holiday season. 12/13/2024 - 1:30 am | View Link
WhatsApp Now Lets You Enjoy High-Res Video Calls and Brings Ten New Effects WhatsApp has now introduced new features, aimed at making connections from both desktop and mobile platforms smoother and more engaging. Check all the details here. 12/12/2024 - 8:01 pm | View Link
Facebook, Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp back online after major Meta outage Most services offered by global tech giant Meta have been brought back online after major disruptions to its key social media platforms. 12/11/2024 - 7:39 am | View Link
Airlines, banks, casinos, package deliveries, and emergency services around the world are recovering today from what could be "the largest tech outage in history." the root cause was not a foreign agent but linked back to a software update issued by a u-s based cybersecurity firm called "Crowd Strike." Could this have been avoided?
In London, a mobile phone is stolen every 6 minutes. "If I steal your phone, I'm stealing a thousand dollars," says digital identity expert David Birch. But "If I can get into your bank account, I can steal $100,000. So that's what they really want." So there are important steps to take immediately - including turning off message preview.
"Human beings had a play-based childhood from time immemorial," says author Jonathan Haidt. What caused teen mental health decline is "between 2010 and 2015, phones, screens come sweeping in The most important thing that parents can do is delay the age at which their child gets immersed in internet culture."
Fareed hosts a spirited debate on the House bill that could lead to a US ban on TikTok, with the American Enterprise Institute's Kori Schake and Glen Gerstell, former general counsel for the National Security Agency. They discuss national-security risks the Chinese-owned app might pose given its many American users.
A new government report warns that advanced Artificial Intelligence systems could pose an "extinction-level threat" to humans, and that the US must intervene. "I think we should be mindful of it," says Ret. Admiral James Stavridis. But he adds, "there have been big inventions in the past - the printing press, electricity, the internet - all of these have been a decried for the possibility of nefarious activity."