Disappearing

THREE DAYS AFTER HER former father-in-law, Vernon Presley, died in June of 1979, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley sat in a downtown Memphis office and tried to comprehend the sobering news she had just heard: Without drastic action, everything that Elvis Presley had left their daughter, Lisa Marie, could be lost. Even his beloved home, Graceland.Joseph A. Hanks, the Presley family accountant since 1969, is a conservative, soft-spoken man not given to dramatics. But the facts he had just outlined for Priscilla spoke for…

Last updated: January 10th, 2023 at 07:00 UTC+01:00 In the recent past, WhatsApp has received a slew of new features. The company may not be as far ahead in terms of features as its competitors, such as Telegram, but it is working hard to meet the needs. Reportedly, a new WhatsApp feature is in the works, that would allow users to keep the disappearing messages. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform will call this feature ‘Kept Messages.’ WhatsApp users can use this feature to save disappearing messages and keep…

WhatsApp may soon enable users to save disappearing messages. The Meta-owned instant messaging platform is reportedly working on a feature called "kept messages" that will allow anyone to temporarily save a fleeting disappearing chat and keep it as is (for everyone), even if the message has expired. A kept message is shown to have its own visual cue to differentiate it from other chats. Disappearing messages are ones that users can choose to send to other users with a time limit after which they are deleted automatically…

WhatsApp recently introduced disappearing messages for chats, where a user can send a message which will automatically disappear after a set time period. Introduced in August 2021, disappearing messages became one of the most popular features of the application. It must be noted that there is no way that one can save a disappearing message on WhatsApp, and the message will automatically delete after the time period set by the sender. Now, the social networking platform is planning to introduce a new feature…

Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a ‘kept message’ feature. According to WaBetaInfo, the feature will allow users to temporarily save a disappearing message. WhatsApp introduced…

Of all the new LG Gram laptops unveiled at CES 2023, the Gram Style is the most eye-catching. It features an iridescent finish on the lid and keyboard deck that, even under the garish convention center lights here in Las Vegas, managed to look pretty. Like the rest of the Gram line, the Style is an impressively thin and light laptop for its size, with the 16-inch model coming in at 1.2kg (2.7 pounds). In fact, it's so light that the bicep curls and front raises I did using the laptop didn't feel like any work at all…

Image: AWOLIf you’re looking for the big screen movie theater experience at home—we’re talking 100+ inches—a projector is usually the most affordable way to go. But if money is no object and you’d rather skip the cumbersome setup, calibration, and screen mounting steps that usually come with a projector, AWOL’s Vision Vanish packs a short-throw projector, speakers, and a retractable self-standing screen into a single cabinet.Unlike a TV that you might just plop onto a cabinet or hang on a wall, projectors require a little…

Processing flowchart. Credit: Ying Zuo / American Geophysical Union Using satellite monitoring data, researchers have developed a deep learning algorithm that could provide real-time monthly land use and land cover maps for parts of India. One of the 10 most forest-rich countries in the world, about 80.9 million hectares of trees…

Research sometimes proves, with data, what we more or less already know. Exercise is good for you, and polluted air isn’t. Still, sometimes our intuitions are incorrect, and scientific findings surprise researchers, along with the rest of us. A recent example is the phenomenon of disappearing lakes in the Arctic tundra. You might think these lakes would be expanding, not vanishing. As climate change warms the tundra—melting surface snow and ice and thawing the permafrost—there should be more surface water. Existing lakes…

WhatsApp, a Meta owned instant messaging platform, has always been launching…