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QR codes, the square bar codes that can be scanned and read by smartphones, are seemingly used everywhere: to board flights, enter concerts and look at restaurant menus. But scammers trying to steal personal information have also been using QR codes to direct people to harmful websites that can harvest their data, Alvaro Puig, a consumer education specialist at the Federal Trade Commission, wrote in a blog post Wednesday on the agency’s consumer advice page. Would-be scammers hide dangerous links in the black-and-white…

No judgements here, but if you’re a little embarrassed about some of the games in your library, there’s now a solution. Not long ago, it was rumored that Steam would allow you to hide titles from others, and now that reality has come to fruition. In the most recent update to the Steam client, it’s now possible to mark your games as private. A post on Steam says there are “times when you might want to keep a few of the games you own” a hidden secret from others. For whatever reason you have. As such, any games you now…

Valve announced a new privacy feature for the Steam client today that lets players choose whether certain games they buy and own are visible to others on the platform. According to the update announcement, starting today, Steam beta testers will be able to mark games as private to keep them, well, private.You can mark a game private from three places: your shopping cart; your game list in a web browser; or from the Steam client itself. The new privacy filter is great if you’ve been holding off on buying OnlyCans: Thirst…

A recent study of the Ciomadul volcano in Romania highlights just how quickly – and how powerfully – long-dormant volcanoes can erupt.One of the youngest volcanoes in eastern-central Europe, Ciomadul hasn't erupted for some 30,000 years. Through a sophisticated geological analysis, a team of European scientists has shed more light on the cycle of volcanic activity that Ciomadul has gone through over the millennia.In particular, the team wanted to look at the change in eruption type over a lengthy period of time, from the…

As anyone who has had gastroenteritis will tell you, when human noroviruses hit, they hit hard. However, a new study suggests protection against these dangerous and evasive bugs could be found in an unlikely place: tiny particles produced by llamas.Like humans, members of the camel family such as llamas (Llama glama) produce antibodies to protect against infection. Within camels and kin, however, these antibodies are much smaller than the ones in our bodies, which is why they're known as nanobodies.Researchers led by a…

Image Source : FILE Google 'Private Space' feature will hide apps on your Android device Google, the tech giant is said to be working on a 'Private Space' feature which will help in adding support for hiding apps on Android devices. The new feature is expected to surface soon with an updated version of the OS, where the feature is expected to enable the users to hide…

Photo: Florence Ion / GizmodoIf you give me access to your location, I am the person who will check on you constantly and bring it up the next time I see you. “So,” I’ll start casually, “what were you doing in the city last week?” Then you’ll ask me how I knew you were down there. I’ll remind you that you gave me access one summer long ago and never revoked it.'Even AI Rappers are Harassed by Police' | AI UnlockedIf you have someone like me around and you use Google Maps, there’s good news: you’ll have an easier time…

Google is reportedly working on a 'Private Space' feature that will add support for hiding apps securely on Android smartphones. Expected to arrive in an upcoming version of the company's mobile operating system, the feature is expected to allow users to hide apps and files from other users safely. Samsung has offered a similar feature — Secure Folder — for the past six years. Google adding native support with Private Space will allow other phone makers to offer the same functionality on their phones.Development of the…

Household cats are a secretive species. Unlike dogs, they are masters at masking their feelings and intentions—possibly because of their evolutionary history as solitary hunters. This built-in stoicism makes it hard for cat owners and veterinarians to read signs of pain in a cat’s facial expressions and behaviors, but new artificial intelligence programs may be able to finally peer behind the mask.A team of AI researchers and veterinarians has created and tested two machine-learning algorithms that judged whether cats…

WhatsApp rolled out the Chat Lock feature in May to let users lock their chats with their device password or biometric, like a fingerprint. These locked chats are hidden behind a "Locked chats" folder that appears in the chat list. Hence, WhatsApp has announced a new feature called Secret Code for Chat Lock to provide an additional layer of security and privacy to these locked chats. With the Secret Code feature, you can now set a password different from your device password to hide the Locked chats folder from the…