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"We believe this feature will be great for people who share their phones from time to time with a family member, or in moments where someone else is holding your phone at the exact moment an extra-special chat arrives," Meta said in a news release.Also: What is Bluesky? How to get on the waitlist for this decentralized Twitter alternative Designed for the WhatsApp app on iOS and Android, Chat Lock carries with it a few conditions. Individual and group chats can be locked; however, phone calls cannot be locked. When you…

WhatsApp just announced that should allow users to keep certain conversations more private. The tool lets you lock any conversation, which places it in a specialized folder that's only accessible via biometrics, like a fingerprint or face scan, or by entering a current password. This also automatically hides any references to locked chats in the notifications feed. Locking a chat seems easy enough. Just tap the name of the one-on-one or group chat and select the lock option. When you want to read the chat, enter your…

Scientists have detected the ripple effects of small ground-level explosions 100 kilometers up in ionized layers of the upper atmosphere. The result suggests the remote sensing technique could be used to monitor explosive events—natural or human—hundreds of times smaller than before. “It was a big surprise to me,” says Jihye Park, a geodetic scientist at Oregon State University who was not involved in the research. “It’s really smart.” The ionized region of the…

Over the past few years, malware attacks on iOS and Android have become rampant, with threat actors constantly finding new ways to infiltrate our systems. Now, according to a report from Check Point Research (CPR), threat actors are using a new strain of malware called FluHorse to target Android users and steal sensitive information such as credit card data, passwords, and two-factor authentication codes.The malware, which is primarily targeting users in East Asia, sends emails to high-profile individuals which prompt…

Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Faults in the Ridgecrest, California area were very sensitive to solid earth tidal stresses in the year and a half before the July 2019 Ridgecrest earthquake sequence, researchers reported at the Seismological Society of America (SSA)'s 2023 Annual Meeting. "The signal of tidal modulation becomes…

Researchers from TU Delft have developed a dart that is nearly 50% more accurate than conventional darts due to its improved aerodynamics and flight mechanics. The dart’s design offers players more control over their throws. Top Dutch darts players, known as the TOTO Dart Kings, tested the new dart and participated in research analyzing their throwing techniques. The research has led to the establishment of Rocket Darts, a spin-off of TU Delft, which is developing the new dart with enhanced aerodynamics, weight…

Karu F. Daniels | (TNS) New York Daily News Disney’s anticipated live-action remake of “The Little Mermaid” will not only have a more diverse cast, the soundtrack will have updated lyrics. According to composer Alan Menken, who created the music for the original 1989 movie, the new film will feature lyrics to include consent. The beloved songs “Kiss the Girl” and “Poor Unfortunate Souls” will be edited to reflect the cultural shift of modern times. “There are some lyric changes in ‘Kiss the Girl’ because people have…

On the surface, might seem like a tool that can come in useful for an array of work tasks. But before you ask the chatbot to summarize important memos or check your work for errors, it's worth remembering that anything you share with ChatGPT could be used to train the system and perhaps even pop up in its responses to other users. That's something several employees probably should have been aware of before they reportedly shared confidential information with the chatbot. Soon after Samsung's semiconductor division…

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy "is and will always be enormously important to us." The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are "designed from the ground up to protect your privacy." But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees. Some of the…

Tesla Inc assures its millions of electric car owners that their privacy “is and will always be enormously important to us.” The cameras it builds into vehicles to assist driving, it notes on its website, are “designed from the ground up to protect your privacy.”But between 2019 and 2022, groups of Tesla employees privately shared via an internal messaging system sometimes highly invasive videos and images recorded by customers' car cameras, according to interviews by Reuters with nine former employees. Some of the…