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WhatsApp started working on a new privacy setting last year that allowed users to hide their profile photos, last seen, and About info from specific people in their contacts lists. Its availability was limited since it was in beta, but the company has announced that it's finally rolling out to all its users across the globe on iPhone and Android devices. 🔒 To further protect your privacy online, we’re rolling out new options to your privacy control settings 🔒Now you can select who from your contact list can see your…

WhatsApp has updated its group voice calls experience on both Android and iOS. The update brings features to let users mute any other participants or message one of them while staying active on the call. The new update comes just days after WhatsApp expanded group voice calls to up to 32 people from the earlier eight-participant limit. The instant messaging app introduced a new interface to support the expanded list of participants in group voice calls.On Friday, WhatsApp announced the release of its updated group voice…

Twitter appears to be testing a new feature that will allow people to subscribe to specific search terms, generating custom notifications when they are found. The new feature was discovered by Android developer Dylan Rousel and isn't fully functional yet, but we can safely assume that the same feature will come to iPhones and the rest of the Twitter apps once it's complete. According to tweets by Roussel, they were able to enable the work-in-progress feature and create a new custom search term as well as enable…

Issue Google Assistant didn’t respond to “Hey, Google, set a timer.” Quick fix Reset home address in the Home app The full story Over the weekend, my partner and I decided it was finally time to upgrade our Wi-Fi router. We had been contently operating on a relatively ancient OnHub router until we got the warning from Google that it was turning off the controls for the OnHub as of this coming December. We bitched a bit and then bit that bullet and used a Google-offered discount to purchase a Nest WiFi router and point.…

When it comes to self-healing mechanisms, we are blessed with a body that can take care of itself. Scientists have been researching the manner in which the heart repairs itself after an attack. They aim to uncover insights that will lead to more effective cardiovascular therapy. In a new research, it has been revealed that the body's immune response and the lymphatic system (a part of the immune system) are critical in the heart's ability to repair itself after an attack has damaged the cardiac muscle. The revelation of…

TikTok is offering users a new way to credit videos that kick off viral trends. When uploading content, users will be able to tag not only individual creators in video descriptions, but also specific videos — an addition the platform claims will “better enable creator credit and equitable attribution for our creator community and content originators.” The change is, in part, a response to complaints by users that the platform thrives off a parasitic approach to viral content. Last summer, for example, a number of…