Technology

    It’s been in development for months, but has now started rolling out to users. The feature, which is officially called Delete for Everyone has also been widely referred to as Recall and Revoke. It lets you unsend messages, making them completely disappear from a conversation. They'll be hidden from both yourself and the other people in the chat. However, both you and your recipient need to be using the latest version of WhatsApp, and it only works for messages you’ve sent within the last seven minutes. Once that period of time has passed, your message is there to stay. Delete for Everyone work on all types of messages, including text, images, videos, GIFs and documents. To unsend a message, simply highlight it by tapping and holding the line of text, select Delete from the...

    Thousands of women around the world who have been sexually harassed or assaulted are using the hastag #metoo on social media to highlight the extent of the problem. In the wake of allegations against movie producer Harvey Weinstein that he sexually harassed or assaulted women, Twitter and Facebook have ignited with personal stories of abuse. It started on Sunday with American actress Alyssa Milano calling on Twitter users to write ‘Me too’ if they have ever been sexually assaulted or harassed to give people a sense of the magnitude of the problem. Women and men quickly responded on Twitter and Facebook. One Twitter user wrote: Me too. Harassed at work at multiple companies, stalked, assaulted. ....almost all of my friends have similar stories. We need to speak up. Another ...

    There are over a billion WhatsApp users worldwide right now. The bad news? Even your mum knows what the two blue ticks mean. From disabling the ‘last seen’ feature to bookmarking important messages, these are the 25 tricks you need to know to be a WhatsApp ninja. 1. Banish the blue ticks of tyranny Life can be stressful enough without feeling under pressure to reply to WhatsApps as soon as those two blue ticks give you away. Fortunately there’s a workaround. In the Settings menu, go to Account, then Privacy and turn off Read Receipts. The only snag is you’ll no longer get them for other people either. 2. Find out your BFFs In the year 2017, friendships aren’t measured on loyalty or time, it’s all about how much data you’ve shared. Head to Data and Storage Usage in the Sett...

    As technology continues to develop, the line between man and machine has become increasingly blurred. And this stunningly lifelike android woman will have you believing the line has disappeared altogether. Footage of the robot at this year’s Tokyo Game Show in the Japanese capital has been viewed more than three million times on one social media platform alone. A number of Japanese-made and international games are on display at the convention, which has been held annually for the last 21 years. But the beautiful female android has stood out - despite the fact she is only a PR prop. She, along with several others of her kind, are stood at the booth of Detroit: Become Human a new PlayStation 4 video game developed by Quantic Dream, from France, and published by Japan’s very ...

    A fake dummy unit out of China depicts what the iPhone X may look like based on reports. Apple will launch at least three new iPhones today, September 12, at its new campus in Cupertino, California. There has been much speculation about these upcoming iPhones. All signs point to Apple announcing the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus alongside a completely redesigned and more expensive iPhone X. The pressure is on Apple, too. It's the 10th anniversary of the first iPhone, launched in 2007, and the company is expected to unveil some big updates to mark the occasion. Wall Street analysts hope that the new iPhone X, which could cost over $1,000, will drive a "supercycle" of sales and propel Apple to become the first trillion-dollar publicly traded company. Apple rarely comments on upcoming ...

    Apple’s (AAPL) much-hyped iPhone 8 is nearly upon us, and we’re as excited as the next person to see what the Cupertino, California-based company has cooked up this time around. Will the 8 match up with all of the rumors we’ve read over the past few months? Will it be the greatest iPhone yet? Will it give you the power of heart like that one kid from Captain Planet? God, I hope not. If you’re an Android user, though, you probably don’t care about any of that. In fact, you’re probably wondering what the best alternatives to Apple’s upcoming handset are. Well lucky you, because that’s exactly what we’re serving up. If you’re not into the iPhone, these are the phones to get. A camera that’s better than the iPhone 7 Plus’s Galaxy Note 8, Samsung’s Galaxy Note 8 is the follow-u...

    Google has fired the employee who wrote a controversial 10-page internal memo that criticizes the search giant for its efforts to promote diversity and inclusion in its workforce, the company has confirmed to ABC News. Google CEO Sundar Pichai sent a note to employees about the incident on Monday, saying the staffer violated the company’s Code of Conduct. The post went over the line by advancing harmful gender stereotypes in our workplace, Pichai said. To suggest a group of our colleagues have traits that make them less biologically suited to that work is offensive and not OK, he added. In the memo, which circulated on an internal company network and was first reported by Motherboard and published in full by Gizmodo on Saturday, the writer attributes gender inequality in t...

    Card cloning is one of the more infuriating annoyances of the 21st century. Gone are the days of losing your wallet and having to worry if some nefarious individual picks it up before you can cancel your card. Now, your plastic can be safely tucked in your pocket while someone runs riot with your bank account. The technology is startlingly simple, cheap to operate and (most of the time) almost invisible to the untrained eye. Explained simply; a small card scanning device is added to the card slot of an ATM. This typically resembles the regular card slot to not arouse suspicion. When you slide your card past it, you're in fact sliding it through a counterfeit reader, which scans the information for storage or transmission via Bluetooth/Wireless to someone nearby. To gain fu...

    A ransomware attack hit computers across the world on Tuesday, taking out servers at Russia’s biggest oil company, disrupting operations at Ukrainian banks, and shutting down computers at multinational shipping and advertising firms. Cyber security experts said those behind the attack appeared to have exploited the same type of hacking tool used in the WannaCry ransomware attack that infected hundreds of thousands of computers in May before a British researcher created a kill-switch. It’s like WannaCry all over again, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer with Helsinki-based cyber security firm F-Secure. He said he expected the outbreak to spread in the Americas as workers turned on vulnerable machines, allowing the virus to attack. This could hit the USA pretty bad,...

    A colossal cyberattack on Tuesday has been wreaking havoc on countries and corporations across the globe, and cybersecurity experts are zeroing in on a familiar name as the possible culprit. The attack, dubbed Petya, is a ransomware worm that has so far targeted Ukrainian banks and airports, Russian state-owned oil giant Rosneft, British advertising company WPP, US pharmaceutical giant Merck, and shipping company A.P. Moller-Maersk, which said every branch of its business was affected. Analysts at several cybersecurity firms have confirmed that the Petya assault utilized a powerful and dangerous cyberweapon reated by the National Security Agency that was leaked in April by the hacker group Shadow Brokers. Though it's too soon to be certain, experts say it seems as though a...