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If you are using Facebook messenger then this news will help you In the instant messaging app Facebook Messenger, most people chat, but there are some hidden features in this app that you may hardly know about. Through messenger, you work on video sharing, sending emoji besides chats. In our news, we are telling you about some hidden features of Facebook Messenger that you have neither heard nor used. Create your own chatbox You can create your own chatbox in Facebook Messenger. If you have a Facebook page then go to Page Settings and select Messaging. Now go down to Response Assistant and click Send Instant Replies to anyone who messages your page. Now you set the message in your favourites, which you want to reply to Messenger or Facebook. Make shortcut of Chat Box To see the friend's message, you have to open the Messenger again and again. You can create a shortcut to your chat to avoid this. For this, go to the main menu and hold the photo of your fri...

WhatsApp features ranked, as per the way we feel most impact. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging app in the world, used by over 1.2 billion people worldwide and 200 million in India alone. Despite its success, the Facebook-owned company has not become complacent and always keeps the competition on its toes by releasing new features every few weeks. 2017, of course, saw the overhauled WhatsApp Status (an aping of Snapchat), but there have been many other small updates this year that didn’t get as much attention. From increased media sharing limit to video streaming, we take a look at all the new WhatsApp features released this year alone. While going down this memory lane, we’ve ranked features in the order that we feel made the most impact (or will make, if in beta) in user experience. 1. Delete for Everyone WhatsApp in October made the Delete for Everyone feature live for all users, the biggest change to chats on the platform since the blue ticks were introduced. As...

How to fix WhatsApp: Is WhatsApp down? You can't connect to WhatsApp, but is WhatsApp down or is the problem local to you? Here's how to find out if WhatsApp is working correctly, and some fixes to try if it isn't. How to fix WhatsApp: What to do when you can't connect to WhatsApp As of Friday 3 November 2017 WhatsApp is reportedly having issues, which has been ongoing since 7.10am. The worst affected area appears to be in The Netherlands, but problems have also been reported in London, Manchester and Birmingham. WhatsApp can go down unexpectedly at any time of day or night. Troubleshoot your internet connection WhatsApp is an online service, which means you must have an active internet connection in order to use it. Fire up the browser on your smartphone and try to browse to a new web page, or open and refresh another online service such as Facebook or Twitter. If your internet connection appears to be working, move on to the next tip. If you ca...

Mobile Security—How Secure Are Your Mobile Devices, Actually? Whether it’s searching embarrassing symptoms or letting curiosity win and checking out the latest photo leak, we all get up to some questionable things online from time to time—things we wouldn’t want our boss or maybe even friends to know. We aren’t ones to judge, but if you think that in this day-in-age you’re just as safe (or safer) doing all that on your smartphone as your PC, you might want to reconsider. For example, a recent study examining 10,000 mobile devices in the UK and the US, showed that 40 of the 50 top porn sites were susceptible to software that may harm your phone badly. Another security report issued by Nokia in March 2017, revealed a new all-time high in mobile device infection rates—a stunning 400 percent increase over last year! Spyware that exposes your text messages, contact lists, GPS coordinates and other data that you’d rather kept to yourself, hits both Android and iOS-run devices. Yet ...

Your computer may be making Bitcoin​ for hackers Spike in value of digital currencies gives cyber criminals a new way to earn money that is less disruptive than ransomware Hackers are commandeering the horsepower of unwitting victims’ computers to secretly generate cryptocurrencies, hoping to cash in as the price of bitcoin has soared to $6,000. New forms of malicious software have mushroomed, appearing on hacked desktop computers, and hackers are sneaking code that generates digital currency on misconfigured cloud-computing servers and even on websites, which have been reprogrammed so visiting browsers become unsuspecting digital-currency generators. Digital currencies such as bitcoin need a broad network of computers to process transactions. To lure participants, they pay off the computers that join the network with newly minted digital currency. These computers are called miners. A typical personal computer can crank out about one bitcoin every 4½ years, according ...