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WhatsApp latest update: 3 new features up for demonstration including 'Swipe to Reply' and 'Dark Mode' WhatsApp , which is a standout among the most-used instant messaging platforms with more than 200 million users has officially revealed features in 2018, which makes the platform even more engaging to use. The app has as revealed more user-friendly features including Swipe to Reply, Dark mode, message forwarding and more. Here are three new features in the WhatsApp latest update has been made accessible for beta users - soon to be rolled out for regular users. WhatsApp is working on a ' Swipe to Reply ' feature that will enable users to instantly reply to a message using a swipe gesture on the screen from their finger. While this feature is accessible for iOS users, it is presently all set to make its introduction in Android smartphones. With this feature, you will never again have to tap and hold the message box to get the Reply button. One merely...

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...

Know, How To Detect Online Scams Have you ever got any Mail or SMS or some message in social media platform informing you that you have won few thousand dollars. All you need to do is to provide your Bank details. If something like this has ever happened then you must get beware. Online Scams are getting common nowadays. There are certain ways to find out if you are being lured into a scam. All you need to do is to be aware of the ever-expanding scam industry. Here are some of the tips that will help you to comprehend scams and how to avoid them. The scam artist have crafted various methods to lure victims into their trap. Most of the scams have several elements that are present in them. If you can learn how to identify them, you are safe from them. 1. There is always money involved: The most common element present in all scams are money. They either ask for money or try to persuade you that you have won a great amount of money. 2. Urgency: These scams requir...

Things you didn't know about Google    Google's original name was 'Backrub'. Larry Page and Sergey Brin originally settled on the name 'Backrub' for their search engine because their program analyzed backlinks to understand how important a website was and what other sites it related too. The name lasted for a year until they began brainstorming new names that would reflect just how much data they were indexing. Google's name comes from the mathematical term 'Googol' which is a number that is a 1 with hundred zeroes following it. When page and his office mates at Stanford began tossing around ideas for the name, a graduate student named Sean Anderson suggested the word Googleplex which page then shortened to Google. The original 'I am feeling lucky' option cost Google up to 110 million dollars per year. Thanks to Google instant, the original I'm feeling lucky option has since now Google starts narrowing search results as soon...

Microsoft employee installs Chrome mid-presentation because Edge keeps crashing This is truly half-brutal, half-hilarious. A Microsoft employee was forced to pause his Azure presentation in the middle of a live demo session in order to install Google’s Chrome… because the company’s own Edge browser kept crashing. But here is the best part: this comical occurrence was recorded and uploaded to  YouTube  – by none other than Microsoft itself. The presentation in question aims to show potential customers how to migrate their applications and data to Redmond’s cloud service. But midway through the session, Edge crashes. This is when after a brief moment of hesitation, the employee finally gives up and charmingly informs the audience that he’ll be taking a moment to install Chrome in order to finish the demo session, which he then goes on to do. See what happens in the video below (around the 37:10 mark): In all fairness, the employee handles the situat...

WhatsApp to bring in-chat payment option to India by December Highlights WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The messaging platform has teamed up with three Banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC. It will need a bank's UPI structure. We've been hearing about WhatsApp to soon offer payment option within WhatsApp chat. Now, a new report surfaces claiming WhatsApp Pay could be made available by December. According to , WhatsApp Pay feature is in testing and could be launched by December. India could be among the first countries. India is one of the biggest markets for WhatsApp and so this move isn't surprising. WhatsApp is the most popular messaging platform in India with over 200 million users. The report further adds that the messaging platform has teamed up with three banks namely SBI, ICICI and HDFC . It will need a bank's UPI structure. WhatsApp is working on an in-chat payment option. This is in lin...