Microsoft is working on a presence detection feature for Windows 11, which is capable of identifying if the user is “present, absent, or not interacting” with the device and, in the event of the user’s absence, blocking it and ensuring its security.

The technology company continually develops new tools focused on improving the security and protection of devices, as well as the data stored on these devices.

In this sense, Microsoft is testing a new privacy-focused feature referred to as the Human Presence Sensor, which is based on using a series of sensors that identify whether a user is using the device.

As detailed by Microsoft on the Microsoft Build page, the feature detects whether a user is “present, absent, or not interacting with their device.” Based on this, it allows the device to execute actions such as automatically block itself in order to achieve greater protection, but also greater responsiveness and improved performance.

Thus, when the computer detects that it is “unattended” by the user because it does not identify its presence, it can be automatically blocked to “protect confidential files and other information.”

Another use for this feature is to improve performance with battery life. If your computer freezes every time you no longer sense the user’s presence, you can conserve battery by reducing unnecessary screen idle time.

K. Tovar

Source: dpa

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Apple expands its commitment to privacy through new features that put users in control of their data, such as transparency in app tracking and privacy sheets, as the company announced to coincide with the Day of the Data Protection, which is celebrated on January 28.

Likewise, to raise awareness about the importance of data protection, the American company has created the short film A Day in the Life of an Average Person’s Data, with the collaboration of Nick Mohammed, actor in the Apple TV+ series Ted Lasso, and will offer free workshops in their stores to teach users how to protect their personal information.

This new 30-minute session will be available in Apple Stores around the world and will help Apple users learn more about features such as “Mail Privacy Protection“, “Security Check“, location services and access keys. In it, attendees will learn how to customize these features based on their privacy preferences.

“We created ‘Today at Apple’ to spark our customers’ creativity and help them get the most out of Apple products and their features”, said Tracey Hannelly, Apple’s senior director of Marketing and Business Initiatives, who recalls Apple’s history. as a “privacy leader”.

K. Tovar

Source: El Economista

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Google has introduced a new feature with which it seeks to prevent the uninstallation of applications to free up memory space on the mobile device, instead offering its archiving and thus obtaining up to 60 percent of the space they occupy.

The apps archive is a new feature that frees up space without removing the ‘app’ entirely. Instead, parts of the app are removed and remain on the device until the user needs it and updates it to the latest version.

The technology company promises to free up to 60 percent of the space they occupy on the mobile with this function still in development, as stated in a statement. In its roadmap, Google plans to bring it to consumers “later” this year, but will make it available to developers with the release of Bundletool 1.10.

Google sees advantages in this new approach for both users and developers. “Instead of uninstalling an app, users could ‘archive’ it, temporarily free up space, and quickly and easily reactivate the app. Developers can benefit from fewer uninstalls and substantially less friction to get back to their favorite apps.”

Source: dpa

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The social network TikTok eliminated 81,518,334 publications from its platform between April and June of this year, for violating the rules and terms of the community platform, which represents less than 1 % of all videos uploaded to the social network.

This is clear from the latest TikTok Community Compliance Report, relative to the second quarter of 2021, in which the platform reflects its efforts to fight abusive content and protect its users.

Of the discarded videos, 93 % were identified and deleted within 24 hours of their publication and 94.1 %, before being reported by a user. 87.5 % of the deleted content had no visualization, which is an improvement over the data from the previous period, when it accounted for 81.8 % of the total.

TikTok continues to make progress in proactively detecting hateful, bullying and harassing behavior. 73.3 % of videos with bullying content were deleted before being reported, compared with 66.3 % in the first quarter.

While 72.9 % with hateful behaviors were removed before being reported, compared to 67 % in the last report. This progress is due to improvements in the proactive marking of hate symbols, words and other signs of abuse for review by security teams.

Configuration improvements

TikTok has also hired experts in civil rights, equity and inclusion policy with the goal of improving detection mechanisms. In addition, the social network has announced new functionalities available to users, such as an improvement in the configuration to silence comments and questions during live videos.

Now the host or co-host can temporarily mute a viewer for a few seconds or minutes, or for the entire duration of the live video. If an account is muted for a period of time, all comment history for that person will also be deleted.

TikTok live video creators can now also disable comments or filter potentially damaging comments through a keyword selection tool.

Source: dpa

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The Central Bank of Venezuela (BCV) established between 3% and 4% the commission for withdrawing funds from foreign currency in cash, which will be paid in national currency at the exchange rate of the operation, while the sale of foreign currencies in cash, by the public, will be 5 % of the amount of the operation.

Likewise, the prices for issuing an international debit card were increased, to pay 1,532,074 bolivars. Users will also have to pay 1,870,001 bolivars for the replacement of the card due to theft, loss or misplacement, which is equivalent to an adjustment of the order of 2,197 %. The C2P mobile payment service, used by businesses to make returns, will have a 2 % commission per approved transaction.

The information was released through an official notice issued by the issuing entity and published in Official Gazette No. 6,635 of July 22, 2021.

The Central Bank also announced that rates are maintained at 1 % for foreign currency purchase and sale through electronic means or with the use of foreign accounts of the national financial system.

For the purchase and sale of foreign currency, via electronic order, the commission remains at 4 %. For transfers to American countries, users must pay 21 euros or its equivalent in another currency and for transfers to to Europe and the rest of the world they should pay 30 euros, or its equivalent.

The services of purchase and sale of foreign currency, by the public, in exchange houses maintain the same commissions as the bank, both by order and by electronic transfers.

In the country, foreign currency accounts were used as safekeeping accounts, later foreign currency deposits were authorized at bank offices. Currently, financial institutions have the option of buying and selling on their electronic platforms, in addition to allowing the use of currencies with debit cards.

M. Rodríguez

Source: cronica.uno

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Google made improvements to its assistant that allow it to better understand the user’s context to perform tasks more efficiently, such as setting alarms and timers, improving the naturalness of conversations, and understanding and saying the names in the contact list more accurately.

The user will be able to help the assistant to “say and recognize” the names in his contact list in the same way that he pronounces them without the assistant being left with any recording of those pronunciations.

This process will allow you to better understand the user when they repeat the name, as well as to better pronounce it yourself. The tool will be available in English in the next few days, but Google assures in its blog that they hope to expand the service to other languages ​​”soon.”

Second, the tool now understands the context “more precisely” and understands what the user is trying to do when ordering something thanks to the improvement of its natural language understanding model. State-of-the-art BERT technology allows words to be processed in relation to one another, has made this breakthrough possible.

In this way, there is now “almost 100 %“ accuracy when programming alarms and timers, although the user expresses himself differently when programming them than when canceling them or cutting the phrase in half to modify the hour of the timer, for example.

The company ensures that in the future it will take this feature to other use cases so that the Google Assistant can continue to learn to better understand users. It is currently available in English for smart speaker alarms and timers in the United States only.

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Source: dpa

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