WhatsApp implemented the screen lock option for its Web beta version, with which it intends to facilitate the protection of user conversations, limiting their access through a password.

The instant messaging platform continues to introduce features focused on security and privacy to improve the user experience. In this case, it is a function that is already available in the version of the app for smartphones since May and that tries to limit access to the platform’s chats.

Now, WhatsApp also added to its beta version of the app on the Web the screen lock system, with which, in order to access the chats, the user must enter a password.

In this sense, when activating the screen lock function, access to the conversations is blocked by an interface in which you are asked to enter the correct password. Once entered, the user can navigate through the different chats.

In addition, according to the same means, the user can also configure when the screen lock password must be requested, defining a time interval. Another feature of this feature is that when it is enabled, push notifications do not appear on the screen.

If you forget the configured password, simply log out of WhatsApp Web and log in again, repeating the QR code scanning process.

Source: dpa

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Twitter launched a new feature that will allow its users to chronologically pin direct messages to the top of their inbox. It allows them to keep important conversations from one chat to a particular chat and generating a frenzy among users.

The new feature will make it easier to keep your conversations in order. However, it only allows you to pin six messages, a quite acceptable number for the frequent user.

Anchoring Twitter messages in operating systems

The new function of the instant messaging social network will be available for Android and iOS operating systems, and users from the web will also be able to pin some chats to the top. Although the operation will be different for each application.

• For the web. When you need to use the function from the web, it is necessary to “click on messages”, once in the section, the user will select the important conversations and then move the “cursor over it until the three dots appear in the upper right corner”, clicking on those three points and select the option “pin conversation”.
• iOS and Android. It is necessary to go to the messages and touch the letter-shaped icon in the lower right corner. Then it is necessary to slide the messages to the right to see the pin icon or simply press for a few seconds the conversation and “select the option to pin a message.”

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Source: tekcrispy.com

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Donald Trump, former president of the United States, announced his project to launch his own social network called Truth Social, which is available for him to reserve in the Apple application store.

The social network is scheduled to begin its beta launch for guests next November 2021, according to information provided through a press release.

In the trade they also point out that the Truth Social company will be a counterpart to other social networks that are in the market and will make it “face the tyranny of large technology companies.”

According to what was expressed in the statement by former President Trump: “We live in a world in which the Taliban have a large presence on Twitter, but their favorite American president has been silenced. This is unacceptable.”

Trump Media & Technology Group (TMTG) will be the owners of the platform and they also plan to develop a personalized video service, which will have “no-woke entertainment programs,” said company representatives in the statement.

For the first quarter of 2022, the owners of Truth Social plan to develop a network deployment throughout the United States. But at the moment they are inviting all those interested in joining the network to visit the platform’s website and sign up to be included in the guest list.

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Source: El Sumario

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Telegram has introduced native payments in the messaging application through credit card with third-party providers such as Stripe, along with new web versions of the service that do not need installation.

Support for payments has been active in Telegram since 2017 through bots. The latest update to the application introduces native support for payments through merchant-customer chats, as the company reports on its blog.

For payments, Telegram has integrated the services of eight external providers, such as Stripe or Payme. There is also the option for buyers to add a tip. They are available in both the mobile and web version.

Voice chats also have news. Administrators can schedule one of these chats for a specific day and time, which will display a countdown at the top of the chat.

Mini-profiles have also been introduced, allowing you to enter a photo and a biography that other voice chat users can refer to in order to find out who else is participating.

Source: dpa

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The Firefox browser has introduced network and cache partitions to the network, a feature aimed at protecting users from connection-based tracking, capable of disabling supercookies.

The partitions represent a “fundamental change” in the network architecture of the browser, and allow to isolate the network connections and cache with the webs, normally used to load shared elements more quickly, since in this way tracking is prevented of users, even through supercookies.

As explained from Mozilla, crawlers can abuse caches to create supercookies, which replace normal cookies to store user identifiers, but are more difficult to delete and block.

The changes introduced in Firefox 85 are focused on reducing the presence of supercookies through the network and cache partitions, since they “make them useless for monitoring between sites”, Mozilla points out on its official blog.

Firefox 85 also introduces pooled connection partitions, prefetch, speculative, and TLS session identifiers, to protect users from connection-based tracking.

Source: dpa

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Microsoft is working on a new Outlook client that will replace the current ones for Windows and Mac computers, based on the web and with native integration into the operating system.

Under the codename Monarch, the company is working on its project of An Outlook that the company already presented in September, that is, a single client that replaces the current applications, as reported in Windows Central.

This new client will be distributed as a single product, for both Windows and Mac, and will be based on web technologies. It will also include Mail and Calendar in Windows 10.

According to the aforementioned medium, Microsoft wants this new client to feel as native as possible in the operating system, with support for functions such as offline storage or notifications.

The company will begin rolling out the preview version of this new client later this year, replacing Mail and Calendar on Windows in 2022.

Source: dpa

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