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WhatsApp today released a new update for the WhatsApp Beta app on Windows Phone. The update introduces some minor user interface changes to the app, making it a bit more modern. As you can see, the latest update makes the pivot UI on the app more like the pivot style on MDL2 (the Windows 10 UI) rather than the original MDL guidelines. However, even after the update, the pivot style still isn’t similar to how the Windows 10 UI is supposed to look. WhatsApp has been making a number of improvements to the app UI over the past several months, giving it a more modern look inspired by Windows 10’s design, but the company still has a long way to go. Whether WhatsApp will make a Universal Windows Platform (UWP) app remains to be seen, the company clearly doesn’t want to leave out their Windows Phone 8.1 customers (which is the majority of Windows Phone users) but they are missing out on some new opportunities by not making the jump to the Universal Windows Platform. If WhatsApp decides

Apple removed The New York Times' apps from its app store in China after a government request,  The Times revealed on Wednesday . The Times isn't alone when it comes to government bans. According to this chart by  Statista ,  based on data from Freedom House , some of the most popular social media and communication apps, like Facebook and WhatsApp, are blocked in multiple countries. WhatsApp is banned by the most number of countries, at 12, while Facebook drew the highest number of user arrests across 27 countries. Freedom House writes these apps are targeted in part due to national security concerns and as a way to protect local telecommunication companies.

Whether you’re looking for a whole-home audio solution, or just to play a song for friends, AmpMe is a must-download app available for both  iOS  and  Android . What is it?       AmpMe is a an application capable of syncing multiple smart devices, or Bluetooth speakers, to a single audio source. Rather than gathering your group around a single device and hoping each can hear it, you can now transmit the sound to each of their phones, perfectly in sync with the original. The fun doesn’t stop with smartphones. If you’ve ever wanted whole-house audio but scoffed at the idea of an expensive speaker setup capable of doing the job — AmpMe has you covered there too. Now, you can use your smartphone as a receiver while you transmit audio to each Bluetooth speaker in your house — an in perfect harmony with the original sound source. In a brief demo there was no noticeable lag, even when syncing audio in airspace as crowded as that of   CES . To use it, you just o

Smartphone lifespans are going up and this has two dramatic effects. First, users often skip a generation before upgrading. Second, buying a year old smartphone at a reduced price is increasingly appealing. Consequently for Apple iPhone 6 owners the iPhone 6S could prove as tempting as the iPhone 7. So what are their differences? Let’s break them down… The iPhone 7 (left) and iPhone 6 (right) show how little the iPhone has changed externally in three generations. Image credit: Apple COVER STORY Forbes 400: Immigrants Most Popular New Posts Comment Now on iPhone 7 Vs iPhone 6S Vs iPhone 6: What's The Difference? Please log in or sign up to comment. Enter Your Comment POST COMMENT Commenting Guidelines + FOLLOW THE CONVERSATION Trending Now Tech #IPhoneVsGalaxyJAN 5, 2017 @ 07:50 AM53,282 VIEWS iPhone 7 Vs iPhone 6S Vs iPhone 6: What's The Difference? Gordon Kelly , CONTRIBUTOR I write about technology's biggest companies Smartphone lifespans are going up and th

Though we’ve always assumed certain crafts will forever remain immune to automation, it seems nowadays nobody is safe from the looming artificial intelligence invasion. While a few years back the prospect of robots snatching jobs from humans might have seemed like a hackneyed plot twist from a cheap science fiction flick, this scenario actually turned into reality for the staff of Japanese insurance firm Fukoku Mutual Life.The BBC reports the company has made an executive decision to lay off more than 30 employees and replace them with an artificial intelligence system that can calculate insurance payouts. With this move, Fukoku Mutual estimates it will increase productivity by an impressive 30 percent. To give you some more context, the firm additionally expects to save approximately in $1.2 million (or 140 million yen) in expenses by swapping out its human workers with AI. The newly implemented system will be powered by IBM’s mighty supercomputer Watson, according to Japanese n

Now free for all, there's no excuse to fall for the latest WhatsApp hoax. Now free for all, there's no excuse to fall for any of the numerous WhatsApp charging hoaxes. But now there's a new, more serious threat as a WhatsApp scam looks to install malware that can steal your personal information. Here are some of the WhatsApp scams you should delete and forget.How to avoid WhatsApp viruses, scams and hoaxes. WhatsApp malware threatens to steal personal information The most recent WhatsApp scam to come to our attention hopes to trick the user into opening a legitimate-looking Word, Excel or PDF document attached to a WhatsApp message that will actually download malware to their device that can steal their personal information. All reports so far originate from India, and apparently use the names of the NDA (National Defence Academy) and NIA (National Investigation Agency) in an attempt to get users to open them, but it won't take much for the scam to make its way to

In the past few years, products at CES have increasingly focused on putting the Internet in everything, no matter how "dumb" the device in question is by nature. It's how we've ended up with stuff like  this smart hairbrush , this  smart air freshener , these  smart ceiling fans , or  this $100 pet food bowl  that can order things from Amazon. Now that phenomenon is reaching its logical endpoint: during the company's CES press conference today, LG marketing VP David VanderWaal says that "starting this year" all of LG's home appliances will feature "advanced Wi-Fi connectivity." One of the flagship appliances that will make good on this promise is  the Smart Instaview Refrigerator , a webOS-powered Internet-connected fridge that among other things supports integration with Amazon's Alexa service. Alexa isn't an inherently bad fit for a refrigerator, which like the Amazon Echo itself can just sit in the corner of your kitchen await