WhatsApp Launches Group Voice and Video Calling Features

In early May in the annual conference for F8 developers, Facebook announced it will bring new features to WhatsApp in the near future.

Voice calls and video calls, as well as stickers, are included in Facebook's promised updates to WhatsApp users. Unfortunately, the social networking company did not mention the exact time of the launch.

Now, at least two of the promised features are rolling to a number of Android users. AndroidPolice reports that many WhatsApp users are now seeing group call options on their Android devices.

The same feature is also reported to have been rolled into iOS devices recently. But reportedly, the update for the feature is not currently available on iOS devices in Indonesia.

For the record, Android users can only take advantage of the group calling feature with the newest 2.18.162 WhatsApp beta.

However, since not everyone who uses the latest iteration of WhatsApp beta sees the group's call option, it is likely that Facebook will enable this feature via server-side updates.

New Snapchat Lenses Can Respond Sound

The Snapchat app re-releases new lenses among several other attractive lenses that are available to date.

Snapchat lenses now can respond to sounds nearby. Actually, the look of this new lens is not too much different from the previous one.

Reported by Engadget, Tuesday (29/5), the lens makes the user application face decorated with a funny animal mask with a moving ears. There is also a certain light or light that appears when the lens is used.

While the sound that is near the user will be responded with eye movement. The louder the sound, the movement of the eye will change.

Snapchat does not reveal in detail what sounds make the lens react. But it seems, the sound is also affect the lighting or facial movement.

Lenses available in Snapchat app on Android and iOS. Snapchat also plans to launch more lenses that react to sound, in coming weeks.

Data Protection Rules Protect European reader blocking

On May 25 yesterday, the EU officially enacted GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). All companies that hold EU citizens' data are subject to such rules. In the event of leakage or misuse of data without the owner's permission, the company shall pay a penalty.

Beleid is apparently making the manager of news sites based in the United States (US) ketar-ketir. A number of news sites also chose to block European readers so they could not visit the site. US media company, Tronc, decided to block access to the population of Europe rather than dealing with the consequences of GDPR.

Understandably, in case of data leakage or misuse of user data without the permission of the owner of the data, then the company may be fined up to 20 million Euros or four percent of global revenue.

Quoted from Tech Crunch, Tronc now implies blocking European readers on the sites of the Los Angeles Times, The Chicago Tribune, The New York Daily News, The Orlando Sentinel, and The Baltimore Sun. Some media owned by Lee Enterprises also do the same blocking. The two media under Lee Enterprises that European readers can no longer access are The St. Louis Post Dispatch and The Arizona Daily Star.

When Tronc closes readers' access from Europe, at least temporarily, then a different approach is made by other US media. Instead of blocking readers from the Blue Continent, other media in the US provide different site versions for readers in Europe.

Gmail Add a Reminder Feature

The application of Gmail's email service continues to make changes and innovations to make it easy for its users. As is known, Gmail adds a number of new features that help the user's performance, nudges or reminders.

As quoted GSM Arena, Thursday (18/05/2018) this feature helps remind users to reply to old e-mail that has not been replied.

Gmail will show orange-specific notifications next to unresponsed e-mail subjects. As for posts on such notifications, "received three days ago, reply now?" The existence of this new feature is expected to help remind users to reply to an important message that may be missed.

According to Google, this new feature of Gmail is utilizing artificial intelligence technology (artificial intelligence) is expected to help users. "In this way, Gmail will poke users to reply to e-mail that may be missed.Users are also reminded to follow up on e-mails sent," the statement from Google.

Tips Protect the Device from Malware Threats

The development of digital technology requires our lives can not be separated from mobile devices or devices. Not least the Indonesian people are very menggandrungi gawai with the Android platform. The large number of users of this device should be the concern of the public to better realize the importance of the security of Android devices from malware attacks.

Territory Channel Manager of Kaspersky Lab Indonesia Dony Koesmandarin revealed in 2017 as many as 41.14 percent of Android users in Indonesia are exposed to malware. In the first quarter of 2018, Kaspersky detected 8,787 ransomware entering the country.

In the same period as many as 22.01 percent of Android users in Indonesia became the target of mobile malware attacks. "This figure puts Indonesia at number nine as the target of mobile malware," Dony said recently.

Not all Android users know how to avoid malware attacks. Dony provides some tips to reduce the potential for malware exposure on Android devices. First, pe

please note the information listed before downloading the app in the Play Store. "In the Play Store all the applications that bener and not bener it exists, so consider first who the creator," he said.

Instagram Delivers Upload Re-Sharing Feature

Instagram officially released a new feature that allows users to re-share postings of others via Stories. Re-sharing options now provide a new way for users to get the attention of their friends. To be able to re-sharing, the Instagram account must be public instead of private.

If you want to run a public account, but do not want people to re-share your post, choose to disable new features through the Application settings. To share a post feed to Stories, you first tap the paper plane icon, just like when you want to send messages for Direct Messaging (DM).

Next, you'll see new options for creating Stories as well. Tap this to see the feed post appear as a sticker with customized back groud.

In addition, you can also rotate, scale, or move stickers around, and tap on them to explore other styles. You can also add your own comments, scribbles, and decorations on this sticker.

At post, Storie will display the original ponster user name. By tapping, you can go back to the original post, as reported Tech Crunch, Friday (18/09/2018).

Follower Instagram Fake Buying Risk

Fake follower accounts, often created by bots, can increase the number of your Instagram followers. But remember, their presence also carries some hidden risk.

Since it was created in 2010, Instagram has problems with fake followers and the problem is increasing. Although Instagram carries out a cleanup attempt, which leaves millions of accounts deleted, this social media site is still full of fake profiles that could harm your online safety.

Fortunately, most of the fake profiles are easily recognizable, as there are no profile pictures, no photos, and few followers if any. However, not a few are also difficult to identify, especially as bots become more advanced in an attempt to trick social media networks.

Excerpted from the Independent on Sunday (20/5), recently found the buyer's industry and fake followers company, these accounts become more difficult to recognize because they attempt to look legitimate, using personal information from real people without their knowledge. With profiles full of photos, stolen, and fake profiles, this powerful account makes it hard for outsiders, Instagram, and users to see if they're fake.

The problem is aggravated the fact many social media users are really looking for fake followers to increase their online presence, to attract advertisements. Buying it can also be very easy and by using an easy bot made, the company can offer to interested parties thousands of followers or comments.

Whatsapp Launches Latest Group Chat Feature

Whatsapp has finally found a way to help users track group messages with ease. This app launches a catch catch group tool that allows users to quickly reply to group messages.

To do this, tap the new @ button that appears in the bottom right corner of the chat when the user updates the Whatsapp app. The app has also revealed new features that provide more oversight for administrators as well as regular group members.

Now there's a supervision that lets group admins restrict who can change the subject, icon, and group description that can be changed under 'Group Settings'.

In addition, admins may remove admin permissions from other participants. However, the people who created the group can no longer be removed from the group.

"We have also introduced protection so that users can not be repeatedly added to the group they left behind," the company said in a blog post, as quoted by the Daily Mail on Thursday (17/5).

Google "Forced" Android Vendor Diligent Patch

Google provides monthly security updates to patch the security gaps and bugs in the Android operating system. Unfortunately, not all Android manufacturers follow this step.

Going forward, it will change with Google policy changes announced in the Google I / O conference last week in San Francisco, United States.

Android platform security chief David Kleidermacher said Google had changed the terms with a number of Android manufacturer associates to have their devices routinely updated security patches, as Google did.

"This will greatly increase the number of devices and users that receive security patches on a regular basis," Kleidermacher said, as summarized by KompasTekno of XDA Developers, Monday (5/14/2018).

Unfortunately, Kleidermacher did not disclose which Android manufacturer gets the new provisions and will release regular updates from Google.

Android Users Called More Difficult to Pay Credit

In the era of big data, all the things about internet users can be traced through "digital footprint" abandoned in cyberspace, including also related to the financial footprint.

A study by Tobias Berg, associate professor of Frankfurt School of Finance and Management, highlights this by analyzing data on more than 270,000 transactions. The data is collected by a German e-commerce outlet from October 2015 to December 2016. E-commerce concerned sells furniture products on credit.

Buyers can take home goods and pay later on. The data analyzed contains a variety of information, including the type and operating system the device users use when making a purchase. From here it is known that it turns out the iPhone and Android users have a different tendency in terms of credit payments.

IPhone users are more likely to pay the credit until paid off than Android users who have a default ratio (default rate) is higher. I wonder if there is a connection between the default rate with the price of most Android devices are cheaper than the iPhone. Could it mean that iPhone owners are more financially stable?

Google Assistant, Smartest Digital Assistant

For two years in a row, the digital marketing agency Stone Temple discovered, Google Asisstant is the smartest digital assistant on the market. This result was obtained by Stone Temple after asking about 5,000 questions to find out which of the smartest digital assistants and Google came out as winners.

Reported in Digital Trends, Sunday (29/4), this agency asked the same question to Alexa (Amazon), Siri (Apple) and Cortana (Microsoft). Google Assistant provides the most responses and the most accurate responses than others.

Stone Temple also noted, Google Assistant is more accurate on smartphones than on Google Home. To be ranked second is Cortana and followed by Alexa. Unfortunately, for Apple, Siri is in the back position in terms of answers and accuracy.

While the artificial intelligence of Google became the smartest, the digital assistant did not improve from last year's survey. On the other hand, Alexa, has the most significant increase. Alexa's answer increased from 19.8 percent to 53 percent. Although accuracy declined slightly, Alexa's memory better.

Cortana is actually the only digital assistant who has increased in terms of accuracy compared to last year. In previous Stone Temple tests, Cortana received an 86 percent accuracy score. the figure rose to 92.1 percent on the test this year.

Here's How To Make Security Password Not Bobble

Bobolnya data on Twitter to make Internet security provider Norton spoke how to create a security password that is not easy to break.

According to Norton's internet security provider, 'the shorter and less complicated your password is, the faster it can appear with the correct combination of characters.

The longer and more complex your password, the less likely it is that the attacker will use the brute force method, because of the amount of time it takes the program to find out.

'Instead, they use a method called dictionary attack, where the program will rotate a list of predefined common words used in passwords,' wrote Norton as reported by Daily.

As is known, Twitter is now claiming to insist on fixing bugs, and found no indication of violation or abuse of unprotected information.

"We recently found a bug that stores passwords that are opened in the internal log," wrote a Twitter announcement and distributed to millions of users on Thursday afternoon (3/5/2018) when the United States

Instagram Secretly Releases Features of Commercial Payments

Instagram has secretly added new features to improve user convenience while shopping online. Launched from TechCrunch today (4/5), this photo sharing platform now allows registration of debit or credit cards to be entered into a user profile. The registration comes with a security PIN.

As such, online shopping payments can now be made without leaving the Instagram page. Instagram spokeswoman confirmed it had added new features. Users can reserve and pay for restaurant or salon subscription via Instagram account. However, this payment feature is only available to certain partners in the United States and United Kingdom.

One account that already allows online payment via Instagram is a reservation application Resy. Instagram convinces in the future the payment feature will be further developed including to buy cinema tickets. Instagram is not the only social media that glance at the great opportunities of e-commerce. In February, Snapchat first tested direct payments via their platform.

Previously since 2016 Instagram has released a tagging feature that can be used to mark stores or commercial products. In the location feature, the user can enter the name of the product being advertised. When another user clicks on the tagging, it will be directed to the corresponding product account.

Facebook Launches Feature for Single Person

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces new features for those who are single on Facebook. This feature will give the singles opportunity to expand its coverage in the virtual world of Facebook and connect with other people who are also single.

Zuckerberg said more than 200 million people on Facebook's list are single. This new platform will let single people connect with people outside of their friends list.

"This will build a real, long-term relationship, not just for (just) a relationship," Zuckerberg said, quoted by the Independent on Wednesday (2/5). According to him, Facebook has designed this feature by considering privacy and safety from the beginning. Your friends will not see your profile and will only be suggested to people who are not your friends.

Facebook Chief Product Officer Chris Cox explains that feature has been in development for a long time. '' We believe this feature will be the next feature that Facebook will add. We hope with this will be more people to meet, and hopefully find a partner, '' he said.

Video Call and Anti-Bullying So New Features Instagram

Instagram increasingly beautify themselves by displaying various new features. Launched from Tech Radar, Wednesday (2/5), one of the changes made to this photo sharing platform is video calling, Augmented Reality (AR) filters and new designs on the Explores page.

The anti-bullying feature in the comments section has also been applied. Social media released in October 2010 will open the possibility to integrate itself into more applications through stories, such as Spotify and GoPro.

The addition of Spotify will allow users to share playlists, songs or albums with other users either through stories or Instagram direct messages. GoPro integration is also simple, users only need to select a clip in GoPro app and share it to stories. Previously, they could edit the video they wanted to share.

To take advantage of such integration features, users do not need to link Instagram accounts to Spotify or GoPro apps. Users can share locally on devices via the Instagram app.

With AR Studio from Facebook, Instagram builds custom filters for its own platform. Not only for the front camera, the filter also applies to the rear camera. Means, Instagram users can apply face filters for swafoto and world effects on other photos.

This AR filter is already used by a number of influencers such as Ariana Grande and Vogue. Users can directly try it from the story and add it to the camera.

Facebook Releases Button 'Dislike'

Facebook finally decided to create a button 'dislike' or do not like in the application. The existence of this new button will be right next to the 'like' or like button.

Although will be presented button 'dislike', the existence of this feature does not match the expectations of many people. This button serves as a downvote, marked with an arrow, not something more disapproved like a reverse thumb.

In addition, this new feature is only available in New Zealand and Australia. Users of other countries can not feel this feature until an unspecified time.

The introduction of the two countries appears to be a test run before scrolling on Facebook more broadly. This feature is expected to be felt by more people in the future.

Facebook said the button was to respond to rude or disrespectful comments. With the 'dislike' button, the link will not be promoted to the top of the discussion.