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WhatsApp tops 2 billion users worldwide
WhatsApp tops 2 billion users worldwide
Messaging app WhatsApp has hit 2 billion users, the company said in a blog post Wednesday.
The app, which is owned by Facebook, is end-to-end encrypted. It was founded in 2009 and bought by Facebook in 2014.
"We know that the more we connect, the more we have to protect," the post said. "As we conduct more of our lives online, protecting our conversations is more important than eve."
Facebook has been grappling with how to monetize the service and aims to bring ads to its Status feature.
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Forget Siri and Add Alexa on Your iPhone Home Screen Instead
Forget Siri and Add Alexa on Your iPhone Home Screen Instead
This story is part of Home Tips, CNET's collection of practical advice for getting the most out of your home, inside and out.
You already know you can give Alexa commands on your Echo devices, but did you know that you can also talk to Alexa on your iPhone? Think of it as taking all of the great features of Alexa, but to-go.
Siri is fine (and Apple added a couple updates for its virtual assistant in iOS 15.4), but if you would rather conversewith Amazon's trusty voice assistant, you can just add the iOS Alexa app widget to your iPhone or iPad home screen. Once you set it up, one tap brings up the assistant you'd prefer to talk to.
It's no big secret -- nearly every smart home device on the planet works with Alexa -- but for Siri and HomeKit, your options are more limited. Not to mention, Siri sometimes gets choked up and stops responding to basic requests (at least, it does on my iPhone). I've all but given up on Siri, and you may have as well.
Alexa, on the other hand, is nearly always available, accurate and downright friendly. And Amazon's voice assistant even has a different name and voice option. If you love having Alexa set timers and reminders, turn on lights and answer questions when you're at home, wait'll you start talking to Alexa on your iPhone when you're out and about.
I'll explain shortly how to set up the Alexa iOS widget and use it to take Siri's place on your iPhone or iPad. But first, a word of caution.
Read also: The Real Cost of Setting Up an Amazon Alexa Smart Home
Siri is fine and all, but wouldn't you rather talk to Alexa?
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Alexa can't totally replace Siri, but it doesn't really matter
There are some functions only Siri can perform: changing your iPhone's screen brightness, turning on do not disturb, etc. Basically, anything that changes the settings on your iPhone or iPad itself is off-limits for a third-party assistant like Alexa.
However, there's a lot more that Alexa can do and Siri can't -- especially if you've not paid any attention to whether a smart home device you bought is HomeKit compatible. My house is positively littered with smart plugs and video doorbell cameras and all sorts of devices Siri can't talk to -- but Alexa can.
In the end, it doesn't matter, since you're not replacing Siri with Alexa. In fact, if you've already got the Alexa app (and you probably do), you're not even adding Alexa to your iPhone -- it's right there in the app. All adding an Alexa widget to your home screen does, really, is put Alexa just one short tap away -- but that's enough to make adding the Alexa widget to your iOS home screen worthwhile.
Read also: Best Cheap Alexa Devices
Alexa can't change settings on your iPhone itself, but Amazon's voice assistant can do just about everything else.
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Add the Alexa widget to your iPhone home screen
Now that I've told you why adding Alexa to your iPhone is beneficial, here are the steps you need to follow to add the Alexa widget to your home screen. It will only take you a few minutes and a few taps since you really only have to create the widget and then move it where you want it on your home screen.
You can either leave the Alexa widget off to the side with the others or move it directly onto your iPhone home screen.
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1. On your iPhone or iPad swipe left to right past the first page of your home screen.
2. Press and hold one of the widgets until a menu pops up. Tap Edit Home Screen.
3. Tap the + icon in the upper left corner.
4. Scroll until you see Amazon Alexa or type Alexa in the search box, then tap Amazon Alexa.
5. Tap Add Widget at the bottom of the screen (there's only one option for size).
That's the first part. If you're happy with the location of the Alexa widget, tap Done in the upper right corner and you're finished. If not, while the widgets are still wiggling, tap and hold the Alexa widget until it "picks up," then drag it out onto your home screen and drop it where you want it to live, then tap Done.
A word of warning before you begin: While widgets have been neat tools since their debut with iOS 14 in 2020, they can be finicky if you aren't used to using them. A new widget can make a mess of the arrangement of your home screen if you're not careful with how you move them around.
And there you have it. Just select the Alexa widget and begin to command away.
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WWE brings new tag team wrestling show to Facebook Watch
WWE brings new tag team wrestling show to Facebook Watch
Three years ago, the World Wrestling Entertainment took all of its monthly pay-per-view events and put them on its own streaming service, the WWE Network. Now, the company is flirting with another type of streaming.
WWE announced "Mixed Match Challenge" on Wednesday, a 12-episode show that'll stream on Facebook Watch, Facebook's go at an original-content broadcaster to take on Netflix and YouTube Red.
The show, which will launch on Jan. 16, will see 12 grapplers from each of the company's brands, Raw and SmackDown, compete against each other in a tag-team tournament. The winning team wins $100,000, which will be donated to a charity of their choice. The mixed-gender matches will include some of WWE's biggest stars, including Braun Strowman, Charlotte Flair and Finn Balor.
"Mixed Match Challenge" could be a testing of the waters for the company, whose television contract for Raw and SmackDown with the USA Network is up in 2019.
"We believe WWE is being significantly underpaid in its current Raw/SmackDown deal," media analyst Brendan Ross wrote in a BITG report back in June, according to Decider. USA is estimated to pay WWE $140 million per year for 260 hours of television, while Ross estimated a deal with Facebook, or competitors like Twitter and Amazon, could be worth around $400 million.
It wouldn't be the first time Facebook offered big bucks, as in September it made a $610 million offer for the rights to stream the Indian Premier League's cricket matches for five years, though it was outbid by 21st Century Fox's Star India. Meanwhile, in April the NFL struck a $50 million deal with Amazon to stream 10 "Thursday Night Football" games. The trend of sports officially streaming on social media continued in July, when the NBA inked a deal to air pregame shows on Twitter.
Paid subscriber levels for the WWE Network have levelled out in the last year, making broadcast fees, its other main key revenue generator, even more essential.
"The whole key is to get the price up, because that contract is the key to future growth," said the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer, who has reported on the company for 30 years. "Live events are stagnant and the Network's increases are very small year-over-year, so to improve numbers and profits it's all about television rights fees continuing to increase."
We'll see in 2019 if the best way to increase that fee is by turning "television rights" into "streaming rights."
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iPad Pro update: Apple's tablet gets an M1 chip, 5G and Liquid Retina XDR display in 2021
iPad Pro update: Apple's tablet gets an M1 chip, 5G and Liquid Retina XDR display in 2021
Apple has finally announced the upgrade to its iPad Pro that we've all been waiting for, as part of its 2021 Spring Forward on Tuesday. The iPad Pro has been due for a processor refresh, as well as some more advanced camera and screen technology, and now Apple has delivered -- primarily with the addition of its homegrown M1 chip.
Last year, Apple's 2020 iPad Pro refresh saw little that excited us in the way of design improvements and new additions -- a small processor bump and a depth-sensing lidar sensor aside. That means we've had our hopes pinned on 2021 as the year the iPad Pro gets a more significant overhaul.
"iPad is a magical sheet of glass that can become anything you want it to be," said iPad product marketing manager Raja Bose while introducing the upgraded tablet during Apple's event.
The new iPad Pro will be available in two different sizes: 12.9 inches and 11 inches. The devices will come with up to 16GB of memory and up to 2TB of storage. The 12.9-inch model price begins at $1,099 (£999, AU$1,649), with the 11-inch model starting at $799 (£749, AU$1,199). Preorders will open on April 30, and Apple expects devices to start shipping in the second half of May.
Key among the 2021 upgrades is the addition of Apple's M1 chip, first announced last November and "by far the highest performance" processor the company has ever created. The addition of the eight-core chip to the iPad Pro could mean a huge speed boost and better battery performance, with Apple promising a 50% performance improvement over the previous version.
The existing iPad Pro with its A12Z processor offers a zippy experience as is. But more speed is always appreciated, and will hopefully mean the iPad becomes even more of a multitasking monster and can also offer true second monitor support. The M1 chip will also bring a boost in graphics performance, which is over 1,500 times better than the first-generation iPad, according to Apple.
The 2021 iPad Pro is also the first Apple tablet to offer 5G connectivity. With 5G rollouts speeding up around the globe, users who rely on high-speed connectivity on the go will likely appreciate the option to take advantage of the fastest data speeds available.
Another first for iPads (and tablets everywhere) is the introduction of a high-speed Thunderbolt port on the iPad Pro. Until now, Thunderbolt has only been available on Macs and Windows PCs. It uses the same connector as USB-C, but allows for expanded and higher-speed external storage, improved monitor connection and more advanced docks.
As part of the iPad Pro's screen overhaul, Apple is introducing a Liquid Retina XDR display to its top 12.9-inch tablet. With 5.59 million pixels, this technology is the same as the tech that can be seen on Apple's top-end XDR pro display. It offers brilliant brightness peaking at 1,600 nits, along with a wider-than-ever spectrum of color and extreme high contrast.
Perhaps in recognition of the fact that we're all spending a lot of time on Zoom calls these days, Apple has moved its forward-facing camera from a portrait position on the top of the iPad Pro down to the landscape position on the side. The TrueDepth, 12-megapixel, wide-angle camera should still enable you to unlock your device with Face ID no matter what rotation you're using it in. A new "center stage" feature means that if you're on a video call, the iPad will pan to keep you in the center of the camera's field of vision even if you're moving around the room. If other people join you in the room, it will also zoom out to ensure everyone appears on screen.
The new M1-powered iPad Pro will work with Apple's Magic Keyboard, which now comes in a new white color. From next week iOS 14.5 will be available for all iPads, including the new iPad Pro when it's available, which will offer expanded language support for Apple Pencil and support for the latest games controllers.
As was to be expected due to current circumstances, Apple's spring event on Tuesday was fully virtual. Though Apple hasn't been able to lean on its typical stage format due to the pandemic, it has been able to replicate much of the slick presentation through livestreaming videos instead.
We're also only weeks away now from the second all-virtual WWDC, Apple's annual developer conference, where we're sure to learn about software updates coming to the new iPad Pros, along with other iPad models, later this year. So for all that we got with the new iPad lineup, there's sure to be more to come soon.
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'Shazam: Fury of the Gods' Trailer: First Glimpse at Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu as Villains
'Shazam: Fury of the Gods' Trailer: First Glimpse at Helen Mirren, Lucy Liu as Villains
We now know what's ahead for the superpowered family introduced in 2019's surprise hit Shazam. A new trailer for sequel Shazam: Fury of the Gods was unveiled at San Diego Comic-Con during Saturday's Warner Bros. panel.
The movie is set to hit theaters on Dec. 21. You can watch the trailer below.
Fury of the Gods will see the return of some familiar faces, including Zachary Levi as Shazam, Asher Angel as his youthful alter-ego, Billy Batson, and Jack Dylan Grazer as Freddy Freeman. Helen Mirren and Lucy Liu will play, respectively, Hespera and Kalypso, villainous daughters of the Greek god Atlas.
West Side Story breakout star Rachel Zegler will portray a third sister. Her character appeared in a slightly meta clip shown at the convention on Saturday, according to DiscussingFilm. She reportedly asks Billy how the Shazam family met, prompting him to respond "Comic-Con!" Unfortunately, she doesn't know what Comic-Con is.
Levi wouldn't reveal if his character will encounter Black Adam, who's acted as a villain to Shazam in the comics and is getting his own movie on Oct. 21 (and also got a new trailer on Saturday), or Superman, who had a cameo role in the first movie.
The sequel comes from Shazam director David F. Sandberg and screenwriter Henry Gayden.
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Huawei phones can no longer preinstall Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp
Huawei phones can no longer preinstall Facebook, Instagram or WhatsApp
Facebook has slapped Huawei with yet another ban by no longer letting the embattled Chinese phone marker preinstall its apps.
Huawei phone owners will still be able to download and update Facebook's apps, but fresh Huawei devices can't come with Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram apps preinstalled, as previously reported by Reuters.
"We are reviewing the Commerce Department's final rule and the more recently issued temporary general license and taking steps to ensure compliance," a Facebook spokesperson said in an emailed statement confirming the move.
In May, President Donald Trump signed an executive order effectively banning Huawei from US communications networks, because of national security concerns about Huawei's close relationship with the Chinese government. Soon afterward, Google cut Huawei off from future Android updates, before temporarily resuming work.
The US is also urging its allies not to do business with Huawei. The company has consistently denied that its products are used for spying, and its chairman said this week that Huawei is willing to sign a "no-spy agreement" with the US.
Huawei didn't immediately respond to a request for comment.
First published at 1:44 a.m. PT. Updated at 3:10 a.m. PT: Adds Facebook statement.
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Snapchat's Time Machine AR lens creepily shows what you'll look like old
Snapchat's Time Machine AR lens creepily shows what you'll look like old
So far this year, we've been introduced to popular photo filters like Snapchat'sgender-swapping filter and the FaceApp challenge that makes you look super young or gives you wrinkles you're not ready to see. Now Snapchat has come out with Time Machine, a new filter that lets you swipe left and right to watch yourself age from a child to an adult, and finally to an older and grayer version of yourself.
Unlike the FaceApp challenge I tried, I don't see as many wrinkles as I "age" with this new Snapchat filter -- but I did get white hair, a wider face and saggy skin (ugh!). Somewhere in the middle of the aging timeline seems to be the best look for me.
Snapchat released the new filter earlier this week, so if you don't see it yet, you may need to update the app. Here's how to use it.
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1. Open the Snapchat app on your phone.
2. The camera screen should be the first to open, but if not, tap the bottom circle to launch the camera.
3. Select the smiley face icon.
4. Make sure the camera is facing you by tapping the rectangular arrows in the top right corner.
5. Multiple filters will appear, but the Time Machine filter will be one of the first options, so select that one. It's purple has a baby face and an older face in the icon.
6. Use the slider at the bottom of the screen to change the appearance of your age.
7. You can either snap one picture or you can record yourself as you go through an entire life cycle.
Now you can send your age timeline to all of your friends and family (and see if you'll look more like Mom or Dad in the future). You can also save your photo or video by pressing the arrow in the lower-left corner to save it to your photo album. Then you can upload it to Facebook or Instagram.
Want more filters to try out on yourself? Check out how to do the gender-face-swap and how to do the FaceApp challenge to make yourself look older.
