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Brian Acton and Jan Koum developed WhatsApp messenger. Both were both former employees of Yahoo. On 19th Feb 2014, Facebook announced it was acquiring WhatsApp messenger for the US $19 billion. WhatsApp is the most globally popular messaging app having more than 600 million users. So, let’s have a look at what features of WhatsApp make it so popular. Downloads Download Latest WhatsApp Some Amazing WhatsApp Features Let’s check out some WhatsApp features in detail....

Intrigued? You should be. Here’s everything you need to know about the Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones, from release date and pricing to what the new hybrid headphones offer. If you want a detailed breakdown of the experience on offer, take a look at our hands-on impressions of the Dyson Zone. When will the Dyson Zone headphones be released? While the Dyson Zone air-purifying headphones have been announced, we’re still a little while away from release....

The service is designed as an add-on, and is available to all EE fixed home broadband plans for £10 per month for 18 months. The plan also launches with a redesigned Smart Router that its hoped will improve base coverage in the first place. Customers will get one router and one disc when they sign up and can add up to three discs to their plan if their home has more Wi-Fi dead spots....

Update March 2016: EE has announced new features for the EE TV including the ability to manage and set recording while out of the house, like YouView. Furthermore, Recordings To Go allows users to download any Freeview content to mobile devices as soon as it has aired. Downloads will have no expiry date, either. An outspoken black box, the EE TV is available from £4.95 per month when you sign up to EE TV and Home Broadband....

The workers at Arima, Fairphone’s Chinese production partner, received a bonus that is designed to bring their overall monthly wage up to the living wage, which in China is the equivalent of just €260. Given the bonuses were €82 per person, the bonus is significant and will hopefully positively affect the lives of the works at Arima. It also shows how underpaid those workers are. Fairphone paid all of Arima’s factory employees the sum even if they did not work on the production of its latest smartphone, the Fairphone 3....

(Update: Fitbit has now replaced the Ace – read our Fitbit Ace 3 review to find out the new details.) Until now children under 13 were not allowed to have personal Fitbit accounts for – as far as we can ascertain – federal privacy reasons. Now the minimum Fitbit age is 8 years old. It’s not quite the total freedom many have been requesting for younger members of the family, but now parents can more easily (and legally) add their offspring....

Being a smartwatch the Ionic isn’t just built for fitness and health tracking. It also includes smart features such as contactless payments, on-board music and smart. Adidas is set to deliver a Fitbit Ionic special edition in 2018. Read our Which Fitbit is Best roundup, which we will update further when we have had hands-on testing time with the new Ionic. Fitbit Ionic release date and price The Ionic is available for presale for £299....

The FUEL iON Charging Case means iPhone 5/5s users can forget their Lightning cable, and owners of the Samsung Galaxy S4 can ditch the Micro USB cord. The £79.95 FUEL iON case and charge base kit for the iPhone 5/5s or Samsung Galaxy S4/S5 and Note 3 is one solution that saves us from the tyranny of cables, letting you charge without the hassle of constantly plugging and unplugging power cords....

Thanks to technology, however, the gap between desktop and laptop gaming is closing fast. In the current market, there are notebooks capable of playing virtually any title at high resolutions and decent framerates. And although you’ll still have to go the desktop way if you want the best performance that money can buy, it’s hard to ignore the convenience that laptops offer in the form of portability and space efficiency....

Apart from their notable design quality, the products have something else in common: their eye-watering prices. But right now, you can get £100 off the Corrale, bringing the price down to £299.99 from £399.99. It’s still by no means cheap but 25% off is a significant saving. If you’ve been considering buying one, now is the time to go for it. The discount is available on the Corrale in the copper, fuchsia and black nickel colourways....

You can’t buy the 512GB model in Prism Black direct from Samsung any longer but BT is offering £200 off the Galaxy S10‘s regular price of £999 for Cyber Monday. That means it’s the same price as the 128GB model right now, so it’s a no-brainer if you were going to buy that version anyway. We awarded it 4.5 out of 5 in our Galaxy S10 review, calling it “the Goldilocks phone” because it’s a more comfortable size to hold than the S10 Plus, yet has identical triple rear cameras, so you’re not sacrificing anything that matters....

Head over to Realme to sign up for a notification as soon as the phone launches. The X50 5G is Realme’s first 5G phone and first released in China in January this year. Now UK customers can pick up the device for just £299, making it the most affordable 5G phone with top-rated specs of the year. The X50 boasts a 120Hz refresh rate, a 4200mAh battery and 30W fast charging, along with 6GB RAM, 8GB storage and a Snapdragon 765G chipset, which you can find in mid-range phones like the LG Velvet and OnePlus Nord....

It’s also slightly odd because Google already offers a way to do video calls through its Hangouts app. Duo, though, it a new standalone app that only let you video call between two people. So let’s see how it competes with Skype and FaceTime. How to get Google Duo Google Duo is now available in the UK Google Play store and in the UK Apple Appstore and is free. As of 19 August, it’s now available globablly in every country in which you can access Google services....

This is definitely the best news for Chromebook users as it was quite difficult to record the screen on Chrome OS. There are a few apps and screen recorder Chrome extensions. However, most of them didn’t record the screen with audio or microphone input. Therefore, introducing the native screen recorder functionality is definitely a blessing, especially for the students. This native screen recording tool can help students to record their online lectures with audio easily....

The problem? It can cause your video doorbell to notify you of false motion detections and more. Considering most of us have battery-powered video doorbells, cutting down on false detections can really lengthen the time between charge cycles, bringing it closer to the fabled six months of use on a charge. However, the Ring Video Doorbell has an impressive 155-degree field of view that allows it to capture faces both above and below the camera at any given time, even when mounted at a much lower height....

You could also use the same technique for a fireball-thowing mage in a fantasy work, a real-world magician or someone who’s just been very unlucky near a camp fire. Sasso will talk you through honing your use of layers, tweaking the same image several times and layering up the central model. You’ll use layer styles and adjustment layers to build up effects and achieve a subtle, polished finish. Sasso also has plenty of tips on how to seamlessly blend stock photography, using the Warp tool, simple Photoshop effects, and some layer masks....

The thing is, Google Home is designed to be a family device, so it makes no sense for it to focus on just one member of the household. The good news is it is possible for Google Home to recognise up to six different people (and you can set up parental controls and content filters for each member of the family). By adding your personal Google account to an existing setup you can benefit from a personalised music experience – and from the default provider of your choice, which is handy if you prefer Spotify to Google Play Music and Dad disagrees....

Counterfeiting is a huge industry. Factories all over the world turn out clothing and electrical goods that look like the real thing but, critically, are not. Sometimes the same people in the same factories make goods that are genuine, and goods that are counterfeit. You might think having a good fake is worth having, but in almost all cases you would be wrong. Even leaving aside the moral implications of buying fakes, when it comes to tech devices such as smartphones, tablets and laptops, buying a fake is never a great idea....

Don’t panic, though; here, we explain what the Minecraft malware is, how to avoid it and what to do if you’ve got the Minecraft virus. What is the Minecraft Virus? According to Avast data from the past 30 days, there have been nearly 50,000 Minecraft accounts infected with malware that could potentially reformat hard-drives and delete both backup data and system programs. The Powershell script identified by Avast experts is apparently smuggled onto unsuspecting gamers’ computers via Minecraft skins....

This article describes different methods to block your phone number when calling from Android, iPhone or Landphone. How to Block Your Number from Caller ID Editor’s Note: All these tweaks may vary depends on your country and phone service providers. While you make calls, there is a workaround to change your display number or use a virtual number. Just in case, if you do not want to use your phone to make phone calls, you can use your computer to make anonymous calls without revealing your phone number....