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Close WhatsApp to share data with Facebook Drag WhatsApp just aounced that it updated its terms and conditions to permit the company to opt-in all one billion of its users to share information with Facebook. Facebook will take that information to find friends and also target ads better. WhatsApp is also working on ways for b...

Your airline will soon be able to tell you when your flight is delayed via WhatsApp. WhatsApp WhatsApp users, get ready for messages from companies looking for your business.That's the upshot from Thursday's update to WhatsApp's terms and conditions. The company outlined in a blog post the kind of interactions it wants to enable, including being notified by your bank about a potentially fraudulent transaction or being waed about a delayed flight. These are things we might currently be informed about by a text message or phone call. WhatsApp hopes to enable these notifications too, all while keeping spam and th...

Close Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detention Drag Smuggled phones and a wall of silence: Reporting on Australian detentionThis is part of our Road Trip 2016 summer series "Life, Disrupted," about how technology is helping with the global refugee crisis -- if at all.I was in the kitchen at my ...

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Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

Traces of deleted WhatsApp chats can linger on an iPhone, says security researcher Jonathan Zdziarski. Photothek/Getty Images If you're a WhatsApp user with an iPhone, your chats might not be as secure as you think.Despite the popular messaging app's aouncement earlier this year that it would encrypt all user data, a security researcher said Friday that the latest version of WhatsApp for Apple's iOS software for iPhones leaves some information vulnerable. The researcher, Jonathan Zdziarski, found traces of deleted chats, which can be pieced together into conversations, he said, and that's even if you've clea...

The Transportation Security Administration in the US has eaed a pretty bad rap for spending gobs of money on a simple app, getting mad at teenagers and gawking at naked passengers. Somebody in the social media department, however, has a sense of humor. The TSA shared a post on Instagram Tuesday about how it's A-OK to bring a mummified head on board your next flight.The TSA runs an AskTSA service through Twitter and Facebook Messenger that lets travelers inquire about what they can take on a plane and what needs to stay home. Someone sent in this rather odd request: "wondering if it's OK to bring this mummified head of Jeremy Bentham as a carry-on item. Thanks!"The TSA responded with "Jeremy ...

It's official: Ghost Rider is coming to ABC's "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D." this fall. No, not Nic Cage (I mean Johy Blaze), but a more recent incaation: Roberto "Robbie" Reyes, who drives a muscle car instead of a motorcycle. Gabriel Luna of "True Detective" will play Reyes. In the comics, Reyes is a teenager resurrected by the Spirit of Eli Morrow and transformed into Ghost Rider -- he made his first appearance in "All-New Ghost Rider #1" in May 2014.The panel aouncement also came with a brief teaser of the fiery chain-wielding cast member. In other news, it sounds like Daisy (Chloe Beett) might get a new love interest next season -- wait, is Reyes the right a...

Got an HTC Vive headset? You can become a Jedi in the Star Wars universe for free this Monday.Star Wars: Trials on Tatooine, a lightsaber virtual-reality experiment we checked out in March, is coming to the Steam VR platform as a free download, said ILMxLab, Lucasfilm's immersive-entertainment division.During a panel discussion Saturday at Star Wars Celebration Europe, ILMxLab also said it's working on a future Star Wars VR experience that will focus on everyone's favorite Dark Lord of the Sith, Darth Vade...

WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum Albert Gea/Reuters/Corbis A Brazilian judge has frozen 19.5 million reais ($6.07 million, £2.2 million, $4 million AU) in Facebook funds after the social networking company repeatedly ignored federal orders to release WhatsApp messages related to a drug investigation. The messages could contain evidence linking a cocaine smuggling ring in Brazil to local cohorts in Bolivia, Paraguay and Spain, according to a Reuters report Thursday.Brazilian police have repeatedly asked WhatsApp for the messages, Reuters said. After determining non-compliance, a judge blocked parent company Facebook from...

Enlarge ImageTime to use your Jedi powers. Tom Spina Designs When you're hanging upside down in the cave of a bloodthirsty wampa, what you really want is a nice hot cup of coffee and good table to set it on. Tom Spina Designs built a detailed wampa-cave coffee table for just such an eventuality. It replicates the look of the creature's lair from "The Empire Strikes Back" and features Luke Skywalker's lightsaber stuck into the snow. The lightsaber is removable in case you need to actually battle a wampa.The coffee table is made from hand-carved foam with a glass top. Tom Spina Designs is known for its custom-c...