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Google is even the noses of the fraud by SMS and calls. Android’s new functions are going to hunt

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Important day for Android and consumer technology. Google has made official some of the changes that will arrive with Android 16. Among them, Material 3 Expressivethe new design language that will land this 2025. In addition to changes in the interface, Google wanted to focus on security and privacy. To do this, it opens a good number of functions that will land in the coming months. Protection against fraudulent SMS. It is more than probable that, in recent months, you have arrived some SMS that promised to be from a telephone company, parcel company or the like. The detection of Scams in Google messages will improve with Android 16and Android will notify in real time of possible fraud. Within the messages itself, the system will notify us when a message is suspicious of fraud: identity supplant, scams related to cryptocurrencies, fraudulent billing … This analysis will be carried out in a 100% local way within the device, so that nothing that comes to us will be processed in the cloud. Also in calls. Google has been doing something very well for years: Filter suspicious spam calls. However, sometimes this is not enough to protect the user. With Android 16, there are certain actions that cannot be made during calls. The objective is to prevent scammers from asking the user to make behaviors that play against them (change security settings, modify some aspects of the system, etc.) during a call. In other words, Android will not only have protection against spam. He will also have it against the SCAM: the various scams that are so on digital roads. Key Verifier. Another of the new tools that lands in the new version of Android is Key Verifier. This is focused on combating fraud due to impersonation of identity, and will allow us to verify the identity of the people with whom we communicate through public encryption keys. Through a QR code it will be possible to verify that the contact is verified in the Google messages app, since its keys must coincide with those assigned. It is a great solution to the popular problem of Sim Swapping, in which they replace our identity by passing through our telephone number. This measure is not linked to Android 16. It will arrive from summer to all devices that have Android 10 or higher. Anti -theft protection. Google premiered interesting Anti -theft functions not too muchand now he wants to take a twist. Safety measures will be reinforced in sections such as the factory reset of a device. It will no longer suffice to know the mobile key, it will also be possible to add an additional layer through a security question. In the same way, this will apply to the remote device block, to minimize the possibility that an attacker can make changes to our mobile if he has had access to any of his keys. Find Hub. Do you remember Find My Device? Well, you can forget him. This Google service evolves to Find Hub, the natural evolution of the app to track our devices. With Find Hub we will have more unified locations not only of objects, but of the contacts that we add to our network, as well as the objects that carry tracking devices such as Tile, Moto Tag and others. Security protection. To finish strengthening system safety, the device protection function arrives. This is a function in which the apps will be informed that it is active, to avoid the temptation to access our information. What exactly do you? While active, anti -theft functions, memory optimizations and applications against possible bugs and errors that can be exploited, network connection protection to avoid insecure websites, and the aforementioned messaging and SCAM options will always be operational. With these fu Image | Google In Xataka | Android anti -theft protection: What is it, what functions it has and how to activate it on your mobile

The best applications to make calls and group video calls

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Let’s tell you the better video call applications for 2025alternatives to the eternal Skype who has died this week. These are apps that you will be able to make video calls for free, and that are the main references of the sector. Instead of making a very long list, we are going to focus on the main alternatives, telling you their own characteristics. We are going to focus on important data such as User limits In group video calls, and in each one we will give you a link. Microsoft Teams This is Skype’s natural substituteand it is the alternative that Microsoft will replace it. In fact, if you log in now with the same account you used in Skype, all your chats, your contacts and your files will be migrated. So just one disappears to maintain the other. Free Teams offers a messaging chat with profiles that you can share with your phone or email. And you also have the possibility of making video call meetings free up to 60 minutesin addition to creating communities to work as a team, being able to share the screen, change the background, record meetings, everything essential. Zoom Zoom broke into the scene of the video calls for years during the pandemic, and remains consolidated as one of the best alternatives to Skype. In addition to a very good video and audio quality, it has support for calls of up to 100 people Free, although there are free plans for 300 or 500. It allows you to share screens with videos or audio, share slides to make presentations or change the background. You can also make dynamic presentations and demonstrations, all on a very optimized platform. There is also a payment version with more advanced functions such as recording screen or transcripts. Google Meet Google also has its own alternative to Skype and Zoom, which allows you to create Meetings of up to 100 participants With Google’s personal accounts. As is evident, if you have a company or teaching account, these limits can be expanded. You will also be able to program these meetings or video calls, and perform or share your Google Drive documents. Free meetings can be up to 60 minutes, you have wallpapers to change, share documents, and a system of reactions. WhatsApp Beyond the most professional solutions, WhatsApp also allows you to make group video calls. Because in the end almost all we have WhatsApp and some group in the app, and in these groups that we already have created there are options to start the calls You can make calls in group chats of Up to 32 people. It is a smaller limit than other applications, but for most cases it should serve, and is completely free. In addition, you will be able to access these video calls from any device, both mobile and computer. Telegram And if WhatsApp allows group calls, Telegram too. These can be up to 30 people in Videpalthough audio are unlimited. In the calls you can share screen or reduce the background noise, and there is support for tablets and calls from the browser. Discord Discord is a platform to create metacomunities, in which you can make different conversation rooms. It is a good free tool for work or leisure communities around specific topics, and has enormous compatibility With other systems, including consoles. This platform allows you to have real -time communications of what you want, and it has Audio or video call chats function. Currently, Discord allows people of up to 25 people on your server. Facetime Apple users have facetimeyour own video call application. Although you can have already enter a facetime call from Android or Windowsit is still a fairly minority option, although it is advisable to remember that it is still there. This alternative allows audio or video calls with Up to 32 participants. To start them you will need to use an Apple device, and then share the link to access from an Android or Windows using the Internet browser. Signal Signal is an alternative to WhatsApp and Telegram Based on privacyand like the other apps also allows individual and group video calling. These video calls are encrypted and with the maximum safety guarantees. To make these calls you first have to make a group chat with the members, and then click on the camera icon. The call opposes up to 50 participantsalthough all of them must have the updated application. You can share screen and talk with these people normally. Jami This is one of the best open source alternatives To make calls among users. It is available in almost all systems, and stands out because calls between users are direct and among them, without using any server where data can be saved. Like all, it has a free version and one for payment companies. They have all the basics, with text messages, video and voice calls, send files, and all the essentials, although perhaps without so many advanced options, although some as silenced participants or hand of raised hands. Talky This is a free web service for those who do not need so much. You do not need to bealar anything, the call is made with the browser, although it has A limit of 15 people In videoconference. You also have options such as collaboration or sharing screen, mobile application, and even put a password to the group call. Wechat Wechat is another popular Asian chats application, and also allows group calls to be made. Less used, but you can do it both from your mobile apps and in your web version. It becomes like WhatsApp or Telegram, with similar functions, including group chats. You also have the option to see people around and use other local functions. As for group video calls, you have A limit of 15 people In each of them. Instagram or Facebook Messenger Both Instagram and Facebook Messenger are option to perform group video call from their applications, with limits … Read more

electric trains, video calls and vacuum robots

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Imagining what the civilization of the future will always be something interesting. In the cinema of the 70s and 80s we saw it a lot, with works such as’ Blade Runner ‘or’Robocop‘imagining a future with Ciborgs and Flying cars. Yes, now we are closer to having Human ‘Improved’ as of the A kind flying cars, But what they didn’t imagine was something like Internet. That is because it is much easier to visualize a future with improved elements of our present or that they solve a problem of the time. For example, if in the 70s they had cars, because in 30 years those cars would be flying. Something similar happened in La France of 1899. The toyr Armand Gervanis commissioned Jean-Marc Côté and other artists a series of illustrated cards for the 1900s World Exhibition of Paris. In them, artists should imagine what life would be like in 2000. It is very curious to see the designs of their creations, the problems of their time they wanted to solve and their mentality. In some designs, they approached reality. In others they did not give abut they are really interesting because they allow us to see the reasoning of the time and, in the end, the known solutions that applied to problems, tasks and the daily life of their time. In some cases it may seem that they were short of sight by not inventing something like the computer and that all designs are intrinsically linked to both the machinery of their time and fashion, but they are still a great sample of Paleofuturo. Mobility and … an electric train The cars in 1899 were more than surpassed. There were motor vehicles for a few years and, although they were not for personal use for the masses, there were … they existed. Mass manufacturing began in 1908 with the assembly chain of Henry Ford and the Ford tbut come on, cars didn’t get so much attention. At least these French artists. What they wanted were both aquatic and aerial buses. Commercial flights were nothing more than a fantasy at that time (The Wright brothers They would not make the first motor flight until 1903 and the flights with passenger planes were unimaginable). What they had more by hand were the airships and the submarines. What did they do? Create a boat with two huge bags to go both by air and by sea and an underwater bus. To go where? We will see it later, since underwater life was something they were passionate about. Also peculiar is the electric train with Paris-Pekín path (there is nothing, only more than 8,000 kilometers in a straight line). Apart from a cabin that looks like that of a rocket, attracts attention that seems not to have wheelsbut an magnetized system like the one we can see in the magnetic levitation maglev. And we can also see personal and electrical skates. It sounds like electric scootersof electric skateboard and even the sandals to walk 250% faster. Text voice system, audio and video call notes Did something like smartphone take off from ingenuity? Well … no, really, but what these French artists had on hand was the phone, the cinematograph of the Lumière brothers Invented a few years before, the phonograph and the gramophone. They were quite recent inventions and were great in these futuristic cards. His combination is also magical. In the designs, we can see how in the first card a person receives a message per roll to listen to him in his gramophone (such as WhatsApp voice notesbut much less snapshots and faces), news heard through the radio (something that was already brewing) on ​​the second card, a man dictating a message to a machine that seems to make text into the third photo and … a video call system in the fourth photo? It seems that the image of a person is being screened on a screen through a projector, the man is listening with the gramophone and is speaking at the same time. It is curious that this process needs an operator that controls machinery. It could not really be intricate, but with the media of the time, imagining something similar to a video call is very striking. Heavy tasks with remote control Two segments that continued to have manual tasks were field and agriculture. Even today, with all the advances we have, they are very physical works, so it is logical that, in 1899 they would imagine futures in which everything was automated. In some cases they were not unchanged, such as that harvester that is controlled at a distance (ours we must handle them from within, but well, it is similar) and something more fanciful is the card that shows an operator inside a cabin controlling a complex robotic system that is raising a house. It is not only the electric crane, but the arms that put the bricks or chisel part of the facade. Something they did not imagine was a GPS -controlled robot cutter Segway Navimowbut something is something. The Roomba, the Robopeluquero and the 3D printer And masons are not the only robots. In these cards we can see other ideas such as robopeluquero, or robobarbero, which really is not something we currently havebut well, there are razor. What is curious is that they invented the Robot vacuum cleaner Century and peak before it existed and popularized with an assistant robot that seems to be plugged in to a remote cable or control that controls the human. It is funny because it has both the brush and the cushion in which the dirt is collecting, but I do not finish seeing that cane as a remote control. And something very ingenious is the machine that takes the measures to make a suit and transfer the information to a machine that expels the garment already made. It is like an early version of a 3D printer. Rare things Now, although all cards are tremendously imaginative, … Read more

Skype had everything to master the video calls. Now Microsoft has just put a death date

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It has been Xda Developers who advanced the news that Microsoft has just confirmed publicly: Skype is going to be closed forever. It will happen in May, when they put the final brush to a story that could be very different and that will now be an inherited inherited by Teams, the company’s right eye for communications. It seemed a long time since Skype’s end was imminent. It was released in 2003 and Bought by Microsoft in 2011 for 8,500 million dollarsfigure that then seemed astronomical. Skype was a before and after. He turned the calls and long -distance video calls into something accessible to anyone with the Internet. It became the metonymy of video calls (“Do we make a skype?”), Something that very few products achieve. But Skype’s story is rather that of a wasted opportunity. He had everything to become a dominant platform: He arrived very soon to the market. He had a great adoption. He had a recognizable brand worldwide. And I had behind Microsoft’s resources. However, bad decisions and a lack of constant innovation allowed rivals such as Facetime, Zoom, Google Meet, Discord or WhatsApp a toast. Seen in retrospect, Skype’s decline was not sudden, but gradual. In 2015 It was integrated in Windows 10but the experience was unnatural. For a long time, Microsoft maintained a strange duality between Skype and Skype for Business. The latter was replaced by Teams in 2019. Meanwhile, others advanced quickly. Zoom catapulted during the confinements of 2020 thanks to the juncture, but also thanks to simplify: he eliminated records of records and downloads. Facetime was completely integrated into the Apple ecosystem. And WhatsApp took advantage of its omnipresence and popularity to offer them as one more service. And meanwhile, Skype was stagnant in a cycle of redesign who never solved his main problems (Sometimes they magnified them): An inconsistent interface, performance problems and a confused user experience. Microsoft is not only killing Skype, it is redirecting its users towards Teamsincreasingly popular. Skype users can use their credentials to access Teams and there they will see their contacts and conversations. During the transition period, users of both platforms can communicate with each other. Then there will only be space for Teams. A bittersweet end. A closure that seems almost merciful. Skype lived in his own confusing identity. It remained as that application that we had installed “just in case” and that we do not remember the last time we used it despite the fact that at the time it played a fundamental role. Being able to see and talk to other people in other countries was revolutionary in the 2000s, Skype leaves A great cultural impact that is now transformed into archeology. As a final gift, a lesson leaves us: it does not matter if a platform is very established, it can become irrelevant if it does not evolve to the compass of the needs of its users. End of an era. Outstanding image | Xataka with Grok 3 In Xataka | Microsoft is very important that the agents of AI are the great ball of the year. And is being reorganized to achieve it

The government wants to end unwanted commercial calls. The question is whether they will stop calling me “of Indeed”

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One of the measures announced by the Government in October 2024 had to do with The end of the annoying commercial calls and telephone scams. The Ministry of Digital and Public Transformation presented A comprehensive plan To combat fraud from SMS and calls, a package that will be approved before the end of February. The norm will strictly prohibit commercial calls with numbers outside the prefixes 800 and 900. The problem? The Spaniards are dealing with another type of spam. One that has to do with the “human resources” departments. A plan against commercial calls. The Ministry for Digital Transformation and Public Function announced, yesterday, Thursday, that the Ministerial Order to combat cybetheafas through false commercial calls will be approved before the end of February. “That is, you will not be able to receive a commercial call from a mobile, that is happening today. We receive from a mobile, we think he is an acquaintance, a relative, we do not know who he is, and then it turns out that it is a commercial call. This will be prohibited by the ministerial order. ” Óscar López, Minister for Digital Transformation and Public Function. Those companies that use numbers outside the prefixes 800 and 900 will face sanctions (still to be determined), and it will be possible to denounce before the Telecommunications User Attention Office to any number that breaches the new standard. Beyond Spanish companies. Similarly, work to try Block calls International that are identified as nationals, as well as those from numbers not assigned to any service, operator or customer. A database will also be launched in order to block text messages with alphanumeric characters (such as, when they send you fake Movistar SMS, mails, DHL, etc.). All messages that do not come from entities registered in the database will be blocked. This last measure is key, and on its success it will depend that the Spaniards are calmer in We call him of Indeed Human Resources. The problem of commercial calls is largely solved, pointing to The Robinson list. It is not infallible, but Organic Law 3/2018 on the protection of personal data prohibits companies from calling you for commercial purposes. Case apart, of course, they decide to skip the law. What, at least in recent months, has not had a solution, is the issue of the so -called “human resources”. It is more than likely that in recent months you have received a call in which a robot invites you to add its number to WhatsApp to know “work conditions.” The problem is so widespread that the own Incibe He published a statement warning about this fraud, recommended to users to block contact and report it as spam. Something that makes us frown at these calls is that they are not made with suspicious numbers, not even Google’s antispam filter can with them. The reason? They use completely real national numbers. How is it possible? ID SPOOFING. This technique is to modify or falsify the call identifier to match a “legitimate” number. It can be done from anywhere in the world so, although I call you a 6xx, the robot that is trying to cheat you does not have to be located in Spain. In fact, the scam is so sophisticated that scammers can adapt their calls so that, even being in another country, you receive a call from a national number (the country you are traveling to) talking in Spanish to offer you great employment conditions. Many of these scammers use voice services about IP (VOIP) to make these calls. This allows them to show a Caller ID (call identifier) ​​from any country, regardless of where they are. And regarding why they have your number, you have nothing more to write on Google “Mass filtration Xataka data”. Have dozens of articles published last year. The question is if it will be enough. The government has not yet detailed how it plans to fight against this type of calls. In the event that they are carried out from other countries, according to their promise, they should be able to intercept them. But if the ID Spoofing is done locally, it will not be easy to detect when a 6xx “real” and a 6xx that is made by another. In Xataka | Be careful with the false rental scam: how it works and why you never have to give the DNI happily Image | Unspash (Lindsey Lamont)

Kylie Jenner Calls Her Shoes ‘Toe F——‘ In Hilarious TikTok

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NEWS Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok Kylie Jenner has a comical name for her shoes. Aug. 30 2024, Published 11:10 am ET Only Kylie Jenner can take any term and make it into a fashion statement — because she’s Kylie Jenner! On Thursday, August 30, the reality star took to TikTok with a video previously saved to her “drafts” on the app, as she did an outfit check in the mirror before a fun night with her pals. Article continues below advertisement Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok The Kylie Cosmetics founder shared a video of her outfit to TikTok on Thursday, August 29. Article continues below advertisement “I’m having friends over and we’re gonna go see Blink Twice,” Jenner began in the clip, referencing Zoe Kravitz new film starring her fiancé, Channing Tatum. The Kylie Cosmetics founder was briefly distracted by her daughter, Stormy6, who she shares with her ex Travis Scottin addition to their son, Air2. Article continues below advertisement Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok In the video, Kylie Jenner mentioned she was going to watch ‘Blink Twice’ with some friends. Article continues below advertisement “Why are you looking at me like that? Stormi’s looking at me,” Jenner quipped while glancing over at her little girl, who was off camera. Resuming her video, Jenner continued, “This is my ‘fit of the night. I put this together in two seconds,” proceeding to show off her “new favorite pants,” which looked like black low-rise trousers, and a questionable pair of ballet flat-styled shoes. Article continues below advertisement Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok Kylie Jenner hilariously referred to her shoes as ‘toe f——.’ Article continues below advertisement “I call these the toe f——,” the 27-year-old — who was dressed in all black — admittedly comedically before giving a close-up of the footwear featuring a split between her big toe and the rest . In the comments section of the post, some fans were cracking up over Jenner’s name for her shoes, with others gushing over how much they loved seeing Blink Twice in theaters. Article continues below advertisement Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok MORE ON: Kylie Jenner Want OK! every day? Sign up here! Article continues below advertisement “No one talking about the toe fkers (sic). ICONIC 😂,” one person pointed out, as another admitted, “the name of the shoe killed me😂✨.” “The shoe name 🤣🤣🤣🤣😭😭😭,” a third fan reacted, while another said: “The toe what😭. Love u.” Article continues below advertisement Never miss a story — sign up for the OK! newsletter to stay up-to-date on the best of what OK! has to offer. It’s gossip too good to wait for! Article continues below advertisement A fifth admirer confessed: “It feels like I’m in her private story 😭.” Jenner’s post comes just a couple days after she uploaded a video of the makeup mogul and her best friend Stassie Karanikolaou jamming out to Sabrina Carpenter‘s new song “Taste” while out for one of their frequently documented car rides. Article continues below advertisement Source: @kyliejenner/TikTok Kylie Jenner and her best friend Stassie Karanikolaou love vlogging their car rides. Article continues below advertisement The fan-favorite BFF duo playfully lip-synced along to the track — which is rumored to be about Carpenter’s love triangle with Shawn Mendes and Camila Cabello. Jenner and Karanikolaou love hanging out together in their luxury vehicles, as they’ve shared multiple vlogs to social media of the pair going through the In-N-Out Burger drive-thru and heading to one of their favorite desert places Crumbl Cookies. Article continues below advertisement Last month, Jenner’s makeup brand even teamed up with Crumbl Cookie to release an exclusive limited edition set of Kylie Cosmetics cookies. The special edition treats were only available for one day at the West Hollywood Crumbl Cookies location, though fans begged for more to be sold across the country.

Selling Sunset’s Amanza Smith Calls Filming Season 9 ‘Already Chaotic’

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Plus, Smith is keeping busy as board advisor for the fashion company FashWire. Explaining FashWire’s unique app, Smith begins: “So, everyone knows dating apps, right? You swipe right if you like something, you swipe left if you don’t. That’s what they’ve integrated into FashWire. It builds on people’s personal preferences With each way you swipe, it gathers data, then it spits out styles that cater to each person’s personal preference.” “FashWire in itself is a platform and it connects fashion to consumers. We have tons of established brands,” she continues, noting fans can insert a photo of Smith in a stylish outfit and the app will show them “very similar pieces” with ” the same colors, the same style and the same vibe.”

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