WhatsApp backtracks on limiting functionality for users who refuse privacy policy

The WhatsApp privacy policy saga continues as once again, the Facebook-owned messaging app has been “forced” to backtrack on their earlier statement. The new policy started rolling out last May 15 and originally, WhatsApp said that they will keep reminding users to accept the changes and if they don’t, eventually their account will be non-functional … Read more

Man, 20, recovering from Covid after losing 80% lung functionality

A recovering Covid-19 patient who called his family from intensive care to say goodbye after 80 per cent of his lungs stopped functioning has told how he was so weak he couldn’t even tell them he loved them.  Jay Clack, 20, from Cambridgeshire, has asthma, an underlying condition known to exacerbate Covid-19. He contracted the … Read more

Samsung phones with Android 10 get ‘Offline Search’ functionality

Samsung Find My Mobile app designed to help users locate their devices even when not connected to the internet has just received a big update. Reportedly, the Offline Search feature to find the phone when it’s not synced to a mobile or Wi-Fi network has just been extended to all Samsung phones running Android 10. … Read more

Scientists develop a prosthetic hand that is able to restore over 90 per cent of functionality

A prosthetic hand that can grip and move like a normal hand could restore over 90 per cent of functionality to people with upper-limb amputations, developers claim.   A team of orthopedists, industrial designers and patients worked with scientists from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia, Italy, on the artificial hand named Hannes. The limb was designed … Read more