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Have you ever wanted to know what Google knows about you? Google has an ideal data collection platform for those who use it. These include search, location, device, usage data, message data, email, voice search, YouTube history, and most recently ad interaction data.

To find out what data Google has on you follow these steps: Sign in to Gmail or Google, then go to the top right, then select “Applications” -> “Account”. From there, find “Privacy & Personalization,” then “Manage your data and privacy.” There you find “Ad Settings” and then “Ad Personalization”. Here you’ll see everything Google knows about your searches, Gmail data, and YouTube history.

Similarly, you can also see if location history tracking is enabled (“Account” -> “Manage your data and privacy” -> “Location history”), as well as disable the tracking of your online activities (“Account” -> “Manage your data and privacy” -> “Web and app activity”).

Meanwhile, Google is planning to relaunch in the coming weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it stopped after inaccuracies in some historical depictions. Alphabet’s Google began offering image generation through its Gemini AI models earlier this month.

Some users stated on social media that they generated historical images which were sometimes inaccurate. “We’ve removed the feature while we fix it. We hope to bring it back online very soon in the next two weeks, or a few weeks,” Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said in a panel at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Despite the fact that more than 40 iPhone models (with all their variants) have been released since 2007, most people are unaware of some hidden features of Apple smartphones that can transform their user experience.

Back Tap, a “secret button” on the back of the device.

“You’re using your iPhone the wrong way if you’re not using Back Tap,” tech connoisseur @ellyawesometech argued in a TikTok video that went viral.

It uses the “secret button” to instantly identify a song in Shazam without opening the app.

How to enable Back Tap on an iPhone

To enable Back Tap, you need an iPhone with iOS 14 or higher (we’re on iOS 17.3 right now).

-Go to Settings > Accessibility > Touch, and press Back Tap.

-If you scroll to the bottom of the list, you will see the Back Tap option. Choose it.

• Then you have two options – Double Tap or Triple Tap. Tapping on each opens a list of shortcuts you can assign to them.

From volume up and down to screenshots, camera activation, zoom, Shazam and more. There are more than 30 options.

-You can now activate the functions of your choice with a double or triple tap of your finger on the back of the device.

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One of the most popular messaging apps, WhatsApp, is introducing major changes.

Although new features are constantly being added to this app, this is a major innovation – perhaps the biggest yet.

That is, WhatsApp will soon become “open” to third-party applications as well.

This means that you will be able to communicate directly from WhatsApp with people who use Viber, Signal or another similar application.

Meta, the company behind this application, decided to use this feature because of the new law that will be implemented in the European Union, reports noa.al.

WhatsApp, belongs to the group of main applications, so it is subject to the strictest rules that it must respect.

There is no set date for this feature yet, except that it is known to be coming soon.

What is known now is that messages from other applications will not appear like others, but in a separate inbox.

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The global disruption of Facebook and Instagram services has brought two humorous situations to the network.

Although the outage for WhatsApp and Threads was less than an hour, the system logged 200 incident reports on the Downdetector platform, which tracks outages by collecting status reports from several sources, including users.

Several of Meta’s own employees said on the anonymous messaging app Blind that they were unable to access their internal work systems, prompting them to question whether they had been fired, according to posts verified by Reuters.

The outage was among the main topics of discussion on X, formerly Twitter, with the platform’s owner, Elon Musk.

He hit Meta with a post that said, “If you’re reading this post, it’s because our servers are working.”

Meanwhile, X itself has faced some disruptions to its service following Musk’s $44 billion purchase of the social media platform.

In October 2022, the network suffered an outage, also in December causing problems for more than 77,000 users in countries from the US to France.

Problems faced by thousands of users around the world on Meta, Facebook, Instagram and Messenger platforms have started to be resolved. After an hour passed and social network users were unable to access their accounts, they slowly began to resolve these issues.

About 500,000 Facebook users had reported problems logging in or accessing the site as of mid-morning Eastern time on Tuesday, according to outage tracker Downdetector.About 50,000 reports of outages had been issued for Instagram and another 10,000 for Facebook Messenger, although the number of reports had started to drop within an hour of them starting.

Some users found that they had been logged out of their Facebook accounts. Others received notifications on Instagram that “something went wrong” and their posts or actions could not be loaded.

In advance, the possibility of a hacking attack is excluded.

Facebook and Messenger seem to be back to normal while Instagram still has issues with the homepage not refreshing properly to display content. Threads is also not fixed.

“We are aware that people have problems accessing our services. We’re working on it right now,” Meta spokesperson Andy Stone said earlier in a post on the X social network.

As the social networks of the company META had problems with access, the opponent of Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire Elon Musk, has used this to make irony.

He has made a post on his “X” platform, as he ironically writes: “if you are reading this post, it is because our servers are working”.

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