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The Facebook-owned messaging app WhatsApp is working on a new feature that will allow its users to hide their 'Last Seen', which shows the time you were last active, to select few contacts. As of now, users can share their last seen status with everyone, their contacts or hide it from everyone. According to WABetaInfo, the new privacy feature will also let users hide their About Me and profile picture from selected contacts with an option of 'My Contacts Except', the feature which is currently available only for WhatsApp Status. WhatsApp had first introduced the 'My Contacts Except' option in its privacy setting for its Status feature back in 2017 which was designed to allow users hide their status updates from select few contacts. This comes as first big move in the privacy settings option on WhatsApp since then. This new feature will be available in the new update roll out. This will give users more options and flexibility to choose between contacts. So far, the instant messaging app has been running on old features that it had first introduced.  » Read More

Iconic Melbourne venue Section 8, along with prominent  music collectives Crown Ruler and The Operatives have teamed up for SECTION AID, an initiative supporting Melbourne musicians and hospitality workers.  Together, Section 8, Crown Ruler and the Operatives have spent almost two decades uniting a diverse cohort of  artists, musicians and performers across Melbourne’s independent music community. The goal of the initiative is to provide urgent, practical support to local musicians, hospitality workers and artists affected by the current COVID-19 crisis. What you need to know SECTION AID has a jamming lineup this Saturday September 11 The Melbourne venue and music collectives are giving awesome support to music and hospo workers The digital festival will be held on Twitch from 12pm to 12am Stay up to date with what’s happening in Melbourne here. With tours cancelled, bars closed and many expat workers ineligible for current government support, the future looks uncertain for musicians and hospitality workers keeping the heart of our city alive long after the lights go off. Over twelve hours next Saturday the 11th of September, SECTION AID will be hosting a live Twitch steam on their website, from midday through ’til midnight. The Operatives, Crown Ruler + Section 8 have…

The news: Facebook-owned WhatsApp was fined $270 million for breaking the European Union’s data privacy rules, per The Verge. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) found that WhatsApp failed to properly inform EU citizens how it handles their personal data, particularly how it shares that data with parent company Facebook. The DPC ordered WhatsApp to update its privacy policy informing users about personal data sharing. This will bring it into compliance with Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which governs how tech companies gather and use data in the EU. The GDPR came into effect in May 2018, and WhatsApp was one of the first companies hit with a privacy lawsuit under the regulatory regime. WhatsApp will appeal the decision. “We disagree with the decision today regarding the transparency we provided to people in 2018 and the penalties are entirely disproportionate,” a WhatsApp spokesperson told The Verge.  How we got here: WhatsApp’s porous privacy policy and how it shares user data with Facebook have raised the ire of regulators in various countries—and its run-ins with the EU on GDPR privacy breaches expose a consistent trend of flouting privacy regulations to sustain Facebook’s wider monetization objectives. WhatsApp sued the Indian government in…

Breanna Gray was a regular, healthy teen before contracting Covid-19. She died of the disease two weeks later.A US mum has spoken of her deep regret over not insisting her family get vaccinated after her 19-year-old daughter died of Covid.Texan teen Breanna Gray spent two weeks in hospital before her symptoms worsened on the morning of August 19. Just a few hours later, she was dead. The 19-year-old shared her fear on Snapchat after being transferred to the intensive care unit at the hospital, Fox News reported.In one photo shared from her hospital bed, she encouraged her friends to not “take Covid for a joke” because “it real”. In another, she asked friends to pray for her.“I have long road of recovery. Idk when I’ll be ab to even leave ICU so keep praying for me please,” she wrote. Ms Gray was intubated and wearing an oxygen mask in the latter Snapchat, and her face appeared exhausted.Her whole household contracted the virus, with Ms Gray testing positive on July 31 and being admitted to hospital a week later. Her mum Tabitha told Fox News her daughter had no underlying health conditions and was perfectly healthy before…

WhatsApp allows you to easily back up all your chats to Google Drive. In order to use Google Drive backup, you will need a Google account activated on your phone as well as Google Play services installed on your phone. You also get the option to change your Google account, but if you do that you will lose access to any backups that you saved in the previous account. Here’s a quick guide on how you can back up your WhatsApp chats to Google Drive and restore them. WhatsApp: How to back up chats to Google Drive Step 1: Open WhatsApp on your Android smartphone and head to the settings section. Step 2: Now tap on Chats > Chat backup > Back up to Google Drive. Step 3: Select a backup frequency other than Never. Alternatively, you can also choose to manually back up your chats to Google Drive at any time. Step 4: Once you choose a backup frequency, select the Google account you would want to back up your chat history to. If you don’t have a Google account connected, you can tap on Add account when prompted and enter your login credentials. Step 5: You now need…

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Iman Vellani, who is set to star as Kamala Khan in the Disney+ series Ms. Marvel, shares a homemade video showing her love of Iron Man. Ms. Marvel star Iman Vellani has proven her Iron Man fandom in a homemade video. A video uploaded to Vimeo sees Vellani start her day surrounded by Marvel paraphernalia, scored by Billy Joel's "I Don't Want to Be Alone." She wakes up beneath an Invincible Iron Man poster, puts on a pair of Captain Marvel socks and sits down to, among other things, read a copy of an Avengers trae paperback and use her laptop with its large Iron Man decal. She then imagines a black-and-white stop motion sequence starring action figures, in which Iron Man meets Kamala Khan, calls her his "favourite Marvel" and dances with her. The description of the video reads "Rdj if u see this ily." Vellani was cast in Ms. Marvel in September of last year. She'll play the lead role of Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager from Jersey City who gets to live her superhero dream when she becomes the Magnificent Ms. Marvel. Vellani recognizes the significance of playing the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first Muslim superhero, saying, "The fact that the show is being made and…

As Twitch becomes increasingly popular, so too do the streamers who broadcast themselves. Online personalities like Amouranth, HasanAbi, and Ludwig continue to garner attention and coverage from mainstream media - a feat that would have been unheard of a decade ago. A lot of the coverage of Twitch has been negative, however, and Internet fame has in many cases proven to be harmful for both creators and fans. A prime example of this is regarding Twitch streamer CallMeCarson, whose grooming controversy has been the subject of ongoing discussion. Carson King, better known as CallMeCarson, is a 22-year-old content creator from Indiana. He joined YouTube and began making videos as early as 2011 before creating his main account on May 10, 2012. At its peak, his YouTube channel had over three million subscribers, but he's more recently gained widespread attention after allegations of grooming underage fans were levied against him. Now, as Carson returns to streaming and makes plans for the upcoming year, many have begun to reexamine the controversy that surrounds him. What Made CallMeCarson Popular CallMeCarson's popularity exploded around the end of 2019. It was then that an image of Carson crying (taken from a Minecraft stream in June)…

When Americans were all winding down from their second Saturday, Weibo—China’s version of Twitter—suspended at least 21 fan accounts for K-pop bands like BTS and Blackpink. In a statement that felt like the rules change ceremony in Wife Swap, the platform said it scrubbed the accounts to curb “irrational star-chasing behavior.”The purge began Sunday, when Weibo banned a BTS fan club with 1.1 million followers from posting for 60 days after it crowdsourced a birthday gift for Jimin (the cutest BTS member, keep up).According to Weibo, collecting donations to customize an airplane for your fav vocalist contributes to the “chaos of fan clubs” that China wants to quell. Later that day, Weibo said it would ban a number of other celebrity accounts in an effort to “purify” its platform. It cited a government notice from last Thursday about banning “vulgar internet celebrities” and feminine-looking men on TV. Big picture: China’s entertainment industry has recently had to confront spikes in online censorship as the government cracks down on internet culture, which it considers unhealthy. Just last week, China limited online video game playing to three hours a week for kids under 18. – MM

Greenlee County Courthouse By Jon Johnson jonjohnsonnews@gmail.com CLIFTON – A Clifton man is facing a possible prison term after allegedly admitting to having a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl.  Erik Bryan Rios, 23, has been charged by the Greenlee County Attorney’s Office with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor under the age of 15. The situation was initially brought to the attention of authorities after the victim’s parents caught her sneaking out of the house and she reportedly admitted to the relationship after being interrogated by her father.  Investigators performed their due diligence in attempting to get evidence to back up the claim and located a locked folder in a Snapchat application on the victim’s phone. The victim gave the password to the police, who then discovered pics and a video.    The Snapchat video shows the victim and Rios in bed at a hotel in Thatcher in October 2020 in which Rios shows off hickeys on his chest while cuddling with the victim. The victim is shown clothed only in a bra and Rios is shirtless while a sheet covers their lower bodies.  When questioned about the video, the victim advised that she and Rios went…