Under the talaq process, the husband says ‘talaq’ in Arabic which means ‘I divorce you’ to his wife, three times. Some require a waiting period between the utterance of each talaq to allow time for the couple to try and reconcile while others allow for all three talaqs to be said at once. A college student in Kerala in India received a triple talaq over WhatsApp from her husband who had gone to Dubai a few weeks after their wedding....

The WhatsApp Payments feature that will let users in India to send and receive money from their friends from the messaging app itself. The messaging platform will integrate its peer-to-peer UPI or Unified Payments Interface based digital payments platform with leading banks, including State Bank of India, ICICI Bank, HDFC Bank, and Axis Bank. However, users who are registered as merchants on the chat app or have a WhatsApp Business account will still not be able to use this feature....

WhatsApp has decided to make these changes to curb fake news and rumor mongering on social media. In fact, fake messages circulating on WhatsApp about child abductors have triggered mass beatings this year of more than a dozen people in India, some of whom have died. In the latest attack, a software engineer in Bidar, Karnataka who was mistaken for a child lifter was killed by a mob and three others were seriously injured due to the rumors that were spread on the social media, including WhatsApp....

The Galaxy Note 7 is the latest in a series of lithium-ion batteries catching fire on products ranging from laptops to hoverboards to airliners. This incident just serves as a reminder that pushing the technology cover can sometimes be difficult. Here are some things to know about the recall and why batteries can be a fire hazard. How do these batteries work and why do they catch fire? A lithium-ion battery is a type of rechargeable battery in which lithium ions move from the negative electrode – the anode – to the positive electrode – the cathode – during discharge and back when charging....

Many of you may have had this question in mind! You get the data connection on your smartphones through your mobile service providers and on your Wi-Fi routers through your local Internet Service Provider commonly known as the ISP. But who provides them with the huge gigs of Internet so that they can give part of it to you for monthly fees. First of all, you should know that the internet isn’t a thing, a place or a service as you might think....

As software designers have known for decades, any cognitive task that is repetitive, and algorithmic can be replicated in a computer. The elegance in software and what often makes-or-breaks it in the real word is in the human-computer interface. This discipline involves efficiently offloading repetitive tasks to the computer, and efficiently interpreting the results. As J.C.R. Licklider explained in his groundbreaking 1960 essay Man-Computer Symbiosis, the more seamless this translation task can become, the more likely it is computers will be able to aid us in our cognitive tasks and extend our decision-making capacities....

With the upcoming launch of the newest Wi-Fi standard, 802.11ax next year, Wi-Fi Alliance will adapt its certification program with the new naming. 802.11ax will be rebranded as “Wi-Fi 6”. Similarly, the earlier versions of the wireless data protocol too would be renamed. “For nearly two decades, Wi-Fi users have had to sort through technical naming conventions to determine if their devices support the latest Wi-Fi,” said Edgar Figueroa, president and CEO of Wi-Fi Alliance....

The Start Menu with 3D Live Tiles were leaked when screenshots became public today. According to reports the Live Tiles are being tested by Microsoft engineers and would be deployed in the next technical preview build. Right now Microsoft is testing Windows 10 Build 10061 in beta and reports indicate that the forthcoming Windows 10 build 10102 comes with what seem to be 3D live tiles that are based on a brand new animation coming into effect when launching the Start menu....

Making the announcement through its Windows Release Health Status page, Microsoft said that all eligible Windows 10 users meeting minimum hardware requirements can now download Windows 11 and install it via Windows Update. Thankfully, Windows 11 is not a forced upgrade in Windows Update but an optional upgrade for users using Windows 10 (released in 2015), which means you can continue using Windows 10, if you wish. Windows 10 will be actively supported through 2025....

Sadly soon after the discontinuation of Windows 7, a new bug has emerged that prevents users from shutting down or rebooting their computers. When a Windows 7 user attempts to shut down or restart their PC, a popup message that reads “You don’t have permission to shut down this computer” emerges. As of now, Microsoft hasn’t released any fixes for this problem. However, Windows 7 users have been scratching their heads to find solutions and workarounds to fix this issue....

Now you can recover deleted files on your Android smartphone with Wondershare Dr.Fone for AndroidSupport for various Data Type & File FormatsSupport for almost all brands of Android smartphones and tabletsUser-friendly and Minimal System Requirement That’s where Wondershare Dr. Fone for Android comes into picture. It handles Android data recovery by clockwork precision. This is undoubtedly a great choice for anyone looking for a dependable file rescue solution for Android smartphone and devices....

The IBM Simon arrived as a ‘personal communicator’. The term ‘smartphone’ did not arrive on the scene until 1995. It was only within a year after the launch, that the term smartphone appeared more widely, and it was retrospectively applied to the device. Although it’s been 21 years since its launch, Simon is still instantly recognized by people today, even though its size and weight would make it inappropriate for modern pockets....

Here are five programming languages which are very difficult to learn and could give seasoned coders headachesBrainfuckCOWINTERCALWhitespaceChef We all started programming by writing codes in programming languages such as Java, C, C++ etc. Our peers and seniors used a little bit more difficult languages like Pascal, Fortran, COBOL etc. Compared to C++ or Java, you will wholeheartedly agree that Pascal and Fortran posed serious challenges to your brain and caused you to pull the hair off your head....

“The next step for us is mouse [and] keyboard…This is platform-level support, so it has nothing to do with us. Obviously, mouse and keyboard works for our sim. So the platform team is working on this. I know I can’t give a date because it’s the platform team. I don’t know their dates, but it’s coming.” Now, Microsoft on Tuesday has officially announced that keyboard and mouse support will be coming to Xbox Cloud Gaming (xCloud) users on PC in the near future....

The teaser of the Chinese company’s new robot vacuum cleaner was released by Xiaomi through its Mi India social media accounts. Key features:– 2-in-1 sweeping + mopping ?– Smart App control ?– LDS Laser Navigation System ? A special discount of ?7,000No cost EMI starting ?2,999 p/mPrice – ?17,999 Check out – https://t.co/mUC5N6hTrA pic.twitter.com/akUFq2jJfJ — Mi India (@XiaomiIndia) April 17, 2020 The Mi Robot Vacuum Mop-P comes with two in one feature, which means it can both sweep and mop at the same time....

Ever since WhatsApp announced end-to-end encryption of chats, every WA user thinks that their private chats are safe from snooping but it is not so. There exists a secret security backdoor in WhatsApp encryption that can be used by Facebook and others to intercept and read all encrypted messages. The top secret WhatsApp backdoor was discovered by Tobias Boelter, a cryptography and security researcher at the University of California, Berkeley....

If you belong to the generation that was born somewhere in the 1970s, you would have played Road Rash at least once. The iconic and cult classic DOS-based game which some fans love to play even today is going to make a comeback. I remember those days when we went to someplace that had a computer and the first thing we would search for was the Road Rash game. The addictive game could keep games engaged for hours....

To effortlessly migrate music content, Google has released a new Transfer Tool on the YouTube Music app that allows users to transfer content such as uploads, purchases, playlists, stations, added songs and albums, likes, dislikes, and taste preferences over to the new service. According to Google, users will continue to have access to both Google Play Music and YouTube Music. The search giant claims that Google Play Music users can now easily transition their account over to YouTube Music with just one click....

Operation AURORAGOLD : National Security Agency (NSA) tapped into cellphone networks worldwideGSMA targeted through spyingWireless Portfolio Management Office The report says that NSA received a confidential message to hack into Libya’s cellphone networks and monitor text messages. Acting upon the message NSA reportedly hacked into the Libyan cellphone networks and provided the western allies with blueprint for the future military intervention. This proves that Auroragold was operational that time and The Intercept says that Libya is not an isolated case....

The upgraded edition of The Witcher 3, also known as the Complete Edition, will release as a standalone purchase. However, it will available as a free upgrade for anyone who owns the game’s previous-generation version on PC, Xbox One, and PlayStation 4. Further, the DLC’s are not exclusive to the upcoming version and will be available for every version of the game, including PS4, Xbox One, and Switch. “For this upgrade, we collaborated with Netflix for some free DLC to add to the game,” said CDPR lead quest designer Philipp Weber during the segment....