Ankur Harshe

Meet WhatsApp Web, the chat app’s new web client that will allow you to move your smartphone conversations onto the desktop. WhatsApp Web isn't a separate chat app, it just mirrors what’s happening on your smartphone. This means all your messages still live safe and sound on your device, and not stored on your computer. To use WhatsApp Web, you'll need up to date versions of both Google Chrome and WhatsApp. Then, head here, scan the QR code from within the WhatsApp application (there'll be a WhatsApp web option in the menu) and volià, you're up and running. Because the web app only mirrors your phone, your phone will need to be connected to the Internet. Now there'll be no more side-eyeing your phone to see what’s new in your 24 group chats, and you can pretend to be working on a spreadsheet, when you're actually talking about lunch plans. Come on. We all do it. It's a feature that WhatsApp users have been hankering after for years, and for Andro

LONDON: People are becoming emotionally attached to their smartphones, show researchers from Loughborough University and University of Iceland in Reykjavik. The emergence of devices such as the Apple iPhone in January 2007 gave users a computer in their pocket. Now apart from making phone calls and sending text messages, smartphone users have immediate access to the internet, social media and network systems, e-mail accounts, video clips, music files and a vast array of phone-based software apps. "Smartphones are creating a huge ripple in the pond of human behaviour and it is important that, as smartphones develop, we continue to study the way they affect behaviour, emotions and emotional attachments," said Tom Page from Loughborough University Design School. People grow emotionally attached to their smartphone, or at least the connectivity and the technology that the device facilitates, pointed out Tom Page and professor Gasli Thorsteinsson from the Univer

Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have signed an open letter warning that more precautions need to be taken around the further development of artificial intelligence (AI). The letter, which is backed by dozens of other scientists, entrepreneurs and investors, specifically states that there needs to be a greater focus on the safety and social benefits associated with AI. The letter and an attatched research paper from the Future of Life Institute (FLI), which recommends how scientists should develop AI, come amid growing fears that machines are going to surpass the capabilities of humans in both the jobs market and many other areas of life. It argues that scientists and technologists need to safely and carefully coordinate and communicate advancements in AI to ensure it does not grow beyond humanity's control. "Because of the great potential of AI, it is important to research how to reap its benefits while avoiding potential pitfalls," the FLI's letter says. &q