WhatsApp for Android Said to Be Testing a Feature That Lets Users Reserve Their Usernames

WhatsApp may soon allow you to reserve usernames, as per a feature tracker. The feature is currently said to be in development for its Android app and is not yet available to beta testers. Since features are gradually rolled out, reserving usernames will help users pick out their preferred usernames and reduce the risk of them being taken by others. This feature is said to be a step towards the introduction of usernames on WhatsApp.

Samsung Galaxy A07, Galaxy F07, and Galaxy M07 4G Launched in India: Price, Specifications

Samsung Galaxy A07, Galaxy F07, and Galaxy M07 4G have been launched in India. The new Samsung handsets have an identical set of features and specifications, with the only differentiators between them being the colourways and price. The Galaxy A07, Galaxy F07, and Galaxy M07 will be sold via different retail channels in the country. The handsets are equipped with a 6.7-inch HD LCD screen, MediaTek Helio G99 chipset, 50-megapixel rear camera, and a 5,000mAh battery.

How to live a good life in difficult times: Yuval Noah Harari, Rory Stewart and Maria Ressa in conversation

From superintelligent AI to the climate and democracy, three leading thinkers discuss how to navigate the future

What happens when an internationally bestselling historian, a Nobel peace prize-winning journalist and a former politician get together to discuss the state of the world, and where we’re heading? Yuval Noah Harari is an Israeli medieval and military historian best known for his panoramic surveys of human history, including Sapiens, Homo Deus and, most recently, Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. Maria Ressa, joint winner of the Nobel peace prize, is a Filipino and American journalist who co-founded the news website Rappler. And Rory Stewart is a British academic and former Conservative MP, writer and co-host of The Rest Is Politics podcast. Their conversation ranged over the rise of AI, the crisis in democracy and the prospect of a Trump-Putin wedding, but began by considering a question central to all of their work: how to live a good life in an increasingly fragmented and fragile world?

YNH People have been arguing about this for thousands of years. The main contribution of modern liberalism and democracy was to try to agree to disagree; that different people can have very different concepts of what a good life is, and they can still live together in the same society, agreeing on some very basic rules of conduct. And the challenge was always that people who think they have the absolute answer to what is a good life try to impose it on others, partly because, unfortunately for many ideologies, an inherent part of the good life is attempting to make everybody live it. And even more unfortunately, in many cases, it seems that it is easier to impose it on others than to do it ourselves. If we take the original crusade in medieval Christian Europe, you have all these people who can’t live a Christian life of modesty and compassion and love your neighbour, but they are able to travel thousands of kilometres to kill people and try to force them to live according to these principles. And what we are witnessing in the world right now is more of the same.

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