Global messaging service WhatsApp says it will start sharing the phone numbers of its users with Facebook, its parent company. That means WhatsApp users could soon start seeing more targeted ads and Facebook friend suggestions on Facebook based on WhatsApp information—although not on the messaging service itself. The move is a subtle but significant shift for WhatsApp, used by more than 1 billion people around the world. When it was acquired by Facebook for an eye-popping $21.8 billion two years ago, executives promised privacy would be safeguarded. "This is a strong-arm tactic on the part of Facebook," said Jeff Chester, executive director of the Center for Digital Democracy in Washington, D.C. "They continue on a campaign on to run roughshod on our privacy rights." WhatsApp is giving users a limited time to opt out of sharing their information with Facebook, although they must take the extra step of unchecking a box to do so. It also says Facebook won't post phone numbers online or give them out to anyone. But the giant social network has been looking for ways to make money from WhatsApp since it bought the service two years ago. At the same time, Facebook has pledged not to interfere with a longstanding promise by WhatsApp's co-founders to respect users' privacy and keep ads off its messaging platform. WhatsApp on Thursday offered a glimpse of its plans for turning on the money spigot, releasing new documents that describe the company's privacy policy and the terms of service that users must agree to follow. The documents are the first revision of those policies since 2012, before Facebook acquired WhatsApp. One change follows through on previous hints by WhatsApp executives, who have said they're exploring ways for businesses to communicate with customers on WhatsApp. That could include using WhatsApp to provide receipts, confirm a reservation or update the status of a delivery. Companies could also send marketing offers or messages about sales to individual customers, according to the new documents, which note that users will be able to control or block such messages. WhatsApp says it will continue to bar traditional display ads from its service. "We do not want you to have a spammy experience," the company tells users in a summary of the new policies. Another change is potentially more controversial: WhatsApp says it will begin "coordinating" accounts with Facebook by sharing WhatsApp users' mobile phone numbers and device information, such as the type of operating system and other smartphone characteristics. The company says Facebook will employ the phone number internally to better identify WhatsApp users on Facebook, so it can make friend suggestions or show targeted advertising.

How to Delete Messages or Chats or Calls Permanently on WhatsAPP You can delete individual messages, conversations, groups, or your entire chat history by following these steps. Deleted messages are permanently deleted from your phone. Read this article for information on backing up chats that you wish to save. To delete one or more messages from a conversation 1- Open WhatsApp and go to the chat window with the message you want to delete. 2- Tap and hold on the message. 3- Optionally, tap on more messages to select multiple messages. 4- Tap on the trash can icon on top of the chat screen

Cadillac will get a new flagship that won't be a four-door sedan, and the brand has a new small car in the works, possibly to compete with the BMW 2 series and the front-wheel-drive Mercedes-Benz CLA. The revelations came in an unusual way: a lengthy retort online by Cadillac President Johan de Nysschen to an Internet report describing an alleged product squeeze at the General Motors luxury brand. De Nysschen also noted that new powertrains are coming, including "new energy" units, which could mean hybrid, electric or fuel cell vehicles. The Cadillac leader did not discuss timing for the new products. He wrote his response after the Aug. 18 debut of the Escala five-door luxury concept car during Monterey Car Week in California prompted an automotive website, The Detroit Bureau, to post a report about the brand's shrinking future product plans.

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Attention, legendary Pokemon creatures: You may soon be expelled from the schools of France. The education minister, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said Monday that the makers of the po[CENSORED]r "Pokemon Go" smartphone game should stop beaming their most avidly hunted Pokemon figures into real-life schools. She has told a Paris news conference that she intends to meet representatives of California-based Niantic Inc. to explain that the game entices non-students to wander into children's schools. She sees the quest for rare, or "legendary," characters as posing the greatest security risk of unwanted walk-ins by strangers. France remains in an official state of emergency following November attacks in Paris and last month's Nice truck massacre. She says principals already can apply online for Niantic to remove their school from the game's global map.

George Carter III, the Dallas inventor who brought the world laser tag 32 years ago, wants to bring the still-po[CENSORED]r game into the 21st century. The 71-year-old entrepreneur has developed an app that allows combatants to play virtual shoot-em-up anytime, anywhere using iPhones and earbuds as the gun, map, scoring system and communication tool. "You don't need to go to a paintball or laser tag center," said Carter, founder of Tactical Entertainment. "You can quickly gather a group of friends through social media and play. We're also going to find ways for meet-ups to happen." Carter has named his laser-tag sequel Tzuum - pronounced zoom - as a tribute to Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese general, philosopher and author of "The Art of War." "We're trying to make this game very tactical and strategic," Carter said. "He's the guy universally known for that." Krasamo, an app-development company based in the Dallas area, has been working on the project for two years. These days, it's churning out slightly modified versions twice a week. With each adaptation, Carter and a small band of field testers have endured 100 degree temps to suggest further refinements. Beta testing was, as of press time, slated to begin soon. —- The idea stems from a military project that Carter has been working on for eight years. He has three U.S. patents for systems that create live simulation training for soldiers using common digital camera optics mounted on actual combat rifles that shoot blanks. Smart devices and computers keep score. When the military proved slow on the draw to buy his innovations, Carter switched his focus to a platform for games two years ago. He's used his military patents as stepping stones for a fourth patent and one that's pending that protect key aspects of the game. He's kicked in his those two patents and $100,000 to get Tzuum up and running. "I'm all in on this one," he said. So are friends and friends of friends, who have invested more than $700,000 thus far. Among those is Fred Mullins, who previously directed the U.S. Army's procurement of live-training simulation equipment before he retired as a colonel in 2010. "When I was on active duty, I was looking for someone like George who had a better system," said Mullins, who became a backer of Carter's military application after learning about it in 2013. "The military still uses a laser-based system that is 1970s technology and was first fielded to the Army in the early 1980s."

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Blackie Gejeian, who was a major part of the California hot rod, show car and drag racing scene from its very inception, died Sept. 2 at the age of 90. Gejeian grew up on his family’s farm outside of Fresno, Calif. and learned to drive fast by powersliding on the dirt roads between the farmland and orchards his family owned. He enlisted in the Navy during WWII and when the war was over and he sailed back home, like so many of his generation, he built a hot rod. It was a 1926 flathead Ford-powered racer and he took it to the dry lakes and the drags and everywhere in between. An accident at the lakes resulted in a ten-year rebuild that saw one of the first chromed undercarriages in hot rod history. While the chrome glistened below, the rest of the car was black. “Everything on it was nothin’ but black,” he once told us. And that’s when they started calling him Blackie. Gejeian was at the very first Grand National Roadster Show when it was held in Oakland in 1949, and has been to every single one of them since. He first showed the roadster and its magnificent undercarriage there in 1953. Every hour on the hour he and three friends each picked up a corner of the car and tipped it fully up on its side to show off the chrome beneath. As a result, it got the nickname Shish-Kebab. He kept working on the car and finally won the title America’s Most Beautiful Roadster, top honors at that show, in 1955. He spent the rest of his life deeply involved in the burgeoning hot rod and custom car scene throughout California. In 1958 he launched the Fresno Autorama, a show so exclusive that the only way you could get a car in it was if Blackie himself invited you. He ran Autorama for 51 years before health issues forced him to close it down. Gejeian had also been the promotor for race tracks in Clovis, Madera and Raisin City for many years in the 1960s and ‘70s. He was recently honored with a bust of his likeness at the Fresno County Historical Museum, and with a Lifetime Acheivement Award by Galpin Auto Sports. He was a prolific and tireless trumpeter of his friends, and would often speak at length, quite a length, of his love for them, as witnessed most recently when he spoke at this year’s Grand National Roadster Show in January, and then as the funeral of fellow icon and great friend George Barris. God speed, Blackie; keep the shiny side down.

If Japanese collector cars in the U.S. have a mascot, it is the venerable Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser. The classic 40 Series trucks were one of the most po[CENSORED]r exports for the automaker worldwide; they enjoyed strong sales on our side of the Pacific as well, with Toyota shipping the 4x4 to the United States through the early 1980s. Even as these basic trucks were supplanted by powerful luxury SUVs, enthusiasts still carried a torch for the classic FJ—which is why, if you’ve thumbed through catalogs of major U.S. auctions in the last 10 years, you’ve noticed that they are obligated by federal law to offer a classic 40 Series Land Cruiser (legislation recently reinforced by the “No FJ40 Left Unrestored” mandate). Miami-based restoration specialist The FJ Co. is a part of the thriving cottage industry catering to the powerful nostalgia for these old Toyotas. It has been in business for just four short years, and as its name suggests, Land Cruisers are all it does. It isn’t the only company churning out minty FJ40s. ICON 4x4 in Los Angeles specializes in modified—wholly redesigned, even—40 Series trucks with modern gas and diesel engines, as well as updated creature comforts. In essence, the Land Cruiser Industrial Complex now provides those nostalgic for the 4x4s of yesteryear a greater variety of Land Cruisers than Toyota dealers had sitting in their lots.

If the Pebble Beach Concours d’Elegance represents the pinnacle of wheeled beauty, the Concours d’LeMons is the axle spindle that drags across the cement when you lose a wheel, gouging into the concrete roadway until it digs in and sticks, flipping the car and igniting a giant fireball. Oh, the autonomy! If Figoni et Falaschi had been raised by wolves and the Bugatti brothers had hailed from a trailer park instead of pre-war Italian sophistication, they would all fit in just perfectly at the Concours d’LeMons. “We’re gonna keep doing it until they make us stop,” said Alain Galbraith, the 6-foot-7 entrepreneur responsible for this debacle every year for the past -- oh gawd, how long has it been? “We allow bad examples of good cars and good examples of bad cars,” Galbraith explained to a European journalist who had apparently gotten lost on the way to 17 Mile Drive. There were 105 cars entered this year, none of which you’d want to be seen driving. The 105 included: a two-stroke 1960 Vespa 400 (that’s a car, not a scooter), 1987 Fiero rebodied into a Ferrari 355, 1965 Wolseley Hornet, 1959 Tempo Matador Camper, and a 1978 Seab Flipper 1. Yes a Seab Flipper 1.

Reuters reports one of the many lawsuits General Motors faces over its faulty ignition switches likely will be thrown out of a Texas courtroom. The case involves plaintiff Zachary Stevens, who lost control of his 2007 Saturn Sky in 2011 before hitting another car and killing its driver. In a strange twist, the case may be dismissed because the key in the vehicle at the time of the accident didn't actually belong to a Saturn Sky. The allegedly non-Saturn key also had various trinkets hanging off of it, which are now thought have been added to help convince jurors that the problem was a run-of-the-mill GM ignition switch failure caused by excessive weight. Stevens must have forgotten that he originally said he didn’t have much attached to his key at the time the accident occurred. GM challenged the plaintiffs for fabricating evidence and asked the judge to dismiss the case. A dismissal will likely only mean that Stevens won’t get to cash a big check; manslaughter charges were dropped after GM announced the recall in 2014. According to Reuters, so far GM has already paid out around $2 billion in settlements and penalties because of faulty ignition switches.

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Samsung has announced that it will recall all Galaxy Note 7 devices after multiple reports of battery explosions while the device was charging. This news comes after the company had reportedly delayed shipments to investigate the issue — obviously the Korean manufacturer found reason to be concerned about the product. Lithium-ion battery chemistry is tricky stuff. Companies are extremely secretive about their chemistries and manufacturing components, looking for any method of gaining an advantage over their competitors. Samsung is recalling nearly all the devices, apparently, because it hasn’t been able to isolate the flaw to a single product or manufacturing flaw in a particular battery manufacturer’s process. While the number of affected devices is reportedly small, at just 24 per 100,000, thermal runaway in lithium-ion devices can ignite fires or leave third-degree burns on humans if the device is in a pocket when it ignites.

In terms of specs, the XPS 8900 is rocking a sixth generation quad-core 3.4GHz Intel Core i7-6700 processor, 16GB of DDR4 RAM (2133MHz), a discrete Nvidia GeForce GTX 745 graphics card (with 4GB of memory), a 1TB 7200RPM hard drive, a DVD drive, Bluetooth 4.0, and 802.11b/g/n/ac WiFi support. A wired keyboard and mouse are included at no extra cost, so you’ll just need an HDTV or PC monitor to get going. This model uses both HDMI and DisplayPort, so it’ll work with many modern displays right out of the box. But if you need support for other connectors, you’ll be able to find adaptors on Amazon for only ten or fifteen bucks. Windows 10 Pro (64-bit) comes installed on this machine by default, so you’ll benefit from the Cortana personal assistant, local Xbox One game streaming, the new Edge browser, and countless apps in the Windows Store. And thanks to the recent anniversary update, the overall experience of Windows 10 is even smoother. The built-in graphics card will work fine with some games, but you’ll definitely want to invest in a better card if you’re interested in playing recent releases. The CPU and RAM in this model are superb, so a new graphics card (with a beefier power supply to support it) is the next logical upgrade. Nvidia and AMD both have some superb mid-range cards on the market now, but regardless of what you end up with, the availability of DirectX 12 and game DVR in Windows 10 can substantially improve your gaming experience. If you want to expand more down the road, it’s dead simple with this model. Inside, it has three hard drive bays and four DIMM slots (with support for up to 32GB of DDR4 RAM). Even if you’d prefer not to open the case, the six USB 3.0 ports and four USB 2.0 ports allow for plenty of additional storage. Whether you’re looking to set up a media server or a handful of virtual machines, this PC is flexible enough to handle nearly anything you throw at it. While this machine lists for $1249.99, Dell is currently selling it online for just $1099. And when you use coupon code “XPSDT779” during your checkout, you’ll only be paying $779 (plus any applicable taxes). And since the shipping is free, you’ll be saving even more when you order directly from Dell.

Last March, AMD unveiled a roadmap for its GPUs that predicted a one-two punch. Polaris would arrive in mid-2016, while Vega, the company’s big GPU follow-up, would slip in at the end of the year. This arrangement meant that AMD and Nvidia would effectively launch on different cycles, with Nvidia doing a typical top-down refresh, while AMD went with an unusual midrange cycle first. When AMD revealed these plans in March, it was actually a modified launch plan from what the company had told reviewers to expect. At its Sonoma event in December 2015, AMD implied it would launch a larger variant of Polaris first, followed by a brand-new architecture, Vega, later in the year. Those plans had changed by March, with Fat Polaris vanishing off the roadmap and Vega pulling in. Now, according to AMD’s own investor presentations, these plans have changed. Here’s the thing about product launch timing. When a company only gives a vague date like “H1” or “H2,” it almost always means the product will launch towards the rear of the relevant window. AMD repeatedly stated it would launch Polaris in H1 2016 and it debuted the card in late June — just before H1 turns into H2. Companies typically flip to half-years as opposed to quarterly targets when they don’t want to admit a new product is farther away than investors or consumers might like. “H1” sounds like “Q1” and offers hope for an earlier debut, while “Q2” forces the company to admit that a product won’t debut until at least April of the following year. I want to stress that these naming conventions are typical, not absolute. Maybe AMD is being conservative. Maybe they’re planning to debut the card earlier than expected and tweak Nvidia’s nose. But historically, when AMD says “H1,” they mean “May / June timeframe.” Other companies use the phrase similarly. If Vega has really been pushed back to May or June, it’s a serious blow to AMD’s graphics strategy. A six-month delay between Nvidia and AMD’s refresh cycles was acceptable, a year-long delay is not. Vega was supposed to be AMD’s chance to catch up to Nvidia by delivering a top-end GPU refresh that could match Pascal in terms of overall performance and power efficiency. By the time Vega actually sees the light of day, Nvidia will be well at work on their own follow-up. The only silver lining in all of this is that GPU sales are actually a comparatively small part of AMD’s profits and Polaris’ midrange position should still help them sell hardware at important mass-market price points.

Skoda introduced the long-awaited Kodiaq SUV on Thursday. It's one of the most important vehicles for the future of the brand. The affordable seven-seater should do well in China's booming car market, as well as in Europe, where low-price three-row SUVs are rare. The Kodiaq rides on Volkswagen's modular MQB platform which underpins everything from the Audi TT to the Volkswagen Golf. An upcoming Volkswagen seven-seat SUV will also use the platform. In Europe, the Kodiaq will be powered by a variety of VW Group 1.4- and 2.0-liter gas and diesel four-cylinders with a six-speed manual, or six- or seven-speed DSG. Pricing hasn't been announced, but Autocar reports that the Kodiaq will start at £22,500 ($30,000 USD) in the UK. Since it offers Volkswagen quality at a lower price, Škoda is quite po[CENSORED]r in Europe, but it hasn't sold a car in the U.S. since the late 1950s. Recently, however, Škoda filed for trademark applications in the U.S. and its CEO has hinted that he'd like to sell cars here.

Relatively unscathed by the Volkswagen diesel scandal, the VW Group's profitable Audi brand is charging ahead with big plans for electric cars and autonomous-driving technology. Recently, Audi CEO Rupert Stadler told the Ingolstadt-based newspaper Donaukurier that his brand will launch three fully electric models by 2020. The first of the three is no surprise, as it will be the electric version of the Q6 crossover previewed by the e-tron Quattro concept pictured above. If you weren't a fan of the somewhat crude, chiseled look of the concept, don't fret: We hear that was just one proposal for the series-production version—and the one that was discarded. Whatever its final styling, the EV version of the Q6 (there will be hydrogen fuel-cell and hybrid versions, too) promises a range of more than 300 miles, and it will be powerful enough to take on competition like the upcoming BEV by Daimler and versions of the Tesla Model X. Moreover, the Q6 EV is said to provide its top performance consistently, and not be limited to just a few bursts of same. The crossover SUV will spawn the second EV, which will be a variation on the same theme with sportier bodywork. And the third model? The concept is still being defined, and it is likely to be an executive sedan. But it is unlikely to be slotted above the A8, as a company source told us that Audi doesn't "want to make an electric and price it out of the market." In other words: Don't hold your breath waiting for an A9.

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