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WhatsApp Tests Facebook-Style Coloured Text Status Feature   Late last year, Facebook started rolling out coloured statuses on its Android app that allowed users to write their status update with a colourful background, font, and emoji combination. Now, the same feature has been spotted on WhatsApp as well, and while currently it's in beta, it can be expected to arrive for all users soon. Android Police was first tipped about this feature, and it is showing up in Android beta version 2.17.291. The report states that even though you might be on this latest version on the WhatsApp Android beta app, it is possible that you may not see this feature. It is presumably a server side switch from WhatsApp's end, so only select users are seeing it now even in beta. We can't see it either. In any case, few users are now seeing a floating pen icon in the Status tab at the bottom of the screen, right above the camera icon. Clicking on the pen icon brings up the optio

Check Your Password Strength Against 320 Million Leaked Passwords  This Website Lets You Check Password Strength Against 320 Million Leaked Passwords Troy Hunt, the mastermind behind HIBP, has revealed over 320 million passwords in his blog  to help the companies secure their online network. These passwords have been aggregated from several data breaches that happened overtime, and are now available to everyone on HIBP website. However, Hunt says that the ‘pwned-passwords’ that are publicly available on his website do not disclose the email addresses and usernames that they were associated with. The website Have I Been Pwned, or HIBP, generally lets users see if their email addresses have been breached without revealing the passwords, but Hunt has created the inverse of the concept this time, in an effort to intimate Internet users and companies about passwords that can be easily hacked. The sole motive behind HIBP’s new password service  is to supply different

How to easily delete your Google searches across platform   E very day billions of users around the globe perform several million searches on Google, let it be on the smartphone or the desktop. You and me alone search for over hundreds of terms, websites. Images, and videos on Google to keep up with the rest of the world. But how does one swipe off the entire Google search log? Here is how you can delete all your searches ever made on both smartphone and desktop right from one single place - My Activity. My Activity by Google is a common tracker for all your searches across desktop and mobile, given that you are searching for those contents while logged in your Google account. It not only shows how many searches have you made using Chrome browser, but also gives you a detailed list of how many apps have you used and how many times in your Android smartphone. Regular search and image search are also shown besides other options such as what app did you search f