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Facebook falls in Spain

The social network has been experiencing serious problems in its service this morning that prevent access to its platform

Something has gone wrong." This is the message with which the more than 12 million Spanish users have found when accessing the Facebook website. A message that can be read from 11.00 in the morning and remains so far.

Neither Google Chrome, nor Mozilla, nor Explorer. As reported by the website downdetector.es, many users have highlighted several access problems, reaching its peak at noon.

The problem in access only occurs through its web platform, since the rest of the social network services work without any problems. Messenger, Whatsapp, Instagram has a normal operation. However, the Facebook application is generating some problems for users.

According to the data of dowdetector.es, the fall of the service of the company of Mark Zuckerberg centers in the Iberian Peninsula and also in France. Innova + has been in contact with the Facebook managers in Spain and, for the moment, they have not found any problems in their services. However, social networks like Twitter have already echoed this widespread decline in Spain.

Uber will bring its home delivery service to Portugal this year

UberEats, which is already available in more than a hundred cities around the world, will arrive in Portugal by 2018

   The Uber transport platform will begin operating its home delivery service, known as UberEats , in Portugal before the end of the year .

Sources of Uber confirmed today to Efe the imminent arrival of this service, that "represents a reinforcement of the investment" of the platform in Portugal, where it aspires to connect its users "with the best restaurants" of Lisbon.

"We want the gastronomic discovery and the delivery of meals to be quicker and more convenient for Lisboetas," Uber's general director in Portugal, Rui Bento, said in a statement.

UberEats, already available in more than a hundred cities around the world, intends that restaurants in the Portuguese capital, regardless of their size, can deliver their services at home through a logistics platform with the company's technology.

Uber considers that this option "will contribute to the growth of the sales of the associated restaurants", and that it will also provide useful information to "reach more customers in a simple and efficient way".

Whatsapp already knows where you are at any time

The latest update of the app includes the geolocation option so that contacts know where the user is moving in real time

   For some time now, the possibility has been rumored that WhatsApp would allow users to send the user's location in real time, which generated criticism and support in equal parts. The privacy is one of the most controversial points, although being a tool of choice, it is always voluntary.

Now Whastapp has officially announced that it is launching the function to allow its millions of users around the world to "share the location in real time with their family and friends". Specific examples in which the user can use this new option are meetings with friends, tell relatives that you are okay or share a trip home.

   The real-time location is a simple and safe way to share where you are," defends WhatsApp in the statement. In addition, the function is protected by end-to-end encryption and allows you to control who you want to share the location with and for how long.

The new option will be available for Android and iOS devices "in the coming weeks," confirms the company. The difference with the classic location sharing is that it only sends the point where you are at the time of sharing, while the real time allows the other person to know where you are moving .

Step by Step

1. Open a chat with the person or group of Whatsapp where you want to share the location.

2. Touch the attach button (clip) and select 'Location'.

3. In the next few days, a new option will appear that says 'Location in real time'. You have to select the duration and hit 'Send'.

4. From that moment on, each participant can see your location in real time on a map. If more than one person in the group is sharing it, you can see all the locations on the same map.

Bixby 2.0 improves its Spanish

Samsung presents the new version of its virtual assistant for new devices

   Samsung has gone to work to cut ground to its competitors in the race of virtual assistants. Alexa of Amazon, Cortana of Microsoft or Google Assistant are some of the most recognizable names to which Samsung was added with the arrival of Bixby.

During this week, South Korean technology has presented version 2.0 in its developer conference. Improvements in which Bixby will have a better ability to recognize the assistant's natural language, as well as to better recognize the individual users that use it and is also about to land in Spanish

   After debuting from the hand of the Galaxy S8, the firm's engineers have renewed it and for the first time will incorporate technology from Viv Labs, a company that Samsung acquired in 2016 in exchange for 215 million dollars. A strategic purchase that has added the ranks of the South Korean to the parents of Siri.

With this improved version, the virtual assistant will also be able to perform more complex tasks, at the same time you can work with other external devices thanks to the SDK released by Samsung. With this release, Bixby will come, for example, to the company's Smart TV.

The improvement in the understanding of the language, Samsung has achieved that its virtual assistant can interact with other applications installed on the smartphone. Dictating a tweet is an easy task for attendees, now with a simple voice command, for example, upload a photo to social networks.

Bixby is currently present in more than 200 countries, but unfortunately still lacks languages ​​such as Spanish. Fortunately it seems that this is about to change, and from Samsung we have been told that Bixby 2.0 will arrive in Spanish (from the US) in the first half of 2018. Yes, everything points to what will come with Samsung's new bet for the year coming.

Blockchain to improve health

United States works with block chains to expedite the exchange of information between hospitals

   The connection is growing and with it the exchange of data is rigged. On many occasions, this information has a high degree of privacy. This is the case of hospitals with medical records and that on several occasions their security has been compromised with ransomware attacks.

Therefore, the US medical centers are working with blockhain security to increase the security of the information that is shared among all the agents involved in the health world of the country.

For years, the Center for Surveillance of Epidemiology and Laboratory Services in the United States has been working on the construction and development of real applications based on blockchain technology to monitor their safety.

   This center is responsible for preventing the spread of pandemics throughout its territory and for this they must share data between the different administrations. The project leader, Jim Nasr, is designing software based on block chains to better manage this data in events or crisis episodes.

This type of technology is the pillar of many cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin. These are maintained by computer networks and each computer verifies each transaction in a large accounting book very difficult to hack thanks to encryption.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has a mobile application that health workers can use to record information about patients and help determine what medications should be given to each one.

However, this type of private information can not be stored in the cloud due to a possible cyber attack. Nasr says the blockchain could offer a way to store and share that data much faster while complying with security and privacy laws.

Things you should not do on WhatsApp

Beware of sexting, scams, extortion or malware infection. The Office of Security of the Internet, OSI , has published an infographic showing the actions that should not be done in WhatsApp to avoid fraudulent practices or that may compromise the security of the user, advice that has been echoed by the Organization of Consumers and Users and that are developed in the infographic of the OSI:

1.
Confidential information
Even if you know the recipient of a message, do not send confidential information or you may be compromised. You can never know what the receiver will do with it. The same precaution must be taken with personal contacts and especially with groups, since sometimes we do not know all the members.

2.
The origin of the links
Beware of following the links we receive without noticing the site to which they point, that is, their origin. They can be a risk since the destination website can infect the device or steal our personal data if the page impersonates the identity of an organization with a phishing .

3.
False promotions or functionalities
False promotions of discount vouchers and a multitude of hoaxes and scams circulate on the Net. Its sole purpose is to collect personal information by deceiving users with a false promotion. The Office of Security of the Internaut also alerts of the extra functionalities that some users promote by WhatsApp or by the social networks, like for example the false video calls. Unlike the discount vouchers, the organization warns, these false updates usually seek people to subscribe to premium messaging services.

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Take care of privacy
To make safe use of WhatsApp (or any social network), it is essential to take care of privacy settings. In Settings / Privacy, you can select who can see personal information, such as profile picture or status. In Settings / Security, you must check that messages and calls are protected with end-to-end encryption, so neither WhatsApp nor third parties can read or listen to them.

Apple cuts half of the production of its new iPhones

Experts say that only 25% of the phones of the Cupertino brand that are sold in the next 18 months will be of the eighth generation

  Apple is not having good luck in its latest bets for this exercise. Last October, the Cupertino giant amazed with the introduction of three new smartphones: iPhone 8 8 Plus and commemorative iPhone X .

However, the expectation for this last device is causing sales of the new iPhone 8 are not meeting the expectations of Tim Cook's team. Even the forecasts for the mobile of the tenth anniversary are not being liked by Apple, according to several houses of analysis.

  According to GBH Insights, a market research firm based in New York, only 25% of the iPhones sold in the next 18 months will be of the eighth generation.

The economic daily US Economic Daily News, collecting statements from a person close to the company's production chain in Taiwan, reveals that Apple has already reduced production by 50% iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus.

However, there are voices that point to the fact that the Plus version has raised passions. The KGI Securities reports highlight a rebound in sales. Although AT & T analysts suggest that consumers in the United States prefer the iPhone 7 over the iPhone 8 , considering that the new device does not have very different characteristics than the previous one.

Expectations are set on the iPhone X, although "at the moment the demand is very mild because the big moment is the expected iPhone X", note the analysts of KeyBanc Capital. Its landing on the market is scheduled for November 3 , a day after the launch of Huawei's new Mate 10