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O Instagram today gained several novelties to improve the use of the application, mainly in terms of productivity and recommendations.

Disclosed on Meta’s website and by Adam Mosseri, head of the social network, the new features include a Silent mode (Quiet Mode), multi-selection to tag posts as “I’m not interested” e hidden words in recommendations.

Starting with Silent Mode, it’s mainly important for those who can’t help but peek at the app whenever a notification pops up. The user will be able to stipulate specific times and moments to not receive any notification.

Then the profile’s activity status will change to let people know and anyone who sends a direct message during that time will receive an auto-reply letting them know they have the mode turned on.

Everyone can turn on Silent Mode, but teens will be reminded to turn it on once they reach a certain amount of time in the evening. It will initially be available to all users in the United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, with other regions receiving the update at a later date.

Meta is also expanding the recommendations options. Users can now hide multiple types of content in the Explore tab at the same time with multiselect.

To do this, just tap and hold a post for a few seconds and some options will appear, including “Not interested”. Then, a banner and the option “Choose more” will appear — then just select the ones you want to hide and you will no longer see similar posts.

Finally, the app already lets you hide comments and direct messages that contain certain words, and now that will extend to hashtags and captions. So you can filter to avoid posts with some specific words. To configure, just go to the “Hidden words” section in the privacy settings.

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One of the changes to the Gulag Prison in Warzone 2.0 Season 2 is the switch to 2v2 matchmaking.

In Warzone 2 Season 2, it will return to the same 1v1 Gulag Prison matchmaking starting with And it seems that players like it and like it very much.

In the original Warzone, dying in Battle Royale sent you into the Gulag Prison and taking on the same dead opponent in a Gunfight format, but in Season 2 it’s 2v2 and adds a Guard. Become an AI to help end the battle. not to be protracted

The problem is that no one wants to cooperate. and coordinating with anyone to win And the player will hardly mess with the prison guards. Making it more annoying for players, Infinity Ward decided to return to the old 1v1, and it seems that players liked it better.

1v1’s are back in Battle Royale.

Gulag updates are coming in Season 02. We’ll be sharing more details regarding this in next week’s studio blog.@RavenSoftware

— Infinity Ward (@InfinityWard) January 19, 2023

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare Season 2 has now been pushed back to February 15 instead. The team promises new content, new modes, new weapons, new Battle Pass, and more to come.

In the United States, emergency call center managers are irritated by automated calls sent by iPhone 14s to improperly report an accident. In question, the collision detection system which takes a ski descent or a carousel ride for an accident.

In September, Apple launched the iPhone 14. Equipped with iOS 16, the device has a crash detector. By analyzing the data produced by the smartphone’s multiple sensors (accelerometer, barometer, GPS, microphone), the system must identify a collision, trigger a countdown and, if the user does not respond, directly call the rescue. First launched in the United States, the feature has been available for a few months in certain European countries, including France, but not Switzerland.

Except that the system misfires and triggers unexpectedly when it shouldn’t – false positives in tech parlance. The website iPhoneAddict.fr relates several situations leading to unjustified emergency calls.

Roller coaster or downhill skiing

In October, several American media reported that in the King Islands amusement parks, several users of iPhone 14 and Apple Watch Series 8 (also equipped with the function) saw their device call for help when they were on a roller coaster. So much so that one of the parks has placed a sign at the entrance to the rides asking users to turn off their smartphones or put them in airplane mode (iPhones don’t yet have a “ride” mode). An Apple spokesperson then recalled the precautions taken to ensure that the system is robust and promised improvements.

A few months later and despite the release of iOS 16.1.2 supposed to optimize the functionality, the undue calls for help continue, especially on the ski slopes. In Colorado, emergency call centers received up to 71 robocalls over the weekend from iPhone 14s and Apple Watches from people hurtling down the slopes.
In Minnesota, a sheriff reports 700 false alerts sent to the central in 2022.

Waste of time and resources

What irritate the services because of the efforts and resources wasted to deal with these supposed emergencies. “Worst case scenario we have to try to find out where you are, what went wrong and what resources we need to send to fix the problem. It can range from a 30-second phone call to God knows how long,” the New York County 911 communications officer from Greene told the New York Post.
Contacted by the daily, an Apple spokesperson explained that the company is in contact with 911 call centers currently experiencing a spike in robocalls due to the collision detection feature, and that it collected their comments.