I love WhatsApp, but it desperately needs this feature
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HONOR isn’t actually the first Android OEM to offer this feature. Realme debuted a similar Personal Information Protection feature back in 2020, sending blank data when an app requested certain permissions. Weirdly enough, it looks like realme may have pulled this feature to keep Google happy.
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Image generation with Gemini and Nano Banana may be about to feel like it's reading your mind
…On the privacy side, Google emphasizes that Gemini does not directly train its models on your private Google Photos library. The company adds that connecting Google apps to Gemini remains opt-in…