Quick hits: July 2022

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Soon we will be able to have an avatar respond to video calls arriving on WhatsApp for us.

This is a curious feature, which would be part of a broader strategy on the Metaverse of the parent company Meta, discovered in the code of the experimental version for Android (number 2.22.15.5) from the WABetaInfo site.

The site claims that the clues lead us to think that WhatsApp is working to introduce the possibility of adding an avatar to the profile of the messaging service, whether or not it resumes the real appearance of the user, a bit like it happens on Facebook and Instagram where the characters can be used as stickers to apply to photos and videos.

In the case of chats, however, the purpose would be much broader and aimed at animating the avatar so that it appears in the background of a video Global ransomware-based cyberattacks continue to grow and primarily affect small and medium-sized businesses.