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How to enable Chrome’s new Material Design refresh on desktop

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Google has been working on a Material Design refresh for Chrome across desktop and mobile in recent months, and elements of the redesign are starting to make their way to the stable version of the browser. Chrome 68, released earlier this week, now includes parts of the Material Design refresh hidden behind settings flags in both the iOS and desktop versions. Chrome 68 for Android does not yet include the Material Design refresh changes. Google has not yet enabled its more rounded tabs in Chrome on the desktop.but they’re still not hidden behind a flag in the stable channel version of the browser. Here’s how to enable parts of the Material Design refresh on desktop : Chrome desktop : update your navigation Navigate to chrome://flags/#top-chrome-md In “UI Layout for the browser’s top chrome” change the option from default to refresh Restart Chrome to see the changes  

Beware! Viral Sarahah App Secretly Steals Your Entire Contact List

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Are you also one of those 18 Million users using SARAHAH? You should beware of this app because the anonymous feedback application may not be as private as it really sounds. Sarahah is a newly launched app that has become one of the hottest iPhone and Android apps in the past couple of weeks, allowing its users to sign up to receive anonymised, candid messages from other Sarahah users. However, it turns out that the app silently uploads users' phone contacts to the company's servers for no good reason, spotted by security analyst Zachary Julian. When an Android or iOS user downloads and installs the app for the first time, the app immediately harvests and uploads all phone numbers and email addresses from the user's address book, according to The Intercept . While an app requesting access to the user's phonebook is quite common if the app provides any feature that works with contacts, no such functionality in Sarahah is available right now. ...