Reserving your optional username takes just a few seconds on the latest version of WhatsApp — go to Settings > Account > Username. We’ll be rolling out usernames gradually over the coming months and ...

Google Messages has started rolling out custom "Chat themes" with customizable backgrounds. The update appears in the chat ...

People badly underestimate how interested others are in connecting—and how good a deeper conversation will actually feel, ...

Apple's iOS 27 software update is currently in beta ahead of a fall release, but there are already two Messages features ...

With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

The company says its new Incognito Chat allows you to use its AI chatbot without anyone else—including Meta—being able to access your conversations. The idea of Incognito Chat is to create a way for ...

Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: Inspired by the movie Interstellar, a team of researchers figured out—at least hypothetically—how to send messages to the past. The researchers ...

Meta is expanding its in-app AI-powered summaries feature on WhatsApp to include unread context across multiple chats. Here are the details. WhatsApp to expand in-app AI summaries As spotted by ...

Ever since it debuted on the Pixel 10 series last August, Take a Message has quickly become one of my favorite recent Pixel features. Essentially Google’s modern take on the voicemail box, Take a ...

According to Downdetector users are having problems using Open AI April 11 with more than 1,000 reports shortly before 2 p.m. Most of the Open AI complaints had to deal with ChatGPT, where 86 percent ...