Published on: 2025-04-22 06:51:20
WhatsApp this week released a major update that adds a new way to create and manage sticker packs without having to leave the app. Read on as we detail exactly what’s new for WhatsApp users. Creating WhatsApp sticker packs just got easier WhatsApp already had an option to create and save custom stickers. However, finding and sending these stickers to someone wasn’t exactly an easy task when you have a lot of them in the app. To solve this, WhatsApp is introducing a new option for creating stic
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 18:41:02
The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan were among several countries accused of being behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearin
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 14:41:02
The governments of Mexico, Saudi Arabia, and Uzbekistan, among others, were behind the 2019 hacking campaign that targeted more than 1,200 WhatsApp users with NSO Group’s Pegasus spyware, according to a lawyer working for the Israeli spyware maker. During a hearing in the lawsuit between WhatsApp and NSO Group last Thursday, NSO Group’s lawyer Joe Akrotirianakis specifically named the three governments as the spyware-using customers, according to a transcript of the hearing obtained by TechCrun
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 18:27:45
The long-awaited antitrust trial between Meta and the Federal Trade Commission kicked off on April 14th. Over about two months, DC District Court Chief Judge James Boasberg is hearing arguments about whether then-Facebook illegally monopolized the market for “personal social networking services” through its acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp. The FTC first brought the case in late 2020. While it was initially thrown out by the judge, he let an amended version move forward after the governme
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-25 22:50:23
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Whatsapp is working on new music layouts for status updates. These layouts aim to make music sharing more visually appealing. The upcoming layouts would be similar to music options already available on Instagram stories. WhatsApp‘s status feature is a very popular way to share updates with friends, family, and your entire contact list. While certainly useful, it does lag behind in functionality compared to the status/stories feature from Meta’s other
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 02:00:11
Spring hasn't arrived in my high desert climate in central Oregon, and this lightly snowing March morning is chilly, especially in my office far away from both the thermostat and the fireplace. But I have a quick fix for this. "Hey Google, show me my thermostat," I say. "Got it," my Nest display responds. It brings up all my Nest thermostat settings, including a large dial on the touchscreen. At a touch, I move the temperature up a couple of degrees to keep the heat lasting longer than usual.
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 09:33:30
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR An Android Authority teardown has revealed that WhatsApp could get screenshot detection for the status feature. This comes over a decade after Snapchat first introduced screenshot detection for its stories. There’s no sign just yet that WhatsApp will actually tell users when someone takes a screenshot of their status. WhatsApp has offered the status feature for a while now, following in Snapchat‘s footsteps. Now, it looks like the Meta-owned platform
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-27 06:05:21
About a year before the Federal Trade Commission first opened its antitrust investigation into Meta’s acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp, CEO Mark Zuckerberg internally suggested “the extreme step of spinning Instagram out as a separate company.” In a 2018 email to his executives, Zuckerberg wrote that, “while most companies resist break-ups, the corporate history is that most companies actually perform better after they’ve been split up.” The memo was displayed in court on Tuesday as he
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 02:39:10
As rumored, Apple’s Beats brand is making a foray into another new product category: USB-C cables. The company has announced its “first-ever collection of reinforced charging cables in an assortment of lengths and colors.” Pricing starts at $18.99 for a single cable, and they’re available to order today. The new Beats cables are available in USB-C to USB-C, USB-A to USB-C, and USB-C to Lightning options. Color choices include Bolt Black, Surge Stone, Nitro Navy, and Rapid Red. USB-C to USB-C (
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-24 08:23:35
James Watson once said his road to the 1962 Nobel Prize began in Naples, Italy. At a conference in 1951, he met Maurice Wilkins, the biophysicist with whom he and Francis Crick shared the Nobel for discovering the double-helix structure of DNA. Meeting Wilkins was when he “first realized that DNA might be soluble,” Watson said. “So my life was changed.” That’s a nice anecdote for the science textbooks. But there’s “a tawdry first act to this operetta,” writes Howard Markel in his new book, The
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-28 17:11:04
Odds are that you've done a squat or two before, as they're a common exercise you likely learned in gym class. However, do you know the proper form for a squat and what muscles it works? Ensuring you're doing a squat correctly can help you increase your strength and avoid injury. That is why we reached out to certified personal trainers to learn everything there is to know about squats, how to do them and their benefits. How to do a squat Ellen Thompson, NASM-certified personal trainer and are
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-26 15:25:13
Cats are not the most innately musical creatures. They cannot sing like the thrush or drone with the whales. But their mews and paws have been long incorporated into other kinds of improvisations. Consider the sadistic sixteenth-century cat piano or stories about Alessandro Scarlatti’s black cat, Pulcinella, who inspired her master’s Cat Fugue in G minor during a bout of zoomies across his piano: “‘Bless the cat!’, he cried. ‘She has given me the very theme I have been groping after.’” Cats play
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-04-30 14:49:01
Former U.S. Federal Trade Commission Chair Lina Khan said Monday that Facebook "panicked" when making the acquisitions of Instagram and WhatsApp as smartphone use took off. "It saw companies like Instagram and WhatsApp experiencing astronomical growth, and that's the point at which it resorted to this buy-or-bury scheme where, if it couldn't out-compete a rival, it either bought them out or cut them off its network," Khan said on CNBC's "Squawk Box." Meta , the parent company of Facebook, Inst
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 06:16:07
WhatsApp just rolled out a dozen new features . Most of these are small, but they add up to a fairly substantial software update. Let’s go over some of the more notable additions. Chats now allow for tappable reactions, which is basically like adding a thumbs up to someone else’s reaction. Group chats feature an indicator that lets users know how many people are actually online. This will be right underneath the group name. Solo conversations now offer the ability to create an event, complete w
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 03:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 14:04:00
I have lived with cats my whole life. Beautiful, playful, discerning, and endlessly curious, cats are wonderful companions. Like Charles Dickens said, “What greater gift than the love of a cat?” My family is all cat people, but my youngest daughter is positively obsessed, and we have bought more than our fair share of the best gifts for cat lovers. When I searched “cat” in my Amazon orders, there were nine pages of results. While most of these cat-related gifts are for humans, I’ll throw in a f
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 18:39:00
Cats are beautiful, interesting, weird creatures. They're also very picky. Finding toys that they'll actually play with is tough—especially with the sheer oversaturation of the pet market today. Cats require a specific environment to play, scratch, and relax. Based on years of testing with our cats, these are our favorite WIRED-approved, tech-y cat toys and scratchers. Even if our cats rejected a particular product, we still examined overall construction, design, and value to determine whether i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-02 18:30:00
On Monday, Meta will face the Federal Trade Commission in a legal fight that could reshape the social media landscape. Over the next two months, the US government will make its case that the company’s 2012 acquisition of Instagram and 2014 acquisition of WhatsApp squashed potential threats to its dominance. Meta, which went by the name of Facebook at the time, will defend itself by arguing that it helped grow those acquisitions into large businesses used by billions of people while facing plent
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 02:00:10
Key points: A cross between a messaging app and a messaging board May collect your data Only secret chats are end-to-end encrypted Offers paid tier for more features Telegram doesn't offer as robust privacy features as Signal, but it does have a few features that might make the app appealing to some folks. Telegram is a cloud-based messaging service, and it stores data it needs to function. Telegram also writes that it collects and stores some of your metadata, like IP addresses. The compa
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 03:49:41
WhatsApp has rolled out a dozen new features across chats, calls, and channels that make it easier to manage group conversations, alongside other general quality-of-life improvements. One of the more notable additions is a new “Online” indicator for groups, which displays how many participants are currently using the app in real time. This is one of several new features that are similar to capabilities on competing communications platforms like Discord, which highlights the online status of ser
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-03 04:26:10
If I could snap my fingers and make AirPods in any color, we’d have AirPods in black by now. My second choice? Translucent AirPods. Apple sells a version of “Transparent” colored Beats Studio Buds + that I should probably own just to support the clear product cause. AirPods, of course, only come in white with the exception of the AirPods Max line. Here’s how the “Transparent” Beats earbuds look: Beats, which Apple owns, always hits it out of the park when it comes to color. There’s even a “Tra
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 14:05:19
Not everybody has to invest more than $200 in wireless earbuds. Basic functionality and good-enough sound quality are more than sufficient for everyday use for many people. Whether listening to music on your daily commute, following podcasts or making calls, a pair of cheap earbuds can quite often get the job done just as effectively as the high-end variety. At $59 down from $79, the Beats Solo Buds are the most budget-friendly Beats earbuds. Although they don’t have advanced features like acti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 14:55:37
The Beats Solo 4 represents a quantum leap in personal audio, delivering the kind of sound quality that makes you hear new details in songs you’ve listened to hundreds of times. These aren’t just headphones; they’re a completely reimagined acoustic experience, featuring custom drivers and spatial audio that create a personal concert hall around your ears. Amazon has slashed the price of the Beats Solo 4 to $130, down from its regular $200 price tag. This 35% discount saves you $70 on one of the
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-04 14:08:07
WhatsApp has announced a slew of new updates across chats, calls, and channels designed to enhance the messaging and calling experience for users as it continues to compete with popular services like Telegram and Discord. Among the most notable additions is an “Online” indicator that appears at the top of a group chat to show you how many people are currently around to chat. Another new group chat feature will allow you to highlight certain notifications, as you can now use a newly added “Noti
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-05 10:30:00
Tom Linnemann considered himself a Twitter loyalist until fairly recently. “It was the greatest invention in the world,” he says of the platform, reminiscing on its golden years, which he pinpoints from 2012 to about 2016. “You cast a wide net and found people as crazy as you were.” His experience finally soured when Elon Musk bought the company in 2022, later rebranding it X—“there was this inundation of bullshit”—and Linnemann, a toy executive who splits his time between Toronto and Los Angel
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 10:01:00
In context: WhatsApp is one of the most popular communication platforms of all time with around three billion users worldwide. This means that even the slightest security flaw in the app could pose a serious risk to lots of people. Meta recently updated the Microsoft Store version of its WhatsApp app to patch a potentially dangerous security vulnerability discovered by external researchers. According to WhatsApp's security advisory, the flaw could have been exploited to run malicious code on a
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 10:25:08
NSO Group’s notorious spyware Pegasus was used to target 1,223 WhatsApp users in 51 different countries during a 2019 hacking campaign, according to a new court document. The document was published on Friday as part of the lawsuit that Meta-owned WhatsApp filed against NSO Group in 2019, accusing the surveillance tech maker of exploiting a vulnerability in the chat app to target hundreds of users, including more than 100 human rights activists, journalists, and “other members of civil society.”
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-06 14:27:52
Meta has been working on a new privacy feature for WhatsApp, which will enable “advanced privacy” for chats. With the feature, users will have the option to further protect sensitive messages. WhatsApp adding new privacy feature for individual and group chats As reported by WABetaInfo, the new privacy feature is currently hidden in the latest beta of WhatsApp for iOS available on TestFlight. Advanced Chat Privacy adds a “new layer of privacy and security to chats,” making it harder for other p
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-09 02:21:58
Meta warned Windows users to update the WhatsApp messaging app to the latest version to patch a vulnerability that can let attackers execute malicious code on their devices. Described as a spoofing issue and tracked as CVE-2025-30401, this security flaw can be exploited by attackers by sending maliciously crafted files with altered file types to potential targets. Meta says the vulnerability impacted all WhatsApp versions and has been fixed with the release of WhatsApp 2.2450.6. "A spoofing i
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-05-11 18:10:01
is a weekend editor who covers the latest in tech and entertainment. He has written news, reviews, and more as a tech journalist since 2020. WhatsApp is testing a new “advanced chat privacy” option that lets you control whether others you’re chatting with can easily export your chats or automatically save media you send them, reports WABetaInfo. The feature appeared in a recent app beta on iOS, and WABetaInfo spotted the toggle in an Android beta on Friday as well. The new advanced chat privac
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