Published on: 2025-06-19 17:45:04
WhatsApp is expanding its Discord-like voice chat feature so that group chats of any size can talk to each other in real time. Unlike group calling, which has existed on the app for years, real-time "audio hangouts" are more of a drop-in feature that doesn't ring every member of the chat. Voice chats also offer a bit more flexibility than a traditional call because the interface doesn't take over your whole screen. That means you can still follow along in the chat for new messages or keep an ey
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-19 20:00:00
Hello WIRED subscribers! Thank you to everyone who attended our most recent AI Unlocked webinar. I really enjoyed our lively discussion about ChatGPT’s software features and wish I could have answered even more of your questions about using generative AI tools. I really enjoyed the questions about what ChatGPT can do beyond just chatting. Image search is a feature I use often, and here are my first impressions of the tool that I recorded back in September 2023 when it first dropped. I use ChatG
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-21 03:30:00
The end-to-end encryption (E2EE) available on the WhatsApp messaging app gets you off to a good start when it comes to privacy and security. It means no one else — hackers, law enforcement, or Meta staff — can see your chats. Your stuff stays just between you and the person or persons you’re chatting with. On top of that, the app comes with a variety of other features for locking down your data as tightly as possible. Get all of these precautions in place, and you’re as well protected as you ca
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-22 05:26:47
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Google Messages recently introduced a new way to trigger Screen Effects by sending a pair of emojis in chats. The app is now testing the ability to trigger Screen Effects with a single emoji in the latest beta release. Google Messages recently upgraded its Screen Effects feature by adding support for emoji triggers. Users can now play full-screen animations in chats by sending a pair of emojis in addition to the previously supported text phrases. Now,
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 17:28:00
The power elites have a Signal group chat, too – and the ones that seem to be reshaping the government, according to a recent report, are the ones Marc Andreessen created to bring the American right wing and the technocracy together. Semafor’s Ben Smith published a massive article on Monday detailing an ecosystem of private, disappearing group chats between hundreds of powerful Silicon Valley figures and high-profile right-wing pundits and academics. Though Smith himself was unable to get many
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-07-30 15:18:54
Last Thursday morning, a bit before 10 am in Austin and nearly 11 pm in Singapore, Joe Lonsdale had enough of Balaji Srinivasan’s views on China. “This is insane CCP thinking,” Lonsdale, a co-founder of Palantir, wrote to a 300-member Signal group. “Not sure what leaders hang out w you in Singapore but on this you have been taken over by a crazy China mind virus.” Srinivasan, a former Coinbase chief technology officer and influential tech figure who now lives in the city-state, responded that
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-04 17:23:46
A few weeks after users began noticing that the familiar blue circle for Meta AI was appearing in the messaging app WhatsApp, a new feature is rolling out to keep chats from the company's AI features. Meta said in a blog post that its Advanced Chat Privacy is a toggle setting that opts chats out of AI features and also keeps chats from being downloadable or from making media auto-downloadable to devices. The blog post does not specifically mention Meta AI. The blog post reads in part: This ne
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-06 17:42:34
WhatsApp has introduced a new Advanced Chat Privacy feature to protect sensitive information exchanged in private chats and group conversations. The new privacy option can be enabled after tapping the chat name and is designed to prevent attempts to save media and export chat content. "Today we're introducing our latest layer for privacy called 'Advanced Chat Privacy.' This new setting available in both chats and groups helps prevent others from taking content outside of WhatsApp for when you
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-08-25 21:00:10
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: 2025-08-28 05:30:00
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: 2025-08-29 09:27:52
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: 2025-09-03 13:10:01
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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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-08 15:10:37
Mike Waltz is a chatty guy. The national security adviser to Donald Trump who accidentally added The Atlantic editor-in-chief Jeffrey Goldberg to a group chat about an attack on Yemen actually has quite a few group chats going, according to Politico. He and his team have reportedly set up at least 20 chats meant to coordinate actions in different different regions across the world. Politico, citing people who have been added to the group chats (no word on if they were added intentionally or not
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-09-17 05:15:04
This week, we learned that even government officials are addicted to their group chats — except with the Trump administration those chats include war plans and potentially classified information. In this episode, we dive into the sheer recklessness and stupidity of Signalgate. And speaking of reckless, we also discuss 23andMe's bankruptcy and the privacy concerns around selling off customer DNA data. Listen below or subscribe on your podcast app of choice. If you've got suggestions or topics yo
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-05 15:00:57
Edgar Cervantes / Android Authority TL;DR Group chats on Google Messages might soon support “Mentions”. The feature is already available on messaging apps like WhatsApp and Telegram, allowing users to tag TL;DR 3 Google Messages is constantly working to improve the texting experience for its users, and we’ve found hints of another upcoming feature that could make group chats much more convenient on the platform. Authority Insights story on Android Authority. Discover You're reading anstory
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-18 00:26:11
GK Hart/Vikki Hart/Getty Images I've been a fan of DuckDuckGo for a long time. I find the search engine to be far more trustworthy than Google and I do enjoy my privacy. But when I heard that the company was dipping its webbed feet into the AI waters, my initial reaction was a roll of the eyes. Then I gave Duck.ai a go -- and was immediately impressed. (DuckDuck Go's AI features launched in June 2024 and came out of beta last week.) Also: How to use ChatGPT to write code - and my favorite tri
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-10-21 21:48:32
It seems that Instagram is working on a “community chat” feature that allows people to organize groups of up to 250 people in the app. The so-far unreleased feature was spotted by developer Alessandro Paluzzi, who has a solid track record of uncovering new features within Meta’s apps. According to screenshots shared by Paluzzi, it seems that community chats will function similarly to Discord. Individual users can form the chats around specific topics and control who can join, though there’s app
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 06:03:57
After more than 21 years, Skype will soon be no more. Last night, some users (including Ars readers) poked around in the latest Skype preview update and noticed as-yet-unsurfaced text that read "Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams." This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars that it's true. May 5, 2025, will mark the end of Skype's long run. Alongside the verification that the end is nigh, Microsoft shared a bunch of details about how it
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 12:42:56
Microsoft is officially getting rid of Skype as of May 5 and encouraging its users to pick Teams once and for all. In its announcement, the company stated that the move will allow it to "streamline our free consumer communications offerings so we can more easily adapt to customer needs." Microsoft is also far from subtle in its push for Teams and included step-by-step instructions for migrating over. All users need to do is log in with their Skype credentials and their chats and contacts should
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Find related items on AmazonPublished on: 2025-11-02 12:00:56
After more than 21 years, Skype will soon be no more. Last night, some users (including Ars readers) poked around in the latest Skype preview update and noticed as-yet-unsurfaced text that read "Starting in May, Skype will no longer be available. Continue your calls and chats in Teams." This morning, Microsoft has confirmed to Ars that it's true. May 5, 2025, will mark the end of Skype's long run. Alongside the verification that the end is nigh, Microsoft shared a bunch of details about how it
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