After laying the groundwork over the past few weeks, Google Messages looks ready to introduce custom chat themes. In addition to setting chat color palettes, you’ll also be able to select your choice ...

As climate change increases the risk of flooding worldwide, understanding how floods form has never been more important. However, the science behind flooding is notoriously difficult to grasp, ...

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 ...

Apple is adding encrypted RCS to messages exchanged between iPhone and Android users with iOS 26.5, but the useful detail is what you’ll see when protection is actually active. The support is in the ...

Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically from messaging apps ...

As Meta's Threads platform adds more users, the decentralized Twitter-like social app is rolling out “Live Chats,” a new way for brands, creators and fans to stoke conversation around relevant ...

Messages that Lynette Hooker sent to a friend in 2024 following her temporary split with husband Brian Hooker indicate she had concerns about him and their life at sea. The messages from January to ...

You may be hearing that Samsung Messages is going away, and for many Android users, that's true. Samsung is quietly phasing out its Samsung Messages app and moving people to Google Messages as the ...

Why it matters: Encrypted chat services such as Signal, Telegram, and WhatsApp advertise themselves as the most secure, private digital communication methods. However, no matter how strong an app's ...

I cover Android with a focus on productivity, automation, and Google’s ecosystem, including Gemini and everyday apps. With a background in engineering and software development, I tend to go beyond ...

Is Samsung Messages being discontinued? The rumors are true, Samsung phone users, with Samsung officially announcing it will end support of the Samsung Messages app, meaning Samsung Messages are going ...

Samsung has shared an “End of Service Announcement” for its Messages app in the US. Set for July 2026, Google Messages is the intended replacement, with Samsung offering a guided transition. This has ...