For years, I was a nuisance to anyone with an iPhone. While I proudly toted my Samsung Galaxy devices, my friends would deplore the havoc I’d wreak on any text or group chat by “turning everything green.” There’s apparently nothing worse to an iMessage user than an Android user who crashes their precious blue bubble … Read more
RCS texting is on its way to the iPhone. But Apple’s phones are not the only ones that still lack access to the more modern texting standard. Google, which has invested considerably in building up RCS while touting promises of how it could bring typing indicators and higher-quality group chats, spent years pushing for Apple … Read more
Lily Gladstone is enjoying a full-circle moment. The 37-year-old actress plays the wife of Leonardo DiCaprio’s character in the critically-acclaimed film, Killers of the Flower Moon. Gladstone attended the 35th annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala, hosted by Mary Hart, on Thursday to kick off awards season, where she spoke about her pre-teen … Read more
Ebenezer Scrooge isn’t the only person to receive a visit from ghosts of Christmas past during the festive period. Turns out one in 10 of us are haunted by former flames over the holidays — a dating trend that’s been dubbed “Marleying.” Named after Jacob Marley, the ghost of Scrooge’s former business partner in Charles … Read more
Beeper, a YCombinator-backed startup, initially came up with an expensive and inherently insecure method to make a beta version of its app work. This method sent every message through a relay server before arriving at the recipient’s messaging client. Then, late this summer, the company landed on a breakthrough technique, originally drafted as a proof … Read more
Good news is coming to your group chat. Today, Apple said it will add support for the RCS messaging standard to the iPhone. The website 9to5Mac broke the news that Apple will release a software update some time next year that will bring support to iOS for the messaging standard, which is already widely used … Read more
Signal said Wednesday that several new features have been trickling into the texting app over the last several weeks, including enhancements to text messages along with a way to limit message threads with people you aren’t in regular contact with. The end-to-end encrypted messaging app Signal has gotten more popular in recent years as users … Read more
Folks have a behavior of utilizing messaging apps to ship issues to themselves. A lot in order that chat apps like WhatsApp, Sign, and Telegram have built-in options for bookmarking or note-taking. Developer Willem de Beijer has developed a brand new note-taking app for iOS known as Qept with the “DM-to-yourself” phenomenon in thoughts. The … Read more