Apple and Google start rolling out end-to-end encrypted RCS chats in beta for iPhone owners and Android phone users. As Managing Editor, I lead CNET's mobile team, covering news and reviews on ...

Meta Platforms META.O is rolling out a new "Incognito Chat" feature for its artificial intelligence assistant on WhatsApp messaging service, the company said on Wednesday, as it looks to address data ...

Built on the Beldex Network, BChat aims to solve the weaknesses of relying solely on end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for private ...

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 ...

UPDATE (May 29, 2026): Google has brought several new features to the Google Messages app since we last updated this article. Scroll all the way down to get more information about the updates. Summary ...

Seven years after claiming that the “future is private”, Meta is ending support for end-to-end encryption on direct messages in Instagram. The ultra-private form of messaging, which only allows the ...

WhatsApp has introduced private chats with its AI chatbot which not even the tech company will be able to read in a new "incognito" mode. It means neither the user nor the AI's responses will be ...

WhatsApp has introduced private chats with its AI chatbot which not even the tech company will be able to read in a new "incognito" mode. It means neither the user nor the AI's responses will be ...

The end of Samsung Messages is no longer a rumor or a distant possibility; it's a July 2026 deadline that's now weeks away. Samsung began nudging Galaxy users toward Google Messages back in 2024, when ...

Like other Google apps, Messages for Android A/B tests many features. It can take the RCS/SMS client a rather long time to actually launch new functionality in stable. From various reports, Google ...