With the new Workspace icons fully rolled out, Google is now tweaking how Chat appears in the Android status bar to look less like Messages. The homescreen icons are pretty distinguished in terms of ...

Google Messages is working on new support for custom chat wallpapers. In addition to the still wallpapers we’ve seen, it also appears this mode will support GIF animations. We’re also getting a first ...

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The company is offering customers a chat tool powered by artificial intelligence to help them make better sense of their finances. SoFi Technologies unveiled SoFi Coach on Tuesday, an interactive chat ...

UPDATE (June 10, 2026): The Google Messages app is now getting the ‘Tap to Draft’ feature. Read more about it at the end of the article. Summary: Google Messages is a messaging service from the ...

Asian travellers are broadly receptive to personalised communications from hospitality brands, but marketers risk turning them off if messages are too frequent or poorly timed, according to a new ...

It’s a word ripped from Twitch streams, but it functions as a Greek chorus for an online, isolated generation. By Barrett Swanson While serving as an English professor at a small Midwestern university ...

After testing got underway last year, YouTube is now more widely rolling out a new in-app messaging system. The aim is to let people “connect over their favorite videos directly on YouTube.” Once ...

Karen Read is suing the Town of Canton and Massachusetts State Police, alleging two law enforcement officials who worked on her murder case are “virulent bigots” whose private messages reveal an ...

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The wife of Democratic Maine Senate candidate Graham Platner told his campaign in 2025 about sexual messages he had sent to other women. Amy Gertner, whom Platner has been married to since November ...