Google Messages is a solid all-around texting app, but it still lacks some pretty basic features, or has only recently added them. One such feature is custom chat themes. In the year 2026, Google ...

Since 27 August 2026, a temporary chat in ChatGPT lets you decide at the start whether it may reach your memories, plugins and custom instructions. The screenshot shows the German interface. Temporary ...

A lawsuit accuses Homeland Security of violating protesters’ free-speech rights—but the agency is using it to try to get access to the plaintiffs’ encrypted communications. The Department of Homeland ...

If you're using artificial intelligence, odds are you're looking for the best way to integrate it to make your life easier. Your experiments may be piecemeal: Try out a new app today, test a new ...

Overall, the 16 participants of the study were “largely positive” about their interactions with griefbots, the scientists write in the paper. Pixabay The death of a loved one can be devastating, ...

OpenAI has updated its recently redesigned ChatGPT app for Mac to make chats easier to access once again. Here are the details. Last Thursday, OpenAI launched a new ChatGPT app for Mac that combined ...

This project demonstrates the fundamentals of network programming by implementing a real-time group chat server that accepts multiple simultaneous client connections, each handled on its own dedicated ...

An international police operation spanning seven countries has uncovered highly organized networks of offenders who drug and rape their partners and use online chat groups to aid and encourage their ...

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 ...

A Treasury watchdog found the IRS expanded taxpayer chat services despite lacking reliable performance data and measures to evaluate service quality and effectiveness. The Treasury Inspector General ...

Clockwise, from top right: An employee at an Amazon Web Services lab in Austin, Texas; a woman uses a smartwatch; a student before commencement at the University of Southern California; a person uses ...