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An image from a Whatsapp TV ad featuring the cast of Modern Family
WhatsApp's new TV ads feature the cast of "Modern Family," including Ty Burrell and Julie Bowen.
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If you’re running the iOS 18 developer beta, you may have noticed your Android friends aren’t the same green bubbles as they used to be. Carriers have been steadily rolling out RCS support on the backend, and plenty of iPhone-wielding folks have already reported decade-long feuds being solved due to Apple acquiescing…

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Sadly, people aren’t always as nice as they could be, and that’s where you need to turn to the various blocking and reporting features on the digital platforms you frequent. Overall, these features work well and effectively put up barriers between you and those you don’t want to hear from.

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Ashley Madison promotes itself as a dating site that helps people cheat on their partners. But newly released consumer complaints filed with the FTC, obtained exclusively by Gizmodo, should probably give any potential cheaters pause. The site is lousy with extortion attempts, to put it mildly.

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Apple removed several U.S.-based messaging apps from its App Store in China, including WhatsApp, Signal, and Threads, according to the Washington Post Friday.

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Meta is asking a judge to dismiss an FTC antitrust lawsuit related to the company's acquisitions of WhatsApp and Instagram.
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Meta platforms Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram are experiencing a global outage with thousands of reports of the app not working properly since roughly 2 p.m. ET Wednesday.WhatsApp appears to have gone down first, with Instagram and Facebook following suit about 30 minutes later.

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After 31 days in the trenches of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge, Google Maps has emerged victorious!

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This week saw a tragic event as the Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore came crashing down after a cargo ship crashed into it.