Tag: Text messaging

Only Use Encrypted Apps to Communicate, Says FBI

The FBI and CISA are saying it’s not safe to use native apps to send text messages and that we should only use encrypted apps.

By Laura Tucker – Dec 4, 2024

Featured image: what are WhatsApp Lists.

Keep Tabs on Conversations With WhatsApp Lists

WhatsApp lists allow you to keep tabs on chats with multiple contacts and groups in an intuitive manner. Learn how to create and manage them.

By Sayak Boral – Nov 6, 2024

Set up free text messaging when going abroad, featured imager courtesy Unsplash.

How to Set Up Text Messaging for International Travel

Texting can be confusing when you’re abroad. This guide shows how to set up free text messaging for international travel.

By Sayak Boral – May 28, 2024

Why You Might Get Banned from WhatsApp

If you’re an avid WhatsApp user, it’s important to know what types of things can get you banned so that you can avoid doing them. Here’s what to watch out for.

By Judy Sanhz – May 3, 2016

ARPANET sent its first message on 29 October 1969 from a lab at UCLA to a machine at Stanford, and the message was supposed to read ‘LOGIN’ — but the system crashed after the L and the O, meaning the first word ever transmitted over the network that became the internet was, by accident, ‘LO’.

Jun 9, 2026

In 1995, Microsoft shipped a cartoon-house interface called Bob, led by Melinda French, who married Bill Gates while it was in development — it demanded twice the memory of a typical home PC, sold roughly 30,000 copies, and was dead within a year, leaving behind the font Comic Sans and the animated assistant that became Clippy.

Jun 9, 2026

Stunning underwater shot of tiger sharks swimming among fish in the ocean depths.

The Greenland shark grows about one centimetre a year, does not reach sexual maturity until around age 150, and a specimen carbon-dated by Danish researchers in 2016 was estimated to be at least 272 years old, meaning it was already swimming the North Atlantic when Mozart was composing symphonies.

Jun 9, 2026

French scientist Michel Siffre spent two months alone in a cave with no clock, no calendar, and no sunlight — and when his team finally told him the experiment was over, he thought he still had nearly a month left underground

Jun 9, 2026

A person using a smartphone with a green screen surrounded by fresh fruits and vegetables in the kitchen.

When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many

Jun 9, 2026

Starry night with radio towers and the Milky Way galaxy visible overhead.

When NASA lost contact with the IMAGE satellite in 2005, an amateur radio operator in Canada named Scott Tilley picked up its signal in January 2018 while hunting for a classified spy satellite, and the spacecraft turned out to be still spinning, still powered, and still trying to phone home after 13 years of silence.

Jun 9, 2026

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