Not sure whether to use iMessage, Messenger, or WhatsApp? Each app has its own strengths — from Apple-exclusive features and social integration to global reach and privacy. Here’s how to decide which ...

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Every day, over 5 billion people exchange more than 100 billion messages across WhatsApp, Telegram, iMessage, and Signal. Most assume their chats are private but a growing body of research suggests ...

Recognizing this need, major online messaging services use a technique called end-to-end encryption, to secure and protect users' conversations.

During a discussion at an event for Global Encryption Day 2025, a former investigator joined technologists and activists in ...

IBM achieves record 120-qubit entanglement, marking a leap toward quantum systems that could one day challenge Bitcoin’s ...

Opponents of full encryption shared concerns that the public will lose an important tool for monitoring police activity and ...

In the beginning, WhatsApp users could not protect their chat backups with encryption—while all communications were encrypted end-to-end, backups weren't afforded the same protection. Since 2021, ...

Full public access to police scanner activity in the East Bay will soon be unavailable after Berkeley councilmembers gave the city’s police department permission to encrypt radio communications.

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