Russia has blocked WhatsApp nationwide, citing legal noncompliance, while promoting state-backed MAX, raising concerns over ...

The messaging platform WhatsApp says Russia has "attempted to fully block" its service inside the country, "to drive people to a state-owned surveillance app." ...

U.S. messenger app WhatsApp, owned by Meta Platforms , has been completely blocked in Russia for failing to comply with local ...

The "budget" model is keeping its approachable $599 entry price while swapping in the same AI-ready A19 processor found in the standard iPhone 17. That leap will likely deliver the full suite of Apple ...

Google’s new Super Bowl ad uses a heartfelt story about a dad and a job interview to show how Gemini on Pixel makes AI feel ...

The first WhatsApps weren’t WhatsApps. In the spring of 2009, Jan Koum, a thirty-three-year-old computer programmer, was trying to get people interested in a product he had developed for Apple’s App ...

Google Photos is revamping its backup settings with Expressive UI. The update also hints at a new Backup Schedule feature. This new feature could give you more control over when your photos are backed ...

Meta’s end-to-end encrypted messaging app is used by billions of people. Here’s how to make sure you’re one of the most locked-down ones out there. Meanwhile, in November, Austrian researchers plugged ...

Attackers behind a self-propagating malware campaign targeting Brazilian financial institutions have accelerated and upgraded their malicious activity, using artificial intelligence (AI) to spawn a ...

WhatsApp backups can grow fast, but you can shrink them by turning off video backups, deleting unnecessary media, moving files out of the WhatsApp folder, using a separate Google account for storage, ...

WhatsApp on Android automatically backs up your chats and media to Google Drive every day. If you want more control over your data, you can use a local backup instead to avoid relying on the cloud or ...

WhatsApp is set by default to back up everything you receive, so you are likely to have unnecessary data in your backup. Because those backups are stored on Google Drive, large backup files eat into ...