messaging
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You Can Finally Send High Quality Photos on WhatsApp
WhatsApp might be the most popular chat app in the world, but it isn’t the best for sending photos and videos. The app has a 16MB limit on any media you send, and, even still, compresses it to save space. That compression results in a lower quality image or video, which is frustrating in a…
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Honk Is the New Yo
Once, there was an app called Yo. All it did was send your friends the message, “Yo.” It was one of the best mobile apps ever made, and while it still exists, everyone deleted it years ago and there’s no one to Yo anymore. Now, a new app, Honk, would like us to Yo again,…
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WhatsApp Brings Disappearing Messages To Its Platform
Good news for WhatsApp users who might want to keep their chat history a bit less permanent: the company announced a new “disappearing messages feature,” which will start rolling out to its more than one billion iOS and Android customers worldwide starting today.
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COVID-19 Messaging is Failing Australia’s Multicultural Communities
Poor translations on COVID-19 messaging from governments are failing to deliver key information about the pandemic, a new ABC report has shown. The ABC investigation revealed a number of government information sheets — providing crucial information on masks and where to find information in languages other than English — had translation errors, resulting in “nonsensical”…