Very few chat apps offer the unsend feature. As it turns out, that’s for a few very good, or at least understandable, reasons. https://media.wired.com/photos/5c5a2143e04ca02ca6a0297d/master/pass/First-Round-GIF.gif
Tag: Messenger
James Patterson will preview his next novel in Facebook Messenger
James Patterson, the best-selling book factory in human form, is letting readers interact with the characters from his upcoming novel The Chef by speaking to them through Facebook Messenger. Starting October 30th, you’ll be able to receive video and sound clips from characters via Facebook’s massively popular messaging platform, according to Variety. Conversations on Messenger […]
How Facebook’s Messenger Got Its New Look in a New Jersey Basement
Today Facebook is revealing its Messenger app’s redesign, which has a bubbly vibe that a former intern dreamed up at his parents’ house. https://media.wired.com/photos/5bce4a6a9f47f46d0140e967/master/pass/FB-Messenger-FA-530122888.jpg
FBI: We can’t listen to Facebook Messenger voice calls. Judge: Tough luck
Enlarge (credit: Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images) A federal judge in Fresno, California recently denied prosecutors’ request to force Facebook to wiretap voice calls by suspected gang members conducted over Messenger. According to a Friday report by Reuters, despite already having substantive traditional wiretaps and intercepting Messenger texts between alleged MS-13 gangsters, the government wanted […]
Facebook reportedly avoided DOJ wiretap of Messenger calls
As part of a case involving members of the MS-13 gang, the US Department of Justice has been pushing to get access to Facebook Messenger voice calls. It even attempted to hold Facebook in contempt of court last month when the company pushed back on a wiretap order. Now, Reuters reports that a US District […]
Facebook Messenger DOWN – Chat app not working as users struggle to access service
UPDATE: Facebook Messenger is now back online with full service resumed. Facebook Messenger seems to have hit some problems tonight with reports that the hugely popular app is down and not working. It seems the problems began around midnight with users in the UK, Europe and the US reporting problems sending and receiving messages. Down Detector, […]
Facebook Messenger assistant M can now translate French
Facebook Messenger today announced that intelligent assistant M can now translate conversations from English, French, and Spanish in France, Mexico, and the United States. M Translations in French is the latest intelligent assistant upgrade for France, following Google Assistant multilingual support in August for a number of languages including Fre…Read More
Court orders Telegram messenger services to be blocked in Russia
A district court in Moscow has ordered access to popular internet messenger Telegram to be blocked after the company repeatedly refused to hand over encryption keys to its messages to Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). On Friday morning, the Tagansky District Court described the request of Telegram’s lawyers to adjourn the hearings as “abuse of […]
Facebook Messenger users sue company over its logging of phone calls and text messages
(Reuters) — Three users of the Facebook Messenger app sued Facebook on Tuesday, saying the social network violated their privacy by collecting logs of their phone calls and text messages, in the latest legal challenge facing the company. The U.S. lawsuit filed in federal court in the Northern District of California seeks status as a […]
The Messenger is a Ninja Gaiden homage that is more than it appears
Shovel Knight is one of my favorite indie games. IT manages to capture the magic of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Castlevania with tight platforming and beautiful pixel graphics. The Messenger is accomplishing many of the same things, but it takes its inspiration from the Ninja Gaiden series for the Nintendo Entertainment System. The […]
