For years, WhatsApp calls have been supported only on the smartphone app or its native desktop app. Now Meta is finally letting users make and receive audio and video calls using WhatsApp for Web.

Your Android lock screen is supposed to keep your messages safe, even if someone gets hold of your phone. But a newly discovered Gemini bug could do the opposite. Since May, The Register has received ...

Meta has launched its first AI image generator – and it has automatically enrolled Instagram accounts, meaning anyone on the internet can use your photos unless you turn off the feature. Meta’s ...

Update, July 10 at 9 pm EDT: Meta rolled back the ability for users to tag public Instagram accounts for AI generations three days after the feature’s release. In a statement released Friday, Meta ...

Something to look forward to: Meta is testing its experimental social media app "Pocket," which allows developers and creative individuals to "create, share, and discover" their vibe-coded mini-games ...

American Express has announced a new way for cardholders to redeem their rewards points: they can be used to pay for Apple Pay transactions. Here are the details. American Express points can be ...

Six Flags' massive new coaster is rising on Kingda Ka's former footprint — already towering nearly 30 stories over Great Adventure — but the park still won't say what it will be called. Six Flags has ...

If the idea of digging out your Siri Remote to install a tvOS update on your Apple TV sounds like too much effort, Apple's upcoming iOS 27 software will have a new feature you'll surely welcome. Based ...

A technique that supersizes cells to reveal minute details has gone big — really big. Using a polymer similar to those used in nappies to make them super-absorbent, scientists have expanded the volume ...

Drive and Listen combines street-level video with live local radio for a surprisingly immersive experience—even if it’s only from your desktop. Drive and Listen might not sound like it, but it’s ...

Project Valhalla’s value classes are heading to JDK 28, a 197,000-line change that rewrites how Java handles object identity. Oracle software engineer Lois Foltan has confirmed that Java Enhancement ...

Sick of paying steep, ongoing subscription fees to use your fitness tracker? An app called Noop aims to rectify that, at least in the case of the Whoop Band (or you could skip the Whoop entirely for ...