In the 1960s and ’70s, he developed the PLATO computer system, which combined instant messaging, email, chat rooms and gaming on flat-screen plasma displays. By Michael S. Rosenwald Donald Bitzer, an ...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth directed the installation of Signal, a commercially available messaging app, on a desktop computer in his Pentagon office, said three people familiar with the matter, ...

The 2024 election not only marked a political turning point — it was a wake up call that revealed deep flaws in how we engage, mobilize, and value youth voters between the ages of 18-29. While youth ...

Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square and founder of Bluesky, is back with another potentially disruptive and decentralized app: “bitchat.” Like Twitter and Bluesky, bitchat is a social app, ...

In an echo from this time last year, smartphone users are again being warned against sending unencrypted text messages by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA). Warning in ...

Following Verizon’s decision to kill off its in-house Message+ texting app, AT&T is following suit, or technically already has. Making good on a promise to sunset the AT&T Messages app by the end of ...

“It’s just like planning a dinner,” the renowned computer scientist Grace Hopper once quipped about computing in a 1967 issue of Cosmopolitan. “You have to plan ahead and schedule everything so it’s ...