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WhatsApp Lets You Reserve a Username, Making Your Phone Number More Private

Once WhatsApp's username feature is launched, you'll be able to protect the privacy of your phone number for new contacts. [...]

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How to perform a reverse phone number lookup

In an age of constant communication, receiving phone calls or messages from unknown numbers has become increasingly common. Whether it's a missed call from an unfamiliar number, a potential scam [...]

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Meta has a plan to bring AI to WhatsApp chats without breaking privacy

As Meta’s first-ever generative AI conference gets underway, the company is also previewing a significant update on its plans to bring AI features to WhatsApp chats. Buried in its LlamaCon updates, [...]

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Light Phone III review: Minimalism stretched to the point of frustration

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AI-powered chat summaries are coming to WhatsApp

Meta is adding a new Message Summaries feature to WhatsApp that uses AI to summarize unread messages in a few bullet points. The feature is built on the Private Processing technique Meta announced at [...]

Match Score: 59.99

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Trump's federal Bitcoin reserve order leaves the crypto market unenthused

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WhatsApp is finally letting users reserve usernames so they never have to hand over their phone number

WhatsApp is opening username reservations starting today, allowing its more than three billion users to connect with people without sharing their phone number for the first time. The feature, which ha [...]

Match Score: 57.39

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How to set up a WhatsApp account without Facebook or Instagram

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WhatsApp has ads now, but only in the Updates tab

It has been a long time coming — seven years since Meta first announced its plan to do so, in fact — but ads are starting to appear in WhatsApp as of Monday. They'll only be visible on the Up [...]

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