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“If you aren’t using iMessage, you can use RCS. RCS text messages can be sent to non-Apple devices as well as another iPhone or another Apple device with Text Message Forwarding turned on,” Apple explained.

Co-founder and CEO Sam Altman says he only takes a small salary, and no equity, from his company OpenAI because running it is his dream job.

If you’ve seen the letters RCS while texting recently, you’re not alone. But what do they mean and why are more people seeing them now?

Six former Apple employees are facing fraud charges in a scam that targeted the tech giant’s program for matching workers’ charitable donations, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.

Some Microsoft users are reporting issues with Outlook and other Microsoft 365 programs on Monday morning, according to the website Downdetector.

Crypto showed up in force this election cycle, raising tens of millions to vote out the industry’s critics and vote in its friends.

Elon Musk’s X implemented new terms of service that are driving some users off the microblogging platform. 

Companies have touted new AI technology that allows users to apply to thousands of jobs per day, flooding job openings with resumes.

Championed by former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, Bluesky was an invitation-only space until it opened to the public in February.

The Supreme Court seems likely to keep alive a class-action lawsuit accusing Nvidia of misleading investors about its dependence on selling computer chips for the mining of volatile cryptocurrency. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in the tech company’s appeal of a lower-court ruling allowing a 2018 suit led by a Swedish investment management firm to continue. It’s one of two...

Google has integrated its artificial intelligence platform Gemini into apps such as Maps and Waze to make it easier and more elaborate for users. Scott McGrew reports.

A Russian court ordered Google to pay 20 decillion for removing Russian TV channels from YouTube after its invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

Parents in a Long Island school district are split on a new strategy to ban cellphones in class. Many agree that they can be a distraction, but some parents say the move to spend $67,000 to fix the recurring problem is a bit steep. NBC New York’s Pei-Sze Cheng reports.

A normal school day at a Long Island middle school now begins with students locking their cellphones up in a pouch and putting it way the entire day. Not all parents are in agreement and the school’s decision has not been without some controversy.

October is Cybersecurity Awareness Month, which means it’s the perfect time to learn how to protect yourself from scams.

Lina Khan, who leads the agency, said the rule is designed so that if consumers signed up online, they should be able to cancel in the same number of steps.

Parents are saying that a viral video showing the horrors of teen phone addiction is “powerful” and “hits deep.”

The company formerly known as Facebook appears to have found its footing in virtual and augmented reality through a different medium.

A week after experiencing widespread network issues, thousands of users are reported trouble with Verizon’s cell phone service on Monday morning, according to the website Downdetector.com. Verizon said there was a brief issue earlier but that it’s been fixed. “Some Verizon Wireless customers experienced a short service disruption when calling landlines this morning. The outage lasted for a few...

Verizon said its engineers are making progress on restoring network service for customers who have had their phones in “SOS mode” since the morning, according to a statement posted on social media late Monday afternoon. Around 5 p.m. on Monday, Verizon said its engineers were making progress and service was starting to be restored. “Verizon engineers are making progress on…