ZDNET's key takeaways Google Messages now lets you delete a sent text message. A deleted message disappears for the other person immediately. The feature is available now for almost all Android users.

CBS News documented dozens of swastikas and at least a dozen instances of hate speech targeting minority groups across Spray ...

Text message scams, or "smishing," occurs when fraudsters pretend to be a government agency, bank or other organization and try to steal information through texts.

Google Messages' delete for everyone option is now widely available. There's a “message deleted” notification after you've deleted a message.

So, you don't have to use the search option or scroll to the bottom to find those messages. Message pinning is one of those easy-to-use features in Google Messages.

DEAR MISS MANNERS: One evening, quite late at night, I received a long, impassioned text from a stranger by mistake. In it, he talked about having had a “wonderful few hours” with someone and ...

More than three years after Apple added the Undo Send feature in iOS 16, Google Messages is gaining the ability to unsend texts on Android.

These are not games, they’re digital platforms designed to extract profit from the users, and a haven for online predators.

The report found 71 per cent of youth between the ages 12 and 17 reported experiencing at least one form of bullying in the past 12 months.