📱 A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps
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A decade and a half of instability: The history of Google messaging apps. Google Talk, Google's first-ever instant messaging platform, launched on August 24, 2005. This company has been in the messaging business for 16 years, meaning Google has been making messaging clients for longer than some of its rivals have existed. (Ron Amadeo via Ars Technica)
The hybrid work revolution is already transforming economies. Office workers are being set free. Experts say that offers a rare opportunity to kickstart sluggish economies. Even in the 19th century, workers were beginning to resent the grind of office life. (Libby Cherry via Bloomberg)
CIA, U.S. troops conduct missions outside Kabul Airport to extract Americans, allies. The Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. military are conducting extraction operations to evacuate Americans using helicopters and ground troops as the window begins to close for rescuing all people at risk in Afghanistan. (Gordon Lubold via Wall Street Journal)
The Stealthy iPhone Hacks That Apple Still Can't Stop. It's a shocking revelation: The Bahraini government allegedly purchased and deployed sophisticated malware against human rights activists, including spyware that required no interaction from the victim—no clicked links, no permissions… (Lily Hay Newman via WIRED)
Pediatric Covid hospitalizations surge to highest on record in U.S. as doctors brace for more. Children are now being hospitalized in record numbers across the United States, and doctors are warning that it could get worse as schools begin to reopen and the swift-moving coronavirus delta variant drives cases higher. (Berkeley Lovelace Jr. via CNBC)
OnlyFans reverses decision to ban sexually-explicit conduct. OnlyFans has reversed its decision to ban sexually-explicit conduct after widespread backlash. It said in a statement on Wednesday: 'Thank you to everyone for making your voices heard. (Sinéad Baker via Business Insider)
Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence. When Spotify decided to try to become the biggest podcasting platform in the world, it knew it needed a nuclear weapon: Joe Rogan. The comedian turned podcasting icon has become impossible to miss and a force in the industry. (Ashley Carman via The Verge)
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