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Facebook Messenger's secret conversations offer end-to-end encryption for private chats, ensuring only participants can read messages. Users can set messages to disappear after a set time. This ...

After the 2022 removal and restoration for some users last year, Pixel Launcher search is once again letting you open apps using the keyboard. When you search for an app in the Pixel Launcher, Google ...

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When Apple launched the App Store in 2008, it was impossibly influential to the future of the internet. The all-powerful world wide web was sliced and diced into bite-sized apps oft-dubbed Web 2.0.

If Windows is your preferred operating system, consider these open-source apps. There are numerous open-source apps available for almost any task. These are all free to install and use on Windows.

OpenAI has begun accepting submissions from third-party developers for their apps to be accessible directly in ChatGPT, and has launched a new App Directory (don't ...

On Windows, launching the Messenger desktop app now redirects users directly to the full Facebook desktop application. macOS users see a similar outcome, as the app sends them straight to ...

Meta has discontinued Facebook Messenger’s native desktop app for Mac and Windows, ending access to the standalone application on December 15, 2025, and directing users to continue using the messaging ...

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...