Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. As a long-time staple on Pixel phones that recently took over for Samsung Messages in the U.S., Google Messages is the closest ...

In the days following a devastating loss, a man’s reaction to a simple act of care from his girlfriend sparked backlash and disbelief. The original poster (OP) wrote that her boyfriend’s mother died ...

My 9-year-old doesn’t have a phone, but some of her friends do. In the past, my daughter gave her friends my number, and they passed it along to their parents for arranging play dates. This worked ...

Florida law prohibits operating a motor vehicle while manually typing, sending, or reading data on a wireless device. Current penalties for texting while driving start at a $30 fine for a first ...

Spammers and malicious actors inundate us with a steady stream of text messages—often purporting to be from legitimate institutions or companies. Stanching this flow isn’t easy. Just as the unwanted ...

Zohran Mamdani and President Trump have been exchanging “friendly” missives at least twice a week — as an unlikely bromance between the socialist mayor and conservative commander-in-chief continues to ...

It is effectively a modernized version of the SMS standard, which remains available as a fallback option for text messages over a cellular network. The enhancements listed above were actually ...

Elon Musk announced today that Tesla will enable its electric vehicle owners with (Supervised) Full Self-Driving (FSD) to “text and drive” in “a month or two,” without explaining how they will get ...

T-Mobile Makes 911 Satellite Texting Free for All Carriers Your email has been sent T-Mobile has made emergency satellite texting completely free for everyone in the U.S., including customers from ...

RESTON, Va.—Democrats were expecting to comfortably wrestle back control in Virginia next month, with polls predicting wins up and down the ticket in statewide elections. Instead, the local party has ...

Selena Gomez caught Martin Short texting their “Only Murders in the Building” co-star Meryl Streep during the Emmys. In a video clip circulating via X, the former Disney Channel star — who attended ...

iPhone users have long dreaded the Android green bubble — Apple's way of showing that a text was sent as an SMS or MMS message instead of iMessage. SMS messaging has been around since 1992, and these ...