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The Greatest App of All Time Day 17: Instagram vs. WhatsApp

Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s tournament was a bloodbath with Calculator taking more than 87 percent of the vote. Twitch goes home empty-handed. Today, we have the crown jewels of Zuckerberg’s empire going head-to-head. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as always, if you think we missed your personal favorite…

March Madness Bracket Day 2

Graphic: GizmodoIt’s day 2 of Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to crown the greatest app of all time! The mighty Fart App has fallen to Instagram in our first round and today’s challengers are WhatsApp vs Dark Sky. Will Mark Zuckerberg win again? That’s up to you. Threads Needs These Five Missing Features to Be a Twitter KillerIf you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Now, let’s get into today’s contestants.In this corner, with around 2 billion

Signal Has a New President and She Wants You to Pay

Meredith Whittaker addresses hundreds of Google employees during a protest rally on Thursday, Nov. 1, 2018, in New York. Google employees walked off the job in a protest against what they said is the tech company’s mishandling of sexual misconduct allegations against executives.Photo: Bebeto Matthews (AP)Since its debut eight years ago, the face of the encrypted messaging app Signal has been its founder Moxie Marlinspike. In January, Marlinspike said he’d be stepping down as CEO. And while Signal hasn’t found a permanent