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When a user replies to a message with a “thumbs up” or smiley face, for example, Facebook Messenger registers it as a reply, which is now an unread message.So even a simple emoticon can create an unread message, triggering the unread message badge in the Facebook mobile appWhen you switch over to the conversation in mobile, however, viewing that sentiment does not register as having read the message.This causes the sentiment to remain in unread status, triggering the new message icon to recur again and again.if(typeof…

Klarna, the Swedish “buy now, pay later” service (BNPL), announced that it’s laying off 10 percent of its global workforce in a prerecorded video message, according to reports from Protocol and TechCrunch. The company currently has about 7,000 employees, and a 10 percent cutback puts the number of affected workers somewhere around 700. BNPL services like Klarna, Affirm, and Afterpay allows users to purchase a product for nothing or a small fraction of its full price. Customers can then make incremental payments over a…

Chris Brown Puts Up A Message For Rihanna After She Has Her First Baby With A$AP Rocky, Here’s Why He Deleted It! ( Photo Credit – Facebook ) Rihanna is undeniably one of the most followed and even worshipped musicians of the west who has left a deep impact on her audience through her work over the years. If you are a fan of her, you are probably already aware that she gave birth to a baby boy just a few days back and social media has been flooding up with best wishes for her and A$AP Rocky. Amidst all…

The 75th Cannes Film Festival kicked off on Tuesday in style and humour with French zombie movie, Final Cut, directed by Michel Hazanavicius, who had earlier given us the brilliant The Artist that won multiple Oscars. Starring Romain Duris and Berenice Bejo (who was part of The Artist), Final Cut, which is a loose remake of the Japanese horror comedy, One Cut of the Dead, evoked continuous laughs in the 2000-strong Grand Theatre Lumiere. (Also read: Deepika Padukone attends Cannes Film Festival jury dinner; poses with…

Gwyneth Paltrow is known for being many things, including an award-winning actress and the founder of lifestyle brand (and prominent vaginal egg producer) Goop. Of course, one can’t forget that she’s also a mother to two teenage children. Her oldest child, daughter Apple, just celebrated her 18th birthday this month. And Paltrow, being the avid social media user that she is, took to the web to share a sweet message for her daughter, who is the spitting image of her famous mom.Over the years, the public has seen kids bare…

WhatsApp is looking to make the message timer feature also work with existing chats. It currently allows users to create new individual chats with the message timer feature turned on by default. This update to the message timer feature is currently said to be in the works for WhatsApp for Android beta users. In related news, WhatsApp is reportedly also working on bringing a redesigned security page with the latest build of the WhatsApp Desktop beta. A similarly redesigned security page has reportedly already been in…

If a person is lost in the wilderness, they have two options. They can search for civilization, or they could make themselves easy to spot by building a fire or writing HELP in big letters. For scientists interested in the question of whether intelligent aliens exist, the options are much the same.  For over 70 years, astronomers have been scanning for radio or optical signals from other civilizations in the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, called SETI. Most scientists are confident that life exists on many of…

With the many different messaging apps and services available to us online and on our mobile phones, sometimes it’s easy to forget that good old SMS still exists. Like the pneumatic tubes in mailrooms from days of old, the pneumatic tube of texting is sending an SMS via email. If you’re ever in a pinch and without your phone for whatever reason, here is a guide on sending a text message via email. How to send text messages via emailThis guide will walk you through a few different methods on how to…

Looking for a way to preview WhatsApp voice messages before sending them? WhatsApp this week rolled out a preview voice message feature to let users review a draft of their audio recordings before sharing them with others. You can preview your voice messages before sending them in an individual thread or a group chat. The update helps you avoid sending a voice message that doesn't make complete sense or needs an update with some correction. You can also play back your voice message before sending to see if your audio is…