Knowing how to ensure video call safety for your child helps you protect them from strangers, inappropriate content, and privacy risks before problems start. A few simple steps make a real difference.

Google is working on a new Video Chat panel for Android that lets you apply a variety of visual and audio effects to video calls. These effects include background blur, portrait lighting, portrait ...

RCS 4.0 will kill FaceTime, if you can wait until Android 19 ...

Today’s 2-Minute Tech Briefing looks at Google’s new AI safety layer for Chrome, Anthropic’s move to bring Claude Code directly into Slack, and research showing how even small video call glitches can ...

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Google Messages might soon allow users to initiate WhatsApp video calls directly from the app. Users can currently initiate Google Meet video calls, but the service could prefer WhatsApp in the future ...

Instagram is no longer limited to scrolling through photos, watching Reels, or reacting to Stories. Over the years, the platform has steadily added communication tools that help users connect in more ...

WeChat, China’s hot chat app — with around 600 million users — today rolled out group video calling for up to nine people, on iOS. The update comes just weeks after WeChat introduced video calling on ...

Now that RCS works between Android and iPhone, it’s become a more important tool for everyone, and the next major update to the RCS Universal Profile has just been announced with major additions, ...