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👋 Manao ahoana!* Welcome to Wednesday, where Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu calls for “complete” defeat of Hamas as Israel considers total Gaza occupation, the world marks 80 years since the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, and today’s quiz question highlights a Parisian mishap. Meanwhile, La Marea’s Amador Iranzo looks at the worrying gentrification at play […]
Whatever happened to the love letter? Many are sitting in literary archives, while today’s youth prefers WhatsApps and emojis.
There have been increasing incidents at the regional level that indicate the Kremlin is developing a system, with elements from Chinese and Iranian censorship, to restrict internet access to build a new higher level of control over information.
Older demographics are particularly vulnerable (and regularly targeted) on the WhatsApp messaging platform. We’ve seen it before and after the presidential election.
Aid in its current form is expensive and inefficient. And it isn’t needed — Africa is now a dynamic and confident continent. Europe needs a change of perspective to understand that it needs Africa as much as Africa needs Europe.
From testing for COVID through WhatsApp to taking selfies to check heart risks, AI programs are being used in Argentina to complement early-stage diagnoses. The technologies are in their early stages but are able to detect what the human eye might miss.
Why must I feel like a washed-up nobody just because I have no need for a new “data plan”? All I want to do is make (and pay for) a simple phone call.
-OpEd- “Do you get how big this is? It’s been two hours now…” No, I didn’t get how big it was. Mostly, I was amazed that Daniel was both speaking in full sentences and making eye contact — I’d only ever seen him muted and bent over his computer screen scrolling through graphs and columns. […]
A growing number of Indians — including some lawmakers — have taken to social media to incite violence, particularly against Muslims.
Voice messages are unilateral and time-consuming: this is bad communication innovation.
It’s taken a few days to accept, but Cuba’s less-than-ideal WiFi situation may be a blessing in disguise for one Argentine visitor.
Love, jealousy and courtship have become impatient, high-speed activities that play out on our computer screens and smartphones.
The great paradox of our time is that we’ve never had access to so much information, and yet have never been so badly informed.
Changing your diet is not easy, but the power of messaging service WhatsApp keeps you connected to help keep you on track.
ENGLISH SOCCER FAIRYTALE COMES TRUE Photo: Tolga Akmen/London News Pictures/ZUMA They were a 5,000-1 longshot to win England’s Premier League at the start of the season, but the fairytale came true last night as Leicester City FC clinched the title when Chelsea and Tottenham drew, making it impossible for the latter to overtake Leicester, with […]
CHABAS — Residents in the small town of Chabás, northwest of Buenos Aires, recently put Internet chatting to good use, effectively using the free mobile texting application WhatsApp to police their neighborhood. The “real time” neigborhood watch scheme achieved what more traditional methods — such as waiting for the Argentine police to arrive, for example […]
For months, free smartphone instant messaging service WhatsApp has been topping the download charts. It is a favorite application for both iPhone and Android users. To the annoyance of cell phone providers, WhatsApp has become a kind of quasi replacement for the old fee-based SMS. According to WhatsApp developers, their servers handle over 10 billion […]