South India's joyous Pongal harvest festival, celebrated in mid-January 2026, marks the end of winter and honors nature, ...

RIP to Facebook Messenger’s desktop app. The native app for Mac and Windows is no longer available to users as of today, December 15, 2025, and existing users are being directed to the Facebook ...

Humana Inc. is working with billionaire Mark Cuban on a potential pharmacy partnership, Cuban and Humana’s chief executive officer said at a conference Thursday, a move that could step up pressure on ...

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What is the most used social media site by Americans? Believe it or not, it’s not Facebook, Instagram or Tik Tok. According to The Hill, polling from Pew Research Center said it is a site many don’t ...

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In November 2025, an Instagram post (archived) with more than 100,000 likes claimed Meta, the company that owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, will start reading users' direct messages once it ...

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The Eagles got some revenge on the Giants on Sunday, rolling at home to a 38-20 victory over their NFC East rivals. The victory came just two weeks after New York got the best of Philadelphia in their ...

Everybody with a social media account knows that outages happen. From Meta’s Facebook and Instagram hiccup last year to X.com’s brief problem earlier this year, it’s inevitable for an occasional ...

Meta has published a support doc that states its Messenger app for Mac is being discontinued. New users won’t be able to download the app at all, and existing users have about 60 more days of use ...

Meta is shutting down Messenger’s stand-alone desktop apps for Windows and Mac on December 15, the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Thursday. Starting December 15, users will no longer be able to ...