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WhatsApp's New "Read and Delete" Feature Is Coming, And It's Actually a Big Deal for Your Privacy
WhatsApp is testing a new feature that deletes messages after they've been read, not just after a timer. Here's what you need to know. Okay, this is a good one. WhatsApp, the messaging app owned by Meta and used by over two billion people worldwide, is quietly testing a new feature that will delete your messages automatically after the other person has read them. Not after a timer. After they've actually read it. That's a meaningful difference. And if you care about your priv

Michael Routhier
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The Great Dumbing Down: How Tech Is Making Us Weaker and Calling It Progress | Full Episode Transcript
One half of your brain still belongs to you. This episode is about keeping it that way. When was the last time you were genuinely, uncomfortably bored, with nothing to scroll through, nothing to look at, nothing to listen to? Most of us can't remember. And that might be exactly the problem. In this episode, Michael Routhier delivers one of his most personal and unfiltered conversations yet; a no-holds-barred examination of what technology is actually doing to us. Not what it

Michael Routhier
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