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How to enable RCS chat in the Google Messages app on Android - The Verge How to enable RCS chat in the Google Messages app on Android - The Verge Google Doodle Halloween 2019: Animation celebrates Halloween with interactive game about animals, WWF - CBS News Google parent Alphabet makes offer to buy Fitbit, sending stock soaring - CNBC How to enable RCS chat in the Google Messages app on Android - The Verge Posted: 31 Oct 2019 01:31 PM PDT While iPhone users have been happily iMessaging for some time now, Android users have been stuck in the much more old-fashioned SMS version of texting. Recently, Google has been working with the major phone service carriers to finally upgrade to a new messaging standard called RCS. While there are already a number of criticisms of this standard (for one thing, it doesn't have end-to-end encryption), RCS looks like it will probably come to pass. But not soon — at least, not for most ...

Twitter is canceling politics - USA TODAY Twitter is canceling politics - USA TODAY Posted: 30 Oct 2019 04:28 PM PDT CLOSE An unlikely hero helps save a library from flames, and Twitter opts out of politics.  It's Ashley , here's the news everyone is talking about Wednesday.  But first, flight school :   If a plane you're on lost its pilot, do you think you could land it? A USA TODAY reporter did, but he had some sweet tech to help . The Short List newsletter is a snappy USA TODAY news roundup.  Subscribe here ! Twitter doesn't want your money, politicians  Twitter will no longer be accepting political ads,  adding fuel to the fire in the highly controversial debate over free speech and politics on social media. "We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought," said Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a tweetstorm Wednesday. Twitter's ban will go into place in November...

Donald Trump wants to end endless wars. Flirting with isolationism won't get him there. - USA TODAY Donald Trump wants to end endless wars. Flirting with isolationism won't get him there. - USA TODAY America once led anti-corruption fight. Now self-dealing Trump is kleptocrats' role model. - USA TODAY The impeachment inquiry stage is set - USA TODAY Donald Trump's likely next sports event: The Ultimate Fighting Championship - USA TODAY Facebook doesn't have to run paid ads peddling politicians' lies - USA TODAY Donald Trump wants to end endless wars. Flirting with isolationism won't get him there. - USA TODAY Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:47 PM PDT The Editorial Board, USA TODAY Published 6:47 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2019 | Updated 7:47 p.m. ET Oct. 31, 2019 More than 200,000 U.S. troops are stationed worldwide, serving to safeguard U.S. security and inte...