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Jon Porter

Jon Porter

Jon Porter was a reporter at The Verge from 2018 to 2024.

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The best mechanical keyboards to buy right now

Whether wired, wireless, or low profile, here are our picks for the best readily available boards.

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Galaxy AI starts rolling out for the S23.

Are you’re using an older Samsung device and jealously eying up the Galaxy AI features available with this year’s phones? Well good news; Samsung has started rolling out its AI-equipped One UI 6.1 update to the Galaxy S23, S23 FE, Z Flip 5, and Z Fold 5, starting today. SamMobile reports that the update has arrived for Verizon devices in the US, and unlocked devices will follow next month.

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Another look at WhatsApp’s third-party chat support — now in video form.

Thanks to the Digital Markets Act, Meta is gearing up to allow WhatsApp and Messenger to send and receive messages from other services. We’ve already seen screenshots of how the feature might look thanks to WABetaInfo, and now TheSpAndroid has gone one better with a video of the onboarding process, and also reports that WhatsApp could soon offer new AI-powered image editing tools; backdrop, restyle, and expand.

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What’s cooler than pinning a WhatsApp message? Pinning three.

Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg has announced that WhatsApp is rolling out the option to pin as many as three messages to the top of a chat, up from the single message that’s been possible to pin since late last year. According to WABetaInfo, which previously spotted the feature in beta, Meta is already working on the option of pinning even more.

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Pinned messages are handy for keeping important chat details easily accessible.
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