It’s time to reserve your WhatsApp username When someone new walks into your life – a classmate, a neighbor, someone you meet at an event – sharing a phone number can feel like a big step. That’s because a phone number is personal and it’s tied to so many parts of your life. Sometimes you just want to chat without handing over your digits. This is also true for group conversations. You want to join the parent chat for the soccer team but you’re not ready to give your phone number to people you've never met. That's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp. Starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch this feature. With over three billion people on WhatsApp a lot of names overlap, which is why we're opening reservations early so everyone has the opportunity to select the username that matters to them. For most people, choosing a WhatsApp username should be something unique that only people you want to contact you will know. If y...
Okay, real talk for a second. When Google launched Gemini, a lot of people dismissed it. "It is just Google's attempt to copy ChatGPT." "It is not as good as OpenAI." "I tried it once and went back to ChatGPT." That was fair — back then. But that was then. In 2026, Gemini is a genuinely different beast. The Gemini app now has over 900 million monthly active users. That is not a failed product. That is one of the fastest-growing AI platforms in history. And most people using it are barely scratching the surface of what it can actually do This guide covers every feature, every model, every plan, and every trick — so you can actually get value out of it instead of just using it as a glorified search engine. What Exactly Is Google Gemini? Google built Gemini as the successor to Bard and PaLM, combining years of model research into a single system. It now appears in two places most of us already work: a standalone chat app at gemini.google.com and a...