Sept. 27, 2023, 4:50 p.m. | Edward Fernandez (noreply@blogger.com)

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SMS texting is frozen in time.



People still use and rely on trillions of SMS texts each year to exchange messages with friends, share family photos, and copy two-factor authentication codes to access sensitive data in their bank accounts. It’s hard to believe that at a time where technologies like AI are transforming our world, a forty-year old mobile messaging standard is still so prevalent.



Like any forty-year-old technology, SMS is antiquated …

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