WhatsApp users on Android may encounter a bug that mutes the microphone. It only occurs when when navigating away from the app or when the screen dims. For now, staying in the app during calls is the ...

Fawaz and Yang tested videoconferencing applications on major operating systems such as iOS, Android, Windows and Mac, to see if the microphones were still accessed by the apps while muted.

A new study shows that pressing the mute button on popular video conferencing apps (VCA) may not actually work like you think it should, with apps still listening in on your microphone.

Needless to say, a malfunctioning microphone is a major problem on any kind of Android phone. While a lot of people confine their conversations to messaging apps these days, you’re almost inevitably ...

Over the last couple of years, WhatsApp has been working steadily to bridge the feature gap that exists between its platform and other messaging services. In the last few months alone, WhatsApp has ...

Kassem Fawaz and Yucheng Yang during their research about whether mics on computers are really muted during video conference calls. Courtesy photo (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Surely when you ...