Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, November 5th, 2020.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

What'sAP gets disappearing messages 10 years after Snapchat. A new entry-level ultra-lightweight drone from

DJI. Productivity laptops are getting interesting designs a la gaming laptops.

Ethereum 2.0 is coming. How and why Jack Ma pissed off the Chinese government and the

Xbox series X reviews are in. Also just when I came into the booth, the

Justice Department announced it was suing to stop Visa from buying Plaid.

Obviously since it just happened, we'll have to talk about that tomorrow.

Here's what you missed today in the world of tech.

What's app now lets you post messages that disappear after a certain amount of time.

These ephemeral messages can also be photos and videos, of course, and they'll disappear after seven days.

This is rolling out on iOS and Android globally

starting today, but that seven day disappearing window

maybe is not quite set in stone, quoting Tech Crunch.

We will keep an eye on feedback about how people are using it and

liking it and see if it needs adjusting in the future, a spokesperson said. From now we are

starting with seven days because it feels like a nice balance between the utility

you need for global text-based conversations and the feeling of things not

sticking around forever end quote and just to be clear the seven day limit will

exist regardless of whether the message gets read or not.

The disappearing message clock starts counting when the message is sent as it does on other

apps like telegram.

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