Abbreviations and text message symbols work like a sort of shorthand to make texting easier and faster (plus they're just fun ...

In the event of an internet outage, the messages app on your phone comes in clutch, and you'd be surprised to discover the ...

A cipher, on the other hand, is a message in which letters or symbols replace the actual letters in the message. Every cipher has a "key"—information used to decipher a message. Some ciphers ...