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Welcome back to Gizmodo’s March Madness bracket challenge to name the greatest app of all time! Yesterday’s lineup was an extremely close race and Read It Later fans put up an admirable fight but with 52 percent of the vote, Twitter goes to the next round. Today, we have a contest between apps for people who like to do things a little differently. If you’re just tuning in, you can read all about our selection criteria for this historic contest right here. Check out the full bracket of contestants embedded below. And as…

Telegram is working on releasing a visionOS app that will allow users to access the messaging app on the Apple Vision Pro mixed reality headset next year, and the app's founder has revealed how the app will appear on Apple's first spatial computer. Users will be able to access their chats via a translucent interface and dictate messages — or type them using a virtual keyboard. The app will also be able to display media like videos that appear in am immersive view.In a video posted to his channel on Tuesday, Telegram…

VKontakte (VK), Russia’s homegrown Facebook clone and its biggest social network, saw a whopping 30-fold increase in censorship requests from government officials during the eight-month period following the Russian military’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, according to a new report. The findings, revealed in a report by the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, are some of the clearest examples yet illustrating Russia’s aggressive effort to use its ground war to justify even greaterclampdowns on online political…

Telegram's CEO said Thursday that the social media company will appeal a Brazilian judge's decision to block access to its platform in Brazil for failing to hand over data on neo-Nazi activity. He claimed compliance was "technologically impossible." In a statement posted to his Telegram account, Pavel Durov said that when local laws or unfeasible requirements counter his company's mission - "to preserve privacy and freedom of speech around the world" - it sometimes has to quit markets. Telegram has been blocked in the…

Telegram has facilitated the sale of over $50 million worth of usernames in crypto auctions, and now it wants to auction off fake phone numbers to allow access to the platform.Photo: Mehaniq (Shutterstock)Telegram is not yet done finding new ways to monetize access to its platform. On Tuesday, the encrypted messaging app announced users will be able to sign up for its services without needing access to a SIM card. How, you may ask? By buying up a phone number with crypto, of course.In a blog post, Telegram said it was…

Telegram lists its premium subscription service for $4.99 a month, but it is $1 cheaper if you grab it from Telegram’s site because it’s not subject to app store fees.Photo: Alex Dobrov (Shutterstock)Telegram CEO Pavel Durov announced late last Friday the company had disabled users from using paywalls on posts to get users to pay to access content for iOS devices. Apparently, Apple just didn’t like the idea of people paying others using bots without paying the troll toll.As first noted by 9to5Mac,social media analyst…

To make choosing from thousands of emojis easier, Telegram Premium users can now attach up to three reactions per message on the platform.Telegram's CEO has accused Apple of "destroying dreams and ruining entrepreneurship" because of its App Store policies.The company charged a 30 per cent fee on in-app purchases for developers that earn more than $1 million annually, reports MacRumors.Twitter CEO, Pavel Durov, claimed in a post on his Telegram channel that Apple has notified the messaging service that it would not be…

Telegram founder and CEO Pavel Durov is accusing Apple of crushing dreams and ruining entrepreneurship with its App Store rules. In a post on his Telegram channel, Durov says that the US company is…

Messaging app Telegram will launch a paid subscription plan for its users this month, founder Pavel Durov said on Friday.Users who will opt for Telegram Premium will get a higher limit for chats, media and file uploads, Durov said in a blogpost."The only way to let our most demanding fans get more while keeping our existing features free is to make those raised limits a paid option," he said.The app, along with messaging tool Signal, have seen an increase in users following privacy concerns with larger rival WhatsApp,…

Telegram has been rather hands off on its old TON Blockchain it developed years ago, but now the company wants to let users sell their own name for profit.Photo: nikkimeel (Shutterstock)How much is your digital identity worth to you, or at least, how much is it worth in crypto? Well thanks to instant messaging app Telegram, you can soon find out. Telegram has plans to let users hang their digital identifier up on a public marketplace to see whether other folks think your name is also worth a good chunk of change.Telegram…