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AppWizard

August 25, 2024

Telegram messaging app CEO arrested in France

Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram, was arrested at Bourget airport near Paris while aboard his private jet. His arrest was due to an arrest warrant related to a preliminary police investigation concerning the moderation practices on the Telegram platform, which authorities believe have allowed criminal activities to thrive. Durov was traveling from Azerbaijan at the time of his arrest. He has a history of resisting government pressures regarding platform moderation and has a net worth of approximately .5 billion, with Telegram having around 900 million active users.

AppWizard

June 19, 2024

‘Encryption is deeply threatening to power’: Meredith Whittaker of messaging app Signal

Fact: Meredith Whittaker studied literature and rhetoric at Berkeley before joining Google in 2006.

Winsage

May 13, 2024

OpenAI announces GPT-4o, its new flagship model, promising GPT-level intelligence to everyone, including free users

OpenAI announced the release of GPT-4o, a faster and more accessible model than its predecessor GPT-4. The new version comes at a reduced cost while offering double the speed and a fivefold increase in interaction limits.

AppWizard

April 18, 2024

WhatsApp introduce new feature to make life easier for users when chatting

Meta has integrated Artificial Intelligence into WhatsApp to enhance user experience, with features including providing answers to queries, summarizing information, assisting in creative projects, and generating unique content formats. The AI can be accessed by mentioning @Meta AI in group chats, and user privacy is maintained through end-to-end encryption. Additionally, WhatsApp has introduced 'Channels' as a new broadcasting messaging feature.

AppWizard

April 15, 2024

9 Android apps ‘popular’ among smartphone users across the world to learn foreign languages – Times of India

Android language learning apps offer interactive, customizable, and immersive experiences for users.

AppWizard

April 6, 2024

It’s not just you: WhatsApp, Instagram, and other Meta apps were down

- WhatsApp users experienced a global outage where they were unable to send or receive messages, along with other Meta-owned applications like Facebook Messenger and Instagram. - The outage started at 2pm ET and was confirmed by the website DownDetector and user reports on social media. - WhatsApp's core functionality of messaging was rendered unusable during the outage. - Meta labeled the situation as a "major disruption" on its Business API status dashboard. - The outage lasted for less than an hour and all Meta apps, including WhatsApp, were restored to normal functioning. - WhatsApp reassured users on Twitter that they were working on resolving the issues.