Rest of the Day: You Can Now Cancel Sending Messages to Telegram
The Telegram messaging platform has added a new feature that allows you to cancel sending messages within 48 hours. Your recipient must, of course, be using the same platform. About this and much more in today’s news.
Telegram prides itself on its simplicity and security, and the new feature adds another layer of control over your messages . Anyone can take a snapshot of your conversation, but it’s nice to have a cancel button. [TechCrunch]
- Our friends at Gizmodo are attending CES, so let’s find out some updates: Curved TVs are going away because they only look best from a certain angle, but thin TVs are present ! These VR boots will let you feel the virtual environment with your feet (and my fuzzy carpet simulator is almost done)! And now every household facility has Wi-Fi ! [Gizmodo]
- Google’s AlphaGo AI bot, which defeated the Go world champion last year , spends his free time owning nerds on the Internet . The company said that an online player known as the Master played games with humans to test an improved version of the bot. [Nature]
- Dropbox is working with Intel to integrate factor 2 generic security keys into their processors. This means – I think – once you set it up, the site recognizes your processor’s unique ID so you never have to log in again. [Dropbox]
- Medium, a publishing platform created by Twitter co-founder Eve Williams, has today laid off 50 people – a third of its employees. The traditional model of selling advertising in support of writing is “broken,” Williams says, and instead they “are shifting [their] resources and attention to defining a new model to reward writers and authors.” [Middle]
- Joel Johnson describes his transition from macOS to Windows : “Windows is a carnival in an open field where drunken orphans work.” (This is a compliment.) [NYMag]