Category: Telegram

Telegram has grown over the years to become a very popular social messaging app. Apart from being more secure, it offers exciting features that are missing from WhatsApp and other apps, such as stickers, GIFs, channels, bots, and much more.

With telegram, you can send and receive messages, photos, videos, and files, as well as place a voice call. Telegram also has a read receipts feature which shows a double tick next to messages which have been read by the other person. Unfortunately, you cannot disable read receipts in Telegram, but there is a way to hide your last seen status so that no one knows when you ignore their messages.

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Telegram, an ostensibly secure messaging application funded by VKontakte creator Pavel Durov, introduced end-to-end encrypted voice calls.

Telegram Encryption

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When is soccer going to finally make it in this country?

As the U.S. Men’s National Team prepares to take on Costa Rica in Saturday’s CONCACAF Gold Cup 9 p.m. semifinal at AT&T Stadium, it’s not a question Dan Courtemanche hears anymore. That’s because, in large part, it has already happened.

Courtemanche is Major League Soccer’s executive vice president of communications — commissioner Don Garber’s right hand. He heard that question for years. But now, not so much.

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General

• @GoogleTalks
  • Google has lots of famous visitors speaking at its headquarters, and they’re all recorded and neatly presented here.
• Al Jazeera English
  • The Middle Eastern news service, which has generated its share of controversy, now airs broadcasts in English and presents them here.
• American Museum of Natural History
  • Includes the excellent “Known Universe” video.
• Artists Space
  • Artists Space supports contemporary artists working in the visual arts, video and electronic media, performance, architecture and design, and it promotes artistic experimentation and dialog in contemporary culture.
• Aspen Institute
  • An international nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering enlightened leadership and open-minded dialogue.
• Bad Astronomy
  • Bad Astronomy is devoted to debunking myths and misconceptions about astronomy, and also to slap down without apology bad thinking in all its forms.
• Big Think
  • This collection brings you videos featuring some of today’s leading thinkers, movers and shakers.
• Bob Dylan TV
  • The official YouTube Channel for Bob Dylan. Features some good vintage clips, even though it has a commercial angle.
• British Film Institute National Archive
  • The BFI (British Film Institute) promotes understanding and appreciation of Britain’s rich film and television heritage and culture. And it claims to have the “world’s largest and most diverse film and TV archive.”

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