After the encrypted messaging app Telegram previously gave up on its own token, it now supports crypto payments. According to Protocol, the addition could make crypto payments on messaging platforms more mainstream. The TON Foundation, which manages the toncoin token, has enabled fee-free payments, sending crypto to other users, using toncoin (TON) in the app. It also has added the ability to buy bitcoin within the app. Also Read: New Rule Says VPN Providers, Crypto Exchanges Must Keep Customer Data for Five Years Telegram, which has about 550 million users, previously dropped its plan for its own token after a legal challenge from theAUS Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The SEC sued Telegram in 2019 after it raised $1.7 billion to develop its token, calling it an illegal token offering. Telegram later paid a fine to the SEC and agree to return capital to investors. Also Read: Apple Is Removing Old Apps From Its iPhone App Store: Here’s Why Since then, … [Read more...] about Telegram Now Allows You To Send Crypto Payments To Other Users
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Palat is money for Lightning, could cash in as free agent
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 6 TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — If this is Ondrej Palat’s final playoff run with the Tampa Bay Lightning, he’s certainly making it count. Soon he could be counting in the tens of millions of dollars on a new contract. A pending free agent with a knack for scoring big goals to go along with elite defensive prowess, Palat scored another big goal Friday night to keep the two-time defending champion Lightning alive in the Stanley Cup Final against the Colorado Avalanche. He leads the NHL with eight game-winning goals sine the start of the 2020 playoffs. “He’s a special kid and a special player,” coach Jon Cooper said. “He’s a great complement to skill players, to checkers — wherever you need him. He just does his job, and he gets rewarded for it because of his effort. And everybody in that room knows how much Palat has brought to this organization.” Cooper basically wrote the … [Read more...] about Palat is money for Lightning, could cash in as free agent
‘Traffic-free’ is a marvellous idea – unless you’re disabled
Air in urban Britain is filthy . Sometimes it can feel almost like breathing through the fug of second-hand smoke in a pre-smoking-ban boozer. It is the cause of asthma in children and a host of other respiratory complaints. It is deleterious to health generally. We really need to clean up. Councils have sought to do this by restricting, even banning, cars – particularly in streets near schools around pick-up and drop-off times in an attempt to discourage school run snarl-ups. This is not just with a view to cleaning up the air, or the fact that walking is good exercise when childhood obesity is a problem. The roads around schools can sometimes look like a fresh reboot of Mad Max . The sight of parents cussing each other, even coming to blows, is something we could do without. Proponents of such schemes often point to how nice car-free cities can be – Copenhagen is often cited – once people get used to the idea. There is academic research in their favour too. … [Read more...] about ‘Traffic-free’ is a marvellous idea – unless you’re disabled
These 5 Features Are Coming To WhatsApp For Your Smartphone In 2022: All Details
WhatsApp has officially confirmed that five new features are rolling out for smartphone users in 2022. The Meta-owned messaging app caters to billions of users and has continued to evolve as a product, especially since Facebook bought it. The new features allow better file sharing, improve the ability for multiple people to attend audio calls and more power given to the WhatsApp Group admins. In total, WhatsApp is getting five new features this year, and here are the details and use of these. Also Read: This Is Not A Threat But…: 5 Things Elon Musk Said About Buying Twitter In Cash Five New WhatsApp Features Coming In 2022 WhatsApp Community This feature will allow you to link common interest groups. Some of the examples highlighted by WhatsApp are Our Building, Local Restaurant, City School Parents and more. Community is a one-stop solution for users, who need a place to accommodate all the features, group users and contacts. WhatsApp says the interface has not been … [Read more...] about These 5 Features Are Coming To WhatsApp For Your Smartphone In 2022: All Details
‘Elvis’ Fact or Fiction: Colonel Tom Parker Biographer on What’s Real and Not in Baz Luhrmann Biopic
Click here to read the full article. Does the phrase “That’s All Right, Mama” apply to the new “ Elvis ” movie… as in, “that’s all correct, ma’am”? No one is probably expecting that ; any practiced watcher of biopics knows virtually any example will take deep liberties with the facts for dramatic purposes. And maybe it’s a given that a director who puts hip-hop and hard rock on his period-film soundtracks, as Baz Luhrmann does, might favor effect over total verisimilitude. Still, “Elvis” is right on enough counts — literally or spiritually — that it’s worth trying to separate fact from fiction in the movie’s narrative of Elvis Presley (played by Austin Butler) and his nearly career-long manager, Colonel Tom Parker (Tom Hanks). There may be no one better to go to who can provide the truth on both Presley and “the Colonel,” in tandem, than the latter’s biographer, Alanna Nash. Nash, a veteran music journalist, published “The Colonel: The Extraordinary Story of Colonel … [Read more...] about ‘Elvis’ Fact or Fiction: Colonel Tom Parker Biographer on What’s Real and Not in Baz Luhrmann Biopic
Telegram Premium Launched: Everything You Get For A Rs 390 Telegram Subscription
Instant messaging app Telegram has a new Premium subscription now. The $4.99 (roughly Rs 390) Telegram Premium has been launched on the Apple App Store with version 8.8. Telegram Premium will unlock many new features for those who pay the subscription fee, these include fast downloads, a larger file sharing limit, up to 4 accounts in one app, organise chats into folders, and much more. In this article, we will go through all the new features that the Telegram Premium subscription will get users. Let’s begin. Up to 4GB Uploads – users will be able to send files that are up to 4GB in size. Telegram Premium users will be able to download media faster. The Premium subscription will also bring the ability to connect up to 4 accounts in an app. Subscribers of Telegram Premium will also be able to organise their chats in up to 20 folers, with each folder holding up to 200 chats. Users will be able to pin up to 10 chats on Telegram with the premium subscription. With Telegram … [Read more...] about Telegram Premium Launched: Everything You Get For A Rs 390 Telegram Subscription
WhatsApp Could Soon Let You Hide ‘Last Seen’ From One Person
WhatsApp users will soon be able to hide the ‘last seen’ status from a particular contact. The feature is helpful for those who don’t want others to know when they last read chats on WhatsApp. Currently, the option is limited to all contacts or just some numbers available through your contact list. But hiding the last seen status to a particular person is being tested by WhatsApp on both Android and iOS beta versions. WABetaInfo says users can select the individual from whom you want to hide the last seen status. Also Read: iPhone 14 Could Let You Send Text Without Having Network: What It Means Similarly, WhatsApp is testing the ability to restrict viewing of Profile Photo and About to select users, which is a big privacy measure that many people have requested the platform for sometime. Since the last seen status is being tested in beta versions, we can’t say for certain about its public release. But going by usual update timelines, we believe WhatsApp could offer the new … [Read more...] about WhatsApp Could Soon Let You Hide ‘Last Seen’ From One Person
North Dakota Investigates Farmland Purchases by Trust Linked to Bill Gates
An entity linked to billionaire Bill Gates has reportedly purchased 2,100 acres of potato farmland in northern North Dakota angering local residents. The state is investigating the purchase of potato farmland by the Gates-linked trust, with the state’s Attorney General writing in a letter that it was “prohibited from owning or leasing farmland or ranchland in the state of North Dakota.” The New York Post reports that public records recently cited by AgWeek reveal that an entity called Red River Trust with links to billionaire Bill Gates recently purchased 2,100 acres of potato farmland in northern North Dakota, prompting state officials to intervene after complaints from local residents. (screenshot/CNBC) K Neville / iStock / Getty Images Plus The land was purchased from the owners of Campbell Farms, a potato farming group headquartered in Grafton, North Dakota, approximately 50 miles from the Canadian border. North Dakota Agriculture Commissioner Doug Goehring … [Read more...] about North Dakota Investigates Farmland Purchases by Trust Linked to Bill Gates
WhatsApp Could Soon Let You Export Chat Backups From Google Drive
WhatsApp lets its users back up their chats on Google Drive, and you even have the option to secure it behind encryption. And soon, the messaging app could have an option to let you export the chats that you have saved on the cloud. With the option, people using WhatsApp can retrieve all their chats, and media files like videos and audio from their cloud account which is linked to the WhatsApp account. According to the tip from WAbetainfo , WhatsApp could offer this feature in the settings of the app within the chat backup section. Also Read: Govt Issues ‘High Risk’ Warning For Chrome OS, Mozilla Firefox Users: Here’s How To Keep Yourself Safe Google Drive offers 15GB of storage for free, which includes the space your Google account uses for Gmail, Photos and more. So, giving users the option to export files from their Drive account to free up the space makes a lot of sense. The option to export chat from Google Drive seems to suggest WhatsApp is focused on Android smartphone … [Read more...] about WhatsApp Could Soon Let You Export Chat Backups From Google Drive
Polio discovery: Hunt for home at epicentre of UK outbreak after ‘carrier arrived in UK’
Health officials are trying to trace the home at the epicentre of the polio outbreak detected in London that has led to a national incident. The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), working with the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), four the virus in sewage samples collected from the London Beckton Sewage Treatment Works, which serves around four million people in the north and east of the capital. While it is normal for polio to be picked up as isolated cases and not detected again, experts have raised the alarm after several genetically linked viruses were found in samples between February and May. Health minister Lord Kamall told peers it "might be possible" to trace the source of the samples to an "individual household or street". Health officials are trying to trace the source of the virus detected in London that has led to a national incident (file photo of a polio virus vaccine) ( Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto) He added: "It is … [Read more...] about Polio discovery: Hunt for home at epicentre of UK outbreak after ‘carrier arrived in UK’