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Telegram has long been on the rise, thanks in large part to its user-friendly features. For example, Telegram allows users to use the app on multiple devices at the same time. Meanwhile, WhatsApp has promised this feature, though it’s yet to roll out. The app also offered end-to-end encryption long before WhatsApp joined the fray. Keeping this in mind, it’s not surprising that Telegram is reaching new heights. Telegram CEO Pavel Durov says (via) that the app only had around 500 million active users at the beginning of 2021....

Yes, the use of biometrics can make getting into your favorite device faster and more convenient. But is it everything it’s cracked up to be? There are some definite pros and cons to consider when using biometrics. Current Trends and What’s to Come with Biometrics Current Trends and What’s to Come with Biometrics Biometrics are starting to make their way into more public arenas. Once reserved for high-level security needs, like scientific labs and government buildings, an automated identity confirmation is making its way into airports, regular places of employment, and academic campuses....

What happened? What happened? On Tuesday June 8th, at around 10am GMT, dozens of the biggest websites in the world all went down at once. The outage affected a huge variety of sites, from PayPal to Shopify, Vimeo to HBO Max, and even the UK Government website as well as the prestigious New York Times. Sites were down for up to an hour as software engineers at the cloud computing provider, Fastly, worked furiously trying to identify and fix the problem....

There’s a very subtle, and for some, not-so-subtle habitual relationship with our technology. I could easily make the argument that most of us have an addiction to our screens. In China there are currently 400 intensive treatment center for web addiction. An entire documentary called Web Junkie has been created to chronicle this issue there (Note: I’ll be at the Laemmle Music Hall in Los Angeles, California on October 5th doing a Q&A after this screening)....

What’s your go-to fidgeting method when you’re bored? 38% say they don’t fidget, as they’re perfectly comfortable to just sit and stare. Another 27% rearrange things arbitrarily, and 27% doodle. 8% bite their fingernails. Is boredom a good thing or a bad thing? 42% Say it’s neither good nor bad, and 24% say it’s both good and bad. 15% consider boredom entirely a bad thing, and 12% are ambivalent. Only 9% think boredom is good....