Telegram, the popular messenger with 800 million monthly active users worldwide, is inching closer to adopting an ecosystem strategy that is reminiscent of WeChat’s super app approach. Certain aspects of the ecosystem will be decentralized with help from two heavyweights: Telegram’s crypto partner TON Foundation and WeChat’s owner Tencent. Telegram has been working on a … Read more
If you’re running iOS 17 on your iPhone, double-check your privacy settings because they might have just changed without your permission. This word of warning comes from Mysk, a pair of iOS developers and cybersecurity researchers, on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter). They claim upgrading to iOS 17 may reactivate Significant Locations plus … Read more
Hello and welcome back to Max Q! I’m home after attending TechCrunch Disrupt, our flagship event in SF. We had some incredible programming and startups onstage for our Battlefield competition. Go to Source Aria Alamalhodaei
Pre-ordering the Pixel 8 Pro might give you a free Pixel Watch 2. That nugget of information comes from industry insider Kamila Wojiciechowska who recently posted a massive leak for the Pixel 8 series on X (the platform formerly known as Twitter). The image she posted appears to be a screenshot from a promo video … Read more
Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Partners and a16z. The funding will be used to expand Nx’s fully managed product, Nx Cloud, to make it more of a … Read more
Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty officially launches tomorrow and will bring with it brand new story content for the sci-fi RPG. However, it turns out that making just one small choice can lock you out of the main questline for good. Minor spoilers ahead for Phantom Liberty. As PC Gamer reports, during the end of the fourth … Read more