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OpenAI debuts GPT-4 Turbo with access to world events as recent as April 2023
You can also create custom-tailored versions of ChatGPT now
OpenAI has significantly impacted everything from the workforce to the tech industry with the development of ChatGPT. The AI-fueled chatbot has seemingly endless potential, but the company behind it isn’t done just yet. At OpenAI’s DevDay event, new tools and services were revealed, including a more robust ChatGPT.
Google Chat officially tidies up its interface for adding attachments
Pretty much like every other messaging app
Google Chat's interface for sending messages and media has been a bit cluttered at the moment with individual buttons for emoji, uploaded media, GIFs, attaching Drive documents, starting a Meet session, or creating a new calendar event. Nearly all of those buttons will soon be swept under one big + icon.
Telegram 8.3 gives you more control over cleaning up old messages
And a bajillion other new features, of course
Telegram always seems to be able to jam-pack loads of goodies into its point updates (updates that come out mere weeks apart) and v8.3 of its messaging app is no exception. From a clever new factor of authentication to several ways of managing your privacy across chats and devices, here's what's going on.
Following Signal, WhatsApp lets users turn on disappearing messages by default
Set everything to vanish
Meta-owned (remember, that's Mark Zuckerberg!) WhatsApp is passing on a couple of feature tweaks related to disappearing messages that have been in the works for months — the most important of them being the ability to set messages in new chats to disappear by default.
WhatsApp may increase the time limit for deleting regrettable messages
Delete that months-old embarrassing message you've sent
WhatsApp may be the most ubiquitous messaging platform in the world, but it's usually not the app to be the first in line when it comes to getting new features. After the messaging platform took ages (compared to the competition) to introduce an option that allows you to delete messages for yourself and your receiver after you've sent them, the company is now further building out that feature. According to WABetaInfo, you might soon be able to delete any old message you want to, not just those you've sent recently.
Does your team hang around on Google Chat a lot? Sure, we believe you. Anyways, plenty of conversation can bring up plenty of items you'll need to be reminded of and there'll soon be a simple, new feature to help you do that.
Viber racks up one billion installs, even without your help
You might not be using it, but a lot of people are
When you think of messaging apps, WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, and any of Google's 47 attempts likely come to mind. As mainstream as those services might be, they aren't the only options you'll find for texting your friends and loved ones. Viber isn't as recognizable a name, but it's been quietly popular for years now. Today, it passed the one billion installs milestone, marking its place among other ultra-successful apps like Google Messages and Snapchat.
You might be in a bunch of groups on WhatsApp with each of them serving different people, different purposes, just everything different. How you feel about each of them will vary. With that in mind, the app is developing a way for users to quickly create a group icon.
Telegram v8 takes off cap for livestream viewership and makes a priority out of sticker choosing
These anniversary updates pack in plenty of goodies
Messaging app Telegram is celebrating its eighth anniversary with the push to version 8, packing in a whole bunch of improvements that will make sending stickers and emoji more lively and timely, speed up your channel browsing experience, and drastically increase the headroom of live streams and group video calls. And yes, you can get it all right now.
Discord rolls out threaded conversations, which might make you hate it less
Feature launch comes after a month of testing
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Messaging client Discord is about to give its users a ball of yarn, teasing a threading feature that will officially debut tomorrow.
Signal makes it easier to move your chats to a new phone (APK Download)
And it’s end-to-end encrypted, too!
Signal got a lot of attention on the heels of WhatsApp’s new privacy policy that was widely criticized in recent months. This free publicity pushed the privacy-focused app to expedite the addition of more consumer-centric features. In line with that, Signal has added a tool to its beta app that makes transferring your chats to a new device quick and easy.
Workspaces with Google Chat have had to ride along as this fairly new service slowly got its bearings with basic features and integrations. We've come to another couple of waypoints here: users will be able to pin Chat threads to the top of their Gmail view and schedule Google Calendar events right from the app.
First evidence of WhatsApp integration pops up in Facebook Messenger
Messaging between all of Facebook’s apps might soon be a reality
Early last year, we got word that Facebook was considering cross-platform chats between WhatsApp, Instagram, and Facebook Messenger, running on a unified, encrypted backend. After the first small steps towards compatibility in the form of Messenger Rooms in WhatsApp, we now see this cross-app integration taking shape. According to WABetaInfo, a few hints have appeared in Facebook Messenger that reveal how the company is working on a way to contact WhatsApp users through the app.
Signal rolls out automatic face blurring tool in its photo editor (APK Download)
Simpler and more effective than using the paintbrush or a sticker
Privacy-focused messaging app Signal could make blurring faces out from an image as easy as a few taps. Its developers are rolling out an update that features the new editing tool.
Facebook has a new app with a dumpster fire Play Store listing
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Facebook's New Product Experiments team have released a new, simple app that gives people who aren't on conventional social media the ability to indicate that they're 'online' and ready to talk over the phone. While the concept might be thoughtful, it's clear that a few more things needed to be thought.
Telegram v6 introduces chat folders and archiving to declutter your feed
Like taking chances? This update is to 🎲 for
If you use Telegram and are overwhelmed by the constant feed of messages coming out of your family chats, work chats, friend chats, one-on-one chats, and updates from the brands and influencers you follow, you're probably in need of a way to sort them out. Good news, then: the app's latest update brings folders to file your chats in and an easy archival tool.
Viber increases group call participant limit to aid social distancing measures
Chat with up to 20 friends at once while you're stuck in isolation
In many countries around the world right now, social distancing or even stricter quarantine measures have been put in place to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus — this means we're all far more dependent on technology if we want to hang out with our friends. Zoom and Houseparty get-togethers might be all the rage right now, but other communication apps are also doing their bit in this time of need. Viber has increased the maximum number of participants in group calls to 20 so you can chat with more of your friends at once.
Telegram 5.15 lands with improved profile UI, faster media viewer, and People Nearby 2.0 (APK Download)
The Valentine's Day update also adds a slew of animated heart emoji
Telegram may not be the most popular instant messenger, but it has managed to amass a loyal group of hardcore fans over the years who prefer its capabilities over those of any competitor. Its regular, feature-packed updates probably are another reason to like the app. As such, Telegram has published version 5.15 of its product. It comes with redesigned profile pages, Instagram Stories-like media browsing, and People Nearby 2.0. To help you celebrate Valentine's Day, the release also includes a collection of animated love-themed emoji.
Google has been working on implementing live filters and effects for Duo video calls over the course of the past couple of years. We've seen a few of them pop up for special holidays like Holi and Valentine's Day, but today, we finally have a bank of 13 standard fare filters and effects to embarrass ourselves with when chatting with our colleagues, friends, and loved ones.
Vacation responders, snoozing, even rudimentary forms of read receipts? Oh, how far email clients have come to meet up with our instant message services. But if there's anything our chat apps can learn from its progenitor, it's scheduled replies — and Telegram has picked up that trick as well as a few others in its latest update.