Telegram Launches Two New Web apps with Better Features and Design

Telegram has named its two apps as Telegram WebK and the Telegram WebZ. Users can send or make video calls on the new Telegram web apps. Both the apps look identical in terms of both features and looks. Therefore, it’s not quite clear now why Telegram launched two separate web apps.

webk.telegram.org

However, if you take a closer look then you can see minute differences in the user interface of Telegram WebK and the Telegram WebZ. There are also a few differences feature-wise between the two apps. For starters, the WebK version allows users to mute calls but you can’t do so in the WebZ app.

webz.telegram.org

In WebK, the search bar is white in colour, whereas, it is grey in the WebZ version. But one of the most important features of all, voice calling, is still missing from both apps. Notably, WhatsApp had launched a voice calling feature on its web app a few months ago. While Telegram hasn’t confirmed anything as of now, the company is likely to bring a voice calling feature to its web app soon with an update.

Data Clustering Contest 2021, Round 2

Prize fund in round 2: $50,000.

Deadline: 23:59 on May, 2 (Dubai Time)
Task: improve the C/C++ library you created in Round 1 to determine the topic of Telegram channels based on provided data.

- Only participants of Round 1 (https://t.me/contest/209)can take part.
- Categories should be determined for channels in English, Russian, Arabic, Persian and Uzbek.
- Samples include more banned content than in Round 1, added 8 new categories.
- Samples include more data: number of subscribers, total number of text posts, total number of posts containing various media, metadata for media and links.

Details: https://contest.com/docs/dc2021-r2

Set Reminder for Scheduled Voice Chat

Set Reminder for Scheduled Voice Chat - Beta v7.7

- Users will be shown with scheduled Voice chat bar in groups
- A reminder can be set to get notified on starting the scheduled Voice chat
- On the voice chat start, a message will be received from Telegram Service notifications account

Telegram X - Anonymous admin

Anonymous admin has a nice little icon in Admin list 

Anonymous admin has an option to make himself visible without the promoted admin making the changes (which is not working as of now)

Aptitude Test Contest: Results

The results of the Aptitude Test Contest () are here!

This contest was one of the most involved, requiring that participants pass our evaluation tests to take part, and then demanding their constant attention for over 1.5 months.

We have split the entire remaining €250,000 Quiz Contest prize pool among those participants who completed all the tasks:

Participants had to design a set of 30-question Quizzes which tested three aptitude groups:

• English Language

• Mathematical Ability

• Spatial & Logical Thinking

They then reviewed 9 Quizzes from other participants (that's 270 questions) and submitted rebuttals – reflecting on the reviews their work received. Finally, Telegram Judges analyzed the content of each Quiz, its adherence to the rules and its overall usefulness. The quality of Peer Reviews and the validity of Rebuttals was also assessed.

All of these ratings produced a final Contest Score for each Quiz, between 1 and 4.3.
There are 4 reward tiers for this contest, per Quiz:

• – €3000 – Contest Score 4+
• – €1500 – Contest Score 3+
• – €500 – Contest Score 2.1+
• – €50 – Contest Score 2 and below

Bonuses were awarded for Outstanding Peer Reviews. Penalties were incurred for Unoriginal Content and Low-effort Peer Reviews.

You can view all of the participants and their results here:

https://contest.com/aptitude-tests
Congratulations! 🥳

This Trick will Help Hide Your Phone Number on Telegram

Telegram is a feature-packed messaging app, many of which are privacy orientated features. One of the many abilities of Telegram is to hide personal details from people you message or those who are in common groups with you.

Hiding your phone number prevents strangers from getting your registered phone number and harassing you on Telegram or outside the platform. Here is how you can hide your Telegram number in a few easy steps.

How to hide your phone number on Telegram

Step 1: Open telegram, go to the setting

Open the Telegram app and pull out the hamburger menu from the right. Select the Settings option to enter Telegram Settings.

Step 2: Navigate to Privacy and Security

Under the Settings tab, find the ‘Privacy and Security’ section. Under this option, you will find the Privacy tab where you can select who can view various elements like your profile picture, last seen status and more.

Step 3: Change the ‘Phone Number’ setting to Nobody

Find the ‘Phone Number’ option and change the corresponding option to ‘Nobody’ if you want complete privacy. Alternatively, you can also set it to ‘My Contacts’, making your number visible to only those whose number you already have saved in your contacts. If you set it to nobody, a new option will pop up below asking who can find your account using your number. You can choose either Everybody or My Contacts in this option.

Bonus tip

The same section of privacy settings can also be used to hide a number of other details that can be used to harass you or track you down. These include your profile picture, your last seen and online status. You can even decide who can call you and add you to groups from this section.

Telegram X: an update finally arrives after a year

Using an app billed as "experimental" comes with its fair share of risks, including the chance that the developers may just give up on the project altogether. It seemed like Telegram X, the company's alternate client for testing out new features, was headed towards a quiet death following its last update in May, but the app has finally shown a new spark of life. After nearly a year of silence, a new beta version for Telegram X is finally available for download, including several bug fixes and some key features to help modernize the app.

Following a year without updates, the change log for this beta is unsurprisingly massive. With this new patch, Telegram X is finally getting support for last year's collection of emoji, as well as theme sync with your phone's dark mode settings. Other notable changes include statistics within group chats, a new menu for tagging a user in chat, and support for sending files up to 2GB in size. Telegram has also squashed some lingering bugs, like. flak files causing crashes and issues when displaying admin lists in chat.

To get this update on your phone, you'll need to make sure you've signed up for Telegram X's beta program. Alternately, you can grab this new beta version from APK Mirror, where you'll also find the complete list of patch notes in all its glory.

Changelog update Telegram X 0.23.6.1398 beta

As indicated on the Apkmirror website, with the latest beta version of the application the following new features are introduced:

What’s new:

– Multipin.
– Support for all new emojis.
– Statistics for group chats.
– Album by file support.
– Support for the system night theme.
– Support for sending 2,000MB files.
– Support for anonymous administrators.
– Compress video before sending (select quality).
– Counter of republished posts in the channel feed (available to all).

– Updated menu to mention the user in the chat (type @ in the message entry field and press and hold the user).
– Ability to enable anonymity for administrators and for yourself directly from the participant list.
– Updated the scrolling chat system (down arrow).
– Updated icon for deferred messages in the dialog box list.
– Ability to change the unit of measurement of the weight of the files (Settings> Unit size)
– updated the report if an unknown contact writes
– Many other improvements.

Resolved:
– Crash when playing .flac files.
– Problem with an infinite list of administrators in the chat.
– other fixes.