NEWS OF THE WEEK Updates: - Telegram for iOS source code upd | Telegram News

NEWS OF THE WEEK

Updates:

- Telegram for iOS source code updated to v5.7
- Telegram for Android source code updated to v5.7.1
- Public groups got enabled for users from Vietnam and the Philippines. (Source)

Readworthy:

- Pavel Durov (the founder of Telegram) decides to consume no food at all this month.
Read his post on his channel or this article by The Independet.

- Pavel Durov plans to launch an independent news aggregator not limited by censorship.
Instant View already allows you to read the news of 6000 publications worldwide from any device, and the statistics of their views in each country allows Telegram to algorithmically calculate the most relevant content at the moment. Read more...
Source: Pavel Durov's Telegram channel in russian language

- Telegram might develop a way to split a group chat into subgroups similar to this.
There are still many open questions and design decisions to make, figuring out all the details might be worthy of a prize by @durov.

Game of the Week:
Rocket Mania (play against other subscribers at @playingfield - see the pinned message)