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If you are wondering why the Pine team has been quiet lately, it's because they and other TV teams are hard at work on Pine v5, which is coming soon. Fasten your seatbelts!
BY PineCoders Squawk Box
Secure video calling is in high demand. As an alternative to Zoom, many people are using end-to-end encrypted apps such as WhatsApp, FaceTime or Signal to speak to friends and family face-to-face since coronavirus lockdowns started to take place across the world. Thereās another optionāsecure communications app Telegram just added video calling to its feature set, available on both iOS and Android. The new feature is also super secureālike Signal and WhatsApp and unlike Zoom (yet), video calls will be end-to-end encrypted.
Launched in 2013, Telegram allows users to broadcast messages to a following via āchannelsā, or create public and private groups that are simple for others to access. Users can also send and receive large data files, including text and zip files, directly via the app.The platform said it has more than 500m active users, and topped 1bn downloads in August, according to data from SensorTower.PineCoders Squawk Box from us