Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home for Tuesday, January 2nd, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

Telegram has completely redesigned its app.

Microsoft has brought co-pilot to iOS.

Camera makers are remaking their hardware

for the age of AI.

There's the premium smartphone market

and then there's the premium premium market segment

and those are the only parts of the smartphone market you

want to be in and will 2024 be the year the internet gets weird again.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech. Telegram is rolling out version 10.5.0 offering what they're calling totally

redesigned voice and video calls with new animations and backgrounds while using fewer resources. Quoting 9 to 5 and especially as they're also end-to-end encrypted.

In this latest update, telegram has redesigned the UI for voice and video calls

with new animations and a better overall look and notably,

this comes with a boost to performance as the new UI is less resource intensive.

The announcement post also says that call quality has been improved and that more improvements

are coming in 2024, end quote.

That improved resource thing has something to do with what they're calling the Thanos-Snow effect, which is basically just a new animation that happens when you delete a message.

Apparently the animation itself is so much more resource and energy efficient that you know

over billions of uses it has a real impact. Also did you know that Allah Open

AIs build your own geept ecosystem telegram was early to the bot game

quoting from their announced post. Telegrams free bot platform lets developers

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