🇨🇳 Number one!

Pavel Durov shared today that Telegram is the most downloaded → mobile app in China for Android, according to Google Play. A VPN is required to access Telegram in China.

Last week, China forced Apple to remove Telegram and WhatsApp from the Chinese App Store. The Telegram team has seen no decline in downloads from China. Durov doubts that Telegram was targeted by the Chinese government.

In his opinion, it was a move against Apple itself: the Chinese authorities are making more and more of its citizens switch from iPhones to Android smartphones from Chinese brands such as Xiaomi. Unlike iPhones, most Android smartphones offer the option to download apps outside of app stores.

Apple shot itself in the foot with its centralized “walled garden” app policies. As a result of this change, the iPhone market share in China will keep shrinking. Prioritizing profits over freedom for users is not a good long-term strategy.

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💎 Generous gift

A tech blogger Pavel Fedorov recently made → over $80,000 in TON by selling his @pavel username, which he got for free 9 years ago, on the auction platform Fragment.
The name @pavel was bought by @founder and presented to Pavel Durov, who not only congratulated his namesake and thanked the crypto entrepreneur @founder, but also spent on another nickname himself:

A few minutes ago, I bought @paul on Fragment for 🤑 10,000 TON — to prevent more people from giving me generous gifts.

Pavel Durov also stated that $350 million worth of usernames and anonymous numbers have been sold in the past 18 months.

In the meantime, here are the highlights from Pavel Durov's interviews with the Financial Times in March and Tucker Carlson in April. As well as his speech at Token2049.

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🦾 Musk says

Tesla's humanoid robot, Optimus, could hit → the market as soon as the end of next year.

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🎮 Cheat code mode

Sony's fresh "Auto-Play" game mode patent → introduces AI-based technology that lets players automate game segments or skip repetitive sections in PlayStation games.

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🤩 Awesome!

Telegram rolls out a major update →  this month with more than 15 new features, including recommended channels, profile customizations, and enhanced moderation tools.

17 new features in one month! Other apps consider themselves fast if they manage to add this many features in a year 😆

notes Pavel Durov.

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💜 Limited Edition

Hasbro partners with Robosen Robotics for a new high-end figure based on the Decepticon leader, Megatron →

This bot automatically transforms into a cool remote-controlled tank with a giant auto-retractable cannon that can actually fire projectiles, and then stands up and speaks over 270 phrases from original Megatron voice actor Frank Welker while performing all sorts of stunts.

Be quick to place your order during the pre-sale period at a price of $899. After that, the price will be $1199.

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🔥 Thermonator

This is the first ever → robot dog with a flamethrower. This four-legged robot pairs with an ARC flamethrower to fire on demand anywhere! For fun or not, if you figure out where it could come in handy, this thing costs $9,420.

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