Journal It! Guide Draft. Phablets. Smartphones. Google / Android. Next Device. Telegram: The $2 billion crypto offering that's dividing tech. To date, Telegram has been funded by Pavel Durov, who four years ago sold his 12 percent stake in VKontakte for reportedly around $300 million.
His development team has a proven ability to build and scale large social platforms. But creating a whole new blockchain, with all the encryption, security and infrastructure required, is an entirely different undertaking. Because it's decentralized, a critical component to crypto development is something called a consensus mechanism, an automated way of maintaining order and establishing and enforcing rules within a blockchain. For example, bitcoin has a consensus algorithm called "proof of work" that ensures a single version of the truth. "The teams that will win are teams with deep historical context who have been tinkering with consensus mechanisms and scalability for several years.
YouTube. Remove duplicate and empty Google+ photo albums in your Gallery. It's a work-around, but there is a way to delete those pesky empty Google+ albums from your Gallery Has your Gallery gone haywire with blank and duplicate Google+ albums?
Don't worry, you're not alone. Since the implementation of Google+ Instant Upload and its deep integration into the included Gallery app, more and more of the photos you see on your device aren't actually... on your device. This all works great until there's an issue -- and what many people have been experiencing is duplicate, blank, and mislabeled albums showing up in their Gallery. The problem is there's no way from the Gallery to manage these photos, it has to be done on the web.