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Another year has passed, and a wide number of gadgets, services, and wild tech experiments have passed on, too. Here's what left us in 2021.

Telegram was the most downloaded non-gaming app in the world in January: Report Premium (Bloomberg) Share Via Read Full Story Telegram got a major boost in terms of new users in the month of January after WhatsApp, the current dominating messaging platform received a lot of criticism for introducing new privacy policy. While the Facebook-owned platform delayed the deadline for new privacy policy to set in till May 15, other applications such as Telegram and Signal have gained traction in the first month of 2021. A recent analysis by Sensor Tower, a provider of market intelligence and insights...

61 shares Project Loon was developed in Google's secretive X Lab by the same team behind Google Glasses and the driverless car.  It had aimed to bring connectivity to areas of the world where building cell towers is too expensive or treacherous – such as parts of Africa, south-east Asia and the Amazon.  Developing countries that couldn't cover the high cost of laying fibre cables to get online were hoped to benefit from the project, leading to a dramatic increase in internet access.  Loon had said that once the project is up and running, the balloons could supply internet to an area of ...