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Business EYE OCTOBER 15, 2021 | The Indian Eye 45
Tech T@lk
clubhouse is launching new Music Mode facebook rolls out end-to-end
encrypted chat backups to whatsapp
he audio social network- sic. If you just want to listen to
ing app Clubhouse is the performance, however, you
Tlaunching a new Music won’t have to do any of this -- hatsApp’s end-to-end However, with the new
Mode that could make it a bet- just sit back and enjoy stereo encrypted chat back- change, the users will be able to
ter place to play and listen to audio from your headphones, Wups for iOS and An- secure their WhatsApp cloud
live music. speakers, or your phone itself. droid are here! backups with a password or a
As per The Verge, the new Clubhouse also noted that As per The Verge, social me- 6-4digit encryption key, which
Music Mode “optimises Club- its recently introduced Clips dia giant Facebook announced means that no third person
house to broadcast your music feature -- which lets you capture that the company has started but you will be able to access
with high quality and great ste- a 30-second recording -- will rolling out end-to-end encrypt- the backup. Last month, Face-
reo sound”. Clubhouse doesn’t support stereo sound as well, so ed backups to WhatsApp, on book’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg
say what it means by high quali- if you decide to save a snippet Thursday. Facebook has of- had taken to social media to an-
ty, but it does also mention that of performance in Music Mode, fered end-to-end encryption nounce that WhatsApp will be
you can now hook up profes- the audio quality will stay the for chats for years, but with this adding another layer of priva-
sional equipment, like a USB same. new change, users will be able to cy and security which would be
mic or mixing board, and use Music Mode will initially get the same level of encryption rolling out soon.
it during your broadcast. Club- only be available on iOS, but with their backups too. Furthermore, he stated,
house already added spatial au- Clubhouse says that the rollout Reportedly, the feature will “WhatsApp is the first global
dio in late August, which makes to Android will follow shortly be rolling out “slowly” for peo- messaging service at this scale to
conversations sound more like a behind. ple on the latest version of the offer end-to-end encrypted mes-
room full of people than a flat Aside from Music Mode, app. The backed-up WhatsApp saging and backups, and getting
audio call. You can easily turn Clubhouse has also updated its chats get stored in iCloud or there was a really hard techni-
on Music Mode by tapping the search feature. The platform Google Drive, but that could be cal challenge that required an
three dots in the top right cor- will now display the search bar handed over by Apple or Goo- entirely new framework for key
ner of a room, selecting Audio in a more convenient location at gle to law enforcement if com- storage and cloud storage across
Quality, and then choosing Mu- the top of your hallway. pelled. operating systems.”
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