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Back in mid-2015, Turing Robotics Industries unveiled its delightfully quirky debut smartphone, an encrypted Android device encased in colorful chrome. Though we cautioned that it could be delayed for a myriad of reasons that often plague small companies, we looked forward to their release in December ...then delayed until early 2016...and long story short, it didn't ship at all. Now the company is filing for bankruptcy in Salo, Finland where it had rented a warehouse for manufacturing. But not to worry, Turing Robotics CEO Steve Chao assured customers in a Facebook post : That doesn't mean the company is actually bankrupt. Finnish publication Salon Seudon Sanomat broke the news of the company's financial issues, reporting that creditors had filed a claim with Turing Robotics last year leading to the seizure of its movable property. Whether that's true or not, the company has strung along customers for years, pivoting the phone to Sailfish OS in early 2016 and...

Soon, your chats on Skype can be just as secure as conversations on Signal, the service used by US Senators. Microsoft is integrating the open source Signal protocol, used by WhatsApp, Google, Facebook and Signal itself, into test versions of Skype as ' Private Conversations ' for end-to-end encrypted communications. There are a few restrictions: You can't turn an existing chat into a Private Conversation, and must start each one by sending a request to one of your contacts. They don't carry over between devices, so if you switch platforms, you'll have to send a whole new request. And finally, Private Conversations are currently available in preview only for Skype Insiders, the service's beta tester community. Via: Windows Central Source: Signal blog , Skype: Private Conversations via Engadget RSS Feed "http://ift.tt/2ExqNwm"