Day: December 16, 2024

WhatsApp enhances video calls with four new features

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WhatsApp has unveiled significant improvements to its video calling experience, designed to benefit both personal and professional users, TechCrunch reported. As one of Meta’s flagship messaging services, WhatsApp is building on past updates, such as message drafts and voice note transcription, to make its video calls more user-friendly and engaging. Group call participant selection A standout update allows users to selectively choose participants for group video calls, rather than notifying the entire group. This enhancement gives users more control over who’s included in the conversation, streamlining calls that don’t require everyone’s attention.…

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‘Perhaps thousands’ dead on Mayotte after Cyclone Chido

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A senior official said Sunday that the death toll from cyclone Chido’s passage across Mayotte would be in the hundreds, perhaps even thousands, as France rushed in rescue workers and supplies. Their efforts will likely be hindered by the damage to airports and electricity distribution in the French Indian Ocean territory. Even before the cyclone’s passage, clean drinking water was already subject to chronic shortages. “I think there will be several hundred, perhaps we will come close to a thousand or even several thousand” deaths, prefect Francois-Xavier Bieuville told broadcaster…

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Qatar to reopen embassy in Syria after 13 years on Tuesday

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Qatar will reopen its embassy in Syria on Tuesday after it was closed for more than 13 years, the Gulf country’s foreign ministry said on Sunday, a week after Bashar al-Assad was removed from power. Qatar’s embassy in Damascus has been shut since July 2011 when it withdrew its ambassador from Damascus after a series of deadly crackdowns by Assad’s regime on protesters – violence that led to the 13-year-long civil war. Doha in recent years did not join efforts by several Arab countries to mend relations with Assad’s government…

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