WhatsApp issued an official update to Google Play Store which brings video calling to the app. You will only be able to access it, if you are using the beta version of WhatsApp for the moment. We have reported on multiple occasions that WhatsApp developers were working on introducing video calling in addition to the audio calls. WhatsApp has recently seen the addition of GIF support as well. WhatsApp video calling interface where WhatsApp asks you to rate the quality after the call. We tested the video calling option using WhatsApp on two smartphones with the latest WhatsApp beta versions installed. Now when you hit the call button, you get two options: Voice call and Video call. During the testing, there were some issues while connecting using 4G, while the video quality was borderline decent. We will continue to test the video calls over the time as it graduates to the stable version of WhatsApp to check the improvements in the calls. The video calling UI is simple with three options on the bottom to switch the camera, send a text message and mute the call. You get the option to cancel the call, call again or record a voice message if your voice call is unanswered. Both the users need to be on the latest beta program in order for the WhatsApp video calls to work. To download please click the link below www.whatsapp.com/dl
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FINANCE Minister Pravin Gordhan is expected to be charged again next month.
The new charges relate to the establishment of the so-called rogue unit in 2007, when Gordhan was commissioner of Sars. It is said that the charges will include fraud, defeating the ends of justice and the contravention of the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication Related Information Act. According to City Press, it appears the Hawks team investigating the so-called rogue unit has two additional investigators as it scrambles for further evidence against Gordhan and other former Sars employees. NPA spokesman Luvuyo Mfaku said no decision to prosecute Gordhan had yet been taken. “The investigation is still under way.” BEING a celebrity doesn’t protect you from crime.
This is what Lexi van Niekerk of Big Brother Mzansi fame recently discovered. She told Daily Sun that the windows of her VW Polo were smashed on Saturday night while she was attending a Sneaker Exchange event. Although her car was damaged, she said nothing inside it was stolen during the incident in a secure parking area on Wierda Road, Sandton, Joburg. Lexi said she suspected she was a victim of a hate crime because nothing was stolen. She took to Twitter to share her scary experience, writing: “Thank God the car wasn’t taken. Windows smashed. Nothing taken. Not even my cash or brand new sneakers. All this happened in Sandton.” Speaking to Daily Sun, Lexi said: “I arrived at the event just after 5pm. A security guard approached me and I felt something wasn’t right because he seemed very edgy. “He came very close to me as I was locking the car and asked if I was sure I wanted to leave it.” Lexi said when she returned to her damaged car at about 9pm, security guards from another company were on the scene but they had no information about what had happened. She said she wasn’t planning to open a case with the police but was trying to investigate the incident with the security companies. “I’ll just sort it out with my insurance company. I really want to make people aware that crime happens to everyone. “Being a celebrity doesn’t make me any different.” SANGOMA Bessy claimed she was evicted from her own indumba by a gang of three tokoloshes.
According to Bessy Mafuna (50) from Kagiso extension 11, Mogale City, the tokoloshes, two short women and a short man, are making her life a living hell and wrecking her practice. “At first there was a naked ghost that would pass through my house, even during the day. Everyone in the house was complaining,” she claimed. “In February I went into my indumba to throw bones to find out who the ghost was but then the three short people attacked me. “They beat me up and gave me a warning not to come back to my indumba.” Bessy said when she told her husband, he told her that he had also seen strange people walking and making a noise in the yard. “I went with my husband to the indumba but we both ran out. “Since the tokoloshe problem started I have lost my clients.” She said her male clients don’t like her consulting in her bedroom. “They tell me I’m not serious. I can’t explain to them why I can’t take them to the indumba. For the past six months, I have not had a client seeking help.” Bessy said when she consults other sangomas, they tell her the tokoloshes in her yard are bringing bad luck and it would be difficult for her to work as a sangoma until the tokoloshes are removed. “I have left everything there except the bones that I carried with me to my bedroom.” Bessy’s husband, Eliot Mafuna (50), confirmed they were chased away by the tokoloshes. “I sometimes hear noises in the yard at night like horses stampeding, but when I check there is nothing there.” The FBI has determined that a new batch of emails linked to Hillary Clinton’s private email server “have not changed our conclusion” that she committed no criminal wrongdoing, FBI director James Comey told congressional leaders in a letter on Sunday. Analysis FBI director's troubles just beginning after latest twist in Clinton email tale James Comey has faced loud criticism over his handling of the Clinton email investigation. Regardless of who wins the election, he is poised to pay a price Read more As campaigning continued ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election, a Clinton spokeswoman said the candidate was “glad this matter is resolved”. The Democratic nominee’s opponent, Donald Trump, reacted with anger at the news, and cast doubt on whether the FBI had even carried out its work. “You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days,” Donald Trump told a campaign rally in Sterling Heights, Michigan on Sunday evening. On 28 October, only 11 days before the presidential election, Comey sent congressional leaders a letter informing them that agents had discovered emails “that appear pertinent” to a prior investigation, into Clinton’s use of a private server while she was secretary of state. It was later reported that as many as 650,000 such emails were in question. The move, so close to an election, proved tremendously controversial. In July, Comey had announced that Clinton and her aides were “extremely careless” but that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring a case against them. “Since my letter, the FBI investigative team has been working around the clock to process and review a large volume of emails from a device obtained in connection with an unrelated criminal investigation,” Comey wrote to Congress on Sunday. “During that process, we reviewed all of the communications that were to or from Hillary Clinton while she was secretary of state.” “Based on our review, we have not changed our conclusions that we expressed in July with respect to Secretary Clinton,” he concluded. “I am grateful to the professionals at the FBI for doing an extraordinary amount of high-quality work in a short period of time.” Donald Trump on Hillary Clinton and the FBI: ‘She’s protected’ Clinton was on board her campaign plane when the news broke, as she had been when Comey’s delivered his first letter nine days earlier. As news broke, aides huddled toward the front of the plane, reading from an iPad, and spokeswoman Jennifer Palmieri entered Clinton’s cabin, shielded by a curtain, moments before she spoke to the press. “We are glad to see that [Comey] has found, as we were confident he would, that he has confirmed the conclusions that he reached in July and we are glad that this matter is resolved,” she told reporters. Hillary Clinton retains edge over Donald Trump in election's final sprint Leaving the plane in Cleveland, roughly 30 minutes after Comey’s announcement, Clinton did not respond to a reporter’s question about whether she had seen the letter. When the letter was released, Trump was speaking in an airplane hangar in Minneapolis, but did not mention the letter to the crowd, instead directing his anger against his Democratic rival. In Michigan, however, he said: “You can’t review 650,000 emails in eight days. Hillary Clinton is guilty. She knows it. The FBI knows it, the people know it and now it is up for American people to deliver justice at the ballot box on 8 November.” The Republican nominee also insisted that despite Comey’s actions, “the rank and file special agents at the FBI won’t let her get away with her terrible crimes including the deletion of 33,000 emails after receiving a federal subpoena”. Specially crafted for Windows 10, this app gives you full access to the Guardian's award-winning content. With automatic caching, you can keep reading even when you’re offline. Trump seemed to be alluding to leaks from within the bureau that revealed acrimony and political rifts within the FBI, after Department of Justice officials expressed surprise that Comey would break with decades of tradition regarding investigations and elections. Other leading Republicans tried to dismiss the FBI’s new conclusion. “Some things haven’t changed at all. What FBI director Comey said on 7 July under oath to Congress is still the same: That she was reckless and careless in her handling of information,” Trump’s campaign manager, Kellyanne Conway, told MSNBC. “The reason that so many Americans have a problem with Hillary Clinton’s honesty and trustworthiness and veracity does not change.” Republican House speaker Paul Ryan also insisted that the new conclusion should not change any opinions about Clinton. “Regardless of this decision, the undisputed finding of the FBI’s investigation is that Secretary Clinton put our nation’s secrets at risk and in doing so compromised our national security,” he said in a statement. “She simply believes she’s above the law and always plays by her own rules.” Although Ryan has endured spats with Trump for months, he urged Americans to vote for the businessman, as he did last week. “Fortunately, the American people have the opportunity to ensure Secretary Clinton never gets her hands on classified information again,” Ryan said. “Let’s bring the Clinton era to an end by voting for Donald Trump on Tuesday.” The new emails were discovered on a laptop belonging to Anthony Weiner, a disgraced former congressman who is the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, a close aide to Clinton. Weiner is under investigation for allegedly exchanging sexually explicit messages with a minor. Comey’s first letter surprised both campaigns and cast the FBI into the middle of an bitter and volatile race. Senior Democrats accused Comey of political meddling, Clinton said she found the letter “deeply troubling” and Trump gleefully predicted the emails would reveal a corruption scandal “bigger than Watergate”. ‘I just wanted to show a sign’: protester relives Trump fans’ attack at Nevada rally On Sunday, Adam Schiff, the top Democrat on the House intelligence committee, said Comey’s letter should end “once and for all” accusations that Clinton had committed any crime. “While the original letter should never have been sent so close to an election,” Schiff said, “the expeditious review of these emails should put to rest the irresponsible speculation indulged in by the Trump campaign and others.” 'The FBI is Trumpland': anti-Clinton atmosphere spurred leaking, sources say Read more The FBI said it had nothing to add to Comey’s letter. Yet while the immediate drama has ended, Comey remains in a precarious position. John Conyers, the ranking Democrat on the House judiciary committee, hinted political battles to come, saying: “We will have many questions about the FBI’s handling of this investigation.” Senator Dianne Feinstein, usually a staunch ally of the security agencies, said the end of what she called Comey’s “October surprise” made his decision to intervene “even more troubling”. Feinstein called on the justice department to “look at its procedures to prevent similar actions that could influence future elections”. |
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