Telegram update brings group video calls, animated backgrounds

Telegram brings updates and new features regularly but this one is pretty big, at least for those who have been waiting for this for some time. Group video calls is now finally available on the messaging platform and it comes with screen sharing and support for tablet and desktop as well. The other big addition … Read more

Facebook Messenger brings artist-designed 360 backgrounds

Facebook has tapped its Facebook Open Arts creative community to create artist-designed custom 360 backgrounds for Messenger Rooms and video calls. This way you will be able to customize your video calls based on which of the artistic backgrounds you will choose. They are teaming up with six artists from diverse and underrepresented communities who … Read more

Scotland Yard must hire 40% of new recruits from BAME backgrounds

Two in five new recruits to the Metropolitan Police must be from ethnic minority backgrounds under new plans to quell Scotland Yard’s race crisis. In an action plan unveiled today, Met commissioner Cressida Dick admits the force is ‘not free of discrimination, racism or bias’ and has vowed to eliminate it. The developments come at … Read more

Countryfile sparks race row after claim people from BAME backgrounds feel unwelcome in countryside

Countryfile has sparked a race row after claiming people from BAME backgrounds feel unwelcome in the countryside because it is a ‘white environment’. The BBC programme broadcast an episode last night in which TV presenter Dwayne Fields investigated the issue, based on independent research from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The … Read more

Countryfile sparks race row after claim people from BAME backgrounds feel unwelcome in countryside

Countryfile has sparked a race row after claiming people from BAME backgrounds feel unwelcome in the countryside because it is a ‘white environment’. The BBC programme broadcast an episode last night in which TV presenter Dwayne Fields investigated the issue, based on independent research from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). The … Read more