Author: Lynet Awino

Lynet Okumu, a Masinde Muliro University graduate, is a digital journalist passionate about impactful storytelling. She writes on health, business, relationships, and daily life, blending accuracy and creativity to craft engaging, informative content.

Telegram Messenger on Monday launched significant updates to its application with features like Topics in Groups and Collectible Usernames to enhance the user chat experience. In addition, the platform offers voice-to-text for video messages with dozens of new emoji packs for premium users, according to the company. “I feel particularly excited about today’s Telegram update. It adds topics to large groups, transforming these linear chats into slick mobile-friendly versions of good old Internet Forums,” Pavel Durov, Telegram’s CEO and Founder, said in a statement. “Topics today come packed with lots of features, including the ability to close and pin topics,…

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Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp on Thursday announced the rollout of “communities” features that allow users to easily manage multiple groups by bringing them under one umbrella. The feature will be available to everyone on iOS and Android platforms in the coming months. The platform also announced the “Online Presence” feature, which allows users to decide who can see their online status. WhatsApp: Online Presence feature The feature will allow users to chat with certain people without letting other contacts know about their online status. Steps to change the privacy setting on WhatsApp Step 1: Click on three vertical dots…

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Samburu National Reserve is mourning the loss of one of the twin elephants born to Bora from the Winds family in January 2022. Save the Elephants, Bora, the matriarch, had been spotted by the monitoring team from Save the Elephants outside Samburu National Reserve, but with only one of her twins – the male.  The calves were last seen alive in April outside the reserve. https://twitter.com/ste_kenya/status/1582651446767783936?s=20&t=UglVPMg3pf4ww7qby7N4wg “We are sad to report that one of the twins born to Bora from the Winds family this year appears to have died during the drought,” Save the Elephants said in a statement. “Bora was…

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Safaricom reopened its Two Rivers Retail Outlet on Thursday after closing it on September 1, 2022. “Dear Customer, We are happy to inform you that you can continue to enjoy Safaricom Customer Care services at our Two Rivers Mall Outlet, now located on the first floor,” the telco said in a message sent to its 42 million customers. The Two Rivers Mall retail centre has catered to clients living in Runda, Ruaka, Redhill, Kabuku and Limuru. Listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange, Safaricom provides connectivity through a wide range of technology, 2G, 3G, 4G and 5G in aggregate, covering over…

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