Whatsapp New Limitations: “Popular” Messages Can be Forwarded to One Person

I was forwarding a funny video to a couple of friends when I got the below message, stating that I can only share with up to 1 chat this message as it has been forwarded many times. This is apparently one of Whatsapp's new limitations to disrupt false Covid-19 claims. I saved the video in my gallery and resent it, and I was able to forward it back to 5 people, which means WhatsApp is…

Make a Virtual Visit to Seven Churches This Year

Since the Seven Churches visitation is not possible this year due to the COVID-19 pandemic, here are seven churches from around the world that you can virtually visit online: 1- St. Peter's Basilica 2- Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception 3- Canterbury Cathedral 4- St. Patrick's Cathedral 5- Cathedrale Notre Dame de Paris 6- The Church of Nativity 7- St. George's Chapel - Windsor You can also check out the Sistine Chapel…

COVID-19 Update: Is Lebanon Flattening The Curve?

Health Minister Hamad Hassan appeared in a video yesterday re-assuring Lebanese that we're close to achieving our goal, which I assume means containing the pandemic and flattening the #COVID19 curve, but did not provide further details or timelines. So is Lebanon flattening the curve or not yet? - As per yesterday's MoPH report, we have 7 new COVID-19 cases, which indicates a drop in the number of daily cases, but these numbers are not very…
Lebanon

Updated: Disney Plus Originals Coming to the Middle East on April 9

5 years ago
Update: Disney+ will roll out to 42 other countries this summer including Lebanon. Here is the list of new countries getting Disney Plus, per The Hollywood Reporter: Albania, Algeria, Andorra, Bahrain, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, ...
Fun

Lebanon Protests Featured in Money Heist Netflix Documentary

5 years ago
Netflix recently released an hour-long documentary Money Heist: The Phenomenon, showing why and how “Money Heist” sparked a wave of enthusiasm around the world. Around Minute 6, they’re talking on how jumpsuits and masks from ...
Lebanon

Google’s COVID19 Mobility Reports for Lebanon

5 years ago
There’s been a lot of talks in the past few days about Google’s Coronavirus mobility reports, which are feeding users’ location history to “chart movement trends over time by geography, across different high-level categories of ...
Critiques

UNESCO Expresses Concerns Over Construction Project in Nahr el Kalb

5 years ago
UNESCO director Mechtild Rössler published an open letter expressing concerns to the Lebanese authorities, over the announcement of a construction project at the Archaeological Site of Nahr El-Kalb. She continued saying: In particular, the World ...
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