{"id":1833,"date":"2016-12-20T17:02:33","date_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:02:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.com\/?p=1833"},"modified":"2016-12-20T17:02:33","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T17:02:33","slug":"switching-gears-blackberry-open-self-driving-cars-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/2016\/12\/20\/switching-gears-blackberry-open-self-driving-cars-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Switching gears, BlackBerry to open self-driving cars hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not physically with your family this Christmas, Facebook Messenger\u2019s latest group chat feature rolled out on Monday can mitigate the distance.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Adding the most-requested feature ever to the app, Facebook said the video chat feature will begin rolling out immediately to Android and iOS devices, and the desktop version of Messenger, worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dWith 245 million people making video calls in Messenger every month, now we are bringing everyone on Messenger, the ability to turn group chats into face-to-face conversations no matter where you are,\u201d Facebook said in a blog post on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>You can see up to six people at a time on Group Video Chat and up to 50 friends can join in and choose to just listen in and join through voice or be on camera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201dOnce more than six people are on the call, just the dominant speaker is shown to all participants,\u201d Facebook noted.<\/p>\n<p>You need a latest version of Messenger app to get started with the new feature. To start a Video Group Chat, you just have to jump into an existing group conversation or create a new one and then tap the video icon on the upper right of the screen.<\/p>\n<p>IANS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are not physically with your family this Christmas, Facebook Messenger\u2019s latest group chat feature rolled out on Monday can mitigate the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kt10.khaleejtimes.ae\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}