Today’s CapChat looks at three current issues. 

First, with horse death investigations underway at Santa Anita Park, three more deaths have occurred in recent days. Since December 2018, there have been a total of 42 deaths at the park. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a law in June of 2019 allowing the state to suspend horse racing at tracks with dangerous conditions. That has, as yet, not happened at Santa Anita.

Next, in a new pilot program, Uber is giving some of its driving contractors more control by letting them set their own rates. Drivers at the Sacramento, Palm Springs and Santa Barbara airports can increase rates in ten percent increments, with a cap. Depending on results, Uber could expand this to other airports. This is an effort to clarify that Uber drivers are independent, not employees, since the implementation of AB 5 on Jan. 1, 2020.

Third, with the impeachment trial underway in the U.S. Senate, the date of President Donald Trump’s State of the Union somewhat uncertain, Newsom has yet to set a date for his own annual State of the State address. 

Guests

• CapRadio State Government Reporter Scott Rodd

There will also be a tribute to James Avery.

Techworld Editor Charlotte Jee conducts the tech orchestra this week, trying to get a tune out of this cold, creaking week. Online Editor at Computerworld UK Scott Carey lets us know all about Snapchat's upcoming IPO, billions of dollars, and the gang comes to the realisation they'll perhaps never understand what it's for. Then Senior Staff Writer at PC Advisor Henry Burrell recaps on Google and LG's launch of Android Wear 2.0 and ask - frankly - is it a big deal? Finally Acting Editor at Macworld UK David Price discusses Apple's rumoured plans to move manufacturing to India, which inevitably moves us on to Tech Trumps.  

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The Enugu State Chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, has asked the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to tender an apology to Senator Orji Uzor Kalu. DAILY POST reports that Kalu who had been in prison custody following conviction by a High Court has now been set free by the apex court in […]

Orji Uzor Kalu deserves EFCC apology not retrial – Enugu APC

The All Progressives Congress (APC) in Ebonyi says God may have put Orji Kalu in prison to protect him from harm. Eze Nwachukwu, State APC Chairman, spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Saturday in Abakaliki. He hailed the Supreme Court verdict which acquited the former Abia State governor. Nwachukwu called it a […]

APC chairman suggests why God made Orji Kalu go to prison

The Peoples Democratic Party(PDP) in Kwara state has cried out over alleged plan by the All Progressive Party (APC) led state government to arrest some of its leaders on trumped up charges. The leading opposition party in the state made this known in a petitioned addressed to the Kwara state director of the Department of […]

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Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA, and the Abia State chapter of the All Progressives Congress, APC, have commended the Supreme Court’s ruling setting aside the corruption conviction of former Abia State governor, Orji Uzor Kalu. Reacting to the apex court judgment, HURIWA National Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, said the judgment “speaks to common […]

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The U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware approved a settlement agreement today between the United States and the APCO Liquidating Trust (a successor in interest to APCO Oil Corporation). The settlement follows seven years of litigation concerning the APCO Liquidating Trust’s liability under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or “Superfund”) for costs incurred by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the ongoing cleanup of the Oklahoma Refining Company (ORC) Superfund Site located in Cyril, Okla.

After drawing criticism from users worldwide about its controversial redesign, audio-video sharing platform Snapchat has rolled out another app redesign for iOS users.

In the new design, snaps and chats are aligned chronologically and "Stories" from friends have been moved back to the right-hand side of the camera screen.

Snapchat has added a separate "Subscriptions" feature to keep "Stories" from popular creators and publishers in the loop while letting the other "Stories" be separated, The Verge reported late on Thursday.

"We are currently rolling out an update to address this by sorting communication by recency and moving 'Stories' from friends to the right side of the application, while maintaining the structural changes we have made around separating friends from creators and sorting friends' 'Stories' by relationships," Evan Spiegel, CEO, Snapchat had said earlier this month, in the company's first quarter earnings call.

Snapchat was testing a new design in April that would move the user's "friends' stories" alongside the "celebrity content" in the "Discover" section again to ensure that the user's feed would not be dominated by the "celebrity content".

There is no word yet on when the update would be available on Android.

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If you can’t stop them, power them. That’s the strategy behind Snapchat App Stories, which launches today to let users show off their ephemeral content in other apps too. The first partners will let you post Stories to your dating profile in Hily, share them alongside [music] videos in Triller, watch them while screensharing in […]

Stranger Things star Millie Bobby Brown and her rumoured boyfriend Joseph Robinson appear to have confirmed that they are dating.

The 25-year-old model posted shared a glimpse of the pair's North Carolina home Saturday. In the videos, he cuddles up to Kayla's belly, welcoming the little Lochte with a classic dad joke.

On Saturday afternoon, just hours before the show got underway, the singer shared an image with a filter that had green slime on her face. She is up for award.

The average person living in Saudi Arabia has the most best friends of any other country in the world and British people have the least, new research has revealed.

Elaina Kabler, 39, was arrested last week after police in Desert Hot Springs, California, received multiple tips about the alarming video posted on Snapchat on July 10.

An alleged Snapchat sex scandal is set to rock one of Australia's most successful Olympic sports with claims underage athletes were also targeted.

Reese Witherspoon, 43, gave some renowned parenting advice on how to communicate with kids. The actress took to her Instagram to share she has resorted to chatting with her kids on Snapchat.

Ellyce Quirk shared a video one of the accused attackers posted to Snapchat in the wake of the alleged assault near Thirroul Train Station in Wollongong, south of Sydney, on Saturday night.

The news that the PM now has his own Snapchat account has seen Twitter users poking fun at the PM, warning him to 'not be caught being silly' with the most intimate of the social media platforms.

Reece Lefevre, 20, bragged about stabbing the 34-year-old in an attack so brutal it left footprints on the victim's skull, while Tyler Jones, 26, cruelly laughed and filmed the aftermath.

The man allegedly nicked the motorcyle in Adelaide's northern suburbs. He bragged about it in a Snapchat video with the caption 'new bike'.

Casey Holmes appeared in Wollongong Local Court, south of Sydney, on Tuesday accused of assaulting Brad Quirk on Saturday September 28.

Liverpool youngster Harvey Elliott has been banned from all domestic club football for 14 days after posting an offensive Snapchat video imitating Tottenham striker and England star Harry Kane.

One of the boys, aged under 16, started receiving text messages from the woman in 2017 offering him rides to their school in New Zealand and chatting about sport.

Snapchat debuted a filter that makes it look like a tarantula is crawling on the user's face. Some parents are turning it on their young children.

The Time Machine feature works as a slider, making faces appear younger at one end and older in the opposite direction.

The chaos at the Queens Center in Elmhurst, New York, involved some 200 schoolchildren who descended on the mall after being let out of class early on Friday.

The 37-year-old beauty, who has starred on the soap opera The Bold and the Beautiful and worked with Gwyneth Paltrow on Mortdecai, shared the news on Monday after flashing her diamond.

A Falcon Cove Middle School student made the false threats to kill on Friday and was arrested after a fellow student reported her to the Broward Sheriff's Office in Weston, Florida.

Rheta Leanne Melvin, 36, is accused of having sex with the 14-year-old boy in the back of her car in Riddle, Oregon. She admitted to sending him sexually explicit photos and videos on Snapchat.

Friends of a missing 14-year-old girl used Snapchat to help cops track her down to a motel room in California and rescue her from abuse by three men.

David Tillburg took the foreboding snap (pictured) shortly before plunging into the icy water in New Jersey. Rescue services (inset) were unable to save the boy who died Thursday.

The five balaclava and hoodie-clad teenagers stole multiple handbags as well as clothes after breaking into the store on Perth's King Street at 2.20am on Tuesday morning.

Snapchat users will be able to star in their own animated TV shows alongside their friends, after the social platform announced a new feature called Bitmoji TV.

Enroy Ruddock, 19, from Coventry, who bragged about stabbing Emmanuel Lukenga, 21, on snapchat was found guilty of murder at Warwick Crown Court today.

Father-of-two Peter Farrawell-Smith, 35, appeared with his pregnant girlfriend in Gosford Local Court in the Central Coast for posting the unsolicited photo to Snapchat.

Canterbury Bulldogs star Jayden Okunbor asked a 16-year-old schoolgirl he invited to his hotel room to send naked photos on Snapchat.

Snapchat today announced it is working with charities in the US and UK to assist people with their mental health amid coronavirus pandemic.

An internal memo circulated by Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, says the company will cancel an event scheduled for April 2 that was meant to act as a summit for developers, advertisers, and creators.

Snapchat is launching 'Coronavirus: The Latest' in Discover to provide up-to-date new coverage and information about the virus that pulls from news sources and health and government agencies.

The circles it draws appear to have a radius of around 3.3 feet (1 metre) - meeting the guidance of the World Health Organisation, who helped develop the lens.

When a note is viewed through the lens, the app uses augmented reality to show how a donation would support the Swiss-based World Health Organization's response efforts.

Snapchat is down for thousands of users around the world. Parts of the US and Europe seem to be most effect, as many reported not being able to share snaps.or log in to the app.

Councillor Lee Mason admitted baking the words 'sex' and 'f***' into a selection of buns he made but denies creating the swastika. He claims the image had been digitally manipulated.

Tristan Vanderwatt worked as a support staffer at Gippsland Grammar in VIctoria in 2019. The then 20-year-old had sex with a 14-year-old student and groomed another on Snapchat.