Microsoft had released Windows 11 for its testers with a refreshed design. Windows 11 comes with rounded corners, a centred taskbar, new widgets and more. The OS is moving towards being more like the Apple macOS in terms of look and feel. While the widgets have been around for a while, they are now accessible directly from the taskbar. Now, Microsoft has updated several of its apps. There is a new Snipping Tool that gets features from Microsoft’s Snip & Sketch app. If you press the “Win,” “Shift” and “S” keys on your keyboard simultaneously, you will activate the software…
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Instagram is one of the most popular social media platforms in the world. It was the third most downloaded social media app on both Google Play Store and Apple App Store. It was also the most downloaded overall non-gaming app in the world in the month of July 2021, as per a Sensor Tower report. This Facebook-owned platform is extremely popular among users for displaying their clicked images and is used extensively by creators and companies for showcasing their work. While it is fun to surf through these images, it can get annoying sometimes; especially when a friend shares images…
Alphabet’s Google failed to reach a settlement with a TV channel it has blocked that is owned by a sanctioned ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin; the Tsargrad channel said in a statement Monday. Tsargrad accused Google of delaying substantive negotiations, according to the statement. Google didn’t immediately comment. Last month, a Moscow court of appeals paused a hearing until Monday to allow settlement talks over the case; in which a lower court ordered the U.S. technology giant’s YouTube to unblock the Tsargrad account or face escalating fines. The next hearing will be delayed until Sept. 20, a representative for…
If you opened your Reddit app today and noticed a new video button next to the search bar; you could be a tap away from experiencing the forum platform’s take on TikTok. TechCrunch writes that the video feed, which pulls content from subreddits you follow along with some you don’t; started rolling out to iOS users on Friday. Loading up the feed on my own Reddit iOS app; the experience is unavoidably TikTok-like. You can scroll through a vertical, perpetual list of videos featuring content from the wide world of Reddit. Interaction options include upvoting and downvoting; along with commenting,…
Reddit suffered an outage for about 90 minutes early on Thursday; leading people to panic and descend on Twitter to complain. The micro-blogging platform was full of Reddit users tweeting about the outage and talking about how they needed it up and working the soonest. Reddit shut down at about 12:30 PM AEST (8 AM Indian time) and it was restored by 2 PM AEST (9:30 AM Indian time). People started to notice when other Reddit users started tweeting asking if the site was down. The outage was then confirmed by other news portals including Gadgets 360. This lead to…
Apple Inc.’s main assembly partner Hon Hai Precision Industry Co. projected sales of gadgets like smartphones will drop sequentially this quarter; spurring concerns that chip and component shortages may affect iPhone production before the holiday season. Sales at the Taiwanese manufacturer’s consumer electronics business; which includes the iPhone, will decline this quarter compared with the previous three months, the company said Thursday. The downbeat projection caught analysts by surprise, given the third quarter is often the peak production season for a global electronics industry that scrambles every year to get devices in front of shoppers before the year ends. The…
Zambia restricted access to WhatsApp, Facebook and other social media platforms; while voters in record numbers waited for as long as 10 hours to cast ballots in a tense presidential race. Queues in parts of the capital, Lusaka, extended for hundreds of meters (yards). That could suggest the turnout in Thursday’s general election could be the highest since the 1991 ballot that marked the return to multi-party democracy in Africa’s second-biggest copper producer; according to University of Zambia History Professor Bizeck Phiri. “The numbers are very overwhelming,” he said by phone. “It’s unprecedented in the history of voting in Zambia.”…
Facebook on Friday began rolling out encryption for voice or video calls made through its Messenger texting app, ratcheting up privacy for users. The move comes as the sanctity of data on smartphones becomes an increasingly sensitive topic. Encrypting text chats on Messenger has been an option since 2016. The number of audio or video calls made on Messenger has surged since then to more than 150 million daily, prompting Facebook to add the option of scrambling exchanges from one end to the other to prevent snooping. “The content of your messages and calls in an end-to-end encrypted conversation is…
Bandits have killed nine persons in an attack on Bejingo, Dantudu, and Tulutu villages in Birjin ward, Goronyo Local Government Area of Sokoto State. An anonymous source in the local government said that the assailants attacked the villages on Saturday, raiding houses. Eight men and one woman were among those killed by the assailants. Several others were also injured during the incident. The bandits also rustled an unspecified number of animals including sheep, goats, and cattle, forcing a number of villagers to flee their homes and take refuge with relations in neighbouring communities. Police authorities in the state are yet…
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has nabbed a woman with 100 wraps of heroin and two parcels of the same substance at the departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos. Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday. The woman, identified as Mrs Nnadi Nora Chinyere, was arrested during an outward clearance of passengers on the Qatar Airways flight to Florentine, Italy on August 3. Drugs found on her were concealed in five containers of hair relaxer cream. Days later on…