There is a piece of good news for Apple Music listeners on Android; as they can now take full advantage of the Dolby Atmos spatial audio and lossless-quality streaming features that debuted on iOS, iPadOS, and macOS over a month ago. According to The Verge, a new app update for Android will be adding support for both features. Apple has included all the same warnings as on iOS about it consuming “significantly more data.” Similar to its own platforms. Apple Music advises that external hardware like a DAC is required if you want to step up to hi-res lossless. Spatial…
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Three persons have been shot dead by gunmen in a reprisal attack by rival cult groups in Ondo town, the headquarters of Ondo West Local Government Area of Ondo State. The cultists were reported to have stormed the residence of one Seun Akinsiku in the town around 6:00 p.m on Friday and killed him. According to an eyewitness, Seun was outside of the house when the gunmen shot and killed him and fled the scene immediately. The eyewitness added that as the gunmen were leaving, they killed an officer of Amotekun Corps and another man whose identity is yet unknown.…
Police operatives in Kaduna State have repelled an attack by bandits on the Maraban Jos Divisional Police Headquarters in Igabi Local Government Area of the state. The incident occurred on Friday night when the bandits stormed the Divisional police headquarters in three Sharon utility vehicles and started shooting sporadically in order to gain access into the Divisional armoury. They were, however, repelled by operatives on duty who engaged them in a fierce gun battle. The Police Public Relations Officer in the state, Mohammed Jalige, confirmed the attack via a statement issued to on Saturday. He said the superior firepower of…
Your WhatsApp account has a massive amount of data on it. The more you chat on it, the more you accumulate. This can be in the form of media, links and documents. Every now and then, if you are the negligent type who fails to write down in one place important information, you may have the need to search for some important photo. Now, if you can isolate some parts of it, locating the information will become so much easier. First of all, you need to remember who sent it or whom did you send it to. Then you must…
The popular TikTok video-sharing app was blocked Wednesday in Pakistan for a fourth time because of “inappropriate content”, the country’s telecommunication regulator said. The Chinese-owned site has fought a series of legal battles with religious activists and authorities in the conservative Muslim nation, and was shut down for two days earlier this month on the order of a provincial court. Freedom of speech advocates have long criticised creeping government censorship and control of Pakistan’s internet and media. “The action has been taken due to continuous presence of inappropriate content on the platform and its failure to take such content down,”…
Websites were knocked offline Thursday as network speciality firm Akamai said it is investigating an issue with its service. The scope and cause of the trouble was not disclosed, but reports of internet outages from locations around the world spiked at website Downdetector. “We have implemented a fix for this issue, and based on current observations, the service is resuming normal operations,” Akamai said in response to an AFP inquiry. “We will continue to monitor to ensure that the impact has been fully mitigated.” The disruption came just weeks after Akamai was at the heart of a major online outage…
Bandits have again reportedly attacked the Dansadau community under Maru Local Government Area of Zamfara State, killing 3 persons and abducting 7 others. A source in the community said that the armed bandits attacked the community around 2:30am and the siege lasted for about 4 hours, ending in the early hours of Friday morning. He also confirmed that armoured personnel carrier belonging to the Nigerian military was also set ablaze by the bandits. This attack is coming barely a few days after 100 kidnapped victims from Manawa village under the Dansadau district were released by the marauders, and barely a…
Algeria on Thursday expressed “deep concern” following press reports; that it may have been the target of the Israeli-made Pegasus spyware as it launched a probe. The foreign ministry denounced what it termed an “inadmissible; systematic attack on human rights and fundamental freedoms” and singled out neighbouring Morocco for “spying on Algerian officials and citizens”. Morocco and Algeria have repeatedly sparred over the disputed region of Western Sahara; which Morocco considers an integral part of its territory while Algeria backs the pro-independence Polisario movement. Relations between the two neighbours soured again on Sunday after Algeria recalled its ambassador in Morocco…
India’s antitrust regulator has accused Amazon.com Inc of concealing facts and making false submissions; when it sought approval for a 2019 investment in a Future Group unit, a letter to the U.S. e-commerce giant seen by Reuters showed. The letter complicates Amazon’s bitter legal battle with Future Group over the Indian’s firm’s decision to sell its retail assets to Reliance Industries; a matter that is now before India’s Supreme Court. Amazon has argued that terms agreed upon in its 2019 deal to pay $192 million for a 49% stake in Future’s gift voucher unit prevent its parent; Future Group, from…
A 1973 handwritten job application from Apple co-founder Steve Jobs is once again up for auction. But this time; you can bid to buy either the original document or an NFT version. The one-page-long application was created by Jobs after he dropped out of Reed College and three years before he founded Apple. It doesn’t list a position or the company but says he was interested in electronics tech or design engineer positions. His skills included computer and calculator experience. Jobs co-founded Apple with Steve Wozniak in 1976. NFTs or non-fungible tokens are assets that delegate ownership of a virtual…
It seems that a delay in Apple pushing out the iPadOS 14.7 update was responsible also for the delayed publication of the security content of both iOS as well as iPadOS 14.7. But now that iPad-OS has been released, we have the full picture… and yes, you need to update, and do it promptly. We already knew that the Wi-Fi bug that could cause denial of service was addressed; but there are over two dozen more bugs fixed in these releases. For example, there are four WebKit bugs, three of which that could cause a malicious webpage to run code.…
The COVID-19 pandemic has prompted fresh scrutiny of social media’s response to the anti-vaccine movement. But, even in the face of criticism from the White House; a new report claims Facebook is still failing to delete even the most incendiary misinformation. As recently as last week, posts containing the hashtag #VaccinesKill were still active on the social network; according to CNN. It was only until the news publication warned the company of the lapse; that it blocked the posts behind a message that read Facebook is “keeping our community safe.” To make matters worse, the same hashtag was banned by…
Amnesty International has released a tool to check if your phone has been affected by Pegasus. The tool comes with a comprehensive set of instructions which enables users through the technical checking process. This would involve backing up the said phone to a separate computer; and then running a check on that backup. This Amnesty International tool is command line or terminal based, thus some level of technical know-how and patience is prerequisite to running it. See the steps imperative to getting it up and running: It will take some amount of technical skill or a bit of patience In…
In a major supervisory action, the Reserve Bank on Wednesday indefinitely barred the US-based Mastercard from issuing new credit; debit as well as prepaid cards with effect from July 22 for its failure to comply with data storage norms. Mastercard, a major card issuing entity in the country; is the third company to have been barred by RBI from acquiring new customers after American Express Banking Corp as well as Diners Club International over data storage issue. “The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has today imposed restrictions on Mastercard Asia/Pacific Pte. Ltd. (Mastercard); from on-boarding new domestic customers (debit, credit…
The Edo State High Court in Benin City on Monday jailed two internet fraudsters – Noah Omoregbe and Destiny Efewengbe for 24 months. The convicts were arraigned before Justice Efe Ikponmwonba by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) on one count charge each of personation and intent to defraud. According to a statement issued by EFCC spokesman, Wilson Uwujaren, the offences contravened Section 484 of the Criminal Code Law Cap 48 Laws of defunct Bendel State of Nigeria (as applicable in Edo State) 1976 and were punishable under the same Law. “That you Noah Omoregbe (a.k.a Frank Mark) on…
The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a probe on Tuesday into allegations by investigative news website Mediapart and two of its journalists; that they had been spied on by Morocco using the Pegasus spyware at the heart of a global scandal. An investigation published on Sunday by 17 media organisations, led by the Paris-based non-profit journalism group Forbidden Stories, said the spyware; made and licensed by Israeli company NSO, had been used in attempted and successful hacks of 37 smartphones belonging to journalists, government officials and human rights activists. Mediapart said in a series of tweets on Monday that Morocco’s secret…
Netflix said it would make a deeper dive into video games as the movie and TV streaming service projected weak subscriber growth amid growing competition and the lifting of pandemic restrictions that had kept people at home. Netflix is weathering a sharp slowdown in new customers after a boom in 2020; fueled by stay-at-home orders to curb the Covid-19 pandemic. Netflix reported losing about 430,000 subscribers in the second quarter in the US and Canada – only its third quarterly decline in 10 years. The streaming video pioneer said it was in the early stages of expanding its video game…
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Tuesday that the company’s network of DC fast-charging stations for its electric vehicles; also known as the Tesla Supercharger network, will be open to other types of electric vehicles in 2021. Responding to a Tesla fan on Twitter, where Musk commands a following of 58.3 million; the CEO specifically wrote: “We’re making our Supercharger network open to other EVs later this year.” Musk did not say where in the world Tesla would make its DC fast-charging stations available for use with other electric vehicles; or which makes and models would be compatible with Tesla’s on-the-road…
The Ogun State police command has arrested a suspect for kidnapping a military officer and stripping him off his uniform and using it to commit a crime. The incident occurred at Odo Pako Ota, in Ado Odo Ota Local Government Area of Ogun State. The suspect was alleged to have made an attempt to snatch a Dane gun from a vigilante operative. READ ALSO: Bandits Kill 13 Police Officers In Zamfara The police spokesperson in the state, DSP Abimbola Oyeyemi said the suspect Waliu Oloyede was arrested following a distress call received by the Divisional Police Officer, Sango Ota divisional…
A 36-year-old lady, Chioma Afam, who uses multiple identities and wears a hijab to evade security scrutiny has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Benue state along with her partner, Peace Chidinma Caleb, 22, for trying to smuggle a total of 296,000 tablets of Diazepam and Exol-5 from Onitsha, Anambra state to Gombe state. This is according to a communique by Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters in Abuja. Chioma who uses multiple names such as Amina, Uzoamaka, and Ifunaya to cover her criminal activities was arrested on Saturday 17th…