Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle litigation with more than 30 US states over its slowdown in the performance of older iPhones to manage battery power. The latest “batterygate” settlement will divide the settlement among California and 33 other states, according to a statement by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The settlement resolves complaints that the tech giant made misrepresentations about iPhone batteries and software updates that throttled processing performance to manage insufficient battery power, according to the state official. “Apple withheld information about their batteries that slowed down iPhone performance, all while passing it off as…
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The Special Task Force, Operation Safe Haven has arrested 27 suspects after conducting series of raid operations on criminals and cultists hideouts in Jos, the state capital. Parading the suspects at the Operation Safe Haven Headquarters in Jos, the Commander of the Task Force, Major General Chukwuemeka Okonkwo, said the suspects were arrested at various locations within the metropolis where the activities of cultists have been on the rise in recent times. Those apprehended included six females and their associates from peoples and Tripple Hotels in Apata area, Westside, Rukuba road, Jenta Adamu and Jenta Miango areas. Items recovered…
A new feature is coming as part of a broader push to appeal to more ordinary consumers as opposed to business and enterprise customers. With thousands of people working from home, productivity and communications software suites like Microsoft Teams and Zoom have exploded in popularity. However, Microsoft isn’t happy with its current Teams market share — to entice more users to join its service, the tech giant is offering 24-hours-a-day video calls for free to all, among other updates. Starting now; Teams users can add a personal, non-work account and use it to chat with their friends and family at…
Eight people were injured in a shooting at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, on Friday, authorities said. Seven adults and one teenager were taken to the hospital with injuries; Wauwatosa Chief of Police Barry Weber said in a statement. The extent of their injuries is unknown, he said. The suspect, described as a White male in his 20s or 30s; fled the scene before officers arrived at the Mayfair Mall in Wauwatosa. Police Chief Barry Weber said they were working to determine the suspect’s identity. The shooting occurred around 2:50 p.m. Friday; prompting a large police presence of about…
According to people familiar with the matter, AT&T’s WarnerMedia, HBO will no longer be available as an Amazon Channel after their current placement deal expires next year. Today, HBO’s presence in the Amazon Channels store lets users watch regular HBO programming within the Amazon Fire TV user interface; making it easy for consumers to subscribe and sign up. But this placement was a major sticking point in the negotiations to get HBO Max, the company’s separate streaming service, on to the Amazon Fire TV platform; according to the people, who asked not to be named because the deal terms are…
This week, Intel, the chip giant is debuting its own laptop, the NUC M15. More properly, the NUC M15 Laptop Kit, the device is actually a white-label system. It’s essentially a reference design so smaller device makers don’t have to commit to the long and expensive process of building a system from scratch. Its long fruitful relationship with Apple may be sunsetting soon, but Intel has still got a fairly massive footprint in the PC market. There’s never a good time to get complacent, though (a lesson the company learned the hard way on the mobile front). It is, as…
Microsoft vowed to challenge all government requests to access its customers’ information in an effort to address increasing European Union scrutiny on the security of data sent to the US. The software giant will also compensate users whose information is inappropriately disclosed to government agencies; Microsoft Chief Privacy Officer Julie Brill said in a blog post on Thursday. Microsoft is one of a number of big tech companies working to continue to legally send data to the US; after a landmark EU court judgment in July overturned the primary system used to move information from Europe to the US; called…
The National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP) has disclosed that reported cases of rape increased during the COVID-19 lockdown. Rape This was disclosed by Tolu Odugbesan, Head of Sexual and Gender-based unit of the agency on Tuesday. Equally important, Odugbesan represented the Director General of NAPTIP, Julie Okah Donli at a programme organised by Christabel Initiative. Also, the programme was held in collaboration with the National Assembly joint committees on Drugs and Narcotics. “The statistics of gender and rape cases we have in the agency since 2015 is about 414. But during the pandemic, because people…
We all are guilty of watching videos on YouTube in a loop. One music video after another or one news video after another, the chain is too hard to break. Present circumstances, that is the lockdown enforced to tackle the Covid-19 outbreak; has only furthered this trend. The result is that our overall screen time has increased significantly. YouTube has a bunch of features, some old and some new; that are aimed at helping users cut down on their screen time or at the very least put a time limit to it. So, here is a list of all of…
Twitter has resolved most performance issues with its new ephemeral “fleets” product and expects to complete the global launch by today, Friday; the company’s product chief said in a live video on Thursday. “As we were rolling out over the first 24 hours, we stumbled into some load performance issues;” said Twitter Product Lead Kayvon Beykpour. “We have since caught most of the issues that were concerning us in terms of slowing down the rollout … we’re hoping that, certainly in the next 24 hours, pretty much everyone will have it,” he said. Beykpour also acknowledged the privacy and security…