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…