Oppo has announced its new flash charging project – The Flash Initiative – that’s based on the company’s proprietary VOOC flash charging. The project is going to see other organisations use Oppo’s technology to help bring fast charging tech; to other areas of consumer use and not just mobile devices. The companies partnering with Oppo include FAW-Volkswagen, Anker and NXP Semiconductors covering areas of automobiles; portable charging and chip manufacturing. Between them all, their products reach consumers in three settings where they often need to charge their devices – their homes; their cars and out in public spaces. Each company…
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Barely four months after the launch of Apple’s first 5G smartphone, the iPhone 12, the company is already talking about releasing the iPhone 13! If you look at it from the angle that the iPhone 12 has been beclouded by a variety of meeting problems, it probably makes sense. In a new video, YouTuber, Filip Koroy (aka EverythingApple Pro) collaborated with influential leaker Max Weinbach to reveal multiple upgrades Apple is making with the iPhone 13. Weinbach says that Apple will “refine” the matte back of the iPhone 13 Pro models. He describes a “more grippy textured back that will…
There was panic in Maiduguri, the Borno State Capital on Tuesday as multiple sources reported gunshots and explosions near the Gomari area of the state. Sources say explosions were also heard in Mairi area, a student’s village near the University of Maiduguri. Details about the explosions are yet to be clear.
A Senior Special Assistant to Delta State Governor on Youth development, Okiemute Sowho, has been killed by Gunmen in Sapele, Delta State. Sowho, who until his death also served as an aide to the state commissioner for Agriculture who was reportedly shot at a close range around 6 pm on Saturday evening near a popular hotel in Sapele It was gathered that the deceased went to inspect a building in the vicinity when his killers suddenly opened fire and killed him instantly. He was then rushed to a private hospital in the area where the doctors confirmed him dead. The…
Facebook said Wednesday it began rolling out news feeds with less political subject matter in line with a plan outlined by chief Mark Zuckerberg to reduce inflammatory content. The leading social network said it would begin testing the change “for a small percentage of people” in Canada, Brazil and Indonesia this week, and the United States in the coming weeks. “During these initial tests we’ll explore a variety of ways to rank political content in people’s feeds using different signals, and then decide on the approaches we’ll use going forward,” product management director Aastha Gupta said. The change won’t affect…
Bandits have killed a man and his son during an attack in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. According to the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, the bandits invaded Baka Village in Igabi local government on Saturday. During the process, Aruwan said the gunmen attacked the residence of one Sale Musa and shot the man and his son, Amiru Musa to death. The bandits had a week ago killed the brother of the late Sale, Dan’azumi and his son. According to the Commissioner, the bandits operating in groups, also abducted nine people, mostly women…
Google said Monday it would lift its ban on political ads on its platform imposed last month following the turmoil surrounding the violent uprising at the US Capitol. A Google statement to AFP said the internet giant would from Wednesday lift the ban which was ordered to comply with its “sensitive events” policy. “We will continue to rigorously enforce our ads policies, which strictly prohibit demonstrably false information that could significantly undermine trust in elections or the democratic process,” the statement said. The prohibition ordered January 13 notably blocked any ads which sought to undermine the credibility of the US…
Three herdsmen have been arrested for their alleged role in the attack of Bamajo village in Ayetoro, Yewa North area of Ogun State. The Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said the suspects had attacked the village where they set some houses ablaze and inflicted a deep machete cut injury on one Ismaila Alabi. “On receiving the report, the Area commander Ayetoro Assistant Commissioner of Police, Anthony Aruna mobilized his men, Hunters and youths to the scene where the entire area was thoroughly combed,” the statement partly read. He said that the…
Gunmen have abducted a lecturer with the University of Port Harcourt, Dr Jones Ayuwo, and a first-class traditional ruler in Rivers State. Ayuwo of the department of Linguistics and Communications Studies in UNIPORT was abducted on Sunday night along the Andoni-Ogoni road while returning from the Local Government Area of Andoni after a function by his Local Language Bible Translation committee which he serves as the secretary. Three journalists with the Rivers State Government-owned Television who went for the coverage of the event were also attacked with their valuables and camera were taken from them. The spokesperson of the University…
NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced robotic astrobiology lab ever flown to another world; neared the end of its seven-month, 293-million-mile (470-million-km) journey on Wednesday, on target for a daredevil landing attempt on the red planet. Hurtling through space across the last 150,000 miles (240,000 km) of its voyage, Perseverance was headed for a touchdown set for Thursday; inside a vast basin called Jezero Crater, site of a long-vanished Martian lake bed. Mission managers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory near Los Angeles said on Wednesday they were hopeful the six-wheeled; SUV-sized rover would arrive safely on a flat plain…
Facebook is making Oculus Quest headsets easier to share with others with a couple of new features being rolled out starting today. Support for multiple user accounts as well as app sharing are coming to the more recent Quest 2 first, and they’re both labeled as experimental features, but the company says it will bring them to all Quest users “eventually”. Multi-user support and app sharing means that multiple accounts can be created on the same headset; and purchases from one account can be shared with the rest of the users on the same device. There are, of course,…
Apple has considerably strict guidelines around its App Store. Just last month, it removed a popular app for being named after a drug; a move which it had to reverse following backlash from the public. Now, the company is cracking down against apps with “irrationally high prices”. There have been numerous posts in Apple’s Developer Forums in the past few months of developers; claiming that their applications have been removed for setting high prices. One such developer had subscription offers valued at $39.99/month going up to $99.99/year; with a reported retention rate of 60%, but was still reprimanded by Apple. A new…
An Ikeja Sexual Offences and Domestic Violence Court on Friday remanded a 26-year-old man, Goodluck Kennedy, for allegedly abducting a 14-year-old girl (name withheld) for five days and defiling her. Justice Abiola Soladoye ordered that Kennedy be remanded at the Kirikiri Correctional Centre; following his not guilty plea to a two-count charge of abduction and defilement. State prosecutor, Mr. Peter Owolabani disclosed that the defendant committed the offences from November 8 to 15 2019 at the Gangari area of Ijora, Lagos. Owolabani said Kennedy kidnapped the teenager while she was walking home. “He took her to a premises in the…
A secondary school female student has been nabbed with a gun that she brought to the school premises; so she could murder a teacher who asked her to change her hairstyle. The young lady was caught in school with a local gun she allegedly planned to use in shooting her teacher. The girl, a student of Government Secondary School in Ikot Ewa, Cross River State, was asked by a teacher to cut her coloured hair and she was allegedly angered by this. Subsequently, the female student arrived at school with a gun. A Twitter user, Valiant Samson Idowu-Alaba revealed the…
Four members of the Oodua People’s Congress (OPC) have been arrested by the Police for allegedly beating up and stabbing one Tochukwu Chidi to death. The OPC members were nabbed by the Bariga Police Division of the Lagos State Police Command. This was contained in a statement signed on Sunday by the Lagos State Public Relations Officer; Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP) Olumuyiwa Adejobi. Adejobi said that the suspects were Sunday Onilede, m, 35, Azan Razak, m, 35, Abdullahi Ibrahim, m, 29, and Fatai Taiwo, m, 40. The police spokesperson said that the suspects attacked Chidi, m, 35, of No.…
Facebook on Sunday deleted the main page of the Myanmar military under it standards prohibiting the incitement of violence; the company said, a day after two protesters were killed when police opened fire at a demonstration against the Feb 1 coup. “In line with our global policies, we’ve removed the Tatmadaw True News Information Team Page from Facebook; for repeated violations of our Community Standards prohibiting incitement of violence and coordinating harm,” a Facebook representative said in a statement. The Myanmar military is known as the Tatmadaw. Its True News page was no available on Sunday. The military spokesman…
When the NASA Perseverance rover lands on Mars on Feb. 18, 2021, it will be carrying a small but mighty passenger: Ingenuity, the Mars Helicopter. The helicopter, which weighs about 4 pounds (1.8 kilograms) on Earth and has a fuselage about the size of a tissue box, started out six years ago as an implausible prospect. Engineers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California knew it was theoretically possible to fly in Mars’ thin atmosphere; but no one was sure whether they could build a vehicle powerful enough to fly, communicate, and survive autonomously with the extreme restrictions on…
Google has just released its Android 12 Developer Preview 1, and while it’s not a beta that laymen like you or I need to be downloading; it gives us a sneak peek into what changes are being lined up for the rollout of Android 12 proper. There are a slew of nifty features that await users; which are currently only available to experiment with if you sideload the Android 12 Developer Preview on your Pixel device; or you can just delve into the details below for the highlights of what we’re most excited to see roll out. From improved accessibility…
WhatsApp – The maker of the popular chat app is changing the way it will communicate the forthcoming changes to users; after millions of users downloaded apps from rival platforms like Telegram and Signal seeking an alternative. Many users swore-off the platform when they received an in-app notification warning them to accept the new terms; or lose access to all of their chats. Chief among the features was the notion users would be forced to share more of their data with Facebook. However, so poor was WhatsApps messaging on the matter that users were convinced massive changes were on the…
A couple, Ebiesuwa Abayomi Fredrick and his wife, Tinuola Idayat Oyegunle, have been sentenced to 40 years imprisonment each. Justice Joyce Abdulmalik of the Federal High Court sitting in Ibadan, Oyo State today, February 15, 2021, found them guilty on all four counts of conspiracy and obtaining by false pretense brought against them by the Ibadan Zonal office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. The couple, in a classic advance fee fraud scheme, fleeced one Dunni Olateru Olagbegi N53, 713, 260.00 (Fifty-Three Million, Seven Hundred and Thirteen Thousand, Two Hundred and Sixty Naira) in cash and bank transfer through…