Tesla said Monday scrutiny of wreckage from a fatal crash in Texas indicates that someone was at the wheel, contrary to an early report that the driver’s seat was empty. During an earnings call, the electric car maker defended itself anew against a report that a Tesla had been fooled into driving with no one behind the wheel, with tragic results. “It was claimed to be autopilot, but this is completely false,” Tesla chief Elon Musk responded while fielding questions. Tesla has been working with federal and state investigators, and a study of the wreckage indicated there was someone at…
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Spotify Technology SA beat Wall Street estimates for first-quarter revenue and paid subscribers on Wednesday; as the music streaming company launched in newer markets and recorded user growth in countries such as the United States and India. Premium subscribers, which account for most of the company’s revenue, were up 21% to 158 million from a year earlier. Analysts on average were expecting the company to have 157.5 million paid subscribers, according to IBES data from Refinitiv.Spotify, which launched its services in 86 new countries in the quarter, said growth in the United States, Mexico, Russia, and India offset lower-than-expected growth…
It is said to be about 26% growth in user base since October last year when the company had reported 115 million daily active users. The growth comes as millions of people around the world are relying on digital tools to communicate and collaborate due to the Covid-19 pandemic. At the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Microsoft Teams had about 32 million daily active users. With pandemic forcing people to work remotely, the platform added 75 million users in just a few weeks. The user base continued to soar in the coming months. Apart from Microsoft Teams, platforms like Google…
GitHub has decided to join the list of companies that are opposing Google’s upcoming changes. Earlier this year, Google announced it will stop tracking individuals via ads; and will implement a new system called Federated Learning of Cohorts (FLoC). However, the introduction of FLoC did not go the way Google had planned. Earlier this month, privacy focused search engine DuckDuckGo announced an update for its Privacy Essentials extension to block FLoC. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), on the other hand, published an article outlining how FLoC is a terrible idea. This was followed by Vivaldi and Brave, both announcing that…
During its earnings call today, Microsoft revealed that there are now over 1.3 billion monthly active devices running Windows 10 (via ZDNet). The new milestone comes just over a year after Microsoft announced that it had finally hit its goal of having one billion devices running Windows 10. That fast growth can be attributed in no small part to the increased demand for PCs; in light of the COVID-19 pandemic that struck the world in the past year. In its earnings report for the past quarter, Microsoft reported a 10% increase in Windows OEM revenue; meaning its partners have been…
Bandits who abducted the 39 students of Federal College of Forestry Mechanization, Afaka, in Igabi local government area of Kaduna state have released another video of the students including a pregnant female student. When contacted, a senior management staff of the college, who craved anonymity, identified the faces in the video as their students The students were abducted from their hostels on March 11 after the bandits attacked the college, which is located very close to the Nigerian Defence Academy. Between April 5 and 8, the bandits released ten among the 39 students in two batches. The fate of the…
Two students of the private university held in captivity were killed, bringing the total number of fatalities to five. In a statement issued on Monday, the state Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan, he said two more bodies of the abducted students were recovered by security agencies and have been evacuated to a mortuary, while the university has been notified of the development. On April 25, Bandits have attacked Haske Baptist Church in Chikun Local Government Area of Kaduna State, killing eight people while several worshippers were abducted. An unspecified number of worshippers also sustained varying degrees…
Bandits have abducted two housewives during an attack in Zaria, Kaduna State. The bandits were said to have invaded Kofar Kuyambana low-cost Housing Estate in Zaria on Sunday night in large numbers on motorcycles and started shooting sporadically, before taking the victims away. However, Kaduna state police command through its Spokesman, Mohammed Jalige said that two of the four kidnapped women were rescued by its personnel. He explained that the police, in collaboration with members of the community, were able to repel the attackers from taking more people, adding that two of the bandits were arrested. The police spokesman said…
Three policemen in the Ogun State Command have been dismissed from service for extorting money forcefully from a traveller en route to Lagos from Abeokuta. The culprits, Inspector Sunday John, Sgt Jimoh Asimiya, and Sgt Solomon Adedapo were said to have forcefully extorted one hundred and fifty-three thousand Naira (₦153,000) from the victim while he was traveling from Abeokuta to Lagos. The Commissioner of Police, CP Edward Awolowo Ajogun in a statement issued said he “ordered the immediate arrest and detention of the officers involved” after being made aware of the incident on social media. “The money was recovered from…
Google Assistant currently requires users to say the hotword “Hey Google” first for any type of task they want the digital assistant to perform. For urgent tasks like picking up a call, this can take a bit of your time before being able to finally answer someone. However, a new Assistant feature codenamed “Guacamole” could make things quicker for more time-sensitive tasks. The folks over at Android Police received tip about the feature’s description that appeared in the Assistant settings page for some users. When you opt in to the feature, you can perform certain tasks that don’t require the…