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…
Twitter is delaying its rollout of ‘Fleets’, its Stories-like function, while it fixes “performance; and stability problems”. Fleets, which had been tested in Brazil since March before being announced in other territories; are tweets that disappear within 24 hours. Twitter said at the time that its intention was to make users feel more comfortable without having to be concerned over likes and retweets. Many users on Twitter complained about Fleets for being yet another Stories clone, with similar features appearing on Snapchat, YouTube, Instagram, Skype; and LinkedIn since it was introduced in 2013. However, others said that the new feature…
Instagram and other social media platforms are still struggling to handle troll comments; misinformation and more such practices. To help give users more control over bullying comments, Instagram rolled out a new feature. Instagram already lets users delete comments that they don’t want visible on their posts. This can however get cumbersome especially if the troll army attacks your posts. But you can now delete up to 25 comments at once that you don’t want to appear on your post. You can do the same to block accounts as well. This feature was introduced recently and here’s how to use…
The Ugandan military on Thursday heightened up security in the capital Kampala; and major towns after violent protests erupted on Wednesday, leaving three people dead and 34 injured. Brig. Flavia Byekwaso, military spokesperson, said soldiers had been deployed to prevent possible escalation of protests after the arrest of opposition presidential candidate, Robert Kyagulanyi, over flouting the COVID-19 campaign guidelines. Pilot dies after aircraft on training as Uganda beefs up security after violent protests Kyagulanyi’s Wednesday arrest sparked off sporadic protests in some parts of the east African country. “The deployment today is to beef up the security. We saw what…
Bobby Brown Jr, the son of the singer Bobby Brown, has been found dead in Los Angeles, police have said. The 28-year-old was discovered at his home on Wednesday after officers were called to a “medical emergency”, the Los Angeles Police Department said. Singer-songwriter Landon Brown, who is the eldest son of Bobby Sr., confirmed his brother’s death in an Instagram post captioned, “I love you forever King.” The cause of death is yet to be ascertained, however, no foul play is suspected as the case is pending examination, said LAPD public information officer Jeff Lee. Brown Jr was the…
Three members of the Kaduna State Vigilante Service have been killed by bandits in the Chikun Local Government Area of the state. The vigilantes, according to the State Commissioner for Internal Security and Home Affairs, Samuel Aruwan were ambushed by bandits on Tuesday night at Dande village while they were on their way from Damba-Kasaya in the Buruku general area. He gave the identities of the deceased as Alison Musa, Dauda Audu and Ishaya Sarki, while those injured are Ayuba Tanko and Doza Adamu Meanwhile, Governor Nasir El-Rufai has condoled with the families of the victims, praying for the repose…
US rapper Lil Wayne was charged Tuesday in Florida with possession of a firearm by a convicted felon over an incident dating back to last year — a federal offense that could see him sentenced to up to 10 years in prison. The 38-year-old artist, whose real name is Dwayne Michael Carter Jr, was found to be carrying a gun and bullets when police searched a private plane in Miami in December last year. The Miami Herald reported that Lil Wayne — who has a home in south Florida — admitted the gold-plated pistol found in his luggage was his.…
The police in Katsina State have arrested nine suspected serial rapists who have been accused of continuously raping a 14-year-old girl, identified as Auwa Mato. Katsina, usually referred to as Katsina State to distinguish it from the city of Katsina, is a state in North West zone of Nigeria. The Police Spokesman in the state, Gambo Isah, disclosed this on Wednesday at the command headquarters, Katsina during a press briefing to showcase the recent achievements made by the command in the fight against Banditry, Kidnapping, Cattle rustling and other forms of crime and criminality in the state. According to Isah,…
Instagram is changing the way you search for posts on its platform. The photo and video sharing service is starting to surface relevant content when you look for posts using keywords. Prior to this update, you could only search for hashtags or account names. It was a longtime limitation that restricted the way you discover content on Instagram since it won’t surface photos or videos that did not contain the hashtags you were trying to find, for instance. With the latest change, you can search for content that matches your keywords; regardless of whether it contains relevant hashtags or not.…
Whatsapp is now working on a new feature that will give users the option to mute videos before sending them. WhatsApp’s new feature is being tested now but it’s not available to public beta users yet. This feature is under development, and it was discovered by WABetaInfo. There’s no word when WhatsApp will roll out this feature to users. It’s a simple feature but it can be useful to users who wish to send videos without any audio in them. Based on the screenshot shared by WABetaInfo, the preview screen for videos will have a speaker icon which you can…
A teenage girl has lost an ear after she was bitten by a retired police officer in Edo State. We gathered that the 18-year-old girl identified as Faith Aigbe was involved in a bout with a retired police officer named Mr Ogunbor. The alleged incident happened at Eweka Street, off Aduwawa Road, Benin City in Edo State on Sunday, November 15; during a quarrel between the victim’s mother and the Ogunbor family. Faith said when Mr Ogunbor picked up a shovel to hit her mother, she quickly held back the weapon. The retired police officer was said to have grabbed…