Facebook is going to put groups on probation if they have too many posts that violate Facebook’s content rules. Social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter have been trying to stem the spread of misinformation for a while now; and have been employing different measures for that. According to The Washington Post report, Facebook is going to restrict any group, public or private; if they have multiple posts violating the platform’s community standards. Moderators of the groups will have to approve any post manually for 60 days; and there is going to be no appeal available for groups if they…
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A police chief in the southern US state of Arkansas has resigned after taking to social media following Joe Biden’s presidential win to urge violence against Democrats. Lang Holland, the police chief in Marshall, a small city located about 100 miles (160 kilometres) north of the state’s capital Little Rock, vented his anger at Biden’s victory on Parler, a right-wing social media site. “Never let them forget they are traitors and have no right to live in this Republic after what they have done,” read a screenshot of one of his posts which were no longer visible on Monday. “Death…
The British army could soon include a huge number of robots to help it fight its battles. Of course it’s unlikely to feature a cavalry of autonomous gun-toting androids that look as if it’s just broken free from a sci-fi movie set; but an array of robots large and small could be incorporated into the army; mostly to help it with various operations on the battlefield. The plan is to have an army of about 120,000, of which 30,000 might be robots. While technological advances could certainly help to give an army the advantage during a battle with opposing forces,…
The latest addition of the Apple Watch which is capable to address nightmare-related sleep issues is the latest addition. The FDA has given a green signal for the sale of NightWare; an Apple Watch app that comes with a corresponding iPhone element and can help treat nightmares stemming from psychological disorders like PTSD, according to reports. The application utilizes smartwatch movement sensors and heart rate data to detect if you are having a nightmare; and makes the Apple Watch vibrate in response. What this does is it excites the user; yet doesn’t wake him/her consequently intruding on the terrible dreams…
The Chinese people holds it yearly hacking contest Tianfu Cup; adolescents contend to discover new and remarkable approaches to hack into well known programming and stages. This year has been the same as as young hackers discovered exploits in iOS 14; Windows 10, Chrome, Safari, as well as Adobe PDF Reader, among others. According to Zdnet, 15 groups partook in the third release of China’s Tianfu Cup. Contending groups were given three attempts of five minutes each; to hack into a chosen target using an original exploit. Note that all effective endeavors are handed-off to the product suppliers; which are…
A Botswanian rape victim stunned everyone when she failed to testify against her abuser in court because he sexually satisfied her. Newsmen reported that prosecutors in Botswana were left stunned; when one of the rape victims (name not supplied) who was raped by Oscar Chabaya (34) in Botswana refused to testify against him. The rape victim is alleged to have instead asked police officers handling the case to give her Chabaya’s contact details as he had sexually satisfied her. It was gathered that the suspect’s rape attacks began in March 2017; where he would gain entry into his victims’ houses…
Teardowns of recent Google Photos APK for Android have pointed to Google moving certain editing features behind a paywall. An XDA report claimed that certain users are already seeing a pop-up indicating that the Color Pop editing feature in Google Photos will require a Google One subscription. The Color Pop filter in Google Photos was first introduced by Google in 2018 and keeps the subject in color while turning the background black and white. Since there was no official word from Google on this, there was a lot of confusion as to whether the company was really moving the Color…
An unknown assailant threw a flammable bottle into a mosque in Burkina Faso’s capital, injuring six individuals; the administration representative said Sunday. Investigations concerning the Friday night assault are continuous; Remis Fulgance Dandjinou revealed to The Associated Press. Security Minister Ousseni Compaore visited the site of the Friday night assault and likewise met with the casualties on Saturday; as indicated by a Facebook post from the service. A 30-year-elderly person who showed up at the mosque for night prayers not long after the assault disclosed to AP that; individuals were crying and some were also lying on the ground with…
The police authorities in Ogun State have arrested a 31-year-old man, Rexlawson Jonson, for allegedly killing his girlfriend, Patricia John in Obafemi Owode Local Government Area of the state. Jonson, an indigene of Ebonyi State, was said to have gruesomely murdered his 26-year-old lover in a hotel in Ibafo. This was confirmed in a statement issued on Monday by the Police Public Relations Officer, Abimbola Oyeyemi. Oyeyemi said the arrest of the suspect followed a report by the manager of the hotel, Adebayo Aladesuyi who reported that while they were carrying out routine check of the hotel room, they discovered…
Hackers could be able to guess your passwords and much more by analysing your body position whilst on a Zoom video conferencing call, experts have claimed. The way people move their shoulders when typing on Zoom calls can betray what keys they are pressing; allowing hackers to potentially identify specific entries, according to researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio. The team found that when analysing clips of upper arm movements, they could reconstruct the keys people had pressed in Zoom with around 93% accuracy – with Skype and Google Hangouts (now Google Chat) also affected. “From a…
WhatsApp is the most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app in the world. But while other people can’t snoop on what you’re saying, that doesn’t mean other WhatsApp data isn’t being processed. By far the biggest data-hogging element of WhatsApp is the photos, videos, and gifs that can quickly clog up your phone’s storage. As well as filling your phone’s memory, photos that save to your camera roll can be a privacy nightmare: if you’re scrolling through pics with friends or family, nobody wants that to be punctuated with something inappropriate that arrived through WhatsApp. WhatsApp automatically downloads new photos and…
Spotify may be outfitting to dispatch a membership web recording administration soon that will offer admittance to unique shows; or some selective scenes for a month to month expense. The administration was portrayed in a review conveyed through Spotify’s application according to a report by Andrew Allenstein, the leader of Variety’s Intelligence Platform. According to the study, there may be in any event four potential membership plans going from $3 to $8/month. ‘ The least expensive arrangement would give clients admittance to selective meetings and scenes yet will even now have advertisements and the most costly arrangement will gain admittance…
A Nigerian man who hails from Edo State has disfigured the face of his partner during an altercation. According to Dele Ebuwa, who is the baby mama of the Nigerian man, she was physically assaulted in her father’s house in Benin, Edo State, on Monday, November 2, 2020. Specifically, the 27-year-old fashion designer disclosed that she and Ehis Sam dated for about a year before she fell pregnant in January 2019. Ehis, who is an auto electrician; allegedly asked her to abort the baby. After she refused, he abandoned her and refused to have anything to do with the baby.…
A middle-aged pregnant woman has been killed by gunmen suspected to be kidnappers in Rigachikun community in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna State. Although police authorities in the state have yet to confirm the incident, a security source made the disclosure to The InfoStride on Thursday. He disclosed that the victim who was due for delivery was kidnapped from her residence on Tuesday night by the gunmen. She was later shot dead by the armed them when a team of soldiers engaged them in a gun battle, in an attempt to rescue her from her abductors. The gunmen were…
The Ogun state police command has arrested a 20-year-old suspected ritual killer, Festus Simon who was accused of killing a 12-year-old boy in Ibadan the Oyo state capital. According to police authority, the suspect was arrested on the 4th of this month following information received by the police at Sotubo divisional headquarters Shagamu that the suspect who killed his victim on the 1st of October 2020 fled his residence at Iyana church area of Iwo road Ibadan “He moved to Simawa area of Ogun state under the pretense of looking for a job in order to evade police arrest” the…
The Judicial Panel set up by the Lagos State Government to probe alleged cases of police brutality in the state played back the closed-circuit TV footage from the October 20 Lekki shooting at its meeting on Friday. The panel had obtained the footage of the incident from the Lekki Concession Company (LCC) at its last sitting. The Chairperson of the panel, retired Justice Doris Okwuobi granted approval for the footage to be played after hearing from the counsel. The video was played for about four hours after which the counsel to the #EndSARS protesters, Mr. Adeshina Ogunlana, requested the footage…
The family of Ibrahim Momodu, an undergraduate of the University of Benin (UNIBEN), allegedly killed on May 27, 2013, has petitioned the Edo Judicial Panel of Inquiry on extra-judicial killings by police, calling for justice. This was disclosed in a petition dated October 27, filed by Counsel for the family, Mr Jefferson Uwoghiren. Specifically, the petitioners urged the panel to investigate the role of retired CSP Carol Afegbai in Momodu’s death. Further, they urged the panel to invite Afegbai; who was the Divisional Police Officer of Ogida Police Station at the time of the incident; as well as other policemen…
One of the most used social media platforms, WhatsApp has finally gotten its permission to increase its payment service not just in India where it began its test, but in other countries of the world. Back in 2018, WhatsApp began testing its payment service in India. The test involved about one million WhatsApp users in India; and it took advantage of India’s UPI (Unified Payments Interface) infrastructure to send and receive payments. The company, however, failed to receive approval from the National Payments Corporation of India (NPCI) to roll it out to everyone in India. After trying for almost two…
Dropbox has disclosed its budgetary outcomes for the second from last quarter of 2020; uncovering all out income over the three-month time frame hit $487.4 million, speaking to 14% year-on-year development, with the quantity of paying clients arrived at 15.25 million. Somewhere else, the organization uncovered that it holds $1.226 billion in real money and its reciprocals; – a colossal asset that could be put towards new acquisitions. A year ago, the organization bought eSignature fire up HelloSign for $230 million to help its cloud offering. Our list of the best cloud storage providers The best esign software solutions The…
Troops of the Armed Forces of Nigeria working with other security agencies are again renewing their commitment to ending insurgency, banditry, and other sundry crimes in the country. This is according to the Coordinator of Defence Media Operations, Major General John Enenche, who briefed reporters on Thursday in Abuja on the activities of the military in the fight against insurgency and banditry. He disclosed that in the last five days, the land component of Operation Lafiya Dole repelled terrorist attacks on troops’ location at Army Super Camp, Damboa in Borno State. Enenche noted that this led to the death…