Amazon CEO, Jeff Bezos this week has sold more than $3.1 billion worth of shares in his company; according to filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission compiled by OpenInsider. The deals were essential for a prearranged 10b5-1 exchanging arrangement, as indicated by the filings. Earlier this year, Bezos sold more than $4.1 billion worth of offers in the organization. The business this week bring his absolute money out in 2020 to marginally more than $7.2 billion up until now. He actually possesses in excess of 54 million offers; worth more than $170 billion, making him the most extravagant individual…
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WhatsApp on Thursday announced the launch of disappearing messages. This feature has been in testing since last year. As the name suggests; this feature will automatically delete messages from chats once the time limit reaches. WhatsApp has set the time limit for disappearing messages to seven days. This means that messages sent will disappear from the chat after seven days since they were sent. Both users in a WhatsApp chat have the option enable/disable disappearing messages. For group chats, only the admin will have control over disappearing messages. The feature will take effect only once it’s turned on, and older…
BlackBerry owners had known it was coming for six months. TCL, which had been making Android phones under the BlackBerry name since 2017, was out; “no longer selling BlackBerry-branded mobile devices”. Then, just 12 days before the deadline and the latest in a long line of blows to BB phone fans, in steps Texas tech company Onward Mobility with promises of a new 5G Android BlackBerry in 2021. “I want more information to be released on the new BlackBerry,” Redditor petiteging posted on the r/blackberry subreddit a few weeks later. “I’m dying to know more; been a user for 10…
The House of Representatives Committee on Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) as agreed that operatives of the corps will begin to bear arms to curtail the excesses of road some users in the country. The Chairman of the committee, Mr Akinfolarin Mayowa, said this during the corps’ 2020 budget performance and 2021 budget defence, on Thursday, November 5, in Abuja. He said that the 1992 Act of FRSC allowed the corps to bear arms, adding, however, that this had yet to be implemented. The chairman said it was necessary that the laws of the land were obeyed to allow the…
The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has set up a four-man fact-finding team to visit Oyigbo in Rivers State over reports of killings in the area. This was contained in a statement issued by the NBA President, Olumide Akpata on Thursday, November 5. This comes in the wake of reports of Nigerian soldiers going from house to house searching for Igbo youths. Allegedly, many of them have been killed and several others subject to various degrees of abuse and maltreatment. The development in Oyigbo is said to have followed attacks on security operatives during the EndSARS protest crisis, which Rivers State…
The Federal Government (FG), on Wednesday, November 4, has denied reports making the rounds that a no-fly list of “hundreds of Nigerians” the government suspects of promoting the #EndSARS protest has been compiled. This rebuttal by the FG came in the wake of online reports which alleged that Rauf Aregbesola, the Minister of Interior, was responsible for the list. This was denied in a series of tweets on Tuesday by Aregbesola who said it was fake news. “The Ministry of Interior did not, has not; and will not generate any no-fly list. Ignore fake news please!” the FG ministry tweeted.…
Google Project Zero team is well-known for discovering vulnerabilities and bugs in Google’s own software as well as that developed by other companies. Its methodology involves identifying security flaws in software and privately reporting them to vendors, giving them 90 days to fix them before public disclosure. Depending upon the complexity of the fix required, it sometimes also offers additional days in the form of a grace period. In specific scenarios, companies may even be given less than the standard 90 days to fix issues before Google publicly announces them. Over the past couple of years, the team has revealed…
It has been reported that soldiers deployed in the streets of Beere in Ibadan, Oyo State; to curb the #EndSARS protests by the Nigerian Army have been caught on camera; flogging a woman for what they termed ‘indecent dressing’. This Nigerian Army personnel, who were chanting ‘#EndSARS’, also shaved the heads of some youths said to be wearing improper hairstyles. In a video that has since gone viral, a young lady wearing a spaghetti-strapped dress; and orange-coloured hairstyle is made to sit on the bare floor at a filling station; while a soldier whips her buttocks. The lady begs the…
Aregbesola reveals reason behind rejection of new prisoners by correctional facilities The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola on Tuesday, November 3, explained the reason correctional centres in the country had been rejecting new suspects sent to them by the police. According to Aregbesola, the authorities of the centres were doing so; because the process of sending the suspects to them did not follow COVID-19 protocols. The Infostride gathered that correctional facilities have rejected many suspects sent to them by the police. The situation has left people with different speculations. However, speaking after defending his Ministry’s 2021 budget proposal before the…
The Inspector-General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, on Tuesday, November 3, said that 1,590 suspects have been arrested across the country in respect of the #EndSars protest which turned violent after it was hijacked by hoodlums. Adamu said this while addressing police officers and newsmen at the Lagos State Command Headquarters, Ikeja, during a courtesy visit to burnt police formations and injured police officers in Lagos. The IGP commended his officers for showing professionalism during the protest by showing restraint and not engaging the protesters violently. “When they campaigned against SARS they came up with five demands and after about…
iPhone got a new button last month, and you may not have even noticed. No, Apple didn’t sneak into your house and secretly superglue a button onto your smartphone. But it did release iOS 14, the latest version of its iPhone software, which includes a feature called Back Tap. Back Tap adds a fascinating new “button” to your phone that blurs the line between hardware and software. Back Tap turns the entire back of your iPhone into a giant touch-sensitive button that you can double or triple tap to trigger specific functions on your phone. There’s a good chance that…
A former Governor of Benue State and serving Senator, Gabriel Suswam has been re-arraigned before a Federal High Court in Abuja over alleged N3.1 billion fraud. Suswam was on Monday re-arraigned alongside a former Commissioner for Finance in Benue State, Omadachi Oklobia on an amended 11-count charge filed by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC). EFCC amended the earlier nine-count charge on which the defendants were first arraigned in 2015, raising the counts to 11. They were accused, among others, of diverting about N3.1 billion, which the EFCC claimed formed part of the proceeds of the sale of Benue…
At least 22 people were killed when attackers stormed one of Afghanistan’s main universities on Monday, detonating a suicide bomb and spraying classrooms with bullets in a brazen hours-long assault claimed by Islamic State group. The attack on Kabul University, which came as violence surges across Afghanistan, marked the second time in less than two weeks that an educational institution was targeted in the capital by IS extremists. Survivors described horrific scenes after a suicide bomber struck inside the campus around 11:00 am (0530 GMT). Two gunmen then opened fire, officials said, sending hundreds of students fleeing and scrambling over…
In the wake of helping in excess of 1,000,000 physical Chinese retailers modernize their activities; Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. has now focused on another objective: the nation’s obsolete industrial facilities. China’s biggest company revealed in September its first keen plant; a mystery try that Alibaba’s been directing for a very long time on the edges of its old neighborhood of Hangzhou. The three-story office known as Xunxi – interpreted in a real sense as “quick rhino” – is the organization’s effort to use its shopper information and advancements to help the multi-trillion-dollar producing field improving productivity and meet rising customer…
WhatsApp has been quietly working on a new feature; that will let it automatically delete the messages after a set duration. Called ‘Disappearing Messages’ the feature is rumoured to be added to WhatsApp in the future. Now, the eagle-eyed folks at WABetaInfo have spotted a FAQ document that sheds light on the upcoming feature. According to the document, users can set a rule that will delete messages; from chat history of both the parties after seven days. Disappearing Messages will work for both individual and group chats; but only group admins can enable or disable the feature. Apart from that,…
A group of seven Nigerians who hijacked a UK-bound ship face further grilling from UK authorities. Detectives in the UK have been given a further 24 hours to question the seven Nigerians. The seven Nigerians, all stowaways, were detained after military forces stormed an oil tanker in the British Channel; off the Isle of Wight and arrested them after they hijacked the vessel. The incident has resulted in a 10-hour standoff which was ended by the Special Boat Service (SBS). Equally important, the standoff began when the stowaways on board the Nave Andromeda, reportedly became violent. The Southampton-bound ship left…
LG recently launched the LG Wing smartphone in India. For those who don’t have the foggiest idea; the LG Wing accompanies a presentation that turns to frame a T-shape. Presently, word is that the organization is intending to dispatch two new mixed cell phones in the principal half of 2021. According to a report by The Elec, LG is intending to dispatch a rollable cell phone one year from now. The telephone codenamed B Project will be dispatched in the March of 2021. It is a portion of the organization’s Explorer Project. LG Wing, which costs ₹69,990 in India, is…
Apple already promised at its WWDC 2020 conference that ‘Apple Silicon’ processor-based mac devices are coming later in the year. Now, it looks like the launch of Apple Silicon-based Macs are close as the company has reportedly invited macOS developers; to special labs to work on apps for the upcoming platform. It also gave an overview of how powerful and efficient these chipsets will be. Many even called it the most obvious move to part ways from Intel. The program is said to be for those devs who have purchased the Developer Transition Kit to work on apps for Apple…
The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), and 261 concerned Nigerians, civil society organisations, and media groups have filed a lawsuit against the National Broadcasting Commission [NBC] and Minister of Information and Culture Mr Lai Mohammed over the fines the commission imposed on Channels Television, AIT and Arise TV for their coverage of the EndSARS protests in the country. A fine of N3million slammed on each of the broadcasters by NBC last week sparked outrage and criticism with many calling for it to be withdrawn. SERAP and the 261 others concerned about it are now asking the court to “declare…
A 90-year-old widow has reportedly been gang-raped in her house in India. According to the report, two men came into the house of the 90-year-old widow at night on October 24 and sexually attacked her; the name of the victim is yet to be published. The elderly woman said they left her “almost half-dead” after the attack. After she regained her senses the next morning she told her neighbour. She went to the hospital and had medical tests after the attack in the Kanchanpur area in the country’s North Tripura district. The family of the 90-year-old woman took her to…