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Apple released iOS 12.1.2 the fourth update to the iOS 12 operating system since its September launch. iOS 12.1.2 comes just two weeks after the release iOS 12.1.1, and one week after Apple seeded the first iOS 12.1.2 beta to developers.


The released update iOS 12.1.2 (build number 16C101) is compatible for all iPhone models, which has bug fixes related to eSIM activation for the all the new iPhone models, including the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max.

It likewise purportedly contains software tweaks to address the ongoing patent battle with Qualcomm, specifically in China. Notably, the iOS 12.1.2 update is limited to iPhone models only this means that iPads and iPod touch do not receive the new update.

From Apple's release notes, iOS 12.1.2 includes bug fixes for your iPhone. Thus:

Fixes bugs with eSIM activation for for 2018 iPhones, namely iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max.
Addresses an issue that could affect cellular connectivity in Turkey for iPhone XR, iPhone XS, and iPhone XS Max.

Only 2018 iPhones were affected, and the company confirms that all three models launched this year need this fix. Possible fix for Qualcomm patent violation. On the other hand, the Cupertino-based tech giant doesn’t say a single word about the possible fix aimed at Chinese iPhones and supposed to help the company escape a ban imposed by a local court earlier this month.

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Facebook announced a security breach which is a software bug in one of its APIs exposing photos of up to 6.8 million users, including private photos not yet posted on the platform.
It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experience “It’s Your Facebook” in New York’s Bryant Park and it blamed this new leak on a Photo API bug that was present in its backend code between September 13 to September 25, 2018.

The company said that several third-party apps had access to “a broader set of photos than usual” for the 12 days in September.
Tomer Bar, a Facebook developer, provided this explanation about the Photo API bug leak:
“When someone gives permission for an app to access their photos on Facebook, we usually only grant the app access to photos people share on their timeline. In this case, the bug potentially gave developers access to other photos, such as those shared on Marketplace or Facebook Stories.

The bug also impacted photos that people uploaded to Facebook but chose not to post. For example, if someone uploads a photo to Facebook but doesn't finish posting it - maybe because they've lost reception or walked into a meeting - we store a copy of that photo so the person has it when they come back to the app to complete their post.”

Bar also stated that Facebook investigation revealed that 1,500 apps built by 876 developers might have been able to access the non-public photos of up to 6.8 million users. It is unclear if any of these apps abused the bug to actually access and download users' private and non-posted photos.

The company said it would notify affected users. This includes users who installed any of the 1,500 apps and gave the app permission to access their photos.
Facebook users can check if they are affected Users and not to wait for the company to send them notification.

Lagos-Zenith Bank Plc has propelled the Unstructured Supplementary Service Data, USSD, installments on Point of Sales (USSD on POS), empowering clients to pay for products and ventures by means of POS terminals in shopping areas or on e-commerce websites without the use of cards.


The creative installment arrangement, which is controlled by CoralPay, permits Zenith Bank clients to utilize the *966# Eazy Banking (USSD) to pay for products and enterprises on POS terminals in trader areas or on internet business sites through the age of an installment code on the POS terminal which is then affirmed by the client utilizing their USSD stick. This code can also fix any compromise on your internet banking, ATM, Mobile Banking pin or password by simply dialing *966*11#.

Zenith Bank's *966# Eazy Banking on POS will additionally drive money related consideration through office managing an account. It likewise permits bank clients, regardless of their bank, to complete withdrawals from their records or wallets without cards on the POS terminals at specialist areas.

At the dispatch of the new installment arrangement, the Group Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Zenith Bank Plc., Mr. Dwindle Amangbo, stated: "This solution is an exciting and highly innovative initiative in promoting financial inclusion, facilitating payments by customers either remotely in the comfort of their homes/offices or at merchant locations without the use of a payment card. With this solution, customers in remote locations plagued with challenges of poor Internet access can now carry out transactions easily using their feature phones."

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There were times when we are being offered unlimited data for monthly subscription by different networks, but these days the unlimited subscription is limited and designated with different price ranges.

One thing is to choose the bundle you want and the other is for it to serve your purpose fully well.

Mobile data use is costly and things keep changing daily, the technology keeps getting sophisticated and people are now spending much time online than offline; so many businesses have realized this and they have taken their business online giving them a plus to their brick-and-mortar shops.

I’m not to deviate from the subject but trying to let you understand what brings to the costly data. By now you should be guessing the cause which is “excess demand”. When demand is excess the price drastically rises.

We cannot stop the price from rising but we can reduce the way data is used. This article will provide you with free apps that can help you achieve that, you can make use of more than one of the app concurrently.

Datally

Datally is a smart app by Google that helps you save, share, and manage your mobile data. It shows your overall usage or on per-app basis. On average, people save 21 percent of their mobile data.

Features

Data Saver: Save mobile data by blocking background data and unwanted notifications. You can block background data for some apps and allow for others.
Bedtime Mode: Automatically turn off mobile data at night.
Emergency Bank: Save a little data for later in case you need it.
Data Usage Insights: Learn more about your data usage including usage history, trends over time, and per-app usage.
Bubble: Stay in control by seeing real-time data usage while using your apps.
Daily Limit: Set a daily cap for how much data you can use.
Track Hotspot: Set a limit for the amount of data your friends can use from your hotspot. Get a reminder or just turn the hotspot off when the limit is reached.
Quest Mode: Limit the amount of data friends or family can use when they borrow your phone.

Samsung Max

An easy-to-use data manager, and privacy assistant, exclusively for Samsung. It allows you to: Save mobile data, Protect your Privacy, Get updates, alerts, stats, and tips on everything your apps are doing, and how to manage them.

Features
Savings reports: See the data your apps are using and reduce it by turning on data savings - to save your data and money.
Manage apps: by limiting or restricting their mobile and Wi-Fi data consumption to save money. It's easy, Samsung Max will give you alerts for apps using too much background data.
Wi-Fi Security: Use Samsung Max’s super-secure and encrypted connections when on public Wi-Fi to ensure your personal information is protected.
Incognito: Go incognito in all your apps to avoid targeted ads and data snoopers from tracking you. Throw those tracking companies off your trail.
Ultra apps: will save data, protect your privacy , and give you more powerful control over the experience of your favorite social networks and destinations without wasting your mobile data plan or putting your privacy at risk. Ultra apps are advanced web apps that load mobile website versions of your favorite services, but they are optimized by Samsung Max’s cloud technology.
Boost wi-fi: connectivity in crowded Wi-Fi hotspots or weak signal areas.

Chrome (Data Saving Browsers)

Web browsing is still one of the most common ways to access the Internet. Many browsers have data-saving features available. Some examples include Google Chrome, UC Browser Mini, Opera Mini, and Phoenix Browser. They compress data, lower the resolution of images, and sometimes omit parts of the website altogether. The result is lower data usage. You can go with any of the aforementioned browsers. It's a small thing, but people load a lot of web pages. Every little bit helps.

Note: Pages accessed using private connections or in incognito tabs will not be optimized since is not seen by Google.

How to Turn on Data Saver on Google chrome

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
At the top right, tap More ( the three Horizontal dots) >Settings.

Under "Advanced," tap Data Saver.

Turn on Data Saver.

TO See how much data you've saved

On your Android phone or tablet, open the Chrome app .
Tap More >Settings.Tap Data Saver.

At the bottom, you’ll see a list of the sites you've visited and how much data you've saved.

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Google is making another great move again, with the AI taking over the way we do things, things won’t be as it use to be in the coming years. We are in the technology age and many companies are really making so much progress to be in the game by using these transformational technologies to deliver their product to consumers. It is only companies that are agile and subtle to change will remain in competition in this technology age.


The internet giant yesterday announced on its interest to collaborate on the future of audio news with selected media outlet. It is said that “information is power” and audio means of acquiring it is preferred by most because you can be listening to the news and be doing some other things.

For the past century, radio has been a one-size-fits all medium. Turn on the radio and you’re dropped into a show you may not be interested or may not know anything of. Imagine that you could have your very own radio, one that is accessible on-request, available consistently, and achieves you news about the world and your interests.

According to Google-“Over the past year, we worked with publishers from around the world—including The Associated Press, Hollywood Reporter, Universo Online and the South China Morning Post—to think through the future of audio news. Together, we built a prototype that brings the artificial intelligent of Google news to the voice context of the Assistant”.

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Amazon Alexa, referred to just as Alexa is a virtual assistant created by Amazon, first utilized in the Amazon Echo and the Amazon Echo Dot smart speakers created by Amazon Lab126. It is equipped for voice interaction, music playback, making daily agendas, setting alarms, streaming web recordings, playing audio books, and providing weather, traffic, sports, and other real time information, for example, news.


Alexa can likewise control several smart devices utilizing itself as a home automation system. Users can expand the Alexa abilities by introducing "aptitudes" (extra usefulness created by outsider merchants, in different settings all the more usually called applications, for example, climate projects and sound highlights).

Most devices with Alexa allow users to activate the device using a wake-word (such as Alexa); other devices (such as the Amazon mobile app on iOS or Android) require the user to push a button to activate Alexa's listening mode. Currently, interaction and communication with Alexa are only available in English, German, French, Italian, Spanish, and Japanese.

In November 2017, Alexa became available in the Canadian market in English only.
As of September 2017, Amazon had more than 5,000 employees working on Alexa and related products.

It all started in November 2014, when Amazon announced Alexa alongside the Echo. Alexa was enlivened by the PC voice and conversational framework on board the Starship Enterprise in sci-fi TV arrangement and motion pictures, starting with Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The name Alexa was picked because of the way that it has a hard consonant with the X and therefore could be perceived with a higher precision. The name is likewise professed to be reminiscent of the Library of Alexandria, which is additionally utilized by Amazon Alexa Internet for the equivalent reason.
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In the event that you utilize Skype and also Alexa, get ready to be excited. You would now be able to utilize Alexa gadgets to make Skype calls to telephones in up to 150 nations around the world.

With this new administration comes 100 free minutes of calling every month for two months after you connect Skype with Alexa, temporarily. This is the means by which to make the connection and begin making a few calls.

HOW TO CONNECT SKYPE TO ALEXA TO TEAM UP.

Before you can make calls, you need to link your Alexa device with your Skype account. First, go to the Amazon Alexa App (you can download it on Android or iOS).
Setup Skype on your Alexa device

Open the Amazon Alexa app on your Android or iOS device.
Go to Settings > Communication > Skype to link your accounts.
Sign in using the same Microsoft account you use on Skype.

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There are different levels of procrastination, the extreme procrastinators and the reasonable ones. No matter the one you fall into, it doesn’t really mean that you are lazy, it means that you have not mastered your body and momentum on how to get that task done.


If you have hit the gym before how was the experience the first time; It was like you should stop because you think you’re weak and everything hurts but in time it will hurt last and be part of you.

Here are the major reasons why we procrastinate and the way out; read through them thoroughly.

1. Fear of Failure

As far as I can tell a standout amongst the most widely recognized reasons for procrastination is a profound established dread of disappointment. On the off chance that you fear the outcomes of fizzling, a legitimate augmentation of this is a hesitance to make a move.

This is because you are guaranteed not to fail if you don’t attempt something (although the argument can easily be made that not attempting is the same as failing in the first place – which is an important point to consider).

Procrastination is ameliorating when you fear disappointment. It fills in as an assurance component, protecting you from the likelihood of genuine disappointment – instead of the more emotional disappointment that goes with not endeavoring something in any case.

Way out: Understand and accept that failure is not fatal. Most mistakes can be fixed, and you will get a second chance to right any wrongs. Obviously don’t go into a task with a mindset of failure … but realize that mistakes do happen.

Furthermore, train yourself to understand that failure to take action and give something a go is actually worse than being unsuccessful in its execution. If you try and fail, you at least have the opportunity to learn from your mistakes. If you never tried in the first place, then you’ve got nothing to show at all.

You may want to read:
5 Habit that help you win your day.

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Samsung Galaxy A8s will be the world's first smartphone to feature an Infinity-O display when it launches in China on December 10.

Samsung will release the Galaxy A8s in China on December 10, the world’s first smartphone with the screen hole design. The South Korean major shared the official release date via the teaser poster for the Galaxy A8s on its official Weibo account.

This will be the first smartphone to have a hole in the display for the front-facing selfie camera. Samsung calls this new type of screen as the “Infinity-O”, which the company announced at its recent developer conference in San Francisco.

While Huawei plans to launch its in-display selfie camera sporting Nova 4 on 17 December, Samsung will likely be beating them to the race with the launch of the Galaxy A8s on 10 December in China.

Samsung which was the first to showcase its infinity-O display in early November will be launching its first smartphone with the front camera placed at the top left corner of the phone. The design appears to be almost identical to the one teased by Huawei for the Nova 4, but Samsung will make it to the finish line before Huawei does. Or so it seems.

It almost looks like Samsung was waiting for Huawei to announce the launch of the Nova 4 in China to arrive at a decision for launching the Galaxy A8s. Samsung took to its weibo account to publish a poster of the launch, also revealing the overall design of the phone.

The front camera which sits inside the display will likely be a 24 MP unit while the rear features a triple-camera setup similar to the one seen on the Galaxy A7 this year.

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Microsoft's office icons on Windows and the web have been conservative, the last time it was updated was in 2013, when selfies were new enough to become Oxford Dictionaries’ Word of the Year and emojis were new enough to be considered buzzworthy and so many things had changed since then including how work is done.


On Thursday the tech giant announced that it’s revamping the icons for the 10 programs that make up its Office productivity suite. Those icons will get a new styling more closely aligned to the design aesthetic of Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system.

In report published by Jon Friedman on medium.com, he stated;

Over 1 billion people from vastly different industries, geographies, and generations use Office. They work on different platforms and devices and in environments that are faster, more distracting, and more connected than ever before.

To support this changing world of work, Office is transforming into a collaborative suite that lets you work together in real-time from almost any device. We’ve infused our tools with powerful AI: you can get insights from data with less effort, write a paper using your voice, or make your resume using LinkedIn insights. We’ve also added totally new apps to the suite like our AI-powered meetings and chat service, Microsoft Teams. In the end, it’s great design that makes these experiences fluid and seamless.

As a signal to our customers, we’ve evolved our Office icons to reflect these significant product changes. We’re thrilled to share the new icons for Office 365 with you today and tell the story behind their creation.

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The five "FAANG" stocks collectively lost more than $1 trillion in market value from recent highs as shares dropped after Tuesday's open.

The stocks — Facebook , Amazon , Apple , Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet — all began Tuesday trading lower. Apple led the group's losses, falling as much as 4 percent. The four other stocks later turned around, each going slightly positive on the day.
Combined market capitalization losses since their 52-week highs hit $1.02 trillion on Tuesday:

Facebook: $253 billion
Amazon: $280 billion
Apple: $253 billion
Netflix: $67 billion
Alphabet: $164 billion

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WhatsApp a free messaging app that has over 1 billion users in over 180 countries will introduce a new feature called “contact ranking system” in their recent app release. The App will rank your friends in order of how often you interact and the type of content you share with them.
What it means is that the App will automatically arrange your contact list status in ascending order of friends you interact with most. The status you see on topmost will be your favorite friend you chat with often.
The data will be used in the Status section of the app and monitor your activity with friends, showing you updates from the people it thinks you want to see at the top. Therefore people you frequently ignore or rarely interact with on the messaging app will be moved to the bottom of the list.

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