The social network celebrates its annual developer meeting only weeks after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Can Mark Zuckerberg calm people's nerves?

Mark Zuckerberg has offered many apologies and many explanations in the weeks since he was forced to tell the world that the data of 87 million Facebook users were co-opted and used without his knowledge - or that of his company.

This week, he will be able to apologize again and explain things, as the executive will face some 5,000 developers who meet every year near the Facebook headquarters in Silicon Valley for his conference, called F8.

The largest social network in the world has yet to show that it knows how to solve the disaster it created, no matter how much Zuckerberg and Facebook want to overstate their latest efforts to "make the world more open and connected" (as the slogan used to say of the company) and it does not matter how much those F8 attendees want to capitalize on the 2.2 billion people who use the platform.

"People want to feel safe when they're on the Web," said Brian Blau , an analyst at Gartner. People have always known in a certain way that they are exchanging some privacy in exchange for free applications, services and photo storage. But, he said, there is an expectation that comes with that.

"They just want to know that they are not taking advantage of them," Blau said. "I do not think Facebook has really faced that fact, and now it has to."

As in the past, Facebook's F8 conference will last two days this year, and will take place in San Jose, California. It is also expected to show many new products.

The company has been talking a lot lately about artificial intelligence, for example. Your Facebook Messenger application has also been the focus of key announcements during this time in recent years, such as when it was opened to other applications. And rumors say that the latest virtual reality glasses of Facebook, the Oculus Go , probably will also be displayed at the event.

Facebook reaches F8 after dispelling concerns that users and advertising partners were giving up the social network. Last week, the company reported earnings that exceeded Wall Street expectations, with nearly $ 12 billion in ad sales during the first three months of the year. Facebook also said that despite the #DeleteFacebook campaign , the number of people using the service at least once a month had actually increased.

Zuckerberg, 33, made it clear during a conference call with analysts that after more than a month of scandal, he is ready to move on.

"We have a responsibility to make our community feel safe ... And at the same time, we have a responsibility to overcome this and move forward."

You are the product

Many things have come to light after the Cambridge Analytica scandal. The most recent was a blog post last week  in which the company faced the old adage of the Internet "If you do not pay, you are the product." That's the idea that, while Facebook allows you to use its service for free, it makes your data available to vendors and businesses to attract them with the promise of more targeted targeted advertising, which is the way Facebook generates Most of your money.

That notion has plagued Facebook repeatedly as more and more people (and even members of the US Congress) raise concerns about how advertising actually works in their service and how much data the company makes available to developers. and other partners.

Facebook tried to address this issue directly in a blog post of "Difficult Questions" , in which Rob Goldman, the vice president of advertising for the social network, raised the question: "If I do not pay for Facebook, am I the product?"

"Did not answer. "Our product is social networks, the ability to connect with people who matter to them, wherever they are in the world."

Goldman also reminded users that there is no way to opt out of sharing their data. "You can not exclude yourself from ads because ads are what makes Facebook free," Goldman wrote.

It is not clear if Facebook can change the public's perceptions of its advertising practices and data management. However, one thing is for sure: if you do not address these issues in the midst of your announcements about new technology, features for your service and a surprising futuristic investigation, you would have missed an opportunity.

"Life is about learning from mistakes," Zuckerberg said earlier this month. This year's conference will be your last chance to share what you have learned.

FIFA 18' for PS4, Xbox and PC has a free update containing the 32 World Cup selections and there is a new way to play with any selection, even with those who did not qualify.

Good news. The Russia 2018 World Cup will come to the FIFA 18 game  .

As of May 29, the owners of a copy of the EA 18 FIFA 18 game will be able to download a free update that includes the World Cup - and all 32 national teams that will participate in the most important soccer tournament in the world.

The update includes two key points. The first is that the 32 selections can be used to play with your selection from the comfort of your room, as if you were in the championship. EA Sports ensures that this mode includes the entire World Cup experience, from the field level advertising in the 12 Russian stadiums and the trophy that will be delivered on July 15.

The second novelty of this update will delight fans of the teams that did not qualify for Russia 2018. EA Sports says that Custom Tournament mode will allow players to create a tournament to their liking and even choose the United States team, Chile , Italy, Holland and other countries that were left out of this year's World Cup.

 Remember that this update will reach your  FIFA 18  regardless of whether it is for PS4, Xbox or PC on May 29 ... and we already told you that it is a free update?

A huge role in the success of the online service Netflix played fantasy and fantastic TV series. Only in the last couple of years, the hearts of viewers and critics have been subdued by such television projects of the streaming giant as " Mysterious Events ", " OA ", " Modified Carbon " and " Lost in Space ". According to the company Ampere Analysis, the management of Netflix is ​​preparing new surprises for fans of sai-fa and expects to make fantasy and science fiction the dominant genres of its service.

American analysts managed to establish that the most rated project Netflix last year was the second season of the series " Mysterious events"Which on the day of its premiere gathered about 25 million spectators from the screens. The closest pursuer of the mystical drama about the mysterious town of Hawkins was the mini-series " Defenders ". Superheroic thriller studio Marvel for the premiere day looked more than 10 million people.

For a long time, Netflix subscribers have given main preference to comedies, but the successes of his latest science fiction series have changed this situation. According to the results of the first quarter of this year, the leaders of the most popular online service genres have managed to break out for themselves for the first time. The second line is occupied by comedies, and on the third step of the podium there are action games and adventures.

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The leadership of Netflix immediately responded to the change in the tastes of its audience. According to the forecasts of Ampere Analysis, the share of fantasy and fantastic TV series in the total volume of new projects of the leader of the world streaming industry will be increased to 29%.

An example with Netflix is ​​ready to take other well-known online services. So, the media giant Amazon intends to spend $ 1 billion to create a series based on the fantasy saga " The Lord of the Rings, " and the young Apple's telecottage only for the past six months announced a remake of the fantastic anthology " Amazing Stories ", a space show from the creator of the " Galaxy Star Cruiser " and the adaptation of the book series of Isaac Azimov " Foundation ".

Twitter Inc. sold data access to the Cambridge University academic who also obtained millions of information about Facebook Inc. users who were then referred to a policy consulting firm without the consent of the users.

Aleksandr Kogan, who created a personality quiz on Facebook to collect information later used by Cambridge Analytica, has created his own business venture, Global Science Research (GSR). According to Twitter, this firm had access to large-scale public Twitter data, covering months of messages, for a day in 2015.

"In 2015, GSR had unique API access to a random sample of public tweets from a five-month period, from December 2014 to April 2015," Twitter said in a statement to Bloomberg. "Based on recent reports, we conducted our own internal review and found no access to private data about people using Twitter."

The company has removed Cambridge Analytica and its affiliated entities as advertisers. Twitter said that GSR paid for access; he did not provide any other details.

Necessary explanations

Twitter provides companies, developers, and users with access to public data through its application programming interfaces (APIs) or software that requests and provides information. The company sells the data to organizations that often use it to analyze events, feelings, or customer services.

Enterprise customers have the widest possible data access, which includes the last 30 days of tweets or tweets since 2006. To gain access, customers need to explain how they plan to use the data. data and who the end users are. will be.

Twitter does not sell private messaging data and users must choose to include their placements in a tweet. Twitter's "Data Licensing and Other Income" rose about 20 percent, to $ 90 million, in the first quarter.

Social media companies have been subjected to a scrutiny of information that Facebook has not protected the privacy of its users. Companies like Twitter tend to have access to less private information than Facebook. He said Cambridge Analytica, which worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, may have collected data on 87 million users.

Questionnaire on the personality

About 270,000 people downloaded Kogan's personality quiz app, which shared information from people and their friends who were then incorrectly passed to Cambridge Analytica. Facebook's chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, testified before Congress on misuse of data, and lawmakers also called on Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey and Google CEO Sundar Pichai to testify.

Criticisms of Twitter's inability to prevent misinformation and abuse on its platform have increased since the 2016 elections. In the first quarter, the company removed more than 142,000 applications connected to the Twitter API which was collectively responsible for more than 130 million tweets "of poor quality" during the period. The company has also limited the ability of users to perform coordinated actions across multiple accounts.

Look at the prototype of the LumiWatch project, an interactive experience in the user's arm.

Do you like the idea of ​​a device that does not need to be picked up or transported?

You may be impressed by the LumiWatch prototype , a new smart watch from researchers at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, United States, which turns your arm or hand into a touch screen.

The LumiWatch is fully functional and autonomous, uses a bright 15 lumen projection module and a touch sensor to offer you a touch screen interface directly on your body. You just have to touch and slide directly on your own skin to open the device and control the applications.

The researchers presented their work on the interface this week at the SIGCHI (Special Interest Group on Human Computational Interaction) conference in Canada.

The smart watch runs on Android 5.1 and can be connected to Bluetooth and Wi-Fi. It has a Qualcomm CPU with four cores at 1.2 GHz, 768 MB of RAM, 4 GB of flash memory and a lithium-ion battery of 740 mAh.

In a video released this week, the LumiWatch prototype is shown in action, with users sliding and touching colorful images projected onto their arms. Users also demonstrate the continuous capabilities of finger tracking in 2D.

Once in production, the LumiWatch is expected to cost around US $ 600. While this prototype is innovative in terms of touch screen projections, it is not the first smart watch with a projector. In February, technology company Haier launched Asu Smartwatch, which uses a small projector to transmit images to the user's arm.

The Asu Smartwatch has 1 GB of memory inside, is powered by a 1.2GHz processor and includes an integrated exercise monitor, a stopwatch, a heart rate sensor, GPS, 4G LTE support and a gyroscope.

Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari arrived in Washington DC on Sunday for his four-day working visit and will become the first African leader to be received by US President Donald Trump.

According to a Presidency twitter handle @NGRPresident, confirmed the arrival of the President in Washington on Sunday at about 4.20pm (Nigerian time).

Buhari left Abuja on Saturday and will be meeting the US President on Monday for bilateral talks and then later have a working lunch.

They are expect to discuss ways to enhance the strategic partnership between the two countries with economic and security issues being top of the agenda.

"The meeting will further deepen the US-Nigeria relationship as the United States considers Nigeria's economic growth, security and leadership in Africa to be critical aspects of their strategic partnership,” Femi Adesina, Buhari’s Special Adviser on Media and Publicity said.

Adesina also said ahead of the visit by the president, meetings had been scheduled on April 26 and 27, between senior Nigerian government officials and executives of major U.S. companies in the areas of agriculture, aviation and transportation.

Senior Nigerian government officials will also discuss a number of projects with executives from major US transport companies.

The world's oldest known spider has died at the ripe old age of 43 after being monitored for years during a long-term population study in Australia, researchers said Monday.

The trapdoor matriarch comfortably outlived the previous record holder, a 28-year-old tarantula found in Mexico, according to a study published in the Pacific Conservation Biology Journal.

The spider did not die of old age but was killed by a wasp sting, researchers said.

Named Number 16, the spider helped scientists to unlock important information about the behavior of an arachnid that can be found in Australia, including in domestic gardens.

"To our knowledge, this is the oldest spider ever recorded, and her significant life has allowed us to further investigate the trapdoor spider's behavior and population dynamics," said lead author Leanda Mason from Curtin University.

A research project to study trapdoor spiders in the Central Wheatbelt region of Western Australia was first launched in 1974 by Barbara York Main, during which Number 16 was found and monitored.

"Through Barbara's detailed research, we were able to determine that the extended lifespan of the trapdoor spider is due to their life-history traits, including how they live in uncleared, native bushland, their sedentary nature and low metabolisms," said Mason.

Number 16 was monitored in the wild. Female trapdoor spiders stay in and around the same burrow virtually all their lives, so researchers marked her burrow and went back to check on it regularly.

The study also gave a better understanding of how the future stresses of climate change and deforestation could impact the species.

Trapdoor spiders traditionally have a lifespan of five to 20 years. While females stay in or near their burrows, males leave once mature and go in search of a mate.

They are not a major threat to humans, although a bite can cause pain and swelling.

Child abuse: Mother Arrested For Burning 16 Year Old Daughter With Hot Iron

The Lagos State Police Command is investigating a case of child abuse reported by Chosen Child Orphanage Home, located at Gastya Estate, Ijora-Badia on behalf of Aishat Sheriff, a 16-year-old girl child whose upper and lower right limbs were allegedly burnt by her biological mother, one Ayo Sheriff, 30 years old, by means of electric pressing iron over minor misunderstanding.

What led to the abuse was that the victim, who is a student of a secondary school and also a part time student nurse in auxiliary capacity, was given the sum of five hundred Naira by her boss with an instruction to hand two hundred Naira to someone on her way home, use fifty Naira as transport fare and return the balance of two hundred and fifty to her boss the next day.

However, on the day she was supposed to return the balance of the money to her boss, the victim defaulted. She told her boss that the money was with her mother. The boss called her mother on the phone and she denied knowledge of the money.

When the victim returned home from work, her mother who was already waiting for her, plugged an electric iron and waited until it was red hot. At this stage, she used the red hot iron to welcome her daughter home, accusing her of being a disgrace to the family.

PoliticsNGR learnt that The CP Lagos was miffed at the sight of of the horrible wounds inflicted on a child by her mother. He therefore called on parents to correct their children in love. He said the rate at which cases of domestic violence is increasing is now a source of concern to the Command.

The Gender Section of the Command, headed by SP(Mrs) Adejoke Cole, had concluded investigation into the case and would charge the suspect to Ikeja Magistrate Court on 30th April, 2018.

Learn about these hidden features that are also included in the next version of Windows 10.

The new version of Windows 10  is almost here. While the new features, such as your timeline and proximity sharing receive headlines, and the Settings app is larger and better , there are also a number of smaller but useful features that are worth mentioning.

                                Cortana creates lists and reminders in advance

The Cortana Notebook page looks a bit different with the April 10 update of Windows 10 and gives more priority to lists and reminders. The Cortana Notebook page now includes two tabs that make browsing a little easier. In the Organizer tab , your lists and reminders are now in front and center, which facilitates the use of these two tools. The rest of the Notebook tools are located in the Manage Skills tab  and allows you to connect apps and smart home devices, configure calendar preferences and more.

In addition, a button with a pencil icon has been added next to your name in the Organizer tab, which you can use to add your favorite places (that is, the locations of your home and work) so you can get updates of traffic during your daily trip. This setting is not new, but previously it was almost hidden in the About Me page on Cortana's Notebook.

Fix 'blurry' apps
Not all efforts to expand the scale of vision of something are successful. That's why Windows 10 has an option to scale objects that, for example, increase the size of fonts and icons on high-resolution screens so you can read text without squinting while keeping your screen in its original resolution , where the image is clearer and sharper. Sometimes, however, this process of scaling something can cause the screen or some objects to be blurred. Now, you can allow Windows to try to rectify a fuzzy scaling result. Go to Settings> System> Display> Advanced scale settings and enable Allow Windows to try to fix the applications so they are not blurry .

Close apps that respond to us

When you are facing an app that does not respond, surely your instant reflex is to press Control-Alt-Delete, activate the Task Manager, select your 'locked' application and click Finish Task. This continues to work but, consistent with Microsoft's decision to include more features and functionality in the Settings app, you can now use it to exit apps that froze. Just go to Settings> Applications> Applications and functions , look for the 'locked' app in the list, click on Advanced options and then click on the Finish button .

Bar of games: Better and bigger
The bar of games of Windows 10 to transmit your adventures in the games has grown a little with the addition of some new buttons along with a clock. Now you can track the time you spend with a clock on the left side, and the new buttons that allow you to turn on and off the camera and microphone of your PC.

Only for the Windows 10 S version: Login with the Authenticator app

I have not tried this yet, but it seems promising if you have Windows 10 S. It's something I hope will be added soon to Windows 10 updates: the option to configure and use your PC without even having to enter a password or a PIN. The Spring Creators Update and Windows 10 S update will allow you to use the Authenticator app to configure your PC, according to Microsoft . And then, Windows Hello will allow you to log in with your webcam and your face. You will not need more passwords!

I use the Authenticator app on my iPhone (US $ 999.99 in Cricket Wireless) regularly to log in to the Microsoft applications I have configured with two-step authorization, and I love how fast and painless the process is. I would love to be able to configure a new PC without having to create and remember another password in my life.

Samsung Pay was originally announced in 2017 but now offers support for PayPal. This is what you need to know.

Almost a year after announcing it, Samsung Pay finally offers support for PayPal .

An update, which is currently happening in the Google Play Store, is required so you can see the new feature. So before you start, make sure you have the Play Store open and verify the updates, especially those that correspond to the Samsung Pay app .

To add your PayPal account, open Samsung Pay and choose the Wallet tab at the bottom of the screen. Next, touch the "+" symbol followed by Add PayPal .

The following steps require that you enter your PayPal account and that you authorize Samsung Pay to have access to your PayPal account. The process takes a few seconds.

Other things to take into account

Once you have enlisted your PayPal account to Samsung Pay, the app will ask you to register a PIN number to make purchases in a store. Remember that PIN number well.

Another configuration that you must confirm is the amount that Samsung Pay will use to fill out your PayPal account using your preferred payment source. The lowest amount I could select is US $ 10, and reached the limit of US $ 50. When the balance of your PayPal account reaches zero, Samsung Pay will charge your payment source the amount established to cover the difference.

The company is testing a new option in its effort to generate more conversation within the social network.

Twitter is testing a new modality of automatic grouping of tweets, which will allow users to see in one place several messages that have been shared with the same link, which will allow to know at a glance several points of view related to the same information.

As the company confirmed to BuzzFeed , the idea is for the platform to find messages that contain the same link, and be able to group it on a card. Thus, users will see the news, the headline, the photograph and the link, and below all the comments of those who have previously shared it.

With this action, Twitter will prevent users from seeing the same news shared again and again in their timeline, which is usually boring especially when the information is tweeted by many bots with similar messages simultaneously and that show you the same photo and headline of the news. This step also makes it clear that the company continues to rely on chronological order, something different from what happens on Instagram or Facebook.

Twitter already eliminated a few months ago the possibility that two accounts tweeted the same messages at the same time, an action that helps you fight bots , one of your biggest headaches.

In its last report at the end of March, the company announced that it had 336 million monthly active users , an increase slightly higher than the previous quarter, although much less than the 2 billion monthly users of Facebook.

Terminally-ill 23-month-old toddler Alfie Evans from Britain dies early Saturday morning after parents lost legal challenge over further treatment and life support was withdrawn earlier this week.

iPhone X: Is it time for panic?

Apple's suppliers give clues that it will be a difficult quarter for the Cupertino giant, as there are signs that people are not buying the iPhone X.



The golden age of the iPhone may have officially reached its end. And Apple can blame the iPhone X for it .

This fiscal year was supposed to be a success for Apple. The company redesigned its popular iPhone for the first time in three years, and presumed that the iPhone X is "the future" of the mobile segment. Analysts said the device was going to boost a "supercycle" that would inject new vigor into the stagnating cell phone market.

But it seems that many people are not ready for the future, or at least to pay a high sum for that future.

The 5.8-inch iPhone X has an initial price of US $ 999, or US $ 300 more than the iPhone 8 of 4.7 inches and US $ 200 more than the iPhone 8 Plus of 5.5 inches . For those extra hundred dollars, you get a bigger and sharper screen in a smaller body, Face ID to unlock the device with your face and the ability to send animated emojis.

Those changes, however, are not enough to encourage consumers to disburse that money, and concerns that the mobile market continues to fall after its first year in history when it shows a decline. The downside highlights the industry's dilemma: it is becoming more difficult for phone manufacturers to make revolutionary changes to their devices, and the prices of new flagship phones are growing at the same time that US telephone operators are falling apart of the subsidies. That means that consumers are keeping their old devices for longer than before.

And Apple is not immune to it.

The company will give its financial report for the second fiscal quarter this Tuesday. The results will alleviate or confirm fears that the golden age of the iPhone has passed.

In the past few weeks, suppliers such as Samsung, TSMC and SK Hynix have warned of low demand - which is presumed to be due to Apple - and reports have said that the Cupertino giant has reduced its production plans for the iPhone X. Many analysts have been reducing their expectations of iPhone sales in the quarters ending in March and June. Some even predict that iPhone sales could fall for the entire year.

In total, analysts believe that Apple sold 54 million iPhone units in the quarter that ended in March, compared to 50.8 million a year ago. Although this represents a rise, it is not the explosive growth that many had expected.

Before the financial results report, Wall Street "has entered into panic mode," said analyst Daniel Ives of GBH Insights.

Apple shares have fallen 8 percent in the last two months. The value of the stock closed on Thursday at US $ 164.22.

                                         Apple suppliers give bad signals

The biggest warning signal of Apple's results is what the suppliers have reported. And it's not good.

TSMC, the Taiwanese company that makes chips that are integrated into the iPhone and iPad, warned last week that its second quarter will be worse than expected due to the "continued low demand of our mobile sector."

Another key supplier, South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix, said the sale of chips for phones is slowing down. And AMS, an Austrian company that makes optical and 3D sensors for phones, said it is experiencing weak orders from one of its main customers, which analysts believe is Apple.

Then on Wednesday, Samsung, which supplies the iPhone's OLED screen, said its revenue in its screen division was affected by the slow demand for its flexible OLED panels and more competition between rigid OLED panels and OLED displays. Flexible OLED displays allow phone manufacturers to bend the screens of their devices, such as the iPhone X and the Galaxy S9. Samsung warned that demand will remain weak for OLED screens in the second quarter.

Samsung said its own mobile unit will have difficulties in the quarter ending in June.

But perhaps a major concern is Apple's forecast for the quarter ending in June. Analysts expect revenues of US $ 52 billion, an increase of US $ 45,400 million last year, according to a survey by Yahoo Finance. But some say Apple may not achieve this projection.

Increasing services

Apple generates two thirds of its income from the iPhone. If this segment of the market suffers, then so will Apple's financial results.

The company does not have any other business division that approaches the size of the iPhone. However, the company is expanding to new areas such as audio with its HomePod and is driving the iPad in the education sector . But, as for the first quarter, only 9.6 percent of its sales came from its services, while 70 percent came from the iPhone.

Even so, Katy Huberty, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, stressed that services "are becoming the main engine of growth" for Apple. Although they represent a small part of overall revenues, sales in services have been growing in double-digit percentages. In the first quarter, they went up 18 percent.

And, despite a favorable tax law, Apple's revenue may fall this fiscal year and next, said Toni Sacconaghi, an analyst at Bernstein.

"What's more, we believe that the narrative among investors after the financial results report will be dominated by the question of whether the iPhone's business can grow over time," he said.

Apple could find the way again. But this could not be due to iPhone X.

Android update # 90 Nokia's new cell phone, X6, will look like a flagship phone, although it will not be. In addition, the OnePlus 6 already has a release date and LG reveals characteristics of the G7 ThinQ.

The Nokia X6 looks to be a flagship phone by integrating an elegant design and up to the fashion of the eyebrow or notch  - until LG will do it with its LG G7 ThinQ .

In addition, the Nokia X6 would have very small bezels and double rear camera, typical characteristics of the most advanced cell phones of different companies. However, the Nokia X6 would have mid-range specifications, but also a price lower than US $ 300.

Also, in the  podcast - which you can listen to below or on Google Play and iTunes - we talked about the launch of OnePlus 6 , YouTube Remix and the latest rumors of the LG G7 ThinQ.

                               The Nokia 6X would be elegant and cheap

The Nokia X6 would have a beautiful design with a screen almost without bevels and an eyebrow on top that could make us think that it is the next flagship phone of the company, but it is not.

Actually, the Nokia 8 Sirocco is still the flagship phone of the company, while the Nokia X6 is a mid-range phone with a very attractive design. Despite this, the cell phone would have a very reasonable price, lower than US $ 300.

According to the DigiTechQQ blog , the Nokia X6 would have an initial price of 1,599 yuan and 1,799 yuan, about US $ 250 and US $ 280, depending on the chosen processor.

Nokia would sell two versions of the Nokia X6, one with MediaTek Helio P60 processor that would be the cheapest and another with Snapdragon 636 processor that would be the most expensive.

They published different images of the Nokia X6 were in the Chinese social network Weibo  that reveal the design of the cell phone. The first photos, however, were published on a Baidu website and revealed in more detail the beautiful body of the Nokia X6.

The photos and images allow to see clearly the elegant design of the cell phone, as well as a fingerprint reader on the back and buttons on the right edge.

The Nokia X6 would be presented first in China in the coming days, but May 16 could be the launch worldwide, according to the GSMArena blog.

This would be the second generation of Nokia X with Android, since in 2014 the company (or Microsoft at that time) announced the Nokia X , Nokia XL and Nokia X +, the first Android phones of the company.

Apple reduced production of iPhone X for spring: report
Apple 'alone' will send to produce 8 million units of the phone without bevels, according to Fast Company magazine, reaffirming that the interest is below the expected.

Apple apparently is still affected by the supposedly warm iPhone X sales .

Fast Company magazine sources  claim that the Cupertino company only ordered the manufacture of 8 million units of the iPhone X during the second quarter of the year (April to June), a short figure that apparently shows the least interest in the cell phone. Apple - which costs US $ 999.

Fast Company sources say that Apple is still trying to sell the units that the distributors failed to sell since the end of last year.

The Fast Company report coincides with what was said by manufacturers of components of the iPhone X. Samsung, which manufactures the OLED panel on the cell phone, said this week that it had a lukewarm panel sale in recent months and hopes that it will continue. TSMC, maker of other components for Apple devices, said the same about selling their chips.


A recent cellphone survey showed that the main reason for not buying Apple's phone is its price. The iPhone 8 Plus , which costs US $ 200 less, offers the same technical specifications, although it does not have a Face ID or an OLED screen.

Given all this information, several reports say that Apple wants to lower the price of the second generation of the iPhone X to launch this year. Apple would be trying to convince Samsung to lower the prices of OLED screens and thus pass the reduction of costs to consumers. According to rumors, the company considers selling the new cellphone at US $ 899. The company would also try to sell a phone with a similar but more affordable finish, for around US $ 700.

Amazon revenues reach US $ 51,000 million

Amazon has its hands on everything - digital commerce, smart speakers, streaming services and software  in the cloud - which means it has many sources to generate revenue. And he has done it again.

The technology giant on Thursday announced that during its first fiscal quarter of 2018 it obtained revenues of US $ 51,000 million, representing an increase of 43 percent compared to US $ 35,700 million of the same quarter a year earlier. This figure surpassed the US $ 49,900 million expected by Wall Street analysts. Amazon also achieved profits of US $ 1,600 million.

Jeff Bezos, the founder and CEO of Amazon, thanked the Amazon Web Services (AWS) team that works in the cloud service for contributing a large part to the Seattle company's revenues.

"AWS had the unusual advantage of having started seven years before the competition, and the team always does its best," Bezos said in a statement. "That's why we're seeing this accelerated growth of AWS for two consecutive quarters."

For its part, the Amazon Prime subscription service - which now totals  100 million members  - also contributes substantially to the company. However, due to the cost of free deliveries that grew 38 percent year-on-year, Amazon also announced on Thursday that Amazon will increase Prime's price to US $ 119 in the US. from May 11 for new members and June 16 for renewals.

If the rise in the price does not deter you from signing up for Prime, Amazon reminded us in its statement that it is preparing the production - with the help of Steven Spielberg - of its new original series Cortes that features Javier Bardem in the lead role. He also mentioned that Amazon.com.mx, the portal of the digital store in the Aztec country, now has 20 million products that can be purchased by Prime for free delivery to 13,000 zip codes. Amazon recently announced that consumers in Mexico, and in other countries around the world, can now order from the US portal. and pay the shipping for delivery in their countries.

The Japanese video game console and publishing company has already sold about 18 million switches and hopes to sell even more.

The Switch console has represented a significant return for Nintendo after the fiasco of the Wii U console, and the company says it will have even more to celebrate.

By March 31, some 17.79 million units of the console were sold, according to the most recent financial results of the Japanese company. Nintendo forecasts that it will sell 20 million additional units this fiscal year.

In comparison, the Nintendo console prior to the switch, the Wii U , has only sold 13.5 million units in all its existence , with sales of 102 million video games. The Nintendo console that has had the most sales was the Wii with 100 million units.

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A key reason for the future success of the Switch will be the newly revealed Smash Bros videogame . The financial report also noted that a Pokémon game, announced at the E3 video game fair last year, will be released "in 2018 or later." The fact that they mentioned 2018 is important because two other video games ( Bayonetta 3 and Metroid Prime 4 ) still do not have an announced release date.

Nintendo also said that President Tatsumi Kimishima is retiring on June 28. Kimishima became president of the company after the death of Satoru Iwata in 2015. He will be replaced by Shuntaro Furukawa.

Twice a year, Microsoft releases feature updates for Windows 10. Here are the updates of the April 2018 Update (formerly known as Spring Creators).

The latest update from Microsoft to Windows 10 is here, and the first big news is the name change: what was known as Windows 10 Spring Creators Update has now been named Windows Update April 10, 2018. (Yes, it is true.) That may sound boring, but at least it tells you what version you are running to solve problems. Now, the version is included directly in the name.

Thanks to the extensive Windows Insider beta program of the company, many people have known the news for more than a month. You may be-or not-eager to update yourself; that depends on where your weak points are.

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For example, Windows 10 now offers a more granular flexibility, similar to that of a mobile device in its do not disturb mode (called Focus Assist, a modified version of Quiet Hours) and the implementation of the Timeline device-handoff feature announced Year during Build, which aims to replace the virtual desktop manager. There are also some notable changes in the configuration, which include privacy and security, notifications, password recovery and defaults.

The update begins to be implemented on Monday, April 30. A limited number of users will receive the update that day; everyone else will see that the update will be available the following week. If you have automatic updates enabled, you will be notified when the update is available to you.

The application arrives late, although it will be available to users of all recent versions of the operating system.

iTunes , the musical service par excellence of Apple , has finally reached Windows 10 , through an application specially designed for the operating system .

According to the source, the arrival of iTunes to Windows 10 was announced by Microsoft in early 2017 during its Build conference. Then it was expected that the app would land before the end of the year, but Apple would have taken a little longer to get the application to work properly.

The interest of Microsoft was in particular so that the users of devices Windows 10 S - the version of the operating system that only allowed the use of apps of the official store - could have access to iTunes. These teams are mostly cheap computers but with good specifications designed for students.

However, Windows 10 S can now be converted to Windows 10, so the iTunes app within the Microsoft Store simply becomes an official alternative for new users of the Microsoft operating system.

The game, available for iOS and Android, will first arrive in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau, then to America and Europe.

Dragalia Lost will be Nintendo's first mobile game this year.

The company announced that the new title will arrive in the summer of this year, disembarking first in Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau. Later this year, Dragalia Lost will hit America and Europe, according to a Nintendo ad cited by Reuters .

Dragalia Lost is the first result of the new relationship between Nintendo and Cygames, a Japanese video game development company in which Nintendo now has 5 percent, according to Reuters. The price of this investment was not disclosed.

This new game with Japanese dyes will be the new attempt of Nintendo to achieve success in mobile platforms, a success that has not achieved even with its large franchises.

The Japanese firm has already launched Super Mario Run , Fire Emblem Heroes and Animal Crossing , three games based on existing franchises in the big consoles, but it has not been possible to replicate in iOS and Android while games like Fortnite or Pokémon Go are the kings of the mobiles.

In addition to Dragalia Lost , Nintendo has already confirmed the launch of Mario Kart Tour for mobiles. Mario Kart Tour is based on another successful and recognized Nintendo franchise; the game will be free-to-play, which means that it can be downloaded for free but with purchases within the app.

The social network will stop charging a fee for collections on the platform and announces a tool for organizations to equalize contributions.

Facebook announced on Friday new functions for organizations and people who raise funds for various purposes through the social network.

Mark Zuckerberg's company said it will no longer charge a fee for fundraising for projects or personal causes, and that foundations now have a new tool so they can match contributions.

Facebook says that the role of matching contributions comes because many users who create a fundraiser on Facebook, usually say that if they reach an amount, they will donate the same amount from their pockets.

Now, Facebook facilitates this by adding the option to match a donation of between US $ 5 and US $ 2,500. This feature is active only for users in the United States.

Facebook also said it will stop charging a fee on every fundraiser created by individuals, not nonprofits. Facebook says that this is to help projects such as donations for an operation of relatives, the payment of funeral services or help to buy school supplies, be easier.

"We are inspired by the various ways in which people come together to support each other," says the social network in the statement. "We know that people care about the organizations and the causes and goals they pursue."

Facebook said it will continue to charge a small fee for processing the payment and paying taxes. 

A cheaper iPhone that has Face ID would have to say goodbye to several functions.
7 ways in which Apple could reduce the iPhone price of 2018
A 6.1-inch iPhone with Face ID for only US $ 550. That is a very welcome rumor after 2017 became the year in which we met the iPhone X of US $ 1,000 . But, to achieve a "medium price" phone with a modern look, Face ID and a screen that goes from side to side, Apple would have to sacrifice many of the first class features of the iPhone X.

This theory suggests that Apple will update the current iPhone 8 , 8 Plus and iPhone X with three new phones later this year. These three new phones will have Face ID .

Two of these phones will follow the iPhone X. The successor of 5.8 inches and the new 6.5-inch model will retain the OLED screen. The giant screen model will cost more, not less, that's for sure.

The third model supposedly would have a much lower price. And, strangely enough, it would have a larger screen than the current iPhone: it would measure 6.1 inches, according to rumors, instead of the 5.8 inches of the iPhone X and the 5.5 inches of the iPhone 8 Plus.

So, if this rumor comes true - and I have my doubts - what would be the functions that would say goodbye?

How would an iPhone 'bargain' with Face ID

Apple could offer a cheaper and modern-looking iPhone, following the road paved by the iPhone SE, the iPhone 8 and the iPad of 2018. In other words, reduce the first class functions. In that sense, this is the way Apple could reduce the iPhone price of 2018.

Display : Opt for LCD technology instead of OLED.
Camera : A rear camera instead of two, like the iPhone 8.
Front camera: Keep the first generation TrueDepth camera system in place of the TrueDepth 2 that is expected by 2018.
Interface : It could leave 3D Touch or other functions that give better color response to the iPhone of 2017 (as True Tone screen).
Reduce RAM : For example, the iPhone X and 8 Plus have 3GB, while the iPhone 8 has only 2GB.
Keep the A11 CPU : That is, not update to the A12 chip that we assume Apple will integrate in the iPhone of 2018.
Eliminate wireless charging : Although this means you sell fewer AirPower wireless recharge pads when Apple finally releases them to the market.

But does not Apple and iPhones have 'economic'?

There are already iPhones that you can buy with less money, but they are not new nor do they have Face ID technology.

The true economic model of Apple, the iPhone SE, now sells for US $ 349 (32GB) and US $ 449 (128GB). Launched in 2016, and that in 2017 gained an increase in storage capacity, the iPhone SE is essentially an iPhone 6S in the body of an iPhone 5S. The iPhone SE is a good example of how a cheaper iPhone can be successfully achieved.

The now called and rumored iPhone SE 2 , which would very likely be the existing model with a newer chip (and maybe even wireless charging), would not be expected to hit the market until September. But it is rumored that it can be presented at any time from now until the start of WWDC on June 4.

There are also older iPhone models with discounts. The iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 6S and iPhone 6 Plus have up to $ 100 off.

There is also the iPhone 5C, the company's first experiment for an affordable iPhone. But Apple has never updated this model.

Why does Apple need an iPhone with a cheaper Face ID?

It's simple: The iPhone X has been sold, but it has reached its peak.

The $ 1,000 phone boomed the world of cell phones when Apple became the first major phone maker to surpass that price barrier. The CEO of Apple, Tim Cook said that "iPhone X has exceeded our expectations and has been our best selling iPhone every week since it began shipping in November."

A recent report from Counterpoint Research estimates that the iPhone X was responsible for the 35th account of global phone earnings in the fourth quarter of 2017. However, there are also signs that demand has slowed down in recent months.

We will have more details of the relative success of iPhone sales on May 1, when Apple announces its financial results. But, undoubtedly, it sounds like Apple wants an iPhone with the most updated look at a price close to that of the iPhone 8.

Could an iPhone with Face ID cost only US $ 550?

Honestly, we think not. Consider the latest disappointment suffered by those who expected a discount on an Apple product. A rumor indicated that the "cheap iPad for schools" was going to cost US $ 260. But when the iPad of 2018 was finally presented, it had the same price as the model of last year: US $ 329 (although the educational sector enjoys a discount of US $ 30).

This situation could be repeated with the new "cheaper iPhone". If this will be the successor of the iPhone 9, then, there is no reason why Apple has to lower the price of US $ 700.

Even so, an iPhone of US $ 700 would give those who covet an iPhone X a phone with a look and functions very similar to the iPhone X but with a large discount of US $ 300. Apple, on the other hand, would make a good profit by making some or all of the sacrifices we listed in the first section of this article.

Meanwhile, Apple fans willing to pay for the best of the best could still buy the iPhone X Plus (or whatever it's called) that would cost more than $ 1,300 and come with the latest double-camera, TrueDepth 2 Face ID and other premium features .

For Apple, reducing the functions of a phone to make it more affordable would be a winning action. 

Mohamed Salah has been named the Champions League player of the Week following his outing with Liverpool against Italian side AS Roma.

The Egyptian scored twice to help the Merseyside club thrash the visitors 5-2, boosting their chances of making it to the final for the first time since 2007.

Salah capped a wonderful display with two assists against the Italian club, from where Liverpool signed him in the summer.

The 25-year-old saw off competition from Real Madrid’s full back Marcelo, who equalized for the Spanish side after Bayern has taken the lead. Madrid went on to win the game 2-1.

Salah’s goals saw him climb to the top of Europe’s scoring charts, passing both Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi.

Barcelona’s midfield maestro Andrés Iniesta is set to leave the Spanish giants at the end of the season to join Chinese Super League club Chongqing Dangdai Lifan.

Iniesta announced his intentions to leave Barcelona on Friday, bringing an end to his 22-year stay at the club.

“It’s a very difficult day for me, to be here saying goodbye when I’ve spent my whole life here at Barcelona,” he said.

“For me, Barca is the best club in the world – this club has given me everything. A great deal of who I am, is down to Barca and La Masia – I am very thankful to them.”

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During his stay at Barcelona, the 33-year-old won eight La Liga titles (with a ninth set to be secured in the coming weeks), four Champions League titles, six Copa del Rey crowns, one World Cup and two European Championship titles.

Following his announcement, reactions from both footballers and fans flooded social media, most thanking him for his years of service at Barcelona.

The 5th Beard and Moustache Competition with the theme “The Circus Comes To Town” was held at Club 94 in Yeovil, Somerset in Southwest England, UK on Saturday.

The competition shows the men with impressive facial hair from all over the country and from as far away as New Jersey in the US.
The club welcomed around 120 guests to the event, where beards and mustaches defied gravity in their quest to be the best.
Andrew Kloss won 'Full Beard Styled Moustache' and 'Furthest Travelled' flying in from New Jersey, especially for the event. Gary Swain won 'Best costume'.

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New Facebook regulations. See what you can and can not do
Facebook introduces new regulations, which must be accepted by May 25. There are very specific provisions here as to the prohibited materials. Emphasis was also placed on greater protection for private individuals who may be persecuted.

Facebook has repeatedly been criticized for allowing speech of hatred, persecution or incitement to violence in the name of free speech. Therefore, the portal has updated its regulations, concluding existing regulations. In this very detailed document, there are even words that can not be used .

You will not use these words on Facebook anymore

You will not be allowed to publish the following content, attacking others on the grounds of race, origin, religion, sexual orientation, illness or, as the service stated, disability. The following points are direct quotes from the regulations .

_ Inferiority statements: statements or phrases suggesting a physical, psychological or moral handicap of a person or group:

Physical impairment (for example: "deformed", "underdeveloped", "repulsive" or "ugly").
Mental defect (for example: "delayed development", "moron", "low IQ", "stupid" or "idiot").
Moral impairment (for example: "puszczalska", "cheater", "miser", "on the crook of the snouts").
_Content expressions of contempt. Examples:

"I hate..."
"I do not like..."
"X is the worst" _
_ Content expressing disgust. Examples:

"Shocker"
"Eyesore"
"Disgusting" _

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Nudity on Facebook

Facebook also described in detail in detail which images containing nudity will not be placed on the portal. These will include:

_No adult, nudity is understood as:
Visible genitals.
Visible anus and / or completely naked buttocks - not applicable to the photomontage of public figures.
Uncovered female nipples - not applicable to the following contexts: breastfeeding, childbirth and postpartum, health related (eg scars after mastectomy surgery, breast cancer prevention or sex reassignment surgery) or protest actions.
Sexual activities, including:
Intercourse:
Direct sexual intercourse understood as the contact of the lips or genitals of one person with the genitals or anus of another person, at least one person having uncovered genitalia.
Suggested sexual intercourse understood as the contact of the mouth or genitals of one person with the genitals or anus of another person, even if it is not directly visible. Does not apply to health-related materials, advertisements and images that are unambiguously fictitious or have fictional characteristics.

No more hate and violence. New Facebook regulations


Facebook in the new regulations informs that it will react more strongly to offending groups, religious beliefs and beliefs, intimidation, spamming or personal harassment. The coming months may turn out to be unpleasant for those who have used such methods and felt FB unpunished. But what are the consequences? It can be either a temporary or complete blocking of an account, as well as a notification to law enforcement agencies.

Already in 2024, there will be no need for translators, and in 45 years, robots will perform all the tasks that people perform today - according to a report by universities in Oxford and Yale. Such rapid progress means that the fight for the position of Poland in robotic reality should start now - experts say Personnel Service. And indicate which countries will be in a privileged position.

In just ten years our children will function in a completely different reality than the one we know. And that means that we must take care of their future now. The race with time begins for the place of our country in the world, which, as we already know, is very robotic. Artificial intelligence will balance the costs of the economy and will promote more developed countries that have access to cheaper energy, such as Germany or France. If we do not try to catch up with these countries, we will simply be left behind - says Krzysztof Inglot, President of Personnel Service.

As he notes, the large-scale use of artificial intelligence will have serious social consequences . According to estimates from 325 scientists from around the world who expressed their opinion in a report published by Oxford and Yale, robots in 45 years will perform all tasks that people perform today. "Artificial intelligence will be able to arrange any set of LEGO bricks, in 2026 it will write an essay, and a year later it will replace truck drivers. At the end of the century, artificial intelligence will be able to independently design, program and modify new robots, "the Personnel Service experts report.

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In their opinion, the race for a high position in the robotic world will be won by those countries that can boast of a rich scientific background . Countries investing in research, development of technologies related to artificial intelligence and promoting these specializations in college will have an advantage. Experts point out that it is also important to gradually change the learning system that should promote creative thinking and in a world dominated by artificial intelligence, developing a critical approach should form the basis of education , because in creative ideas, robots will not be able to replace people for a long time.

- Many countries are already aware of what revolution awaits us. It's time for our country to start intensive preparation. All this so that we would not be left behind this race - says Krzysztof Inglot. - At this point, the economy of our country is developing very well . This should be used to focus our attention on important issues from the point of view of our place in the robotic world - he adds.

Born in 1906, Grace Murray Hopper, how few people contributed to the development of computer technology. For many years she served in the army and created the foundations for one of the historically most important programming languages: COBOL. It is believed that it was the first to use the term "bug" in the IT context and that it is largely due to the popularization of the profession of programmer

She was born in New York at the beginning of the 20th century and as a young woman she obtained a master's degree in mathematics at Yale University, to obtain a doctorate a few years later. At that time, not many women could boast of such a scientific title. Hopper was one of the few female doctors of mathematics in the USA.

She professionally taught mathematics in college during the Second World War - until she was appointed in 1943 to the reserve US Navy ranks. Having obtained the rank of lieutenant a year later, she began working for the army at the Harvard University. It was about programming the computer of Mark I. Considering her academic education, she was an ideal person for the armed forces.

The first bug in history

In the post-war years - as a reserve officer - she continued to work at the university, developing technologies related to computers Mark II and Mark III. Anecdote says that once the moth flew inside the equipment and caused a short circuit; from this event Hopper popularized the term "computer bug" (bug from English is a worm), which refers to the failure of a computer program.

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In 1949, she started working for the private sector - first at Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation and then at Remington Rand, where in 1952 Hopper and her team created the first ever computer compiler that became a precursor to the COBOL programming language ( common business oriented language). Soon after, COBOL would turn out to be one of the most-used languages ​​in the world of computer science, and although today some experts consider it outdated, they still use it.

Hopper believed that programming languages ​​should be as intuitive as possible and resemble the language we use on a daily basis. This is exactly what COBOL is, which is characterized primarily by the use of very literal, descriptive commands.

Career until late

The pioneering work of Hopper was not forgotten by the army - the woman was restored to active service in 1966, at the age of 60, to help develop common standards for various programming languages. She retired at age 79 as the oldest officer in the American military ranks. However, she said that without working, she would "be bored to death", so she remained in the IT industry for the next few years. In 1991, as the first woman in history, she received the National Medal of Technology. She died a year later, at the age of 85.

She was remembered not only as an outstanding scientist and woman who greatly contributed to the development of computer technology, but also as a man who strongly encouraged young people to learn programming. Its heritage is continued through the cyclical conference The Grace Hopper Celebration in Computing, which aims to activate women in the profession of programmer.

South Africa’s ruling party, African National Congress (ANC), has called new regulations issued by athletics’ governing body IAAF a “blatant racist attempt” against South Africa’s Olympic 800m champion Caster Semenya.

The new measures, which come into effect in November, state that female athletes with naturally high testosterone levels will have to race against men or change events unless they take medication.

“These laws target amongst others Caster Semenya who has been over the past decade constantly put under undue pressure” the ANC wrote in a statement.

The International Association of Athletics Federations new guidelines would apply to women who race in track events from 400m up to the mile.

The South African runner has previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs but no results have ever officially been made public.

The 27-year-old’s powerful physique and deep voice, followed by the revelations of her hyperandrogenism, left some rivals complaining that they faced an impossible and unfair challenge.

The IAAF’s previous attempts to regulate the issue fell foul of a Court of Arbitration for Sport ruling in 2015 following an appeal on behalf of Indian athlete Dutee Chand, who had been banned from competing because of her testosterone levels.

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“The revised rules are not about cheating – they are about levelling the playing field to ensure fair and meaningful competition,” IAAF president Lord Coe said.

“We want athletes to be incentivised to make the huge commitment and sacrifice required to excel in the sport.”

The ANC has implored South Africa’s government to intervene on Semenya’s behalf.

“These new regulations infringe on the Human Rights of athletes, targeting mainly those in East Europe, Asia and the African continent,” the party wrote. “The racial undertones of this cannot go unnoticed.”

Media in the UK and South Africa on Wednesday published sections of the report ahead of its official release, revealing that the new hyperandrogenism regulations would include a separate female classification to be known as an Athlete with Differences of Sexual Development or DSD.

“The result is these new regulations, which seek to facilitate the participation in the sport of athletes with DSDs on terms that preserve fair and meaningful competition in the female classification.”



The IAAF’s medical advisors have suggested the advantage held by DSD athletes is far less pronounced in short sprints or longer distance endurance races, leaving the door open for Semenya to move up to 5,000 or 10,000 metres if she desires.

Ms. Semenya has been embroiled in a global debate about gender and athletics since winning the 800 meter gold medal at the 2009 World Championships.

She had previously been asked to undertake gender testing by athletics chiefs but the results have never been made public.