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Facebook responded to the shutdown on Twitter. The company writes they are already working to fix the error and apologizes for the inconvenience caused.
We’re aware that some people have trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing our apps and products. We’re working to get things back to normal as quickly as possible, and we apologize for any inconvenience.
According to Down Detector, the shutdown started around half past six, with reports that none of Facebook’s services are working. Most of the problems were reported with the Facebook website, but the app doesn’t work either. You cannot send or receive messages at this time.
According to Down Detector, the service is stalled all over the world.
Although there is no official information yet, the Verge says Slack suffered a severe cyberattack last week. Then an error message similar to the service was unavailable, as it is now on Facebook, Instagram, and others. The shutdown also extended to Facebook’s virtual reality division, Oculus, according to the paper.
BepiColombo flew on Saturday night for the first time over the planet for about 199 kilometers. The image, published on the European Space Agency’s website, depicts the planet’s northern hemisphere, showing the uneven, crumbly surface of the Mercury, including the 166-kilometer-wide Lermontov crater.
BepiColombo will fly five more times over Mercury, but this will require it to slow down due to the planet’s gravitational force. As a result of the passages in the coming years, they will be on a stable trajectory around the Earth over time.
This will happen at the end of 2025. The probe then splits in two: a part called Bepi orbits a low orbit around the planet, and a feature called Milo, made by the Japan Space Agency, collects data about the Earth from a greater distance.
The Mercury exploration mission is to learn as much as possible about a planet that is only slightly larger than the Moon that accompanies the Earth and has a massive iron core.
ESA’s € 1.3 billion space probe is carrying out an extraordinary mission. Mercury has an extreme temperature, the sun is beautiful, and the sun’s rays create hellish conditions.
Both investigations are designed to withstand the temperature of 430 degrees Celsius, which is typical of the sunny side of the planet, and the cold of minus 180 degrees Celsius, the shady side of Mercury.
According to his colleagues, Jobs was surrounded by a natural force field, his faith in his ideas could not be shaken by anyone and nothing. It is also due to this that the company, which has become a garage company, has generated billions in revenue in a few years.
Ten years ago, on October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs, founder and president of Apple, one of the most prominent figures in the technology industry, died.
Steven Paul Jobs was born on February 24, 1955, in San Francisco. His German mother in Switzerland and his father in Syria were graduating students, so they adopted their children. Jobs only got to know his blood parents as adults. Paul and Clara Jobs raised the boy in Mountain View, which had just become known as Silicon Valley because countless semiconductor manufacturers and IT companies had set foot here. The school was boring, he did not respect authority, but he passed the exams excellently. On the weekends, he and his father, like the engineers in the area, worked enthusiastically on their gadgets in the garage. At the age of 13, he met one of the most important characters in his life, 18-year-old electronics genius Stephen “Woz” Wozniak, with whom he later founded Apple.
After high school, he became a student at Reed College, but only for half a year because he was more interested in Eastern philosophy, the fruit diet, and LSD. He moved to a hippie commune in Oregon for a few months, where he was primarily engaged in apple growing. When he returned to California, he was employed by video game maker Atari. He traveled to India “seeking enlightenment” from his salary but returned disappointed.
Jobs contacted Wozniak, who designed his computer and suggested starting a joint venture. Apple was registered in the garage of the Jobs family’s Cupertino house on April 1, 1976, and the company’s imposing headquarters are still in that city today. The Apple I computers they assembled were offered for $ 666.66, for which they now pay an astronomical price. Wozniak soon began working on a new design machine with a color display targeting the consumer market. Jobs managed to raise $ 250,000 in capital for the project from Mike Markkula, who retired from Intel as a millionaire at the age of 32, so they could introduce the Apple II in April 1977. The first commercially successful computer was manufactured until 1993, with the help of which generations became acquainted with the basics of computer technology.
Jobs listed Apple on December 12, 1980, and after the move, his fortune rose to over $ 200 million. The company’s president was seduced by Pepsi-Cola CEO John Sculley in 1983, who, according to legend, was convinced by Jobs with the question, “Do you want to sell sugary water for the rest of your life?”. The company’s revenue has grown from $ 800 million to $ 8 billion over the next decade. The lion’s share of the Macintosh launched in 1984, which greeted the excited audience in its voice at the show, and the event has since been referred to as the archetype of ‘event marketing.’ The Macintosh was the first computer for home use to have a graphical user interface controlled with a mouse and pre-installed a word processor and drawing program.
The conflict between visionary Jobs and handsome businessman Sculley ultimately escalated by 1985, and Jobs was forced to leave the company he founded. In 1986, he acquired a majority stake in Pixar, a computer graphics company he developed into a major animation studio. Pixar made the first fully computer-animated film, Toy Story, in 1995. Jobs was a billionaire after a share issue that year. The expensive workstations of his company, founded as NeXT Computer, did not live up to their promise, but it did lead him back to Apple.
Apple, struggling with increasing difficulties after his departure, looked for a new operating system after Microsoft Windows 95 and opted for NeXT software. The company was bought for $ 400 million, and Jobs took back the lead in 1997. With hard work, he rebuilt the company, which came up with a series of products that experts considered fantasy magic, but were a resounding success and later imitated by everyone. According to his colleagues, Jobs was surrounded by a natural force field, his faith in his instinctive ideas could not be shaken.
The music player iPod debuted in 2001, along with Apple’s online music store, and in 2006 a portable MacBook with desktop computer knowledge was launched. The following year saw the first and still most popular smartphone, the iPhone, reshaping the telecommunications market. The device was also capable of playing music and browsing the Internet. Developers could write programs on it – the iPhone still accounts for much of the revenue from the company, which has since changed its name to Apple Inc. “Big brother,” the iPad tablet, was released in 2010. Apple’s system is closed, its products offer the perfect combination of hardware and software, and in addition to their quality, they are also known for their school-creating designs. The black-turtled Jobs, referred to as the guru, introduced the news himself every year, leaving the most significant bang to the end,
In 2003, he was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer but stubbornly refused all medical treatment, preferring to try an alternative diet. It was too late by the time he set out for the surgeries. He went on sick leave in January 2011, resigned as CEO in August, and died on October 5, 2011, two months later.
Apple has soared under Tim Cook over the past decade, surpassing $1 trillion in 2018 and $2 trillion last year, making it the most valuable company globally.
More helpful information became well-known before the release of Windows 11 on October 5; UL, the developer of 3DMark measurement software, said a security feature in the operating system could dramatically reduce FPS by as much as a quarter, according to PC Gamer measurements.
Virtualization-based security (VBS) is responsible for the problem, and when it is turned on, the operating system stores some of its processes in a highly protected area of memory. This can make it massively harder for malware to disable certain security features and exploit vulnerabilities that sound in them, which sounds great.
However, VBS is a nightmare for gamers, and even when using processors officially supported by Windows 11, gaming performance can be disrupted. Unsupported CPUs may have a minus even more remarkable because they do not yet include Mode Based Execution Control (MBEC). The PC Gamer tested more games is a modern percussion and desktop computer on and off VBS-sel, measured after activation decreases performance:
Far Cry New Dawn: 5%,
Horizon Zero Dawn: 25%,
Metro Exodus: 24%,
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: 28%,
3DMark Time Spy synthetic measurement: 10%.
Virtualization-based security isn’t new, it’s actually available in Windows 10, but it’s inactive at the factory for the lion’s share of users and is usually only enabled on computers in government agencies and companies. The easiest way to enter your configuration page is to look for Core Isolation in Windows Explorer, set in the Memory Integrity section.
Virtualization-based security is also available in Windows 10 but is turned off at the factory.
According to Microsoft, whoever upgrades from Windows 10 to Windows 11 will not have VBS enabled. Still, the company intends to activate it later in as many configurations as possible over the next year. The more you install Windows 11, the more theoretically it will be active at the factory. The same can apply to at least some of the computers that come preinstalled with the system.
We’re only days away from the release of Windows 11, but according to a survey by savings.com, more users aren’t aware that they can get a new version of Windows as a free upgrade. The study also highlights other curiosities.
Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 11, which has several great features, will be officially available from October 5 . Due to the upcoming date, savings.com has asked more than a thousand U.S. Windows users how interested they are in the new software. The representative survey was conducted on September 17 online. What is more eloquent, however, is what results have come out.
As the portal highlighted, barely 40 percent of users knew that a new version of Windows would be released and that it would be available soon. In this regard, the older, those over 55, were more informed, while only 28 percent of the younger generation (18 to 24) said they knew about the arrival of the 11th edition.
Forty-five percent of users surveyed said they had not yet decided whether to install the new system. And two out of three users could not tell if their computer met the hardware requirements of Microsoft at all. Research has also found that the younger ones are the ones who would instead try the new system. The older ones are more cautious and wait for the time being.
According to the survey, 52 percent of users would switch because Windows 11 looks better than Windows 10. And 14 percent of those surveyed because Android apps will also be available on PCs with this software version.
It’s not enough that your browser isn’t Chromium-based; Google search will now use Mozilla as its default. Mozilla is the only business that now offers a highly advanced and popular browser (Firefox) that is not built on Chromium.
It appears to be contributing to its uniqueness on another front by replacing its default search engine, which has been a trademark of Google’s name for quite some time. (Mozilla Firefox, like all browsers, automatically sets up a default search engine for searching using the address bar.)
According to the newest information, Mozilla has experimented to explore what it would mean for their browser if Microsoft Bing was the default search engine. Since early September, one percent of desktop users have switched to Bing as their primary search engine.
The goal of the test is to see how a change in the search engine will affect your use of Firefox. This trial is expected to last until January of the following year. Regardless of the outcome, the transfer (if Mozilla chooses to do so) might happen as early as 2023, as the Mozilla-Google deal was extended for another three years in August 2020.
If Bing becomes the default search engine, it will surely be a powerful tool for Microsoft. Of course, the critical question remains: how many users would accept it, given that using this search engine is not required.
Furthermore, once Google pays it $400-450 million per year for the present “rights,” Mozilla would lose a significant amount of money. It is now Mozilla’s most lucrative source of revenue, and the amount of compensation Microsoft would be worth is unknown.
A few days and Windows 11 will be released to a broader audience (Windows Insider members have enjoyed the benefits of the new operating system since July). Epic Games Store.
It has been known that the Amazon app store will also be added to the MS Store after the OS update, but the release of EGS is fresh news. The decision is that Windows wants to create an open store on an open platform.
Windows 11 will be available for download on October 5, but the Amazon app store and EGS will be stuffed into the Microsoft Store in a few months. With the help of Amazon, you can now download Android apps through the MS Store.
Windows 11 brings a variety of innovations and convenience features, which you can read more about here. From a gaming point of view, the most important technological achievement is that with the help of Windows 11, we can already run games on a less powerful machine if they are available through the Game Pass.
If you still don’t want to upgrade to Windows 11, you don’t have to worry. On the one hand, your machines will not automatically upgrade to the new OS. Microsoft will scan each active Windows 10 hardware, and creditworthy devices will receive a free license to upgrade.
It was recently revealed that new assets would be given priority in this order. Still, all purchases will be updated by next summer at the latest, provided the owner so wishes.
The flaws in Apple’s new mobile operating system are gradually exposed. For instance, it recently experienced issues with Spotify, but we might equally state that Spotify has issues with iOS.
Problems occur when they “test” a new mobile system in actual use, which is not unusual. Even IOS15 isn’t perfect. We’ve heard of a glitch that has already used up all available storage and that there might be an issue if someone is running iOS 15 and utilizing AirPods Pro.
Recently, we learned that several users reported rapid battery drain (up to 30% in just one hour) when using the Spotify app, and some even reported hot devices. It would be unjust to put the responsibility solely on iOS 15, as the same is true for iOS 14.8.
They also acknowledged the bug at Spotify and forwarded the reports to their iOS team. In the meantime, it is recommended that the user restart their phone, reinstall Spotify, or disable the background app update (Settings/General / App update in the background). Unfortunately, several users reported that none of these steps resolved their issue, so we have to wait longer for developers to fix it. There is no information yet on when the patch will arrive, nor will it be an application update or just troubleshooting steps.
While the Spotify app is most likely faulty for the quick dive, users are outraged at some of the forums, expressing their confusion that iOS 15 beta tests did not reveal such a severe problem with one of the most popular apps in the world. Some go so far as to assume that there may be intent on Apple’s part in this, as Spotify is a big rival to Apple Music, and with Spotify’s podcasts becoming more popular, experts predict that by the end of 2021, Apple will overtake it. Podcasts.
Google offers dozens of pre-made but editable images for users to set as profile images. The novelty is currently only available for androids.
Users with a Google Account have long had the option to set up a profile picture for themselves, but Google is now twisting one thing. The company has announced that from now on, not only photos and user-uploaded images can be used, but also images pre-made by the company.
Google Illustrations will appear in the first round for Android users in the Gmail app. This solution is beneficial for those who want to associate an image with their account but don’t want it to be a photo of them.
Google didn’t leave it to chance: it took dozens of images on various topics, so the user would have plenty to choose from.
To set it up, all you have to do is open the Gmail app, then tap and change your profile picture.
According to Google, anyone who doesn’t like the default image can make it unique.
If someone hasn’t published the illustrations yet, it’s worth coming back later, as it will probably become available to all androids in a short time. The company promises that the option will soon be available to iPhone users and Gmail browser users.
Even if a user turns off an app’s tracking feature, it may still be spied on by other apps. Several popular iOS apps have been investigated, with unsettling results.
As part of Apple’s recently modified privacy policy, the iPhone allows consumers to request an app without following it. Then programs, let alone device functions, will have no idea what someone is doing in other apps or websites.
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According to a study by Lockdown researchers in San Francisco, who manufacture privacy software, and The Washington Post, it all seems nice, but the reality can be quite different.
On iPhones running the two most recent operating systems, iOS 14.8 and iOS 15, Lockdown evaluated popular apps. They looked at what personal data is available through the apps. Apps can no longer use the Identification for Advertisers (IDFA), a random identifier that Apple distributes to devices to track and identify user activity within and between apps, as part of a technological change made with iOS 14.5. On the other hand, other information can identify a phone.
Even though tracking is prohibited in Subway Surfers, the software sends extensive information about the iPhone to Zboga-owned gaming business Chartboost, including the user’s IP address, available storage space, and current volume level (three decimal places).
Even the charge level of the battery (to 15 decimal places). Even though the user had blocked tracking, he supplied much-identifying information to advertising companies in two other popular iPhone applications (Run Rich 3D,Streamer Life!). AppsFlyer and Kochava, two data trading companies, have established options that allow their customers to override user tracking settings, according to Lockdown.
It’s no accident that John Rock, a Lockdown co-founder, and former iCloud engineer, states it so succinctly in the case: “App Tracking Transparency is foolish when it comes to shutting down third-party trackers. Worse yet, allowing users to turn off tracking may lull them into a false feeling of security “.
Neither Lockdown nor the other privacy experts interviewed by The Washington Post could say what happens to the data collected by these apps or whether it was used to track users for targeted advertising. Only the developers of the applications can explain what happens to the data.
The author of Run Rich 3D refused to comment on the matter, while Streamer Life! and its developer stated that they followed Apple’s privacy policies. Chartboost merely indicated that it is “dedicated to respecting end-user privacy while providing the greatest possible experience for publishers to sustain their ad income.”
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Overall, the analysis discovered that the iPhone’s tracking protection is far from as reliable as Apple’s advertisements suggest. “If we discover that a developer is disregarding a user’s preference, we’ll work with the developer to remedy the issue. If that doesn’t work, we’ll remove the program from the App Store,” an Apple spokesman said.
Apple has been informed of the findings, and the Washington Post has been instructed to search for the developers responsible. Since then, a few weeks have gone by, and everything has remained the same.
PayPal’s mobile version is continually updated with new features, and it has recently gotten additional valuable functions, making it a natural “all-in-one” program. The improvement is noticeable.
PayPal’s mobile service has recently been expanded with a slew of new capabilities, with more on the way. According to The Verge, significant changes include.
This new interface looks more and more like a mobile bank: when you login into your account, you can immediately view your balance information, whether you’re sending real or digital money. The connections with which most money transactions occur are slightly lower in the window.
PayPal has also relocated the deposit, donation, and messaging functions to a new place. In addition, a separate menu contains coupons and reward program-related services. Many consumers may be confused by such innovations, but PayPal has found a solution that makes the interface easier to use.
One of the most notable features is starting a “savings account” using the service. Synchrony, a US financial firm, handles the administration, but the money saved is no longer governed by PayPal (or its application). They claim to be on excellent terms with each other. However, it is unclear what procedures must be completed to access the service. But it’s also possible that the savings option will arrive in the coming months.
PayPal also announced the launch of a new type of loyalty program, the essence of which would be that customers will acquire discounted products from hundreds of famous companies, which the firm will supply through the app.
It’s not at all foreign to Netflix to offer cheaper subscription options, thus pulling into its ecosystem those who don’t know it enough yet. Nor are they reluctant to provide free access, this time to Android users, although so far in only one country.
Kenyan Android users have been given this free option, but they shouldn’t be overly envious because the recently introduced option is not a full-fledged experience. With a free membership, you only have access to roughly a quarter of the content available, you can’t download it for offline viewing, and you can’t shoot the image on your TV during playback.
On the positive side, however, Kenyans don’t need quasi-anything to take advantage of the opportunity, obviously other than a device running Android. True, they must be at least 18 years old, but users are not required to provide any payment information when registering. In addition, they receive personalized recommendations, in the same way, the use of multiple profiles is supported, playback is ad-free (!) And parental control can be set up.
Netflix has revealed to Variety that their current goal is to discover how much free membership can persuade users to subscribe to their service. It is very likely that if this model proves successful, it will be introduced in other countries at some point in the future. Do you think they will succeed?
Of course, Airlogix’s originality isn’t restricted to machines. The device, according to the creator, has a highly extended range.
Commercial UAV Expo Americas, a large-scale event, will highlight significant breakthroughs in the drone sector. The premiere included some intriguing ideas in early September, including Airlogix’s sophisticated robot aircraft, the Hammerhead eV20.
According to auto evolution, it is a remote-controlled system that can go exceptionally fast and far: it can drive up to 72 kilometers per hour. The 120 mAh battery can withstand distances of at least 100 kilometers from the maker.
The machine can carry a burden of up to 20 kg. While this isn’t much, it can help if you need to supply things like medicines, food, or other supplies. You can also get to difficult places to access because you fly.
According to the portal, Airlogix showed the robot’s cargo-carrying capabilities in a humorous experiment. The Boston Dynamics robot dog was also loaded, but not at the same time as the drone, and the drone nonetheless delivered it.
