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Jun
24
2024

How to unlock your iPhone while wearing a mask with iOS 14.5

Which iPhones and Apple Watches Work for Masked Face ID? iOS 14.5 added a surprising number of new features and benefits to your iPhone, one of the option to unlock it while your face is covered up.   Unfortunately, you would need a compatible Apple Watch for this particular trick to work, which not everyone presently have. Perhaps you are wondering if your older Apple Watch would work, or you are just trying to figure out how to activate the feature.? Whatever your reason for being.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Take a Screenshot On Your iPhone Without Having A Thumbnail Preview

How To Take a Screenshot On Your iPhone Without Having A Thumbnail Preview  Any time you take a screenshot on your iPhone, you will always see little thumbnail preview in the bottom-left corner. While this thumbnail is useful, it can also be really annoying. Thankfully, there’s a way you can bypass the thumbnail preview. If your iPhone is running iOS 14.5 or it is running higher, you have access to a new “Take Screenshot” action that is in the Shortcuts app. This means t.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Turn On The Orientation Lock When You are Opening an App On Your iPhone

How To Turn On The Orientation Lock When You Are Opening An App On Your iPhone  The orientation lock of iPhone lacks context awareness. Opening Netflix or YouTube won’t disable the lock, nor will the opening of a news-reading app enable it. Thankfully, there is a an available Shortcuts automation that will help you to automatically toggle the orientation lock when you are using certain apps. If you have an iPhone that is running the iOS 14.5 or higher iOS, you already have access to.

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Jun
24
2024

As Apple Rolls out iOS 14.5, Here Are The 5 Most Interesting New Features To Expect

As Apple Rolls out iOS 14.5, Here are the 5 Most Interesting New Features to Expect Apple has released its latest iOS 14.5 operating system, including several new features not included in previous versions. iPadOS 14.5 is also available, and both operating systems are currently being rolled out to users. The latest iOS 14 update introduced new features such as the smart widget stack, which appeared at different times of the day based on their frequency of use. Picture-in-picture functionality .

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Jun
24
2024

CryptoLocally Acquires Finance Bridge Trading Academy

CryptoLocally Acquires Finance Bridge Trading Academy CryptoLocally, the world's first truly decentralized peer-to-peer trading platform, announced its acquisition of Finance Bridge Academy, Africa's fastest-growing online trading school. CryptoLocally intends to use this acquisition to launch the CryptoLocally African Academy, which will offer free online training courses tailored specifically for African users. Their primary objective is to promote financial inclusion by educating their users.

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Jun
24
2024

Inside 2 Decades of Mobile Telecommunications in Nigeria

Inside 2 Decades of Mobile Telecommunications in Nigeria Halima is a thirty-year-old street vendor who is inexperienced and untrained. On a busy street in Ikeja — a popular commercial hub in Lagos, Nigeria's economic capital — she sells roasted corn, yam, sweet potato, or plantain, depending on the season. Typically, she displays her wares in front of one of the area's lock-up shops occupied by a laptop salesperson. She sits on a stool in the walkway, leaving only a few inches for .

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Jun
24
2024

Reap Goal: An Innovative Digital Approach To Group Savings

Reap Goal: An Innovative Digital Approach To Group Savings People from various parts of the world, particularly Africa, come together to form a saving community. This practice has existed for a decade and is sometimes referred to as "unbanking." Reaprite has digitized this process by leveraging the existing group saving structure and enabling the digitally savvy population to participate in group saving. Reaprite, https://www.reaprite.com, a digital savings and investment platform in the Finte.

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Jun
24
2024

How Fixable Is The Unsafe Internet

How Fixable Is The Unsafe Internet? The larger the information on the Internet becomes, the more users and the larger the security issues and violations. If only we could rebuild the Internet's infrastructure to make data travel more safely and securely, we would have a safer internet. IT and cybersecurity experts frequently lament. Efforts are being made to address privacy and data theft concerns. However, despite the occasional proposals to replace the Internet with a new and improved s.

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Jun
24
2024

DNS Flaws Expose Millions of IoT Devices To Hacker Threats

DNS Flaws Expose Millions of IoT Devices To Hacker Threats Security researchers disclosed Monday a set of flaws in a widely used network communication protocol that could affect millions of devices. The nine vulnerabilities discovered by Forescout Research Labs and JSOF Research significantly expand the attack surface of at least 100 million Internet of Things devices, putting them at risk of being taken offline or hijacked by threat actors. "As demonstrated by history, controlling IoT device.

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Jun
24
2024

Intellectual Property and Medium-sized Enterprises: Taking your ideas to the market

Intellectual Property and Medium-sized Enterprises: Taking your ideas to the market Small and medium-sized businesses ("SMEs") are critical to any economy's survival. Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) have made enormous contributions to developing and developing economies. According to a World Bank report, SMEs employ more than 50% of the global workforce and account for approximately 90% of businesses. In Cambodia and Kenya, SMEs account for approximately 50% and 80% of employment, res.

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Jun
24
2024

MTN, Glo and Other Telcos in Nigeria May Not Resume Sale of Sim Cards Until May Despite Lifted Ban - Africa

MTN, Glo and Other Telcos In Nigera May Not Resume Sale of Sim Cards Until May Despite Lifted Ban MTN, Glo, and other telecom operators have yet to resume SIM card sales and registration one week after the Federal Government approved the date. Recall that on Monday, April 19, Dr Femi Adeluyi, Technical Assistant to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, directed that SIM sales resume. However, since last week, subscribers who visited the telcos' offices have been unable to purcha.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Run A Diagnostic Scan To Checkmate Your Chromebook

How To Run A Diagnostic Scan To Checkmate Your Chromebook People most times tend to use their computers longer than their other gadgets in life, which means it is a very important thing to keep an eye on the health of the device. Chromebooks have a handy “Diagnostics” app that makes this health care super easy to do.  The Diagnostics app was fully introduced in the Chrome OS 90 in the month of April 2020. It’s a huge upgrade over the previous method that will require you.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Use The Chromebook Keyboard Function Keys

How To Use The Chromebook Keyboard Function Keys The keyboard of all computers are pretty alike, but Chromebooks break the mold. Instead of having the typical function keys, there’s a row of different keys for specific Chrome OS functions. However, all the functional keys are still present if you know the right place to look. Like your computer, the Google Chrome browser has got its own full set of keyboard shortcuts.  While Chrome's keyboard shortcuts are much available across all.

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Jun
24
2024

Business Model Innovation: Change The Model, Not The Business

Business Model Innovation Entrepreneurs frequently believe that big ideas must be revolutionary—that in order to achieve disruptive success, they must develop a cutting-edge concept. Also, when businesses fail, business owners frequently quit to pursue an entirely new venture, believing the problem is with the 'business.' As a result, the majority of businesses focus their innovation efforts on new products or market segments. Revolutionary or cutting-edge ideas are quite costly and take.

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Jun
24
2024

Zimbabwe’s TTMS capability ensures MNOs remain significant drivers of digital transformation

Zimbabwe’s TTMS Capability Ensures MNOs Remain Significant Drivers of Digital Transformation According to the Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe's (POTRAZ) annual sector performance report for 2020, Mobile Network Operators' (MNO) operating costs increased to $11.7 billion during the period, up from $2.11 billion the previous year. This is a result of Zimbabwe's rising cost of doing business as a result of inflationary pressures. To alleviate these pressures, .

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Jun
24
2024

Blockchain - What Is It, And Why Does It Matter

Blockchain Introduction The term "blockchain" is almost certain to be familiar to you. However, you are likely unaware of what it is or how it works, let alone why it generates such a buzz. That is perfectly acceptable; the vast majority of people do not. This hasn't stopped it from becoming a buzzword used in virtually every industry, from finance to shipping to fantasy football. Amazon (AMZN), Facebook (FB), IBM (IBM), and Walmart (WMT) believe blockchain technology can be used to track ship.

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Jun
24
2024

Wearable Electronic Skin Could Monitor Your Health

Wearable Electronic Skin Could Monitor Your Health Doctors could be tracking your vital signs via electronic skin worn on the body. Researchers in Japan say they have developed an ultra-thin, lightweight e-skin that is stuck to the chest area using water spray and can be worn for a week at a time. The technology was developed by Takao Someya, a professor at the University of Tokyo's Graduate School of Engineering. Although clinical trials have not yet begun, Someya says he has begun working wi.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Check The Amount of Storage You Have Left On Your Google Account Storage

How To Check The Amount of Storage You Have Left On Your Google Account Storage Every Google account has a free storage, but if you are not satisfied cos you want more space, you can simply purchase more. Regardless of the amount that you have, you'll probably want to keep tabs on how much of it you’re using. You’ll see how.  Google has an offer of two cloud storage options. You can either stick with the free 15GB option that is accorded to every account or you upgrade to the .

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Jun
24
2024

How To Send Text Messages Making Use of The Google Assistant

How To Send Text Messages Making Use of The Google Assistant The Google Assistant is a great tool to make use of, it helps even when you are lazy or tired to type certain commands on your phone. Like the Siri, Google Assistant can easily interact with your Android phone to do different kind of tasks, such as playing music or setting alarms. Unlike the Siri, it can even handle some of your home automation devices. Google has a page that explains various types of actions. Like the Siri, you can i.

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Jun
24
2024

How To Lock Apps Temporarily On iPhone with Screen Time

How To Lock Apps Temporarily On iPhone with Screen Time Everyone have apps on their iPhones that are very sensitive in nature or that contain private information that could make use of an extra layer of security. While it is hard for you to directly lock apps on your iPhone, a Screen Time workaround permits you to restrict an app’s access. Here’s how you can use it. The trick that is used to lock apps on an iPhone or iPad involves the imposing of minimum daily limit on their use. O.

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