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  Image Credits: Facebook Nandi’s, Tugens, and Kalenjins are a blessed group of people who survive at high altitude geographical regions devoid of enough oxygen. This implies their incredible performance in long-distance runs in athletics. The altitude has however taken a toll on their thinking capacity and negatively impacted their decision-making. The Rift almost voted 99.9% pro William Ruto was a presidential candidate against R.t Hon. Raila Odinga and others. The votes cast exemplified their expectations for priority whenever ‘their’ government takes over. However, this has not been the case as most of the ceremonies and political visits to the region have been ‘Thanksgiving Ceremonies’ for their votes to the political elite from the region the recent being attended by Rigathi Gachagua as the Chief Guest hosted by Eli Rop. Image Credits: Facebook In a twist of events, citizenry from the region noted that ‘their’ president was in Nyanza region launching an endle...

Meta Platforms ( FB   +0.6% ) used a  February event  to showcase the role of  artificial intelligence in the company's future, with a nod to an eventual release of new eyeglasses tapping augmented reality (AR) - the ability to overlay information on the world a user sees around them. A new look at the company's AR roadmap shows a push to  make a splash with new glasses as soon as 2024 . CEO Mark Zuckerberg has a particular interest in the product, wanting it to be "an iPhone moment," a source tells The Verge, adding "Zuck's ego is intertwined" with the glasses. It's a "holy grail" device that will mark a redefinition of people's relationship with technology, akin to the rollout of smartphones, Zuckerberg says, but the demos so far haven't been based on functioning hardware or software, suggesting the reality of that vision is some years away. The company's roadmap - for "Project Nazare" - suggests employees are racing...

                                               credits: alphacard.me Payments giant VISA could soon add Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies to its expansive payments network, CEO Alfred Kelly said during an online appearance last week. However, despite the words, Kelly is not entirely convinced of the broader use case of cryptocurrencies so far. The payments veteran said that while Bitcoin was among the most widely used and known cryptocurrencies, its function was more like “digital gold” and that it was “not used as a form of payment in a significant way at this point.” Cryptocurrency services are, so far, allowed only for exchanges and wallet providers who receive fiat from a customer and exchange it to crypto on their end. This means that whenever a customer uses a “crypto card” at a retail merchant, the  actual  crypto itself does not interact with the VIS...

               There has been quite misconstrued versions of stories surrounding cryptocurrency investments, and especially the most renowned one- Bitcoin (BTC). While it is agreeable that hoaxes and scamming has been rampant in the recent past over what con men term to be "bitcoin investment", finding a real and verified cryptocurrency trading platform will ease the hustle of you being a target to cons.            I was introduced to cryptocurrency by a roommate from my days in Campus. I was suspicious of the idea and I therefore "blew" a whooping Kshs. 100 to purchase my first bundle of bitcoins. That was about six years ago. I forgot about the a hundred shillings as they wouldn't be sold at a value worthy enough to satisfy my needs. September 2020, I was fixated! The idea of my crypto-trading account crossed my mind, however I grew numb because I had forgotten the password and had also lost the paper code to help w...

The Australian government is planning to spend AUD 190 billion (USD 132 billion) to support the economy in response to COVID-19, according to the latest Parliamentary Budget Office estimate. The total impact of COVID-19 on the government’s net debt, including both revenue impacts (down, because of less activity) and spending impacts (up because of spending to support the economy) amounts to between 11% and 18% of gross domestic product, or AUD 500 billion to AUD 620 billion. The estimates are based on the three possible scenarios developed by the Reserve Bank: “downside”, “baseline” and “upside”. Each differ in their assumed timing of the relaxation of social distancing and other restrictions, and for how long uncertainty and diminished confidence weigh on households and business activity. With similar blow-outs around the world, a view gaining ascendancy, including amongst commentators such as Alan Kohler, is that government debt doesn’t matter – provided the government owes the money...

Image:itsnewsafrica After reading that Excerpt in a local Newspaper of a warning from the Kenyan Government to those carrying out operations with Crowd1, I delved into the matter and dug deeper to understand what really Crowd1 is.? Here are some of the countries that Crowd1 have been red flagged with reasons. My experience with them too. JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA : the regulator of Financial Services Providers (FSPs) has issued a public warning about Crowd1 being a suspected pyramid scheme that has been banned in Namibia and the Philippines. ‘Crowd1 is neither an authorised FSP nor a representative of one, and there is also no record of it having applied for a licence with the FSCA’, the regulator said. The FSCA has referred Crowd1 to the SA Reserve Bank, where it is being investigated. This is after reports surfaced of Eben Etzebeth and Duane Vermeulen- Springbok Rugby Players, being investors in Crowd1. The       FSCA is advising the public to only con...

From monetary policy mishandling to decentralisation of a wealth store, Bitcoin has proven to act as a solution to many financial problems. Bitcoin could also be a lead solution to Venezuela’s sanctioned oil now floating at the sea. There is more than 18 million barrels of Sanctioned oil belonging to Venezuela currently not in good use but just floating on the sea.   Venezuela is one of many countries under strict sanctions from the United States. The US has been applying pressure to the country recently, seeking to cut off revenue flow to the regime. President Nicolas Maduro launched a cryptocurrency backed by oil, the petrol, in an attempt to skate sanctions. Trump banned the cryptocurrency in the United States. Due to the sanctions, and conditions in the oil market, Venezuela has over 18 million barrels of oil just floating at sea. This amounts to roughly two months of production in the country, unable to be monetised due to sanctions.   Countries won’t do busines...

  Here is walk-through of the 3 favourite new features in Android 11.   Conversation Notifications. The previous versions of android would have notifications flowing through inconsistently, timely messages would be hidden under less important app notifications. In Android 11 however, notifications for conversations can be categorised into three’s where the most critical messages always slide in at the top.   These categorisation tiers also apply to specific conversations within different messaging apps. (Notably, these are referred to as Conversations in the Android 11 settings panel.) For instance, you can choose whether a beloved group text in Android Messages gets priority over the ongoing thread with your immediate family in WhatsApp. Long press on an individual conversation in the notification shade to categorise it. If it’s classified a Priority, you’ll see a tiny, unique icon indicator populate in the status bar when there’s a new message within that sp...

Binance, one of the largest cryptocurrency exchanges in the world, recently announced that they successfully upgraded its trading platform. Earlier, Binance announced that they were going to upgrade their trading platform, the upgrade took about 2 hours. All deposits, trading, and withdrawal were disabled on spot and margin trading, P2P trading, OTC Portal trading, savings & redemption, as well as asset transfers from sub-accounts at the time of the upgrade.   The company has had major upgrades since 2017. Some were noticeable and some were not. Many Binance upgrades were aimed towards improving the performance of the trading platform, as well as giving the best user experience to their users.   A year ago, Binance introduced staking, lending cryptocurrency, and margin trading. Not only that, but Binance has also introduced other projects since the start of 2020, which includes Binance P2P and Binance B2B. Binance P2P operates similarly to LocalBitcoins and Paxf...

via nbcnews A Geiger counter measures a radiation level at a site of fire burning in the exclusion zone around the Chernobyl nuclear power plant outside the village of Rahivka, Ukraine . Radiation levels in the Chernobyl exclusion zone spiked 17 times over the normal background reading Sunday, the head of Ukraine's ecological watchdog said Sunday, as forest fires blazed about 12 miles into the Chernobyl disaster area.   Ecological inspection Chief Yegor Firsov wrote in a Facebook post from the closed Chernobyl region. "At the center of the fire, radiation levels are high ... readings are 2.3, when the normal level is 0.14." Firsov's post included a video of a Geiger counter, a device used to measure radiation levels. According to Firsov, the alarming jump in radioactivity was found only in the centre of the fire. In a later post Sunday, he wrote that nuclear specialists had charted no increase in radiation levels in the capital, Kyiv, only about 60 miles fro...

                                         image: cryptoworldnews For those that need a refresher, here’s one: over the course of approximately a year, scammers largely focused in Asia managed to garner billions of dollars of Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, and XRP, and other cryptocurrencies. The scammers operated a “wallet” called PlusToken, which promised users high returns on their deposits. The wallet naturally featured a system of incentives that created a pyramid of users. A transaction from a wallet of a ringleader with the message “we have run” cemented the collapse of the scheme in the middle of 2019. Fortunately, the law caught up with PlusToken, with it being revealed shortly after they “ran” that the authorities had caught up with six of the ringleaders. Reports said at the time that the PlusToken operators were arrested in Vanuatu. Yet Dovey Wan, a partner at Primitive ...

This has been revealed by China’s Centre for Information and Industry Development (CCID) on its 18th CCID Global Public Chain Technology Evaluation Index. This index ranked 37 well-known global cryptos using technical specifications. Bitcoin (BTC) was placed in the 12th place with 106.2 points. The criteria used to evaluate cryptocurrencies include basic technology, applicability, features, performance, safety, creativity, and decentralization. EOS remains leading the ranking with 156.1 points, followed by TRON with 138.43 points and Ethereum (ETH) with 136.4 points. The leading cryptocurrency scored 20.4 points in applicability and 24.7 in creativity, while the second place had 28.4 and 15.5 points, respectively. It is an improvement for BTC as it has scaled up from previous ranking of the 17th place The fourth and fifth places are IOST and LSK with 130.3 and 119.3 points, respectively, highlighting that XRP is in 14th place with only 105 points. Bitcoin was even lower dow...

                                              Image: CIA Bitcoin (BTC) is on the risk of invalidating a bullish pattern as cryptocurrency analysts see the latest surge extending towards Bitcoins 200 a day moving average. Until Monday morning, BTC had a likelihood of running towards $11,800 but fell by 2.26 per cent to $9,114 leading to massive loss realizations as it had invalidated a bullish technical pattern called Ascending Triangle which BTC broke the Triangles support. A senior analyst in Cryptocurrency highlighted some possible projections as to why BTC could continue its dip after breaking the Ascending Triangle’s Support level. He says that, the diagonal support has now turned into resistance and Bitcoins trial to break above it all over again stands defied and null.                           ...

                                                Image Credit: Forbes First off, Zoom isn’t bailing your security for free! Those who use this video platform for free will no longer enjoy the encrypted calls anymore, the company announced. The justification to this is that the company is aiming at complying with local law enforcement authorities the FBI included in the likely event that Zoom is used maliciously. You will therefore need to fully verify your Zoom account before you can enjoy those end-to-end encrypted Zoom meetings. v   The impact of this move to your business: This move by Zoom looks like a tactical marketing concern than just a security compliance urge. This would give me the lead to start a search for an alternative communication platform.   Cash Payments have really Sunk, Thanks to Covid-19 .  In a measure to control the spre...

Facebook Pay, the payments service WhatsApp owner Facebook launched last year has been unveiled as WhatsApp Pay in Brazil. Users in Brazil would be the first to be able to send and receive money by way of its messaging app. The payments service — which currently is free for consumers to use, but businesses pay a 3.99% processing fee to receive payments — will work by way of a six-digit PIN or fingerprint to complete transactions on the platform. You use it by linking up your WhatsApp account to your Visa or Mastercard credit or debit card. The feature will be available to both regular WhatsApp users and Business WhatsApp users. This gives WhatsApp and Facebook another shot at building a revenue stream based on its vast scale, one which does not turn the app over to monetising its users through ads and the data that is amassed around them.

The US Senate and other governments have for long progressed a crackdown on secure messaging that values the federal governments need to be snooping on messaging applications of device users for ‘National Security’ purposes. Ironically, even with this legislation's currently in place, messaging technologies have attracted more users because of their guarantee to security. iPhone users sending messages to other third party platforms like WhatsApp have something great coming that is worth smiling about. For WhatsApp’s vulnerability and iPhone’s top priority to security and usability, there is going to be a fine balance and fixes put in place to achieve the latter with Signal. Signal which is the most renowned secure messaging platform so far is offering the update in iPhone users. Even with the main problem of Signal for iPhone users being unable to transfer messaging logs when you upgrade, Signal has settled this and users will not have to feel the pain of starting over again ...