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The next iPad Pro might ditch the home button and bezels

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 8:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


9to5Mac reports that Apple may be working on an update to its iPad Pro line, which will see the high-end tablet lose its thick bezels around the screen and its home button. That’s from a battery usage icon in the iOS 12 developer beta 5, which depicts an iPad with the aforementioned changes. Now, before you balk at the notion of a design element revealing an upcoming product, consider the fact that we learned about the notched display on the iPhone X from an icon in Apple’s HomePod speaker firmware last July. This finding corroborates an earlier report from analyst…

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The next iPad Pro might ditch the home button and bezels

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 8:46 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Gadgets, gear


9to5Mac reports that Apple may be working on an update to its iPad Pro line, which will see the high-end tablet lose its thick bezels around the screen and its home button. That’s from a battery usage icon in the iOS 12 developer beta 5, which depicts an iPad with the aforementioned changes. Now, before you balk at the notion of a design element revealing an upcoming product, consider the fact that we learned about the notched display on the iPhone X from an icon in Apple’s HomePod speaker firmware last July. This finding corroborates an earlier report from analyst…

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The Democratic Republic of Congo’s electronic voting machines worry security experts

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 7:44 am
Posted In: Around the Web, syndication


The technology company, Miru Systems Co., have growing concerns about the South Korean manufactured electronic voting machines in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s upcoming 2018 general elections. Apart from their vulnerability to hacking, there is a possibility that the QR codes used by the electronic voting machines could compromise voter and ballot secrecy. Since the first time that the DRC’s Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI) proposed the use of electronic voting machines for the 2018 general elections, civil society organizations, and pro-democracy movements based in the DRC and around the world have been crying foul. Technical experts and security researchers identified significant similarities between…

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Coinbase now lets you buy and sell cryptocurrency using British Pounds

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 7:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Coinbase is making it easier for Brits to buy and sell cryptocurrency. The exchange desk announced it now supports Pound Sterling deposits and withdrawals natively on its platform. In addition to eliminating frictions associated with converting funds from Euro to pounds, another benefit of having native support for the local currency is that it allows for much faster deposit and withdrawal times. Coinbase has begun rolling this functionality to its UK customers already, but it might take a couple of days before the feature is available to all users countrywide. The new system is currently only available in the UK,…

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Coinbase now lets you buy and sell cryptocurrency using British Pounds

Aug02
by on August 2, 2018 at 7:32 am
Posted In: Around the Web, Hard Fork, Insider


Coinbase is making it easier for Brits to buy and sell cryptocurrency. The exchange desk announced it now supports Pound Sterling deposits and withdrawals natively on its platform. In addition to eliminating frictions associated with converting funds from Euro to pounds, another benefit of having native support for the local currency is that it allows for much faster deposit and withdrawal times. Coinbase has begun rolling this functionality to its UK customers already, but it might take a couple of days before the feature is available to all users countrywide. The new system is currently only available in the UK,…

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