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Ushahidi , inc. has announced the release of the latest version of Ushahidi — v3.0.0-Beta.12. Ushahidi, is an open-source crowdsourcing tool which overlays field reports on maps, providing critical and often life-saving data during emergencies. It has pays homage to influence of development from the post election violence that marred Kenya in 2007. It was also used to map the earthquake crisis in Haiti. New in this release are frontend changes in the user profile editing and management screen profile sections....

Samsung has unveiled the Galaxy S22 series, featuring three devices; the Galaxy S22, S22+, and the premium model – the Galaxy S22 Ultra. The Galaxy S22 Ultra is the standout device of this series. And that’s not just because it is the premium version, but the fact that its design was adapted from the Galaxy Note line (this device is everything the leaks suggested it would be ) – feels like Samsung is doing all it can to keep the Galaxy Note line relevant....

Coding is one of the top skills to have in 2022. It’s a no-brainer that you’d want your kids to start acquiring the skill from a young age. And yes, before you ask, kids can learn how to code from a young age. Or at least, understand the basics of coding . In this post, we’ll take you through 10 iOS apps that can teach your kids how to code. You should read through....

Twitter, via a blog post announced the addition of a new feature -Tip Jar – to the social app. Tip Jar will make it easy for twitter users to support and send money to their favorite creators on the platform. Esther Crawford, Senior Product Manager at Twitter said, “We $ee you – sharing your PayPal link after your Tweet goes viral, adding your $Cashtag to your profile so people can support your work, dropping your Venmo handle on your birthday or if you just need some extra help....

Android as a platform is very vast. It spans all the way from the super-budget market segment to the super premium, complete over-kill market segment. Naturally, it would be dumb to adopt a one-size fit all approach in providing for this segment. It seems as though everyone is waking up to the fact that not everyone has a phone powerful enough to run their native apps straight up. Facebook and LinkedIn have for years, and months, respectively, been offering a watered down, barebones version of their native app, meant for the less powerful devices and also to work well in slow networks....

If you thought Twitter was only interested in being your news stream, then you’re in for a big surprise. The company has today announced on their blog that they are testing a new way for users to buy products on the social network without leaving the site; “Today we are beginning to test a new way for you to discover and buy products on Twitter. For a small percentage of U....

News hit our desk of twitter’s new redesign which surprisingly looked more like the current Facebook with the profile picture and cover photo just like on FB. The official twitter blog talked about the redesign highlighting key features that are going to be rolled out progressively first to the new twitter users and then later to everyone else. Twitter is quoted about the new redesign saying – “Moment by moment, your Twitter profile shows the world who you are....

Two years ago, Face Unlock became a thing in the smartphone ecosystem, thanks to Apple’s iPhone X . Now, the biometric authentication security has gained massive traction that almost every smartphone being released by [big and small] OEMs can be unlocked by identifying and matching certain facial properties of the user. However, while Face Unlock (or Face ID or Facial Recognition or its other variations) is now an integral feature and selling point used by many manufacturers to entice [potential] buyers, many smartphone users are oblivious of the fact that face unlock technology comes in different types; with, of course, varying level of sophistication and security....

FinTech is steadily developing within Ugandan banking institutions, and the pace at which it is evolving promises a sight of financial inclusion for us all. From the launch of a shared agent banking system , we now have the first artificially intelligent chatbot within the sector. How about doing your banking through chat? UBA Uganda wants to begin the change of e-banking with the introduction of an online Chat Banker that enables customers make use of their social media accounts to carry out key banking transaction....

TL;DR: Find the logo entry details here . In 2005, Uganda spent a whooping $1 million in advertising costs on CNN for her “Gifted by nature” campaign. This quite was quite unsuccessful though. In 2012, Uganda’s Stephen Kiprotich stole 5 minutes of worldwide media fame for bagging the 42 km marathon Olympic gold medal. So, between the former and the latter, who did a better job in marketing the country? There are no prizes for the right answer –it’s very simple....

About a week ago, Samsung Display, the display manufacturing wing of Samsung Electronics invited 20 customers to the Shenzhen Marrriot Hotel in China where it held the 2018 Edition of its annual OLED Forum. At the event, Samsung Display announced some innovative display and screen solutions to expect from the company and on the company’s upcoming flagship smartphones. The highlight of the event was the company’s announcement of new hardware that would revolutionize how we use our smartphones display and smartphone at large — Samsung plans to hide four new sensors beneath smartphone screens in 2019 and beyond....

Starting from November 24, 2024, any Yaka! power meters that haven’t been upgraded will stop working. According to UMEME, these meters will no longer accept new Yaka! tokens. To avoid this inconvenience, you your yaka meter will have to undergo the key-change upgrade, before the Token Identifier (TID) Rollover on 24 November 2024. How to upgrade your Yaka meter When you receive a set of 3 tokens, each token with 20 digits in this format: xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx xxxx, yyyy yyyy yyyy yyyy yyyy, zzzz zzzz zzzz zzzz zzzz....

Uganda will be going to the polls come Jan 14th this year to elect their next president and parliamentarians. One of the things you have to get right as a voter is knowing the right polling station to vote from. The Uganda electoral commission is in charge of ensuring a free and fair election and they have created an online database exactly for this purpose. To find your voter polling station, go to the commission’s website, specifically this page www....

There is nothing as exciting to Ugandans such as free data, they would do almost anything to stay connected most especially when the connection speeds are good. Vodafone Uganda seems to know that and as such they are giving away free data to residents of Mukono and Seeta every Monday, Friday and Sunday during what they are calling the Vodafone 4G Hour. For only an hour, customers can access free internet to browse, update their apps, chat, watch videos among others on a high-speed 4G connection....

Languages Supported Although the Alexa Live translation mode isn’t as robust as the likes of Google (with 27+ languages). Currently, Alexa supports about seven languages: English, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese. What this means is, each language can be translated with the other and vice versa. We expect that more languages will be added over time. Related : Alexa Whisper Mode: How to Enable it on Your Echo Device...

Alongside the new Windows 11 SE (a lighter version of the Windows 11, dedicated to the K-8 education market, and will only ship exclusively on low-cost laptops), Microsoft is introducing what it calls Surface laptop SE. It is an education-focused laptop designed for K-8 education. it is a simple-looking computer with plastic chassis and basic specifications and features. This is Microsoft’s response to the Google Chromebook, and it is unsurprising that Microsoft has decided to go head-to-head with Google on this one....

With the evolution of our phones into our Personal Computers, most people are conflicted about the amount of RAM that is enough for their devices. While others feel like the smartphone industry is engaging in a pointless race to the biggest RAM on a smartphone, others think it is only natural for these gadgets to have as much RAM as our PCs as we do so much on our phones today....

In photography, Bokeh is the aesthetic quality of the blur produced in the out-of-focus parts of an image produced by a lens. Bokeh has been defined as “the way the lens renders out-of-focus points of light”. This has become one of the most popular subjects in photography today, mostly due to the fact that many smartphones now are trying to implement a form of taking such photos. Another reason why it is so popular could be because Bokeh makes photographs visually appealing, forcing us to focus our attention on a particular area of the image, the subject....

The newly-introduced HomePod offers both intercom and HomeKit support and many more. In the recent Apple event, Apple introduced the latest version of the HomePod smart speaker among other new devices . The new smart speaker dubbed the ‘ HomePod mini ‘ is a smaller, budget-friendly version. Unlike the oblong design of its predecessor, the new smart speaker is significantly smaller and is wrapped in a compact spherical mesh fabric....

WhatsApp’s parent company, Meta, has released the much-awaited ‘ Communities ‘ feature for WhatsApp. While this new WhatsApp feature is similar to the ‘ Groups ‘ feature on the app, the new feature offers larger, more structured discussion groups for its users – it gives users the ability to organize and bring related groups together under one umbrella. And according to Meta, the new feature is designed to help organizations, clubs, schools, and other private groups better communicate and stay organized....