Major Updates For WhatsApp , Facebook and Instagram.Details Inside

If you are a frequent user of social media you are most definitely on one or all of the mentioned social media platforms. Facebook Inc, the mother company of Instagram and WhatsApp is working hard to ensure its users get the best experience from their platforms by providing some updates that will take effect sometime later. Facebook has now scrapped off the message that prompted its users when they joined your list. Facebook will now use artificial intelligence to see which users hate the alerts. This will be made possible through machine learning.
Instagram, on the other hand, is planning to offer its users the chance to get verified on Twitter. For those not familiar with this, it is the blue tick that you see on major brand accounts on social media and major celebrity's accounts. Twitter also has been cleaning its house by getting rid of fake accounts on their platform. This has caused an uproar in some areas of the world like Kenya where major trendsetters lost most of their followers including the President of Kenya.
Whats App is also a company owned by Facebook and is planning to roll out a new feature that will allow users to identify forwarded messages. This effort was launched in a bid to try and control fake news which has become a menace on Facebook and the internet at large.
Facebook Messenger is also receiving an update that will automatically allow you to chat with people using a foreign language with the conversations instantly translated for you to ease communication between two people who do not speak the same language.

Samsung Builds The Largest Smartphone Factory In India

Samsung has made a major move this year by finally opening the largest smartphone factory in Noida, India. This is especially a very lucrative deal for India since the country has been looking to attract more investors. This initiative has been a major concern for the Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi who has been working effortlessly to lure investors to India.

In attendance of the big unveiling was also the President of South Korea President Moon Jae-in. The new plant is supposed to see the doubling of Samsung’s Noida facility’s capacity from 68 million units annually to an estimated 120 million units in a year. The expansion has been in stages with the final touches expected to end in 2020. President Moon Jae-in plans to tap into the 425 million smartphone users in India and a population of 1.3 billion people.

According to International Data Corporation, India’s market grew by 14 per cent in 2017 with an astounding total shipment of 124 Million units that year alone. This is a great opportunity for other smartphone manufacturers like Apple, VIVO, Huawei, Oppo and Xiaomi Corp planning to build three factories in India to meet this ever-growing demand for mobile phones in India. This will increase their market shares over the coming years as it is cheaper to manufacture in India than to import electronic goods in India. This is due to high taxes by the Indian government.

                                                                    

 On the bright side, the many plants will help to improve the lives of the Indian people by providing job opportunities and the myriad of other capabilities that smartphones have gained over the past few years especially in the mobile banking industry. India is on the verge of becoming a global mobile phone export hub. Earlier this year Xiaomi ousted Samsung from the leading smartphone provider in India since the Xiaomi models are cheaper compared to the high-end devices manufactured by Apple and Samsung. The new Noida Plant is focused on providing from low-end mobile handsets to their latest high-end flagship devices since most Indians favor low-end smartphones.

Chris Brown Arrested Again Over Domestic Violence

Chris Brown was earlier arrested over battery charges once again. The superstar was performing in Florida. He immediately walked off the stage after the show into the hands of the Tampa Police Department. He was then taken to Palm Beach County jail. Details of the alleged felony charges are still not clear but it is clear that the star might have been involved in yet another case involving him beating up a lady.

 Christopher Brown has a bad history with the police. He was arrested and charged in 2009 when he beat up his then-girlfriend Rihanna. He has also been arrested in 2016 on allegations of Assault with a deadly weapon.
He was released on a cash bond of $2000.Details of allegations on his arrest are still unclear.

What is Google's ARCore? Details Inside: How Google Measure App Is Using ArCore

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Google's AR core is a platform that is used by Android applications' developers to create wonderful interactive augmented reality experiences captured by the mobile phone's camera in real-time. The AR core allows your mobile device to sense its immediate environment and interact with the information found in that environment. This is made possible through the various Application Programming Interfaces used to develop the groundbreaking app.
Google's Measure App uses the AR core to sense objects in its environment and interact with the objects via the phone camera. The app allows the user to take measurements without the use of a physical tape measure. It most definitely will not replace your tape measure but it is convenient for measuring surface distances.
The implementation of this technology is largely dependent on motion tracking technology used by mobile phones to understand their positions in an environment. Environmental understanding is used by the Android operating system to allow the mobile device to understand the objects in its environment just by detecting the sizes and locations of surfaces either vertical, horizontal or angled and lastly, it uses the mobile phones ability to sense appropriate lighting for an environment.
AR Core works by tracking the position of the device in real time as it moves from one locality to another. This helps the phone to understand its environment better.
Google's ARCore is designed to run on Android phones running on Android(Nougat) N and later.
AR stands for Augmented Reality for those wondering what AR stands for and is similar to Apple's ARKIT.
The augmented reality field has various applications in the real world. Archaeologists are currently using Augmented reality to rebuild ancient ruins and to study the ancient civilization lifestyles.AR is also being used by Architects to visualize buildings before they are actually built.The same can be done for mega structures and bridges.It can also give potential clients a taste of how their house will look like after it is completed.

British Child Molester Found Guilty For Raping Girls In Kenya While On Holiday

Keith Morris is a British man aged 72 from Hull was recently found guilty for raping two girls while on his holiday in Kenya in 2016 and 2017 according to the National Crime Agency.He was facing 13 charges which he denied and they also included rape and assault.According to Crown Prosecution Service the man had become a friend of the victims families for over 20 years and had been sending the money over the years.He provided household goods,clothing and even went further and paid school fees for some of the families' children.Thee old man would lure the young girls with sweets ,make up and trips which he went with them and after the whole day of fun he would then take the girls to his hotel room and molest them.
These heinous acts would have continued if it were not for a complaint raised by one of the hotel guests who reported the issue to the hotel management.
The old man was later arrested in February 2017 and a Dictaphone was confiscated from his premises.The Dictaphone provided very vital audio evidence of him forcing the victims to admit that he had not sexually molested them.He was also found guilty of obstruction of justice when he was found to have been colluding with some of his friends from Kenya to help prove his innocence.
He has been convicted with four counts of rape, three counts of assault by penetration ,four counts of sexual assault and two counts of obstruction of justice.He currently awaits his sentencing in Leeds later in July 17.

Mobile Technology in Africa

 Mobile Technology is a term usually used to refer to portable devices like mobile phones. It is usually a device that can perform, more than one function like internet access, GPS and so on. Mobile Technology uses Code Division Multiple Access which uses many transmitters to send data on a single channel. The rapid evolution of mobile technology has been considered as the future of computing since the dominance of wireless portable devices has started becoming popular worldwide with major companies making millions in dollars manufacturing mobile phone devices.
With the introduction of the Android operating system by Google, the mobile platform has given jobs to millions of Android application developers worldwide.

With the increase of players in the mobile market the competition for the piece of the pie has been tough over the years with mostly Apple iPhone and Android dominating the market.
The mobile sector has also given birth to a new concept called Big Data. It that has been the buzz over the internet for a few years now with concentration increasing exponentially over the few couple of years with major companies like Google's Android being some of the major beneficiaries of the data they mine off the consumers of their myriad of products on the internet.

That's probably why the created their browsers Google Chrome. That way they get more reliable data to enable the company to deliver a more personalized experience for their users. Of course, this is only possible at the price of personal privacy.
Mobile phones have enabled people to connect faster through social media, video calls, short messages, audio messages. They also provide news and mobile phone games available free for download in mobile app stores like Google's Play Store and Windows Store for Windows Tablets or Surface Devices.

In Kenya, the mobile phone industry keeps growing with mobile phone subscribers increasing annually mostly for the main telecommunications company Safaricom Kenya. People use mobile phones to send money from one person to another using their mobile phones. This innovation is only around a decade old and has pushed Safaricom Limited to the topmost earning companies in Africa and East Africa.
The face of mobile Technology is rapidly changing and it is here to dominate.

Intel Makes Changes To How Antivirus Programs Scan Your Machine.Improved Performance:Details

If you are a frequent user of a computer you are moat likely to be familiar with the term computer Antivirus Software.These are computer programs that are used to detect, prevent and remove harmful software from your computer.examples of antivirus software are Avast Antivirus Software and Kerpsersky Computer security.These modern antivirus programs protects the users computer from a variety of threats such as malicious browser helper objects,rootkits, back-doors,Trojan horses, worms, adware among other threats.


These anti malicious software running on a computer affects the performance of a computer. This is because the antivirus software requires CPU resources to scan the computer and this adversely affects performance of the computer hence slowing it down.
The company Intel is finally providing a solution to this problem by allowing virus scanners to use Integrated Graphics chip sets to scan for threats.This will allow a machine to save battery life and improve its performance.This is set to reduce CPU utilization from 20 Percent to 2 Percent.

Intel is currently working with Microsoft to implement this change with Microsoft already using the technology in Windows Defender Advanced Protection in April 2018.
With these new changes we are finally optimistic of our computers being secure and performing optimally.

Did you know Jumia Phones could be just the next Amazon in Africa?Everything you need to know about Jumia Group Africa

If you have not heard about Jumia phones in Africa then you have not been spending a lot of time on the world wide web. This may be through Facebook or even when looking for a job online you may have bumped into Jumia somewhere online.
Jumia was previously known as the Africa Internet Group which is a company founded in 2012 by Jeremy Hodara and Sacha Poignonnec. Jumia has about 1000-3000 employees working to improve the platform.Jumia platform is tailored for the needs of the African continent aiming at some of the challenges that Africa is currently facing like poor infrastructure, bad traffic and poor choice of goods availabe to the millions of people on the African content.With the fast penetration of the internet in Africa with many people starting to get online Jumia has managed to tap into the e-Commerce scene in Africa just like Amazon in the United States.
Jumia is an online platform for shopping just like Amazon.com offering delivery of goods bought online to the customers in a station near them.It has improved the way people do shopping in Africa and me being in Kenya i have personally bought my mobile phone from jumia.
The website has some pretty cool offers like Jumia Black Friday, Mobile Weeks and Jumia Home Makeover which run from time to time with millions of sales everyday and deliveries done round the clock within Africa.Jumia has successfully sank its teeth in 11 African countries and growing steadily. The website has undergone a massive structural change with more services added to the platform.The website now offers goods and services in the following categories.

1. Classifieds
2. Commercia Delivery
3. E-Commerce
4. E-Commerce Platforms 
5. Fashion Food and Beverage 
6. Food Delivery Hospitality
7.  Hotel Information Services
8. Internet 
9. Marketplace
10. Online Portals
11.  Real Estate
12.  Recruiting
13. Restaurants
14.  Retail
15. Search Engine 
16. Shopping 
17. Travel
18. Travel Accommodations 

Jumia also has a little something for web developers in the form of the Jumia Affiliate Program which is an affiliate program for jumia.I have written an indeth article on how to make money on jumia as an affiliate.

Google Planning to Ban Cryptocurrency Adverts

The tech giant Google is planning to ban cryptocurrecny related adverts from its platform. Google is updating its financial services ads related content on their platforms. The crackdown also applies to Wallets, Initial Coin Offerings and ads on trading advice.Google is planning to roll out this update in June 2018 following Facebook's ban that was also announced early this year. The two companies feel that they have seen too many ads related to cryptocurrencies that may cause consumer harm.
Even though cryptocurrency ,market has generated a lot  of wealth for many people this field still remains vastly uncontrolled. This is a major concern as it may lead to very high profile scams.This news came as Google released its annual trust and safety ads report.
Google has come to this conclusion after taking down more than 3.2 billion ads that violated their policies.
It is understandable why google may want to make the ads space safer for its users as Google's parent company Alphabet gets 84% of its earnings from advertising.

US Secretary of State Fired by Trump after Visit to Kenya!!

Photo Courtesy Standard Digital: Rex Tillerson in Kenya

The U.S Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has been ousted by the U.S President Donald Trump. The President plans on replacing Tillerson with the CIA Director Mike Pompeo.Trump asked him to step aside. This cut short his visit to Kenya as he had to return to Washington DC immediately to address more "pressing matters". The tension between the president and his top diplomat has been growing for the past few months and reached breaking point last week when he finally asked Tillerson to step aside amid on going delicate negotiations  with North Korea. This signifies a major change to the President's national security team at such a crucial time.

The reason for his firing still remains unclear. According to the spokesperson for the Secretary of state Rex Tillerson had no idea why he was fired.
The Director of the Criminal Intelligence Agency, Mike Pompeo will replace Rex Tillerson while the current deputy Director of the CIA ,Gina Haspel will succeed Mike Pompeo as Director of the CIA making her the first female to ever head the CIA since it was formed.
However the Trump nominees will still have to go through the Senate for confirmation.Tillerson felt that he was left out of the loop when President Trump aggreed to meet North Korea Leader .He had insisted on a diplomatic approach on the nuclear stand off between the U.S and North Korea.Pompeo, who had developed a good rapport with the President of the US as the Director of the CIA has long been rumoured as Tillerson's replacement. Trump's latest move confirms this rumour.Tillersons removal had been wildly anticipated and even had a nickname "Rexit".This rumor had been made even stronger in November 2017 when NBC news reported that Tillerson had called Trump a "moron".

10 Things to do to Make your man beg for a sleepover

So girls let us make this very straight : never let any man sleepover at your place. you are at no one point allowed to serve food,  wash dishes and give a bombass sex in one place.  Let it all be that when you break up, the only loss you encounter is your vajayjay's elasticity.  Rule number two,  don't have sex with  a man more than a night.  When you sleep and wake up,  it's your time to get moving.  Don't wife yourself to a man who doesn't have a ring. 
There is no life without a woman.  They need us. It's fine,  they don't want commitment, let him go buy a baby in the hospital.  The following are top ten things you should do in a sleepover.

1. Arrive late
Simply because he invited you over,  you don't have to arrive there at 7.am in the morning. This is for the safety of your nails and your restrictions from doing wifely duties on a girlfriend contaract. Think of it, the earlier you get there the more you face the temptation of giving him just a hand job and a hand in his dirty dishes because you want to prove how feminine you are.  The less time you spend with him, the better.

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2. Carry a purse, small enough to fit an extra thong
Your dowry has not yet been paid.  So no big baskets. You want to have an extra of everything, shoes,  clothes, hats, coat. It's exhausting.  You are practically moving into his house even if it's fwd-arrangement. The next time he will want to come to your place just to get rid of you when he wants to. Let him buy that new toothbrush for you, and make sure you carry it back home.  Don't let another woman use it to lie her baby hair.

3.  Eat wash, your face and go to 'sleep'
Enough with long stories.  Let him talk. Let him do his things.  Take your time as if you are studying him,  let him play his playlist, his TV station.  If he bore you too much,  give him a sloppy head.  And it's true what they say,  the noisier the head,  the faster he gonna shoot.  If not,  you might be really demotivated with a painful neck. After your prayer partnership,  go to sleep.  Cuddles is for your teddy bear.

4. Remove your clothes,  arrange and keep them neatly and go naked in bed
He knows you need a T-shirt.  If he won't give you,  sleep with a curve on your back. Round two should not come anything earlier than midnight. They start sleeping at 2am, this is the time to start your coup.  Be dirty and be nasty.  Touch him,  caress him,  massage his big belly. Make it awkward for him that you want to fuck him.  Then do it.  Play with that joystick as if you are possessed by a black stallion.  Do it how you want it,  feel it,  fill it in you,  moan,  groan, at least once in a while call his name.  Nothing more. Don't ask silly questions like "ni tamu?" and don't even start your confessions such as "nakupenda". Do it like its business,  touch yourself once in a while.  Do it so sexily that he will want to be your hands.  Don't get off until you come.  Wake up,  go to the bathroom,  wash your cat with some cold water and go back to bed. 

5. Good morning head
Let the first handshake he has is from his head. Massage the little guy in agony,  like you will dearly miss him.  After that say goodbye.  6.30 should find you saying your goodbyes. No morning sex. He had enough of it at night.  You are no longer horny and you also need to go back to your place. You just came to sleep and now that's off the hook, go home.

6. Don't ask for transport
Don't spend where it's not needed.  Don't travel to rongai from Kahawa to go eat chapati madondo . The cost of coming and going back home to your place should be equal to the cost of food you eat at his place.  If it's a deficit of 100 Bob,  ask 100bob for fare. If you had chicken barbeque and more,  pay your own fare. 

7.Dont text
Yes don't get into the matatu and start texting.  "That was the best night,  oh sex"  saying this doesn't add an A to your sex game.  If it was bad,  that's it. If it was good,  no need for talking about it.  Pillowtalk is only for Zayn Malik,  and he ain't a Kenyan . Get home,  text him you are home,  and get busy.  Don't talk about the sex,  in fact act like it never happened.

8. Don't plan for another sleepover for at least 5 days
self explanatory.  Stop wishing to go back and take mirror selfie in him house.  Be humble, accept what you have and stay at your place.  A normal man takes around two weeks to be totally horny again,  so use your mathematics. The best man to fuck is a horny Man. He will work as if he is fighting with his juices out of his body and at that time they will think of nothing better.  Win win for both of you.

9. Don't leave anything
Yes.  No ' I forgot excuse'. Take everything of yours and leave no woman trace of you. You will be surprised how much a man wants someone who doesn't want him. It their animal instinct.  You just have to reverse it on them. Don't leave your toothbrush. Nor your panty under the bed,  or your hairclip next to him TV or couch.  Carry everything with you. 

10. Alternate
Don't alternate men.  Alternate the things you do. Today is a sleepover,  next time is a rave,  then a movie.  A wife's duty is to stay at his home and cook his food,  wash his clothes,  give him unlimited sex.  Yours is to do girls and boys things together.  Watch football,  go window shopping, eat out. Let him not scare you that you are not a wife material.  Of course you wear clean clothes,  you really fat and eating healthy, and you have younger siblings.  That's proof enough. 

Android Users more loyal compared to iOs users , study shows. Details inside

The Consumer Intelligence Research Partners  has recently studied that android users tend to be more loyal to the platform than iOs users.

 The reports indicate a steady rise in android users since 2016 with the numbers at their peak right now.
The study looked at US customers who stayed with their operating systems after upgrading their phones in 2017 to either Android or iOs.  91% stayed loyal to Android while 86% remained loyal to iOs. 

Due to the availability of only two popular mobile phone operating systems users are inclined to chose either Android or iOs and invest their storage
and applications.

In other news Apple is planning to change their Logos for the iPhone ,iPad and the iPod. They are to all have different logos for each different device.

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Governors Warned by Senate over defiance

The Senate Public Accounts has warned governors over defiance. The senate is charged with the responsibility of ensuring governors respond to county matters.
Speaking on behalf of the committee , the chairman, Moses Kajwang' insisted that the team is mandated to ensure accountability of public resources. He also said that they are inviting governors and if they do not appear they will be summoned. He further added that they will be working with Director of Public Prosecutions, Police and Ethics and the Anti-Coreuption Commissions.
The commitee is committed to ensuring that governors are accountable and that all Kenyans develop from the funds in the county.
He further added that the committee is going to expand from just financial audits to include performance audits.
The plan is dubbed Senate Machinani. Its core objective being to check accuracy of reports from the 47 counties in Kenya. They are also planning to hold public and joint meetings with County Assemblies budget committied.

Magambo , Meru University VC Finally Sent on Terminal Leave

Prof Jeff Magambo

Acting Vc Charity Gichuki

The Education Minister Amina Mohammed has finally sent Prof Japheth Magambo on a terminal leave after visiting the school today (6th March 2018).The acting Vice Chancellor of Meru University of Science and Technology is now Prof Charity Gichuki .The cabinet secretary also ordered the re-opening of the instituition in a week's time on a maximum.
The new acting Vice Chancellor was Prof Jeff Magambo's deputy in charge of Finace and Administration in the university. Meru University has been closed for close to four weeks now following student's unrest over hiked school fees.
The death of the Students Associaion of Meru University's Secretary General Evance Njoroge fuelled the student's strike even further leading to complete chaos in the nearby village of Nchiru along Meru Maua road with the police in cat and mouse games with the irated students and a few members of the community.The student leader is was shot dead by a police officer on February 27th. Some of the students who were arrested have been arraigned in Kirindine court. The students of Meru University have also been on the frontline to help give their fallen hero a proper send off by contributing to his burial using paybill 530100 Account Name Njoroge.

Zari Finally Speaks On Why She Left Diamond

Zari is  done with Diamond Platinum. Zari Hassan, now apparently the ex-wife of Diamond Platinumz has finally decided to let go of her husband after a video by BBC Kiswahili surfaces of Diamond and his former flame Wema Sepetu cuddling together and getting too cosy appeared.

That was on the28th of Janury when Wasafi records had an event to reveal their latest signing.Diamond Platinumz and his ex ,Wema Sepetu ,were present. In a lengthy rant on social media, she expresses her disappointment on her husband who has been involved in many scandals since their marriage kicked off. She expected Diamond to be more cautious with women since he became a family man but he does not learn from any of the scandals he has had with many women at all.

He still does the things a married man should not even be thinking about and expects his dear wife to be cool with it. Zari says the man has continued to disrespect her in public and she is not having that anymore. She finally decided to let the man go and live her life. Since this is a family marred with so many scandals, we are sure this is not the end but just the beginning since they have kids together and the marriage has not even lasted a full year without issues springing up most of the time.

This incident made Zari, Diamonds beloved wife block him immediately after the video of Diamond and Wema Sepetu surfaced. Here is what Zari had to say about the video.
“To be honest, his video with the ex ilitoka and I tried to ask. That was the morning before.Alafu, kila ukiuliza mtu anakua story mingi, hapo nikadecide kumblock kabisa from my contacts. He does things and thinks its okay wiith him but he is not thinking about you or the outcome, hapo ndio nikasema, you know what? We are done,” reiterated zari.

Zari further revealed that she had forgiven her baby daddy for involvement with Hamissa Mobetto but this she was not having.
“I mean we aare trying to move from the scandal ya kuwacha amepata mtoto so we can move forward. But anakumbatiana  huko na ma ex kwenye public.Vitu za kunizalisha, vitu za kunifanya niwe very disrespected. Ukiamua kua na familia , na watoto nishakubali wewe ni musician, spmetimes you need to take a step back and see that hivi vitu, when it comes to my family havifai. Lakini wewe unaendelea tuu, like I can’t even explain it,” said zari.