If you are a BlackBerry Priv user on AT&T’s network, and your device is eligible to receive beta updates, here’s some news for you: a new update has started rolling out that includes Android security fixes for the month of December. Arriving as build AAI020, the update has just begun rolling out, so it may take some time before you get to see the notification on your device’s screen. Meanwhile, if you feel impatient, you can manually check for the update by heading to your handset’s Settings menu. source”cnbc”
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Even as stocks surge, half of Americans are losing out Friday, 9 Dec 2016 | 10:32 AM ET | 01:07 We’ve been making a lot about the fabulous stock market rally. It is fabulous, but now investors crowing over the fabulous market are starting to wonder if something almost unthinkable could happen in 2017: the return of the average investor. Everyone knows we lost a vast swath of the investing public after the 2008 financial crisis, and for the most part they have not come back, even as the stock market has come back. How bad is it? A Gallup poll…
Trump picks fast-food CEO Andy Puzder for Labor secretary Friday, 9 Dec 2016 | 6:14 AM ET | 01:38 Donald Trump’s choice to head the Labor Department is an outspoken immigration supporter whose views seem to clash with the president-elect. With the announcement Thursday that Trump will nominate Andrew Puzder came speculation — and grumbling — that he would favor an open-border policy that would clash with the hard-line talk his potential boss espoused on the campaign trail. An op-ed piece Puzder authored in The Wall Street Journal last yearhelped crystallize his views on the subject. He counseled Republican presidential candidates…
Pupo | LatinContent | Getty Images The British team competes in the Men’s Team Pursuit as part of the UCI Track World Cup at Omnisport Apeldoorn on November 11, 2016 in Apeldoorn, Netherlands. Cycling, Britain’s most successful sport at the Rio de Janeiro Olympic Games, has suffered a 4.29 million-pound ($5.4 million) funding cut in the build-up to the 2020 Games in Tokyo, UK Sport announced on Friday. Four of Britain’s less successful Olympic sports — archery, badminton, fencing and weightlifting — have lost all their funding completely along with the Paralympic sport of wheelchair rugby. Britain’s cyclists won 12…
“If Bharat has to revive its former glory and become one of the first ranking nations, the way ahead is only through such an educational system which will train students to understand that the end of education is character,” says West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi. In picture, West Bengal Governor K N Tripathi (Image source: India TV) RELATED STORIES Delhi HC dismisses international publisher’s plea, upholds Indian Copyright Law J Jayalalithaa passes away: Many universities postpone exams in Tamil Nadu US is most preferred destination for Indian students Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system for all JEE (Mains) 2017 exam centres…
Under the new norms, eligibility for applying for classes six to eight is graduation with 50 per cent marks, for classes nine to ten, it is graduation/PG with 50 per cent marks, and for classes 11 and 12, it is PG with 50 per cent marks. recruitment RELATED STORIES US is most preferred destination for Indian students Aadhaar-enabled biometric attendance system for all JEE (Mains) 2017 exam centres Need to modernise educational facilities to improve results, says Telangana Deputy CM New UGC norms restrain educational institutes from keeping original document of students School timings changed in Noida, Ghaziabad, Lucknow due…
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Microsoft’s Cortana virtual assistant is getting a facelift on iOS and Android aimed at making it more useful for users, and also bringing a bit of brightness to what’s currently a rather dour interface. The app’s biggest change is the launch of a button that lets users quickly choose between a suite of common actions, like viewing their calendar at a glance, checking reminders, or getting a weather forecast. The app itself looks friendlier, with a purple gradient background replacing a stark black, white, and blue color scheme. On top of that, Microsoft also announced on Thursday that the iOS…
With an aim to increase overseas shipments of its smartphones, Chinese smartphone manufacturer Oppo is all set to enter the United States smartphone market by the end of this year, according to a new report. There’s, however, no word on exactly when the company will start selling smartphones in the US, but given that it’s just a few weeks left in the year, an official announcement in this regard – of course, assuming that the report is accurate – is expected sooner than later. Oppo, as some of you might already know, isn’t completely new to the US market in…
Whether you are a fan of Huawei or not, it is hard to deny that the Chinese giant made some pretty big strides on the smartphone flagship scene last month. Of course, we are talking about the Huawei Mate 9, as well as its exquisite Porsche Design sibling. Availability for the pair is still scarce, but does already cover most of Europe, as well as China, Japan, Malaysia, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates, to name a few. However, Huawei is yet to officially bring the Mate 9 to the US market. View image on Twitter Follow Evan Blass ✔@evleaks…