Woolworths Rewards Cards Can Now Be Added to the Wallet App in Australia

Woolworths customers in Australia who have a Woolworths rewards card can now add their cards to the Wallet app to make it easier to earn and use rewards points when checking out. Apple added a mention of the new Woolworths Rewards option to its Apple Pay website today, and the feature is outlined on the Woolworths website. Woolworths customers can open the Wallet app and scan their cards using

Target stores can order your items online if they’re out of stock

The retail chain has been testing the feature since the spring, and expects it to be in wide use in time for holiday shopping. Is this always going to be a huge time saver? Probably not. However, it may give you a bit of a break if you’re exasperated and just want to know that sweater you were looking for is on its way to your home. There are some subtler upgrades that have rolled out recently.

Catalonia’s long push for independence | News

Catalonia has dominated international headlines in recent weeks in the wake of a banned referendum on splitting from Spain. Yet, the region in northeast of Spain, which has its own language and distinct customs, has a long history of striving for independence. One of Spain’s wealthiest region, Catalonia today accounts for 15 percent of Spain’s population and 20 percent of its economic output.

Waiting in Line for iPhone X? Check Out These Tips

With iPhone X delivery estimates now at five to six weeks for all carriers, colors, and capacities, customers who want an iPhone X but didn’t pre-order will need to wait until well into December to get their hands on one of the new devices. There’s still one way to get an iPhone X on launch day – waiting in line. Apple says there will be iPhone X models available for walk-in purchases, but if

You won’t have to pay to win in ‘Battlefront II’ after all

Essentially, what the development team has done is removed a good deal of the “pay to win” criticisms lobbed at it by making sure you can’t access stuff like Epic Star Cards (high value power-ups) from crates. “To help keep everyone on a level playing field, these Star Cards will primarily be available through crafting, with the exception of special Epic Star Cards available through pre-order,

Rohingya crisis: Inter-faith events push for peace | Myanmar News

Yangon, Myanmar – As the sun set and shops and offices closed for the day, Maha Bandoola park started to fill with people.  Some were here on Tuesday to enjoy the green grounds, a small refuge from the noise and chaos of downtown Yangon. But many more arrived for an inter-faith prayer event organised by the ruling party, the National League for Democracy (NLD), held outside the City Hall

‘Several fatalities’ after driver plows New York crowd | USA News

US police say a vehicle has been driven into a bicycle path in New York City, causing “several fatalities and numerous” injuries. The New York City fire department confirmed to Al Jazeera that at least six people were killed and 15 wounded in the incident on Tuesday at Lower Manhattan. The city’s police department said on Twitter that one vehicle had struck another, then the driver “got out

Gulf crisis: IMF warns of weakened medium-term growth | Qatar News

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned longer term economic growth could weaken in the Gulf region if a months-long diplomatic crisis remains unresolved. In a report published on Tuesday, the global financial institution said that while the rift has a “limited impact” on current growth, Qatar and its blockading neighbours face a “broader erosion of confidence” from investors. “A

Murder of Berta Caceres part of calculated plot: report | Honduras News

Honduran authorities have evidence implicating high-level business executives and state agents in the murder of prominent human rights activist Berta Caceres, but have yet to arrest them, a damning new report by a team of international lawyers says. The report, released on Tuesday morning, also says there have been serious flaws in the government’s investigation into the March 2016 murder of

iPhone X Won’t Be Available to Walk-In Customers at Apple Stores in Belgium or France on Launch Day

Apple recently confirmed that the iPhone X will be available for walk-in customers to purchase at its retail stores when the device launches Friday, November 3, but that will not be the case in two European countries. Due to anti-terrorism restrictions, Apple will not be selling the iPhone X to customers without a pre-order or pickup reservation in Belgium or France. The news was first reported

Google’s Fast Pair feature starts arriving on non-Pixel Android phones

In the avalanche of news that was Google’s Pixel 2 event last month, the company kind of glossed over the Fast Pair feature. Understandably so — it had a lot to get through at the event. And besides, it was far from the coolest thing about the company’s new Pixel Buds headphones (that title goes to the Babelfish-esque real-time translation feature). The feature is similar to what Apple offers up

Apple releases iOS 11.1 with shiny new emojis

New emojis. Do you need to hear anything else? Apple just released an iOS update. iOS 11.1 is the first feature update for iOS 11. It adds a couple of new things, starting with dozens of new emojis. Apple already previewed some of the new emojis, but they are now available to everyone. It includes mythical creatures, such as wizards, fairies, mermaids and vampires. There are some new activities,

Juchitan celebrates Day of the Dead after earthquake | News

Juchitan, Mexico – The only room left standing in Mariano Lopez’s home after last month’s deadly earthquake in southern Mexico was a small bedroom. Lopez and his wife, Isabel Jimenez, have since had to move in with relatives, but over the last few weeks, have visited their Juchitan home to turn the remaining corner into a “biguie'” or an altar for Jimenez’s mother, Guillermina, who died in March

Rylo’s 360-degree camera lets you decide what shots you want later

Rylo has two 208-degree wide-angle lenses that capture your entire surroundings in 4K resolution. Its stabilization technology even allows you to carry the camera while shooting and still get a smooth image. To edit your video, plug it into your iPhone and use the companion app to easily find what frames you want to include in your HD video or alternatively, download the whole thing for a fully

Alas, Astropad’s ‘Camera Button’ was too cool for Apple

Astropad’s forthcoming Luna display adapter and software turns your iPad into a wireless, essentially lag-free monitor for your Mac – and the company wanted to make it even cooler by including a clever hack that turned the iPad’s mostly useless front-facing camera into a software button. But, unsurprisingly, Apple has nixed the feature by rejecting the update which included the functionality

When police officers rape | Sexual assault

On Monday, New York police officers Eddie Martins and Richard Hall pleaded not guilty to charges of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old woman in September. The victim, Anna Chambers, accused the two plain-clothes NYPD narcotic detectives of kidnapping, sexual assault, and rape. She says that on September 15, after she was arrested for possession of cannabis and an anti-anxiety drug, the officers

Raila Odinga: Kenya election rerun ‘must not stand’ | Kenya News

Kenya’s opposition leader has said his coalition will not accept the result of last week’s controversial presidential election rerun, vowing to embark on a political campaign to “restore democracy in the country”. Raila Odinga made the comments on Tuesday, one day after President Uhuru Kenyatta was declared the winner of the October 26 poll.  Kenyatta took 98.2 percent of the votes, according to

Unroll.Me brings its email management app to Android

Android users will now be able to battle junk mail and manage their email subscriptions using the new Android app from Unroll.Me. To be clear, anyone with a smartphone could get the benefits of the service already. You just had to connect you email account, then use Unroll.Me’s features to unsubscribe to the emails you didn’t want and roll-up the rest into a single daily digest. However, CEO

Nintendo Says Super Mario Run Has Yet to Reach ‘Acceptable Profit Point’ Nearly One Year After Launch

Nintendo yesterday held its quarterly earnings report [PDF], launching off with details of its “Smart-Device Business” and telling investors how things have been going for Super Mario Run and Fire Emblem Heroes, while detailing the upcoming launch of Animal Crossing: Pocket Camp. Although Fire Emblem Heroes is on track to meet the company’s “overall profit objectives,” Super Mario Run appears to

Canadian sues over wines labelled ‘Product of Israel’ | Canada News

A Canadian university lecturer and radio broadcaster has filed a suit in federal court challenging the inaccurate labelling of wines made in illegal Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank and exported to Canada as a “Product of Israel”. David Kattenburg, a 62-year-old Winnipeg resident and son of Holocaust survivors, had previously submitted a complaint in late March to the Canadian Food

Why Palestine activists want a UK apology over Balfour | UK News

In the summer of 2014, an Israeli drone strike in Gaza ended Huda Mohammad’s life, along with her two children, husband, and mother-in-law. News of her death during the 50-day-long bombardment of the besieged territory reached Adie Mormech a week later when a mutual friend told him on Facebook. Just two years earlier Mormech, a resident of the northern English city of Manchester, had counted

Waymo cars won’t ask for human help during emergencies

Testers napped, put on make-up and used their phones on the road. In other words, they’d lost context of where their car was going or how fast it was and would’ve been taken by surprise if they were suddenly given control of the vehicle in dangerous situations. Waymo has been working on ditching the handoff feature since then to allow “passengers to stay passengers.” The latest version of

Ousted Catalonia leader Puigdemont ‘not seeking asylum’ | Spain News

Deposed Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont said ousted Catalan officials will stand in the December 21 elections imposed by Madrid, and that they will respect the outcome. The sacked regional president arrived at Brussels Press Club for a news conference on Tuesday, amid speculation he and his ministers would seek political asylum in Belgium, which he said was not their intent. “On Friday, after

Review of Apple’s iPhone X at Disneyland

Alan Dye, who was responsible for leading the software design teams that had to decide how to handle the sensor package, says that it felt the most honest. “We’ve got this amazing True Depth camera system packed into this space at the upper center of the display. And we thought a lot about how to design for that. And ultimately we felt really comfortable with this notion of being really honest

Firefox 58 to Block Canvas Browser Fingerprinting By Default to Stop Online Tracking

Do you know? Thousands of websites use HTML5 Canvas—a method supported by all major browsers that allow websites to dynamically draw graphics on web pages—to track and potentially identify users across the websites by secretly fingerprinting their web browsers. Over three years ago, the concern surrounding browser fingerprinting was highlighted by computer security experts from Princeton

Latch touts first deliveries via NY Jet.com smart access tie-up

In July b2b smart access startup Latch announced a partnership with ecommerce platform Jet.com to install 1,000 of its smart locks on residential apartment buildings in New York. It’s now announced the first “secure, unattended deliveries” enabled by the installations. Writing in the customary Medium post, co-founder Luke Schoenfelder says Latch-enabled unattended deliveries kicked off on Monday

WhatsApp Starts Letting Users Delete Messages After They’ve Been Sent

WhatsApp is currently rolling out the ability to delete and revoke messages after they’ve been sent. The function has been in testing as a hidden feature in several earlier versions of the mobile chat app, but is officially going live this week. Going forward, WhatsApp users will be able delete messages from conversations and group chats up to seven minutes after they’ve tapped the send button,

Civilians killed in air strike on Libyan city of Derna | Libya News

At least 17 people have been killed and more than 30 wounded in an air strike in Libya’s eastern city of Derna, a medical official has told Anadolu news agency. An official at Al-Huraish State Hospital in Derna, who declined to be named, said on Monday that a “state of emergency” was declared at the medical facility and a call for blood donations was made as the dead and wounded were rushed to

Singapore bans Mufti Menk from entering country | Singapore News

Singapore has banned Mufti Ismail Menk, a renowned Islamic preacher, from entering the city-state, with the government contending that his views promote religious discord. Menk, a Zimbabwean preacher with more than two million followers on Twitter, and Haslin bin Baharim, a Malaysian scholar, were barred from entering Singapore to give lectures on a religious-themed cruise scheduled for late

Apple might build its next iPhone without Qualcomm chips

After years of using Qualcomm’s chips in its hardware, Apple began embracing Intel in the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus. And, both companies’ components again made the cut on the iPhone 8 and 8 Plus. Yet, there’s still time for Apple to change its mind and make amends with Qualcomm — it has until until three months prior to the expected September launch of next year’s iPhone to switch suppliers. The

What happened to Catalonia can’t happen to Scotland | Scotland

Since the Catalan government’s decision to stage a referendum on independence on October 1, there has been much comment on the rise of separatist movements across Europe. European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker warned that the EU could not accommodate 95 member states. Alarm has been expressed about the contagion effect of Catalonia on other stateless nations striving to establish

Iraq’s second army: Who are they, what do they want? | ISIS News

For almost two years, US-backed Iraqi government forces, along with Kurdish Peshmerga forces and other allies, fought to push ISIL fighters out of the country. One of the key actors, who played a major role in the campaign declared by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, were Shia-dominated paramilitaries. Roughly 63 factions make up Iraq’s Popular Mobilisation Forces (PMF, also known as PMU) –

Samsung posts another record profit thanks to its chips business

Samsung posted another record quarter, and it again has its components business to thank for more stellar results. The Korea tech giant shrugged off scandals, which include a jail sentence for its de factor leader and last year’s Note 7 saga, to record a 14.53 trillion won ($12.92 billion) profit for the recent Q3 2017 period. Revenue came in at 62.05 trillion won ($55.18 billion), up 30 percent

Apple Considering Eliminating Qualcomm Chips From Next Year’s iPhones and iPads

Amid an escalating legal battle with Qualcomm, Apple is designing its 2018 iPhones and iPads without Qualcomm LTE chips, reports The Wall Street Journal. Apple is instead considering using only modem chips from Intel and perhaps MediaTek in its next-generation devices. Qualcomm is allegedly withholding software that Apple needs to test LTE chips in its iPhone and iPad prototypes, necessitating

Facebook exposed 126 million Americans to Russia-linked pages

There’s more beyond that. Facebook also deleted over 170 Russia-linked Instagram accounts that had made about 120,000 posts, and it had discovered security threats against politicians that stemmed from APT28, the hacking team regularly connected to Russian military intelligence. Facebook was quick to downplay the volume of Russian posts in its testimony. There were over 11 trillion total posts

No, iPhones don’t have a special folder for your sexy pics

It’s understandable when things change as fast as they do these days that it takes a bit for our ideas of how things work to catch up to how they actually work. One misunderstanding worth clearing up, since it’s so sensitive, is the suggestion that Apple (or Google, or whoever) is somewhere maintaining a special folder in which all your naughty pics are kept. You’re right to be suspicious, but

Greek gym mixes Muay Thai and anti-fascism |

Greeks anti-fascists believe that one’s politics is and must be present in all aspects of life. That is how the White Tiger Muay Thai camp was born four years ago. It is a place where trainees get taught martial arts, but also one where their anarchist and anti-authoritarian beliefs are welcome and fostered. This week we’re taking you on a trip to Greece’s capital, Athens. To be more precise,

International cricket returns to Pakistan | Pakistan

The sense of excitement was palpable on this warm, smoggy evening as cricket fans queued for hours outside Gaddafi Stadium in Pakistan’s Lahore. Despite the long lines, people of all ages waited patiently for their security cards to be checked before entering the stadium to watch the highest-profile international cricket match in eight years. In 2009, the bus of the Sri Lankan national team was

Instagram Makes Stories Previews More Prominent, Tests Stop-Motion Camera

Instagram today told TechCrunch that it is now featuring Instagram Stories more prominently with a larger preview box located between Instagram posts. The Stories preview box now features a tiled design that’s much more noticeable when scrolling through an Instagram feed. Previously, the mid-feed box looked similar to the smaller Stories bar at the top of the feed, which Instagram says it does

US forces capture suspect in 2012 Benghazi attack | Libya News

US special forces have captured a Libyan man accused of playing a role in a deadly attack on a US diplomatic compound in the city of Benghazi five years ago, according to the White House. Mustafa al-Imam, who was captured in Libya on Sunday, “will face justice in the United States”, US President Donald Trump said in a statement on Monday. The September 2012 attack on the US consulate in Libya’s

Bahrain to boycott summits attended by Qatar: king | Bahrain News

The king of Bahrain has said his country will not take part in any summit or meeting attended by Qatar unless Doha “corrects its approach”, as a major diplomatic crisis in the Gulf nears its five-month mark. Bahrain, along with Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt, cut ties with Qatar on June 5 and imposed a land, sea and air embargo, accusing it of supporting “terrorism”. Doha has

Valkyrie’ studio is shutting down its VR department

In an interview, CCP CEO Hilmar Veigar Pétursson noted the company would close its Atlanta office and transition its projects to the company’s offices in Reykjavík and London. Some of the 100 laid off employees will be offered relocations to the London offices, CCP said in a statement emailed to Engadget. CCP isn’t shutting down EVE: Valkyrie, instead selling the team off wholesale. In a forum

Venezuela’s opposition suffers ‘deep political crisis’ | Venezuela

Venezuela’s opposition is facing a “deep political crisis”, analysts say, as fractures within the coalition have emerged following the surprise loss in this month’s regional elections. Four out of five opposition governors in Venezuela accepted their elected posts last week in defiance of the opposition Democratic Unity Coalition (MUD).  The four opposition politicians broke with the official

Instagram injects 2X bigger Stories previews mid-feed

Instagram Stories is doing so well, the app wants to ensure you don’t just scroll by its Snapchat clone. Instagram confirms to TechCrunch that it has redesigned its mid-feed re-engagement box for Stories to show preview tiles of people’s slideshows that are twice as big as the Stories bar atop the feed. The box appears slotted between traditional permanent posts part way down the feed. For now,

Samsung’s Gear IconX earbuds find life outside the gym

Far and away the question I get asked the most when I’m wearing a pair of AirPods is: do they stay in? It’s a fair question, and for the answer is, yes, but probably not for everyone. I like the wireless earbuds quite a bit, but they suffer the same issue as practically every Apple headphone before them — the hard plastic design is a bit unforgiving for different sized ears. I haven’t had an

Creator of ‘Remotizer’ Keyless Entry System Sues Apple for Selling HomeKit-Enabled August Smart Lock

Texas resident Mark Kilbourne has filed a lawsuit against Apple in Southern Texas for selling the HomeKit-enabled August Smart Lock. The complaint claims that the August Smart Lock infringes upon his patented Remotizer keyless entry system for existing deadbolt locks. For selling the product, Apple is somehow being targeted here rather than August. Kilbourne allegedly submitted a Remotizer app

Seven Palestinians killed as Israel hits Gaza tunnel | News

At least seven Palestinians have been killed after Israeli forces targeted a tunnel in a southern town of the besieged Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian officials. Ashraf al-Qidra, spokesperson for the ministry of health in Gaza, said that nine others were also wounded in the attack on Khan Yunis town and were taken to the nearby al-Aqsa Hospital for treatment. The ministry officially

Wait, Do You Really Think That’s A YouTube URL? Spoofing Links On Facebook

While scrolling on Facebook how you decide which link/article should be clicked or opened? Facebook timeline and Messenger display title, description, thumbnail image and URL of every shared-link, and this information are enough to decide if the content is of your interest or not. Since Facebook is full of spam, clickbait and fake news articles these days, most users do not click every second

Square announces the Register, a $999 point-of-sale device for larger businesses

Square is expanding its hardware lineup with a new point-of-sale device called the Square Register. Square’s Head of Software Jesse Dorogusker explained that while the company’s existing products incorporate existing hardware (the Square Stand, for example, turns an iPad into a POS stand), the Square Register is “totally integrated — our hardware, our software, all in the box, all by Square.”

Uhuru Kenyatta wins controversial Kenyan poll rerun | Kenya News

Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta has been re-elected in a presidential poll rerun that was marred by violence and a boycott by the main opposition coalition, electoral officials said. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) on Monday said Kenyatta won 98.2 percent of the votes cast in the October 26 election, according to results from 265 out of 290 constituencies, plus