A major iPhone shakeup, 5G, and even more bitcoin are on the horizon Lance Ulanoff Jan 3 Credit: Malte Mueller/Getty A year ago, I picked  seven technologies  that would play significant roles in 2018. Some of my predictions were correct, and some of them reappear on this list — 5G hasn’t quite happened yet, but we’re getting closer. As George Saville, the 17th-century English statesman and essayist, once wrote, “The best qualification of a prophet is to have a good memory.” It’s a fancy way of saying the past is prologue, and no vision for the near-future is possible without analyzing past trends. That’s what I’ve done to concoct these informed guesses about the state of tech in 2019. Of course, there are bound to be surprises and off-base prognostications. Don’t sue me if things go a bit differently than expected. 1. Cryptocurrency Bitcoin opened 2018 at almost $17,000 in value and exited at under $4,000. This does not mean ...

How to keep social media apps from stealing your time through triggers and habit replacement Megan E. Holstein Dec 14, 2018 Photo Credit T he average person spends over 4 hours a day on their phone . That’s 28 hours a week.  That’s a part-time job  — hell, it’s almost a full-time job. But that’s just the average American. What about you? How much time do you spend on your phone a week? Go ahead and check right now. It only takes a few minutes; I’ll wait. (Here are instructions on how to do so for  iPhone  and  Android ). Since it’s only fair, I’ll share how much time I spend on my phone in a week as well: The top number is crossed out for one important reason: I don’t count time using Google Maps toward my screen time. I use Google Maps to check traffic during my work commute, and this is not the sort of phone use which contributes to my unhappiness as a person. It represents a majority of the time spent on my phone, so I choose to exc...

wanted Boko Haram terrorist has been arrested by gallant troops of 7 Division Garrison. The troops nabbed the jihadist while carrying out cordon and search operations in conjunction with troops of 195 Battalion, Mobile Policemen and CJTF, in some parts of the fringes of Maiduguri on Friday. According to an army statement signed by Brigadier General Sani Kukasheka Usman, the terror group member called Babagana Abubakar (aka Alagarno), was hiding at Bulabulim Ngarnam community. READ ALSO:  Troops Dislodge Boko Haram From Baga, Other Areas The army spokesman said Abubakar was found hiding in a room in possession of 2 military Ballistic helmets, a pair of military desert boot, a fragment jacket, a Jersey pull over, military backpack, camouflage design shorts, 2 voters identification cards, National identification card, amulets, camouflage T-shirts and military jungle hat. “He has since been moved out of the area for further interrogation,” the statement read in parts....

Daniel Colin James Apr 24, 2017 Google made almost all its money from ads. It was a booming business — until it wasn’t. Here’s how things looked right before the most spectacular crash the technology industry had ever seen. The crumbling of Google’s cornerstone Search was Google’s only unambiguous win, as well as its  primary source of revenue , so when Amazon  rapidly surpassed Google  as the top product search destination, Google’s foundations began to falter.  As  many noted  at the time, the online advertising industry experienced a major shift from search to discovery in the mid-2010s. While Google protected its monopoly on the dying search advertising market, Facebook — Google’s biggest competitor in the online advertising space — got on the  right side of the trend  and dominated online advertising with its in-feed native display advertising. The people who turned to Amazon over Google?  The 18–29 crowd...