Apple brings more than 70 new emoji to iPhone with iOS 12.1
More than 70 new emoji will be coming soon to iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch and Mac, including new characters with red hair, gray hair and curly hair, a new emoji for bald people, more emotive smiley faces and additional emoji representing animals, sports and food. The new emoji are available in today’s developer and public beta previews of iOS 12.1, and will be available in upcoming software updates for iOS, macOS and watchOS.
Emoji are used by people all over the world to communicate. iOS 12.1 brings even more characters to the keyboard that better represent global users, including new emoji for moon cake, red gift envelope and nazar amulet.
Sports fans will celebrate the addition of new emoji for softball, frisbee and lacrosse, while outdoor adventurers will enjoy new characters for luggage, compass and a hiking boot to accompany the existing climbing emoji.
Beautifully designed characters for the llama, mosquito, swan and raccoon, join the kangaroo, lobster, parrot and peacock previewed on World Emoji Day, and bagel and salt join new food emoji for cupcake, leafy greens and mango.
Thousands of emoji are currently available on iOS, watchOS and macOS, including emotive smiley faces, gender-neutral characters, various clothing options, food types, animals, mythical creatures and more. New emoji characters are created based on the approved characters in Unicode 11.0. Apple is working with the Unicode Consortium to add more disability-themed emoji to the keyboard for Unicode 12.0, slated for release in 2019.
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Get ready, Omaha – Facebook is here to give your community a boost. We’re bringing together local leaders, social media gurus, and top Facebook experts for an exciting program designed to turbocharge your small business or non-profit. It’s all happening at Thompson Center At UNO (6705 Dodge St.) and it’s open to the public for free.

Nebraska is home to more than 170,000 small businesses, making up more than 99% of companies in the Cornhusker State. The mix of local colleges, a strong economy, and a reputation for great quality of life make Omaha an incredibly attractive place to start a business and raise a family. Facebook has already invested more than $1 billion in this community with our Papillion data center, a 2.6 million square feet, 100 percent clean energy project. This past March we announced an expansion to be completed between 2020-2023.

Attracting and retaining top talent is perhaps the greatest challenge facing small businesses in Omaha right now. With unemployment below 3 percent, qualified candidates can afford to be picky. Companies need to work even harder and smarter to compete.

When we spoke to the Nebraska small business community about the most important factors when hiring employees, more than 6 in 10 (62%) said an individual’s digital skills were important. More than 3 in 10 (33%) said that Facebook has helped them hire additional employees.

The Facebook Community Boost curriculum is designed to help. We have classes and one-on-one training sessions available for business owners, non-profit leaders, and job seekers. You’ll learn everything from getting started on Instagram to optimizing your content for mobile. On Thursday, we’ll host a “mini” Community Boost at Kaneko (1111 Jones Street).

We hope to see you at one or all of these exciting free events. Register or stay up to date with the latest city announcements, news and program schedules at fbcommunityboost.com.

 

 

 

 

Payments 101, Business Applications of Blockchain, and the Impact of GDPR Courses are now offered on PayKademy

SAN FRANCISCO, California (September 25, 2018) – Building on the runaway success of its initial courses, PayKademy is pleased to announce that four new courses have been added on paykademy.com.

The new courses, which are now open for registration through the PayKademy homepage, include:

- Payments 101 for New Merchants and Payment Processors Entrants

- GDPR—How will it impact your business if you or your clients have customers in Europe?

- Business Applications of Blockchain

- The World is Split, Initiation to Bitcoin, Blockchain and ICOs for Payments Professionals

These courses are delivered globally so students anywhere in the globe can now learn about the complex world of payments, the developments in e-commerce, and the innovations in fintech at the comfort of their homes or their office or while commuting five minutes at a time.

 

Payments 101 gives an overview of the US electronic payments landscape, key players, responsibilities, and the types of payments used for commerce in the US. The course will also point out other topics that are covered in some of the Deep Dive courses that are available on PayKademy, online and on-site. The course on GDPR tackles its significant impact on businesses in the US and around the world, outside the EEA. Business Applications of Blockchain discusses the competitive implications and business opportunities associated with blockchain technology. The course aims to cover the factors and principles that govern the planning, organizing, and managing of a blockchain-based project, company or venture. This will help banks and financial institutions create a good foundation for their strategy and product teams.

 

What makes PayKademy different from other online courses? “Taking our courses is particularly suited to busy or growing companies that can’t afford to send people around. All our courses are split in short lessons that take 1 to 5 minutes each allowing students to learn while on-the-job during breaks, shorter time allocated during the day or even during commute,” Daniel stated.

 

For further information, contact PayKademy

Address               2995 Woodside Road, Suite 400, Woodside, CA 94062

Phone                   +1-650-275-3185

Contact                Alice Moore

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About PayKademy

PayKademy is the first Business School to learn Payments, Commerce, and Fintech. We are partnering with the best active experts in the industry to bring you the skills you need in our competitive and changing space. We are leveraging a special relationship with The BayPay Forum and its network of over 15,000 senior executives that has been for the last few years at the forefront of Innovation in Payments, Commerce, and Fintech.

PayKademy provides online, in-person, onsite and custom courses to businesses that are hiring new recruits, need a refresh of their executive or operations teams, or just want to understand how Payments can be leveraged to create a competitive advantage. We are very thankful to have already some of the biggest names in payments as customers.

If you are teaching Payments, Commerce, or Fintech, contact us so we can discuss how your course could be added on the PayKademy platform.

More details here: https://www.paykademy.com/

 

About  BayPay

The BayPay Forum is an international business network of senior executives focused on Innovation in Payments, Commerce, and Fintech. We bring presentations, panel discussions and thought leadership events, you would normally get at top conferences around the world, close to where people live and work so they can stay informed on the latest trends in our industry and build local and international relationships with other senior executives.

Best known for the quality of its content and its networking, The BayPay Forum has been able to build a network of over 15,000 senior executive members. It has three chapters in the San Francisco Bay area (SF, Silicon Valley, East Bay), and chapters in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Toronto, New York, London, Paris, and Luxembourg. BayPay will continue growing its chapters for the benefit of its members relying on its technology platform that allows local volunteer executives to manage chapters very easily and benefit from the networking in their community and beyond.

Many of our events are now Live Streamed allowing executives to not only hear and see the events but also participate remotely and ask questions to leaders that otherwise would have been very difficult to reach or learn from. The BayPay Forum with its freemium business model can bring value for just one event or many to single individuals or corporations alike.

BayPay offers many sponsorship and corporate membership options to help businesses create awareness of their products and solution within our network of decision makers.

More details here: https://www.baypayforum.com/

By Antigone Davis, Global Head of Safety

Everyone deserves to feel safe on Facebook, and it’s important that we help people who encounter bullying and harassment online. Today, we’re introducing new tools and programs so people can better control unwanted, offensive or hurtful experiences on Facebook.

New Comment Moderation, Reporting, and Appeal Tools

We are giving you more control over how people interact with your posts on Facebook because comments can sometimes be used to bully or harass people. We’re introducing a way for people to hide or delete multiple comments at once from the options menu of their post. This feature is rolling out on desktop and Android and will be available on iOS in the coming months. We are also testing ways to more easily search for and block offensive words from appearing in comments.

Being the target of unwanted attention can be stressful and some people may not feel comfortable reporting a bully or harasser. In other cases, bullying or harassment happens out of sight from victims. If you see a friend or family member being bullied or harassed, now you can report someone on their behalf via the menu above the post that you are concerned about. Once reported, our Community Operations team will review the post, keep your report anonymous, and determine whether it violates our Community Standards.

People will also be able to appeal decisions on cases involving bullying and harassment. Earlier this year we announced a process that allows people to request another review of their photo, video or post that has been taken down for violating our Community Standards for nudity, sexual activity, hate speech or graphic violence. We have now extended these reviews to bullying and harassment violations – this means that if your content has been taken down for bullying or harassment, you will have the opportunity to request another review. And if you’ve reported a piece of content for bullying or harassment, and we don’t take it down after our initial review, you’ll soon be able to ask for a second review if you think we made a mistake.

Better Protections for Public Figures

Our bullying and harassment policies protect private individuals, but we permit open and critical discussion of people who are featured in the news or have a large public audience based on their profession or chosen activities. We’ve talked to people who use Facebook as well as safety experts to find ways we can better protect these public figures from harassment. Earlier this year, we expanded our policies to guard against the harassment of young public figures on Facebook. In the coming weeks, we will further expand our policies to better protect public figures against harassment regardless of age. For example, severe attacks that directly engage a public figure will not be allowed under the new policy. If anyone experiences unwanted behavior on Facebook, they can report the person who is bullying or harassing them, anonymously ignore unwanted messages, and block someone without them being notified.

Partnerships and Education

People around the world participate in Facebook’s online safety and anti-bullying programs, built in partnership with experts and community organizations. We recently introduced a new partnership with the National Parent Teachers Association in the US to facilitate 200 community events in cities in every state to address tech-related challenges faced by families, including bullying prevention. Working with partners, we also offer a peer-to-peer online safety and anti-bullying program to every secondary school in the UK. And we support a program in India that has educated tens of thousands of young people about online safety, thoughtful sharing, and privacy and security.

We hope the additional steps we’re taking will help people who face bullying and harassment on Facebook. We know our job is never done when it comes to keeping people safe, and we’ll continue listening to feedback on how we can build better tools and improve our policies.

Visit our Bullying Prevention Hub to learn more.

Apple adds support for contactless student ID cards in Wallet
iPhone and Apple Watch Make Getting Around Campus Easier Than Ever
Starting today, students at three universities are among the first to enjoy the convenience of using just their iPhone and Apple Watch to get around on and off campus. At Duke University and the Universities of Alabama and Oklahoma, students can now add their ID card to Apple Wallet and use it to pay quickly and easily for laundry, coffee or lunch, and even get into their dorms, the gym or the school library.
“iPhone and Apple Watch have brought us into a new era of mobility, helping to transform everyday experiences,” said Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s vice president of Internet Services. “When we launched Apple Pay, we embarked on a goal to replace the physical wallet. By adding transit, loyalty cards and contactless ticketing we have expanded the capabilities of Wallet beyond payments, and we’re now thrilled to be working with campuses on adding contactless student ID cards to bring customers even more easy, convenient and secure experiences.”
With access to the dorm, dining hall, gym, library and campus events using only their iPhone or Apple Watch, students can now leave their physical wallets behind. Paying for supplies at the bookstore, for laundry or off campus for a meal has never been easier. Simply hold iPhone or Apple Watch near the reader anywhere physical student ID cards are accepted on and off campus.
The ability to add student IDs to Wallet will launch with Duke University, the University of Alabama, and the University of Oklahoma beginning today. Johns Hopkins, Santa Clara and Temple Universities will bring the capability by the end of this school year.
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Shot on iPhone XS: Users share their best
Amateurs and pros alike are taking advantage of the breakthrough 12MP dual camera system on iPhone XS and iPhone XS Max. New features like Smart HDR, advanced bokeh in Portrait mode and the ability to change the depth of field with Depth Control are all huge improvements in state-of-the-art photographic techniques that everyone can use.
These images were pulled from the passionate and talented users who post every day to #ShotoniPhone across social media.
For tips and techniques to help capture great photos and videos on iPhone, visit: apple.com/iphone/photography-how-to/.
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