TechnikNews Weekly # 017: Problems with Instagram, notifications in iOS 12 and more
A SUMMARY of David Haydl 
on June 17, 2018, 17:04 pm | Write a comment
This week was up TechnikNews And not so much going on in the tech world, but I still want to be with the seventeenth TechnikNews Weekly summarize everything briefly. News from this week: Problems with Instagram and WhatsApp, a new app for news and more.
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Instagram down
As of Tuesday of this week, Instagram had a few serversprotrouble. During the affected period of time, the website could not be accessed and the app's feed could not be updated, nor was it possible to post messages and posts. When accessing the website, the error code 5xx also appeared. The entire disruption started at 18:00 p.m., and ended around XNUMX:XNUMX p.m. the same day.
Zenbook UX530UX at school
In my review of the Zenbook UX530UX from Asus, I mentioned that I got this device for school purposes, among other things. This week I published a post in which I made it clear how I use this device exactly for this area.
- Asus Zenbook UX530UX: this is how I use it at school
- Asus Zenbook UX530UX review: my new work machine
Problems with WhatsApp
WhatsApp also struggled with disruptions on Thursday this week. The whole thing started in the morning around 08:20 a.m., around 8:45 a.m. everything worked as usual. No messages or media could be sent or received during this time. Users worldwide experienced this scenario.
New app for news called Newsadoo
Newsadoo is a new app that arose from the collaboration between the publisher 18th Floor Onlinemedia and the marketing agency Pulpmedia. The goal of these two companies: to build the Spotify for news. For this purpose, messages from various relevant sources are bundled with AI in a central location, the app itself. Newsadoo has two different monthly subscription plans. With the free subscription you have access to all content, but you will be confronted with advertising every now and then. With the paid subscription, you can access the content without advertisements.
Currently only RSS feeds are integrated into Newsadoo, which has the disadvantage that you only see news that the various publishers want to have publicly. But for the future they found another way to get the contributions from the various publishers. David explained this and more in detail in his post.
Notifications in iOS 12
Up until now, it was the case in iOS that notifications were displayed in a long list out of order. That should change with iOS 12. All messages in an app or on a specific topic are now grouped. A grouping looks like a stack. In addition to this, the notification settings for messages from an app can be found directly in the notification of an app. The way to the settings of iOS is no longer necessary. Then Apple has revised the "Do not disturb" mode. You can now set the time after which the mode should automatically deactivate, but it is also possible for “Do not disturb” to switch off when you leave your current location. Finally, you can now set your bedtime. During these times, the mobile phone is switched to mute and the lockscreen is given a black background image.
- Notifications in iOS 12: finally organized!
- WWDC 2018: This is the news in iOS 12, watchOS 5, macOS Mojave and tvOS
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