Uber is exploring the use of flying cars. It predicts that “vertical take-off and landing” vehicles “will be an affordable form of daily transportation for the masses.”

Uber Technologies Inc., still in the midst of trying to remake transportation on the ground, is exploring the viability of an aircraft that can take off and land vertically for city use. The ride-hailing giant published a 98-page whitepaper outlining its research titled “Fast-Forwarding to a Future of On-Demand Urban Air Transportation.”

While Uber isn’t planning to build its concept for a helicopter-like vehicle, the San Francisco startup said it would organize a conference to discuss the development of what it calls VTOL, or an aircraft for vertical takeoff and landing. It refers to the nascent flying-car program as Uber Elevate.

Diverging fortunes at Alphabet and Amazon. Google’s parent company beat revenue and profit expectations on the strength of its core search and YouTube businesses, sending shares up modestly. Amazon, on the other hand, fell short of what analysts were expecting, despite growth in its cloud computing unit, sending shares down 5%.

Alphabet reported that revenue hit $22.45 billion during the quarter, a 20% increase from a year earlier, in some part due to advertising buys for the upcoming US presidential election, according to Google CEO Sundar Pichai. The results beat analyst estimates of $22.05 billion for the quarter.

For Amazon, the e-commerce giant’s cloud-computing division continued to grow at a healthy clip in the third quarter, up 55% from a year earlier, according to results released today. Over the last four quarters, the segment has generated $11.1 billion in revenue, though its quarterly growth has been slowing year-on-year since 2015.

While using your laptop or PC you have to make some things up to date. For example, you need to make partitions in your system to find out your data in quick time. If you are using your system or PC without making separate disks, it would be hard enough for you to find your saved data. These partitions just look like new hard drives in the laptop. You can make these partitions according to your desire. These can help you find a different type of data in them. If you have documents related to your office, you can save them in a separate partition. Similarly, your family photos, videos and songs can be saved in the separate partition. This can help you keep your system neat and clean as well. No data would be mix up in such conditions. There are some useful partition applications available in the online stores. Some of them are given below.

1) EaseUS Partition Master Free

EaseUS Partition Magic is on the top of the list because it has some unique specifications. It is used to create new partitions or hard drive on the laptop or PC. It can help to delete or format the whole disk as well. It has the ability to hide partitions. There is an option called ‘copy wizard ‘ that can help you upgrade smaller partitions into large hard drives. This is the best application for Windows 10. This application supports different file systems. It supports up to 4.0 TB of the hard drive. EaseUS Partition Master Free supports

• Recover deleted or lost partitions
• Resize/move partitions, merge partitions, split partition, etc.
• Convert primary partition to logical, logical partition to primary
• Disk & partition copy, upgrade system disk

It is highly recommended one in the online market. It is simple to use and supports multiple languages.  This partition manager is totally free and can be downloaded from online stores or official website.

2) Mini Tool Partition Wizard

This one is another best choice for the users who are suffering from such problems like partitioning. This partition magic free software is famous in doing more tasks apart from deleting, resizing and formatting hard drives. It helps us in the extension of partitions in the system. It offers

• Functionality as it allows to access all the partitions in your laptop
• The recovery of the data from the previously created hard drives or partitions
• Data protection made that helps us to secure our data on the system.

3) AOMEI Partition Assistant

This is another great partition manager for the Windows 10. It supports multiple operating systems like Windows 8.1, 7 and XP. It helps us to resize, delete, format, split or move partitions. It can convert disk between GPT to MBR. This is easy to use as well.

These are some of the partition applications that can be used to keep your system good looking and easy to use. You can download them all from the online stores or their perspective official websites. Keep smiling and have fun!

The United Bank of Africa (UBA) says it has increased deposit that comes to the bank through digital channels to 70 per cent compared to 30 percent it stood a few months ago.

Mr.Yinka Adedeji, the bank’s Divisional Head, Consumer and Digital Banking stated this in a press briefing in Lagos last week.

According to Adedeji, UBA in a quest to be innovative now record over N50 billion monthly transactions by using the Internet and mobile applications. “The volume of transactions on the over 1,800 Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) of the bank in Nigeria is over N100 billion monthly,” he added.

Adedeji also revealed that UBA has entered into an agreement with MyECheck to provide new social commerce payment system called “EmailMoni. The platform allows people and businesses to pay and receive electronic payments securely in a number of easily accessible and convenient ways.

All that is needed is for the user to send and request money instantly using Microsoft Outlook email, or any web mail, and then the money can also be securely requested and sent using Facebook, SMS text and other methods.

The ‘EmailMoni’ application is available on iOS, Apple App Store and for Android on Google Play.

Twitter plans to fire hundreds of workers. It could announce the layoffs before an earnings report on Thursday, Bloomberg reported. The money-losing company’s share price has fallen about 40% in the past 12 months, making it hard to pay engineers with stock, much less compete for talent. Potential buyers of the company, including Alphabet and Salesforce.com, have backed away.

The company may cut about 8 percent of the workforce, or about 300 people, the same percentage it did last year when co-founder Jack Dorsey took over as chief executive officer, the people said. Planning for the cuts is still fluid and the number could change, they added. The people asked not to be identified talking about private company plans.