The Cinderella story is a fantastic fairy tale that draws catharsis giving hope that happy ever afters exists. The story was first aired in nineteen fifty. It told the story of a beautiful young lady. Cinderella suffers under the hands of her mother in law and stepsisters. She faces hard times, but her life changes at the end of the story, when she gets a her happy ever after.

Remember that part where the fairy godmother turns up? That marks a turning point for Cinderella. With the help of her animal friends, Cinderella is dressed. This enables her to attend the dance. With her great appearance, she manages to capture the prince’s eyes. Her fantastic dress captures everyone’s attention, and she dances the night away. Wouldn’t it be nice to own a cinderella dress?

You may need to consider getting yourself or your daughter an amazing girl fantasized Cinderella dress. The dress is not only pretty; it’s also fashionable. It’s said to be one of the most magical designed costumes.

You however don’t have to struggle to get such dresses. Aliexpress gives you a chance to own this magical dress. Here are a few Cinderella dresses that you can find in Aliexpress.

Cinderella Cosplay Dress New Princess Ball Gown.

Make your daughter look like a princess by getting her this fantastic ball gown. It can go well on her birthdays. It also comes packaged with a beautiful pair of gloves, a crown, a necklace and a wig. You choose what you need. It’s of good quality and comes at an affordable price.

Disney Princess Costume for Girls.

You can also get a Cinderella dress that you can wear during winter. It’s long-sleeved and can fit well with the Christmas holiday and Halloween. It’s made of polyester and other quality materials. It also has a lovely flowing cape.

Children Girls Halloween Princess Cinderella Dress.

This is a fantastic high-quality Cinderella dress suitable for Christmas and Halloween. It would also make a lovely gift and how can we forget about those prom nights. With this, you get to walk in as a princess.

 

Summer Baby Girls Princess Dress.

Your baby is also not left out. Your toddler can rock a Cinderella dress too. It goes up to their twelve-year birthday. The dress is made of lovely soft cotton, making it comfortable for your child. It’s affordable, durable and of good quality.

It’s essential to learn to take off your Cinderella dresses. When buying a dress, check on the dress washing instructions. This way, you don’t ruin your clothing, and it lasts longer. Aliexpress helps you further by telling you the best way to wash any dresses bought from their site.

To learn more about Cinderella dresses and chase a dress, visit Aliexpress. It offers a wide range of Cinderella dresses. With Aliexpress, you can shop at the comfort of your home, and all you need is data and your phone or laptop. Aliexpress also delivers these goods to you at an affordable price, and sometimes you can get free deliveries. The site also has customer related policies that ensure you are well covered incase your product has problems.

Yet, payments are still routed through legacy transaction platforms like Visa and SWIFT. These tend to be slow, with transfers sometimes taking a week or more. They are also expensive, with poor exchange rates, fees and fixed charges. As a result, the issue has become a hot topic, especially since the G20 made cross-border payments a priority last year. 

Even with solutions being developed, they are taking their time. However, innovative fintech businesses are reacting faster and are already disrupting the industry. One such company is XanPool and its platform XanPay. 

Using cryptocurrency avoids the cumbersome legacy infrastructure

XanPool leverages the advantages afforded by cryptocurrencies to bypass traditional platforms entirely. Its CEO and co-founder is Jeffery Liu, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur and expert adept at spotting gaps in the fintech market. “We established XanPool to make buying cryptocurrency with fiat currency a lot easier,” Liu explains. 

“Cryptocurrency on and off-boarding typically involves counterparties, like P2P marketplaces and exchanges. Users give custody of their money to these counterparties and can only buy and sell on that platform. This is risky and comes with a lot of fees.

“What makes things worse is that for users to get their money onto the platform, they must deal with the traditional financial infrastructure, like credit cards or SWIFT, which adds yet more expense and slows down the process even further. Cryptocurrencies were invented to avoid legacy infrastructure, so it seemed crazy that buying some meant routing funds this way,” Liu says. 

“So, we set up XanPool. We merged fintech solutions like payment platforms and e-wallets with cryptocurrency and all the advantages that go with it. We created automated market-making software which allows buyers and sellers – liquidity providers – to easily make crypto transactions using e-wallets or bank accounts.

There have been many metaverse cryptocurrency projects that are doing very similar things as Meta but they are doing it in more of a decentralised capacity as their metaverses aren’t controlled by one single entity such as Meta. Due to this, there has been a lot of both Internet and funds poured into this sector as the digital cryptocurrencies are paired with the blockchain VR social platforms and they will have the final word on how things will be governed and overseen in the metaverse sector.

One of the reasons why these VR projects are so popular is due to people having the ability to be anyone they want, and they can do whatever they would like to do inside them. They have an endless set of possibilities and big companies such as Facebook (Meta) are recognizing this as the next evolution of social interaction for the many years to come.

Meta vs Decentralised Metaverse

One of the reasons why people are seeing through the reason for Facebook’s name change to Meta is that they will still be the entity that governs their social platform as they have done previously. This only adds to the ever growing dislike of these conglomerates that seek to maintain the chain of power for themselves rather than share the actual control of the platform with its users. Meta saying they are a metaverse is using the aspect of the illusion of choice for its users, it states that it will be a VR social platform but it doesn’t actually allow its users to decide what they would like it to look like or tolerate during the time they spend on the platform. 

According to a global study from Motorola Solutions, conducted by Goldsmiths, University of London, the pandemic has redefined public expectations for what it means to be safe, and it has accelerated the acceptance and adoption of public safety technology.

Based on the voices of 12,000 citizens and 50 public safety agencies, commercial organizations and experts across 10 worldwide markets, including the United States, the 2021 Consensus for Change report reveals how the global pandemic has sparked a new safety movement.

“Technology has kept us connected, entertained and productive throughout the pandemic,” said Mahesh Saptharishi, Motorola Solutions senior vice president and chief technology officer. “We have also observed the important way it has supported our public safety agencies and commercial industries in delivering their services while keeping us safe.”

Both citizens and public safety leaders are more ready than ever to embrace technology for public safety. An overwhelming 88% of the citizens surveyed said they want to see public safety transformed through the use of advanced technology like video cameras, analytics, cloud-based software and more.

The research identifies three major trends that demonstrate an inflection point in how citizens and organizations are thinking about technology and safety:

1. THE PANDEMIC REDEFINED EXPECTATIONS FOR SAFETY

The global pandemic changed the way citizens think and feel about safety and their expectations for those who provide it. In fact, 68% of those surveyed said the pandemic increased the need for safety technologies, while 71% said advanced technologies were needed to address challenges of the modern world.

In this way, the pandemic created an environment in which agencies are able to demonstrate the potential of advanced technologies to an open and engaged public.

2. THE PANDEMIC ACCELERATED TECHNOLOGY INNOVATION

Many public safety agencies were modernizing their operations through digital technologies well before COVID-19, with benefits including increased safety and efficiency, better data security and more flexible and integrated systems.

However, researchers found that the ways in which agencies are using cloud-based technology, artificial intelligence, video cameras and critical communications solutions are evolving in response to the pandemic. Further, researchers found that public safety agencies are deploying these technologies at far greater speed to counter new risks.

The pandemic also sparked high-velocity innovation, while reconfirming the need for reliable and resilient mission-critical communications. Summarized findings from the report include:

• Broader adoption of cloud technology: The cloud is helping agencies boost their responsiveness and flexibility, as well as supporting decentralized and remote operations. Many have discovered that cloud-based public safety technology, like CommandCentral from Motorola Solutions, can provide more than computing and storage power – it also includes access to networking, databases and sophisticated analytics. Software-based cloud technology has the advantage of being more economical and is easier to keep up to date than on-premise solutions.
• Increased use of video security solutions: Around the world, video security and analytics technologies are being used to identify and address safety risks, increase operational efficiency and reduce the burden on investigators through the application of AI. For example, investigators no longer need to sift through hours of video footage to look for critical incidents or clues. Instead, AI is being used to quickly identify people and objects of interest within large volumes of video content, presenting a filtered set of results for verification by a human. Additionally, police agencies are deploying body-worn video technology to increase transparency, and vehicle license plate analysis has become a critical tool for investigations.
• Greater need for interoperability and data sharing: One common challenge for public safety agencies is a lack of interoperable technology that allows them to communicate with other agencies. Another is disparate and incompatible systems within organizations that don’t communicate with each other. Agencies want more interoperable solutions and greater integration across their technology systems to streamline their workflows and data, increase situational awareness as emergencies unfold and deliver better safety outcomes overall. For example, the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department in California benefited from its sizable and interoperable radio network as the health crisis unfolded and agencies across the county were able to stay informed and efficiently collaborate on emergency response.
• Continued need for resilient communications: Emergency services continue to depend on mission-critical voice communications and hardened land mobile radio infrastructure for resilience and reliability. These communication systems are evolving through integration with other technologies, including mobile broadband. For example, the Boston Police Department extended the reach of its land mobile radio system within 72 hours of the first COVID-19 lockdown by integrating broadband push-to-talk services. This enabled secure voice and data communication for its distributed and remote workforce by connecting radio users on the frontline with employees using smartphones and other devices within their homes.

3. TECHNOLOGY MUST BE INCLUSIVE, FAIR AND UNDERSTOOD

This research reveals that while citizens want authorities to use modern technology to support public safety, they expect it to be incorporated in ways that are transparent, fair and inclusive. The benefits of using these technologies must be easily understood by citizens to build trust, transparency and accountability with the community.

“Transparency is key in public messaging, as is making sure all our community partners have had an opportunity to understand the proposed path forward before the technological solution is purchased and implemented,” said Gary Bell, director of emergency preparedness for Waukesha County, Wisconsin.

Agencies also must ensure they have sufficient protections in place for data security and provide employees with training on the appropriate use of new technologies. For example, the Boston Police Department says a critical success factor in its broadband push-to-talk technology deployment was clear internal communication about how it would be used and its benefits. The department works to provide training and communicate policies before deploying new technology, so its workforce forms a complete understanding of how the tools can be used to their full potential.

The research also highlights some degree of public concern over the use of rapidly evolving technologies, such as AI. More public education is needed to explain the benefits of this type of technology and how, when used responsibly, it can have profound and positive impacts on the safety of a community.

Experts, such as Saptharishi, have said AI should never replace the role of people in critical industries such as public safety.

“One of the most powerful uses of AI technology is to support and enhance human decision-making by eliminating some of the manual and repetitive tasks that we simply don’t have the time or attention span to complete,” Saptharishi said. “For example, AI could quickly sift through many hours of video footage to find a potential criminal suspect, the results of which can be verified by a human who can decide what to do next.”

The gap between safety objectives and technology is closing to help public safety organizations increase engagement and trust, accelerate innovation and develop better solutions for the future. How will your agency invest in these technologies?

About six million Sky routers had a significant software bug that could have allowed hackers to take over home networks, a security company has revealed.

The problem has been fixed – but researchers say it took Sky 18 months to address.

The vulnerability could have affected anyone who had not changed the router’s default admin password.

Sky said an update at such scale took time.

“We take the safety and security of our customers very seriously,” Sky said.

“After being alerted to the risk, we began work on finding a remedy for the problem and we can confirm that a fix has been delivered to all Sky-manufactured products.”

Affected models were:

• Sky Hub 3 (ER110)
• Sky Hub 3.5 (ER115)
• Booster 3 (EE120)
• Sky Hub (SR101)
• Sky Hub 4 (SR203)
• Booster 4 (SE210)

Although, these last two devices came with a randomly generated admin password, which would have made it harder for a hacker to exploit.

In addition, about 1% of routers issued by Sky are not made by the company itself. The relatively few customers who have one of those can now ask for it to be replaced free of charge.

Stealing passwords

The flaw in software code, found by researcher Raf Fini, from Pen Test Partners, would have allowed a hacker to reconfigure a home router simply by directing the user to a malicious website via a phishing email.

And then they could “take over someone’s online life”, stealing passwords for banking and other websites, Pen Test Partner’s Ken Munro told BBC News.

There was no evidence the flaw had been exploited but the delay fixing it was baffling, he said.

“While the coronavirus pandemic put many internet service providers under pressure, as people moved to working from home, taking well over a year to fix an easily exploited security flaw simply isn’t acceptable,” he said.

Child abuse

Anyone with a router should change passwords from the ones set by default, Mr Munro added.

Earlier this year, BBC News discovered an insecure Vodafone router with a default password may have allowed a stranger to take over a couple’s wi-fi and use it to upload illegal images of child abuse to the internet.

The couple faced a police investigation that caused massive disruption to their lives and led to mental health problems.

In May, consumer watchdog Which? warned millions of routers that had missed several years of critical security updates, making them ripe for exploitation by hackers, remained in use in the UK.

Apple has announced a “self-service repair” programme so “customers who are comfortable” can fix their own devices.

At launch, in early 2022 in the US, it will cover replacing the batteries, screens and cameras of recent iPhones.

But Apple’s new repair store will sell more than 200 parts and tools.

It comes after months of increasing pressure on Apple from the grassroots right-to-repair movement, which wants individuals and independent repair shops to be able to fix electronics.

“Self Service Repair is intended for individual technicians with the knowledge and experience to repair electronic devices,” Apple said.

But “for the vast majority of customers” visiting a certified professional repair shop would be a better option.

“Creating greater access to Apple genuine parts gives our customers even more choice if a repair is needed,” Apple chief operating officer Jeff Williams said.

“By designing products for durability, longevity, and increased repairability, customers enjoy a long-lasting product that holds its value for years,” the company said.