Hashtag Trend October 4 Add vaccine passport to iPhones in Alberta; encryption platform crash; Google is ending support for IE

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Some Albertans can add their vaccine passports to their Apple devices, the encryption platform accidentally sent its users $ 90 million, and Internet Explorer is losing support from Google.

It’s all the tech news that’s all the rage right now, welcome to Hashtag Trending! It’s Monday October 4th and I’m your host, Tom Li.

On October 1, Alberta rolled out its QR code vaccine passports, and some users are reporting they can already add it to the Apple Health app. The functionality of integrating vaccine passports with Apple devices came with iOS 15, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system. With it, users can upload their QR code or official proof of vaccination PDF into the Apple Health app or their Apple Wallet. The objective is to increase the reliability of documents, as well as to increase their shareability between third-party applications. Note that although Alberta is already rolling out its scannable QR code, the app to scan them will be released in the coming weeks. Also, it looks like the QR code can only be added to the Apple Health app and not Apple Wallet, at least not yet.

The crypto platform Compound accidentally sent $ 90 million worth of Ethereum assets to its users. Although the company has traced where all the tokens went, its CEO is asking recipients to return them voluntarily. As an incentive, the company says wrong recipients will be able to keep 10% of the transfer as a white hat fee. Otherwise, the company threatens to report the transactions as income to the IRS and have its users doxed, meaning they have their personal information. Unsurprisingly, the announcement drew a lot of criticism and the CEO later retracted the statement, calling it a rash approach. Still, honesty seems to prevail as funds are slowly coming back. Aside from the loss of the White Hat Fee, it is not clear exactly how much Compound will be able to recover.

With only eight months of life remaining, Internet Explorer is increasingly losing support for critical services. As Android Police points out, when users open the Google search engine from Internet Explorer, they come across a stripped-down version of the service. In addition to being able to perform only basic search functions, the sleek and rounded user interface is replaced by blocky elements. A Google engineer explained that with the browser pretty much already dead, there’s no point in continuing to support it. Still, Google has yet to fully flip the switch, but once Microsoft drains Internet Explorer completely on June 15, 2022, expect even more downgrades of more apps.

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