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Friday, 26 March 2021 05:28

FG’s Tech Incubation Centre begins production of LED bulbs, others

Technology Incubation Centre in Ekiti has begun the mass production of energy-saving LED bulbs, the manager of the federal government-owned centre, Fasan Babatola, has said. He said during a media tour of the centre that the production was achieved in collaboration with AB Tech Electronics, one of its 30 entrepreneurs, currently located at the centre where they were currently camped and conducting research to proffer solutions to some of the nation’s problems. According to him, the LED bulbs, which come in both screw and pin forms, are in 3 W, 5 W and 9 W capacities, aimed at addressing energy…

Tuesday, 23 March 2021 05:20

The answer to cancer might be these tiny robots

Cancer treatments have improved dramatically over the past few decades. Many types of cancer have a high survival rate thanks to medical interventions that can slow or stop the growth of tumors and even eliminate them entirely. Despite that, cancer remains the second leading cause of death in the United States, right behind heart disease, and there’s still no go-to cure that is applicable to all or even the majority of cancer cases. It would be great if that changed, and a startup in California thinks that tiny robots might be the answer. The company is Bionaut Labs, and as…

Saturday, 20 March 2021 06:01

WhatsApp down globally; Instagram, Facebook Messenger also

Facebook Messenger, Instagram and WhatsApp seem to be coming back online after suffering global outages for nearly an hour on Friday evening. The three platforms — owned by Mark Zuckerberg — stopped functioning abruptly, leaving millions of users worried. According to downdetector.com, which tracks service outages, 90 percent of Whatsapp users could not connect to the app while some Instagram users also reported that they were unable to log into the platform. Many users also took to Twitter to complain that they saw error alerts when they opened the apps and were unable to send or receive messages. WaBetaInfo, an…

Friday, 12 March 2021 03:25

Google just made a huge announcement, and it’s a game changer for job seekers, employers

In an exclusive interview with Inc., Google provides an inside look at its new certificate programs and a new feature of Google search designed to help job-seekers everywhere. Yesterday, Google announced the next steps in its plan to disrupt the world of education, including the launch of new certificate programs that are designed to help people bridge any skills gap and get qualifications in high-paying, high-growth job fields--with one noteworthy feature: No college degree necessary. The new tools could be a game-changer for a growing number of people who consider the current educational system broken, or for the millions of…

Friday, 12 March 2021 03:24

These Android apps can steal your bank details and take over your phone

Researchers on Tuesday published a serious warning for Android device owners, alerting them to the discovery of eight dangerous apps in the Google Play Store that could have allowed an attacker to take over a victim’s smartphone as well as drain their bank account. That’s according to Check Point Research, which said in its report about the discovery that the cyber threat intelligence firm actually found the apps back on January 27 and notified Google about them the next day. One month ago today, Google confirmed that they’d been removed from the Play Store — but you still need to…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 16:45

UK starts probe on Apple over alleged App Store monopoly

Britain’s competition regulator said on Thursday it has opened an investigation into Apple Inc after complaints that the iPhone maker’s terms and conditions for app developers are unfair and anti-competitive. The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) said the investigation would look into whether Apple has a monopoly in the sale of software on its devices in the UK. Apple’s App Store payment practices have long been a source of contention among app developers. It charges developers a fee of up to 30% of the purchase value or every time a buyer buys their app. Apple has confirmed that it would…

Thursday, 04 March 2021 16:43

Facebook to lift ban on political ads in United States

Facebook Inc said in a blog post on Wednesday that it would lift its temporary ban on political advertisements in the United States on Thursday. The social media giant imposed a months-long ban on political, electoral, and social advertising as part of an attempt to combat disinformation and violations in the run-up to the Nov. 3 elections. Facebook briefly lifted its ad pause in Georgia for the state’s runoff elections in January, but then reinstated it. Following the Jan. 6 siege at the US Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump, Alphabet Inc’s Google restored its own political ad…

Wednesday, 03 March 2021 03:30

The hot new thing in tech: Speaking into your phone

"This is my way to debrief and tell everybody what's going on," she told CNN Business. "It's not like it used to be where I would wait until I was going to see my friends over the course of the next week for drinks or for brunch." For years, Apple and others have offered the option to record short messages and send them via text and chat apps. But the format has gained new appeal for many in the United States during the pandemic as we approach a year of limited opportunities to socialize with friends, family and coworkers. Romina…

Friday, 26 February 2021 05:19

Self-cleaning underwear can allegedly be worn for weeks without becoming smelly

A Minnesota company has created what it calls “the world’s cleanest underwear”, an innovative self-cleaning undergarment that can be worn daily for weeks, even months, without becoming smelly. HercLéon, a material innovation group known for creating the world’s first self-cleaning socks, t-shirts and bedsheets, is now taking on the underwear industry with Kribi, a line of undergarments made from a bacteria-fighting fabric. This revolutionary material, called HercFiber continuously destroys all bacteria and stays clean without needing a wash. All you have to do is let the underwear “air out” for a bit after wearing them, and you can safely put…

Monday, 22 February 2021 05:22

Scientists unearth a consequence of solar panels in the Sahara

A giant solar farm sounds perfect, right? Not quite. The world’s most forbidding deserts could be the best places on Earth for harvesting solar power — the most abundant and clean source of energy we have. Deserts are spacious, relatively flat, rich in silicon – the raw material for the semiconductors from which solar cells are made — and never short of sunlight. In fact, the ten largest solar plants around the world are all located in deserts or dry regions. Researchers imagine it might be possible to transform the world’s largest desert, the Sahara, into a giant solar farm,…

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Friday, 19 February 2021 06:22

NASA rover lands on Mars with mission to search out signs of ancient life

A NASA rover streaked through the orange Martian sky and landed on the planet Thursday, accomplishing the riskiest step yet in an epic quest to bring back rocks that could answer whether life ever existed on Mars. Ground controllers at the space agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, leaped to their feet, thrust their arms in the air and cheered in both triumph and relief on receiving confirmation that the six-wheeled Perseverance had touched down on the red planet, long a deathtrap for incoming spacecraft. “Now the amazing science starts,” a jubilant Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA’s science mission chief, said…

Friday, 19 February 2021 06:03

GPS only exists because of two people: Albert Einstein and Gladys West

Ethan Siegel Over the span of a single lifetime, the world has changed in ways that would have been virtually unimaginable in the first half of the 20th century. Two major breakthroughs that occurred in physics — relativity and quantum physics — suddenly made a number of previously unthinkable endeavors possible. From modern electronics to computers, smart phones, the internet, brain imaging and more, everyday life in 2021 is vastly different from what it was back when many of us were first born. One of those technologies that’s been revolutionary for our society is GPS: the Global Positioning System. From…

Friday, 19 February 2021 05:57

Tired of ‘Zoom University’? This is how remote learning at scale will happen

The rise of “Zoom University” was only possible because edtech wasn’t ready to address the biggest opportunity of the past year: remote learning at scale. Of course, the term encapsulates more than just Zoom, it’s a nod to how schools had to rapidly adopt enterprise video conferencing software to keep school in session in the wake of closures brought on by the virus’ rapid spread. Now, nearly a year since students were first sent home because of the coronavirus, a cohort of edtech companies is emerging, emboldened with millions in venture capital, ready to take back the market. The new…

Thursday, 11 February 2021 04:25

New studies show these two common drugs work against Covid-19

A commonly used asthma treatment appears to reduce the need for hospitalizations and recovery time for Covid-19 patients if given within seven days of symptoms appearing, researchers at the University of Oxford have found. The 28-day study of 146 patients found the inhaled steroid, budesonide, reduced the risk of urgent care, emergency room visits or hospitalization by 90% when compared with usual care. Patients treated at home with budesonide also had a quicker resolution of fever and fewer persistent symptoms. In a report posted on Monday on medRxiv ahead of peer review, the researchers said they undertook the trial because…

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