Electricity generation in the country plunged to 3,456 megawatts on Tuesday, losing 1,108MW in one week, according to latest data obtained by our correspondent on Wednesday. Total power generation dropped from 4,564.60MW as of 6.00am on February 19 to 3,456.20MW on February 24, a day after the presidential and National Assembly
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If you're frustrated by automatic updates on your Windows PC, you're not the only one. A new study has found that a sizable number of Windows 10 Home Edition users have witnessed their computer 'reboot unexpectedly' at the time of a software update. Windows users have long complained about Microsoft's forced updates
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A US appeals court on Tuesday upheld a lower court ruling that wireless and satellite TV provider AT&T’s deal to buy content maker Time Warner for $85.4 billion was legal under antitrust law. The three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia ruled unanimously in favor
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The humanoid, powered by artificial intelligence, has appeared in kindergartens across China to teach pupils as the country faces a serious shortage of teachers. According to Bingo, one of the first robotic kindergarten teachers in the country, has been designed to specialise in various subjects. from science to English to golf,
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A new way of protecting concrete from fire damage using materials recycled from old tyres has been successfully tested by researchers at the University of Sheffield. The team used fibres extracted from the textile reinforcement commonly embedded into tyres to guarantee their performance. Adding these fibres to the concrete mix was
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North Carolina State University researchers have developed a fiber that combines the elasticity of rubber with the strength of a metal, resulting in a tougher material that could be incorporated into soft robotics, packaging materials or next-generation textiles. "A good way of explaining the material is to think of rubber bands
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It's hard to believe that a tiny crack could take down a gigantic metal structure. But sometimes bridges collapse, pipelines rupture and fuselages detach from airplanes due to hard-to-detect corrosion in tiny cracks, scratches and dents. A Northwestern University team has developed a new coating strategy for metal that self-heals within
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Unhappy with the life of your smartphone battery? Thought so. Help could be on the way from one of the most common, yet poorly understand, forms of power generation: static electricity. "Nearly everyone has zapped their finger on a doorknob or seen child's hair stick to a balloon. To incorporate this energy into
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Telecommunications operators providing mobile broadband services in the country are focusing much on penetration without efforts on speed of broadband evident in Nigeria’s lag in broadband speed report. Broadband is associated with speed as against narrow band. The neglect of speed aspect of broadband provision has resulted in the country occupying
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Robots have walked on legs for decades. Today’s most advanced humanoid robots can tramp along flat and inclined surfaces, climb up and down stairs, and slog through rough terrain. Some can even jump. But despite the progress, legged robots still can’t begin to match the agility, efficiency, and robustness of humans
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