The Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC) on Wednesday said the Independence Building in Lagos would soon be concessioned under a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) agreement. The commission’s Director-General, Mr Chidi Izuwah, made this known while addressing newsmen after inspecting the dilapidated building in Lagos Island. The Independence Building is a 25-storey
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The US Trade and Development Agency has commended the management of Eko Petrochem and Refinery Company Limited for the level of work done so far on the refinery. The acting Director, USTDA, Mr Thomas Hardy, gave the commendation during a project inspection of the 20,000-barrel-per-day capacity modular refinery located at Tomaro
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Alphabet Inc.’s Google said Tuesday it was launching a global advisory council to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. The council, which is slated to publish a report at the end of 2019, includes technology experts, digital ethicists, and people with public policy backgrounds, Kent Walker, Google’s
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In 2004, Geoffrey Hinton doubled down on his pursuit of a technological idea called a neural network. It was a way for machines to see the world around them, recognize sounds and even understand natural language. But scientists had spent more than 50 years working on the concept of neural networks,
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The Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), has decried false declaration, deliberate importation of sub-standard goods, lamenting that importation of goods without conformity with the offshore SONCAP process were still very much in practice. Speaking at a one day sensitisation workshop on “Ethics and Integrity in Shipping Trade” held in conjunction with Nigeria Shippers Council (NCS),
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If you found a plane in the woods, what would you imagine? Is this the wreck of a mysterious plane crash? Or an old plane graveyard? If it happens to be in Hillsboro, Oregon, then that’s just the not-so-humble abode of Bruce Campbell, a retired electrical engineer and very inventive
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When you hear "magnetoreception" for the first time, it seems like a word best applied to superheroes — though, in reality, it's the superpower of lobsters, migratory birds, salmon and algae. But could it also be the superhuman ability of ... well, humans? Earth is, among other things, a humongous magnet (which is
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Different stakeholders in the Nigerian electricity industry on Wednesday disagreed over request presented to the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission by the Transmission Company of Nigeria to end the era of monopoly of electricity distribution by Distribution Companies. At a public hearing in Abuja, TCN Managing Director, Mr Usman Mohammed, said that the
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How much do you know about architecture? How about architecture you can see through? The architects who designed these structures will blow you away with the buildings they created –- from glass. The National Grand Theater of China or the Bird’s Egg, is an opera house in Beijing. The titanium and
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