Enhanced Entry Point Engineers In the Public Service (Ref: CS0015)
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New Online Platform Equals Skills Needed For Future Jobs With Employers
Serial tech entrepreneur Madoda Khuzwayo has developed Hiring.ly, an online job portal designed to give employers a platform to source, track and manage talent recruitment. Hiring.ly seeks to set itself apart through matching eligible candidates & employers through a range of psychometric, cognitive & aptitude filters to improve employers chances of
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A Glass Battery That Keeps Getting Better: Is Battery Capacity To Store Energy Increases With Age?
A prototype solid-state battery based on lithium and glass faces criticism over claims that its capacity increases over time Is there such a thing as a battery whose capacity to store energy increases with age? One respected team of researchers say they have developed just such a technology. Controversy surrounds their claims,
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Google Maps Now Shows Speed Limits In More Than 40 Countries
Almost six years after Google’s purchase of the Waze navigation app, one of the features previously exclusive to the latter now appears to be a staple of Google Maps in more than 40 countries around the world. Google has confirmed to various tech outlets that its own Maps application is now
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Uber Banning Users With Low Ratings: How To Improve Your Rating
In the hopes of making its service safer for both passengers and drivers, Uber has announced that it will ban users with low ratings It’s the go-to transport service for many people, but Uber could soon no longer be an option for some users. In the hopes of making its service safer
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Scientists Discover New ‘Forbidden’ Planet Hiding In Neptunian Desert
The planet is smaller than Neptune but around three times the size of Earth, and was discovered by researchers from the University of Warwick Scientists have discovered a new ‘Forbidden’ planet , hiding in the mysterious Neptunian Desert. The exoplanet is smaller than Neptune but around three times the size of Earth,
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Mainone Deploys 2,700km Fibre Optic To Boost Lagos Smart City Initiative
Lagos State may still be the first state in Nigeria to implement full scale smart city initiative, as technology company and submarine broadband cable investor, MainOne, has boosted its efforts with a whopping 2700km length of fibre optic coverage. The company also hopes to inject about N25 billion into the project,
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Electric Car Owners Are Risking Death By Charging Their Vehicle From Home –Experts
A shocking survey has found that 74 per cent of electric car owners who charge their vehicles at home are risking electrocution and fires. Most dangerous are the practices of 'daisy-chaining' - plugging sockets on top of each other to cover longer distance - experts say. The practice is widespread despite nine
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Radar Can See Through Walls, Knows How You’re Feeling
Modern wireless tech isn’t just for communications. It can also sense a person’s breathing and heart rate, even gauge emotions When I was a boy, I secretly hoped I would discover latent within me some amazing superpower—say, X-ray vision or the ability to read people’s minds. Lots of kids have such dreams.
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Creating A Better Online Experience For Billions Is Just A Fix Away–Don Hollander
Code that makes network applications compliant with universal-acceptance standards is an easy way to build a more inclusive Internet Because much of the earliest work in computing and networking occurred in the United States and Europe, the Latin alphabet and its conventions—such as a left-to-right ordering of characters—got baked into software
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