Nigerians who wish to report cases of rape, kidnapping, murder or incidents such as road accidents through the newly inaugurated Police VGS Mobile App must pay N12,000 before they can do so. Recall that the Nigeria Police Force had, in a promotional video on its Twitter handle on June 2, 2019,
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Some off-takers of liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) have accused the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas (NLNG) of marginalisation in the distribution of the product in Lagos. The off-takers said the NLNG, which is the sole local supplier of LPG, also called cooking gas, deliberately restricted supply of the product to an arm
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You know what they say, timing is everything; in love, in life and particularly, in business. In many ways, timing is difficult to define. It remains a mystery; you can’t control it, yet it represents one of the most significant make-or-break points in a start-up’s life. The hard truth is that 90
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When Wonder Woman deftly ensnares someone in her golden lariat, she can compel that person to speak the absolute truth. It’s a handy tool for battling evil supervillains. Had the Lasso of Truth been an actual piece of technology, police detectives no doubt would be lining up to borrow it. Indeed,
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Business operations become more complex as companies grow. Management processes get increasingly cumbersome, while organizations’ ability to respond to market changes in a timely fashion often stumbles. To be able to keep abreast the competition in an increasingly crowded marketplace, businesses integrate planning, strategy, execution, and performance analysis. To hit all
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Hoping to speed AI and neuromorphic computing and cut down on power consumption, startups, scientists, and established chip companies have all been looking to do more computing in memory rather than in a processor’s computing core. Memristors and other nonvolatile memory seem to lend themselves to the task particularly well.
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Google researchers say they have discovered six flaws in Apple's iMessage app, one of which is yet to be fixed. A team of Google bug researchers say they discovered six flaws in Apple's iMessage app , one of which is yet to be fixed. The firm's Project Zero is made up of
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An ingenious way of ridding rivers and seas of microplastics has been developed crucially, without harming micro-organisms. Study senior author Shaobin Wang, a Professor of chemical engineering at the University of Adelaide, explained that, although often invisible to the naked eye, microplastics are 'ubiquitous' pollutants. He said some, such as the exfoliating
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Software engineer Mike Wacker, until recently an employee of Google, confirmed that the tech giant reordered its YouTube search results for “Federal Reserve” following criticism by left-wing MSNBC host Chris Hayes. In a tweet, Wacker confirmed the details of report — that Google, which owns YouTube, manually added the term “Federal
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In a bid to find solution to library issues faced by the students of a private university owned by the Deeper Christian Life Ministry, Anchor University, the students of the institution mentored by a US-based Information Technology Training Organisation, New Horizons, have developed a high-end customized application, Library Management Solution
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