Former Google CEO and current Pentagon technical adviser Eric Schmidt stated in a recent speech at Stanford University that restrictions on hiring from China are hurting the Masters of the Universe in Silicon Valley. Bloomberg reports that during a recent speech at Stanford University, former Google CEO and current top technical
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Elon Musk, CEO of billion dollars companies Tesla and SpaceX, and Chairman of Solar City, is often compared to the equals of Andrew Carnegie, John D Rockefeller, JP Morgan and Henry Ford, who helped shaped America in its early days. To those who are unaware of Elon Musk, let me share
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The Arctic is melting at unprecedented rates but one engineer thinks we might be able to save it using millions of glass beads. Nonprofit organization Ice911 is proposing blanketing the Arctic with the beads so they will form a protective layer and reflect sunlight away. The Arctic has lost 75 percent of
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Executive vice president for Microsoft Global Sales, Jean-Phillipe Courtois, delivers a keynote at the AI for Good global summit about the opportunity of AI. Jean-Philippe Courtois is executive vice president and president for Microsoft Global Sales, Marketing & Operations. From cloud services to mixed reality and AI, Courtois is responsible for
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Imagine a device that can sit outside under blazing sunlight on a clear day, and without using any power cool things down by more than 23 degrees Fahrenheit (13 degrees Celsius). It almost sounds like magic, but a new system designed by researchers at MIT and in Chile can do
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Solid minerals worth N90.33bn were exported between 2015 and 2017, the latest report by the Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative has stated. An analysis of the report also showed that China emerged the biggest importer of Nigeria’s solid minerals in 2017. The document, which was obtained in Abuja on Wednesday, gave the
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The Federal Government has directed its ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) to protect their information systems and networks against cyberattacks. The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency, Mallam Kashifu Inuwa, gave this directive at an information assurance workshop for MDAs in Abuja on Wednesday. He said the Secretary to the
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The Minister of Economics and Energy for North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, discussed the importance of hydrogen in the renewable energy field. The Minister of Economics and Energy for North Rhine-Westphalia, Professor Andreas Pinkwart, has seen first-hand the latest developments in hydrogen storage technology at NPROXX, as part of his round trip through
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Nigeria’s liquidity crisis appears to be taking its toll on the power sector, as the Federal Government seek loans from lenders in developed economies to improve electricity supply and bring about positive change in the economy. But this is not without implications. After several attempts to fix the power sector and
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Momas Electricity Meters Manufacturing Company Limited has said there is a need to close the skills gap in the power sector as more than one million meter installers are required for the success of the Meter Asset Providers scheme. The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, MEMMCOL, Mr Kola Balogun, said at the graduation
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