The robots are here. Are the 'sexbots' close behind? From the Drudge Report to The New York Times, sex robots are rapidly becoming a part of the national conversation about the future of sex and relationships. Behind the headlines, a number of companies are currently developing robots designed to provide humans with
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A new NASA research team will be dedicated to finding life beyond Earth launched this week in Silicon Valley and will seek to find concrete answers on how life began on Earth and where it could exist elsewhere. The “Center for Life Detection Science” will be part of NASA’s Ames Research
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Ford has unveiled a prototype bed that automatically rolls selfish sleepers back to their side of the mattress whenever they stray onto the other half. The car maker has adapted the lane-centring assist technology used to ensure drivers remain in the middle of their lane into a concept dubbed the Lane-Keeping
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Even as Nigerians groan under increasing wave of unemployment, vacancies that existed in about 925 trades in the country’s labour market are being filled by foreigners due to lack of requisite skills by Nigerians. It was perhaps against this backdrop that the Nigerian Governors Forum (NGF) and critical stakeholders in the country have
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More than a century ago, engineer and inventor Nikola Tesla proposed a global system of wireless transmission of electricity — or wireless power. But one key obstacle to realizing this ambitious vision has always been the inefficiency of transferring power over long distances. Near the end of the last decade, however,
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The Rector of the Nigerian College of Aviation Technology, Zaria, Captain Muhammed Abdulsalam, in this interview, says the institute has been recognised as an excellent aviation training institution by the International Civil Aviation Organisation, to serve the entire West and Central Africa. Excerpts: How many new aircraft have you acquired and
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CcHUB has launched the ‘CcHUB Design Lab’. The design lab is an unprecedented next step in Africa’s growing tech sector, and is set to become a leading creative space where its multidisciplinary team of product designers and engineers will collaborate with scientists and stakeholders globally, to explore the application of
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Killer robots are a 'grave threat to humanity' and should be banned, the world's largest gathering of scientists was told. As yet, robot soldiers and security guards armed with lethal weapons are largely science fiction concepts. But advances in artificial intelligence mean it is only a matter of time before robots with
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Following what it considered as a breach of the Nigeria’s local content law, which seeks to involve indigenous manpower in the operations of the oil and gas industry, members of Petroleum and Natural Gas Senior Staff Association of Nigeria (PENGASSAN), may have resolved to challenge the management of Exxonmobil over
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The Bank of Industry and All On, a Nigerian off-grid energy investment company backed by Shell, have announced the establishment of a N1bn Niger Delta Off-Grid Energy Fund. They said the fund would provide local currency debt financing to facilitate the deployment of energy solutions by access-to-energy companies in the Niger
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