Despite a great deal of hype in the technology and business press about AI changing the way organizations do business, there have been precious few companies that have actually been able to enable people from the bottom-up to leverage data science and machine learning day-to-day. The challenge comes down to several
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The biggest explosion in the universe since the Big Bang has been discovered by astronomers. The blast came from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years away. Scientists say it released five times more energy than the previous record holder. Professor Melanie Johnston-Hollitt, from the
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Vatican officials plan to release principles promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence with the support of Microsoft and IBM, according to a recent report. Reuters reports that Vatican officials on Friday planned to release principles promoting the ethical use of artificial intelligence with the backing of Mircosoft and IBM as the
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MIT researchers have designed a scalable system that secures the metadata — such as who’s corresponding and when — of millions of users in communications networks, to help protect the information against possible state-level surveillance. Data encryption schemes that protect the content of online communications are prevalent today. Apps like WhatsApp,
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Adobe has made Adobe Acrobat available on Google Drive in a move to bring the tool to more customers worldwide. Google Drive is a cloud-based tool that is said to have more than one billion individual users as well as millions of companies, with more than two billion digital files stored
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Wearables are evolving into important tools in the expanding IoT landscape, driven by a combination of technological progress, on one hand, and market demand on the other. Some technology experts believe wearables will be the next big consumer technology, with their impact similar to that of the smartphone. GlobalData expects
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The West African Gas Pipeline Company Limited has said it is resuming its supply of natural gas from Nigeria to its customers in Republic of Benin, Togo and Ghana. WAPCo disclosed this while announcing the successful completion of the cleaning and inspection of its 20’’ offshore pipeline from Badagry in Nigeria
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Over the past decade, Nigerian startups have popped up with solutions across several sectors from financial services to logistics and agriculture. Increasingly however, its health sector is also coming into focus as startups look to build profitable business around existing gaps in healthcare delivery while also making a lasting impact. With
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How Energy Recovery Works: Particles injected into the linac of an energy recovery linear accelerator are propelled forward by an electric field, then steered by magnets around a curve. Along the way, the particles emit synchrotron radiation. When they return to the linac, the particles are accelerated again. After several
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Financial sector experts are divided over the 16 percent month-on-month, MoM, decline in the value of Point-of-Sale, PoS, transactions in January 2020. Analysis of the latest data from the Nigerian Interbank Settlement System, NIBSS, electronic payment channel shows that the value fell to N313.43 billion in January 2020 from N372.7 billion
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