Nigeria’s automobile industry received a boost with over $1billion investments from renowned auto manufacturers in 2019, thereby lifting capacity to at least 408,870 vehicles yearly. The manufacturers, which include Honda, Peugeot, Innoson, and Mitsubishi among others, have also created employment for about 4,782 Nigerians. The Director-General, National Automotive Design and Development (NADDC),
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Nigeria joined the global community last week to mark international data privacy day. January 28 is dedicated as international data privacy day; this year’s theme is “Own Your Privacy.” Each year, data breaches continue to grow in size and scope – exposing consumers’ sensitive, personal information and businesses’ valuable data. Against
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The UK’s place in the Five Eyes intelligence sharing network is safe despite the decision to allow Huawei switchgear into the UK network, said US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo yesterday. “With respect to information and the Five Eyes relationship, that relationship is deep, it is strong, it will remain,” said
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A Russian satellite has been shifting its position in orbit to bring it closer to a US spy satellite, according to publicly available data. The Russian satellite, called Cosmos 2542, synchronised its orbit with USA 245, a US reconnaissance satellite deployed for military and intelligence applications. The movement of the Russian satellite
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Andrew Yang is just as freaked out about creepy robots poised taking over the world as anybody. “We should lead the world in a global ban on lethal autonomous weapons systems. Only humans should be making life or death decisions,” the Democratic presidential hopeful warned in a tweet about artificial intelligence
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The digital revolution has opened up new avenues for businesses to connect with their customers. At the same time, customers can get to know businesses without being constrained by traditional physical limitations such as distance and exposure. With any company just a Google search away, loyalty is now dependent on brand recognition
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The joke has been around almost as long as the dream: Nuclear fusion energy is 30 years away...and always will be. But now, more than 80 years after Australian physicist Mark Oliphant first observed deuterium atoms fusing and releasing dollops of energy, it may finally be time to update the
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Researchers in the MIT Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (CEE) have received a gift to advance their work on a device designed to position living cells for growing human organs using acoustic waves. The Acoustofluidic Device Design with Deep Learning is being supported by Natick, Massachusetts-based MathWorks, a leading
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Generation Z (Gen Z) is the newest generation in the global workforce, and already it is having an impact on how businesses harness technology. A recent series of reports from Nintex, called The Gen Z Effect, analysed Generation Z’s influence on employers across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the
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In an age where internet connectivity is the bedrock for day to day activities such as banking, access to social and government services, have we considered what will happen if our internet connection suddenly goes down? This recently happened across West Africa last week due to two submarine cable cuts on
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