The rise of big data has also seen the rise of public companies utilising this in unique and innovative ways. GlobalData, data and analytics company, has identified 21 public companies leading in big data. These companies have been recognised for providing solutions to enable big data deployments, including advanced analytics, business intelligence
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The Federal Government, on Friday, set up a committee to work out modalities on the exploitation and exploration of bitumen resources in the country as part of the administration’s efforts to diversify the economy. Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Architect Olamilekan Adegbite, who inaugurated the 9-man Committee on the development
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Health technology firm BridgeHead has developed a number of solutions to help assist in the management of miners’ health in remote locations. Georgina Hurst, private healthcare and partners director at BridgeHead, explain more about the important technologies helping to keep miners safe. What are the challenges with managing the health and
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According to Martin Engineering, an estimated 7% of the US fatalities recorded by MSHA between 1995 - 2011 occurred in a confined space. To reduce that number, conveyor operators are wise to understand exactly how a confined space is defined, and to consider what they can do to prevent serious
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Nigeria may be become a large research laboratory to develop facial recognition that will help Chinese big tech companies identify and track Nigerians and indeed black people, according to Nelson Ceasar Obidile, a cyber security expert. Obidile raised the alarm after news broke that ZKTeco, the world leader in biometric technology,
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As part of its efforts to ensure sustainability in the Nigerian mining sector, global law firm, Hogan Lovells, recently hosted a forum to discuss global best practices and establish solutions that can lead to sustainable growth in this sector. The symposium was chaired by Hogan Lovells Partner and Head of Africa,
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In a bid to improve the quantum and quality of power being supplied to customers, the Benin Electricity Distribution Company (BEDC), said it seeks to engage power generation companies within Nigeria and elsewhere that specialised in embedded generation. The company said the objective behind the move was aimed at solving
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It may sound more like science fiction than science fact, but researchers have created bionic jellyfish by embedding microelectronics into these ubiquitous marine invertebrates with hopes to deploy them to monitor and explore the world’s oceans. A small prosthetic enabled the jellyfish to swim three times faster and more efficiently without
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Engineering A Repairable world. We are surrounded by digital electronics that are getting harder and harder to fix. As manufacturers have built and sold us more and more devices, they have constructed barriers to fixing them. Schematics and repair diagrams, once widely distributed, are now considered proprietary. Software locks prevent the
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Collaborative innovation definitely has its benefits. Whereas at first, it may seem intuitive, it is actually not so simple and straightforward to integrate your innovation practices with another company through collaboration. According to Akyuz and Gursoy, collaborative innovation can be defined as “the process of managing the interaction and collaboration of
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