In the era of this economic slowdown, unemployment, and national lockdown, when the whole world is continually working day and night for saving their citizens from the wrath of pandemic COVID-19, we, civil engineers and contractors, do have some pertinent questions running in our minds, i.e., how will be the
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Not nearly as many as old estimates would have you believe. Here is a back-of-the-envelope calculation, based on simple physics Given that some 4,600 years have elapsed since the completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza, the structure stands remarkably intact. It is a polyhedron with a regular polygon base, its
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Physical robots have been in use for decades but, most often confined to car manufacturing lines and other heavy industries, we typically don’t see them in action. If we do run into this technology, the applications we see are more likely to be for ‘wow-factor’ than genuine utility, such as Japan’s
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Big tech companies are adopting a new security model called confidential computing to protect data while it’s in use A handful of major technology companies are going all in on a new security model they’re calling confidential computing in an effort to better protect data in all its forms. The three pillars
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Business professionals who work day in and day out in the pure-play technology sector might not be aware that major progress is being made in digital transformation. For example, engineering is way ahead of many other sectors when it comes to so-called cutting-edge technologies, like 5G, AI, and IoT. Forward-looking engineering giant
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Since data has been established as the new oil, companies have been aggressively investing in ways to collect data from their own workflows and processes as well as along the value chain, right up to the end user or customer. This ‘big data’ is phenomenal and helps organizations change their understanding
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The recent release of the technical and commercial proposals of the deal has generated alot of conversations among Nigerians as almost everyone is tired of this pandemic of epic proportion bedeviling the Nigerian Electricity Supply Industry (NESI) – the disease of darkness and all that comes with it including over-estimated
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Leo Stan Ekeh, serial digital entrepreneur and chairman of Zinox Group said that Nigeria can turn the poor, nomadic children popularly called Almajiri into millionaires, employers of labour or even employable citizens if a digital solution is applied to address their peculiar plight. Ekeh, who delivered an impassioned and workable solutions
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