Facebook will allow users to restrict who can and can't comment on posts they share, in a bid to 'limit potentially unwanted interactions,' the social network said. The change follows similar moves by Twitter, and means people who publish content visible to everyone now have the option to only allow comments from
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Many pure-play technologists are surprised to discover the depth and age of digitization in industrial operations. The reliability and longevity of much OT can’t be argued with, with many machine and system lifespans already considerably lengthened by a flourishing after-sales technology market. But IT specialists do come to the table with
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While a Mars rover can explore where no person has gone before, a smaller robot at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Australia could climb to new heights by mimicking the movements of a lizard. Simply named X-4, the university's climbing robot has allowed a team of researchers to test
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Fossil fuels are among the world’s most traded commodities: About 75 percent of crude oil, 25 percent of natural gas, and 21 percent of coal production are traded internationally. Electricity, by contrast, is a minor affair: Only about 3 percent of total generation crosses borders. That’s because fuels are easy to
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NASA's Ingenuity helicopter is moving closer to its maiden voyage on Mars, after it lowered all four legs, putting it in a position to touch down on the Martian surface. The 4-pound (1.8-kilogram) rotorcraft arrived on Mars attached to the belly of Perseverance, which touched down on the Red Planet on February
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A battery powered by nuclear waste could keep a spaceship or hospital operating for 28,000 years without needing to be recharged or replaced, its developers claim. The radioactive battery is 'completely safe' for humans, according to California-based Nano Diamond Battery (NDB), who say it will 'change the world'. The firm hopes to
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Since the pandemic hit last year, China has made headlines by charging ahead with its efforts to become the first major power to implement a sovereign digital currency. China’s digital yuan will replace its physical currency and the project goes by the name Digital Currency Electronics Payment (DCEP). Although the concept
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Artificial-intelligence systems are nowhere near advanced enough to replace humans in many tasks involving reasoning, real-world knowledge, and social interaction. They are showing human-level competence in low-level pattern recognition skills, but at the cognitive level they are merely imitating human intelligence, not engaging deeply and creatively, says Michael I. Jordan,
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For more than a century, the world has enjoyed a run of technological progress that has in countless ways made our lives enormously richer, more interesting, more comfortable, and more rewarding. Often overlooked in the background of this unimaginably vast enterprise, and yet helping to keep it running smoothly and
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The Federal Government has concluded plans to deploy an App that will enable Nigerians to monitor and evaluate ongoing government projects across the country. The monitoring application which had been developed by the Federal Government would be installed at the sites of over 300 ongoing projects across the country. According to a
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