Experts in the country have stressed the need for the country to become signatories to African Regional Intellectual Property Organisation (ARIPO) in view of the Africa Continental Free Trade Agreement (AfCFTA). According to them, this would complement efforts of the federal government to lay the foundation for the creative industry in
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The Enugu Electricity Distribution Plc (EEDC) has said it is in the best interest of the company to have all its customers across the South-east metered. But the Disco appealed that the customers should allow the meters to function without tampering with them. This was made known by the Acting Managing Director
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The National Information Technology Development Agency has warned about a new cyber threat that involves email-based attacks by a notorious Russian hacking group called Nobelium. This warning was contained in a press statement on Sunday by the agency’s Head of Corporate Affairs and External Relations, Mrs Hadiza Umar, titled ‘NITDA cautions
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Developing new ultrathin metal electrodes has allowed researchers to create semitransparent perovskite solar cells that are highly efficient and can be coupled with traditional silicon cells to greatly boost the performance of both devices, said an international team of scientists. The research represents a step toward developing completely transparent solar
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Researchers from the Low Energy Electronic Systems (LEES) interdisciplinary research group at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), MIT’s research enterprise in Singapore, together with MIT and National University of Singapore (NUS), have discovered a new way to control light emission from materials. Controlling the properties of materials has
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The Russian hackers behind last year’s massive SolarWinds data breach are back in action — and have targeted more than 150 organizations this week, according to Microsoft. The group, known as Nobelium, has targeted government agencies, think tanks, consultants and non-governmental organizations, Microsoft said. The majority of the victims are located
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The new “mindwriting” technology enables a man with immobilized limbs to create text messages nearly as fast as people who use their thumbs to tap words onto smartphone keyboards. Stanford University investigators have coupled artificial intelligence software with a device, called a brain-computer interface (BCI), implanted in the brain of a
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A number of pervasive myths surround online learning: that it’s isolating, that the quality of instruction is innately lower than in an in-person classroom, or that it’s only for those who can’t succeed in traditional educational settings. Abigael Bamgboye, an accomplished and highly self-motivated university graduate who just completed the MITx
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Oil and gas giant Total will be rebranded as TotalEnergies as it shifts some of its focus towards renewable energy sources. Shareholders voted overwhelmingly in favour of the move and approved the firm's environmental goals. "We want to become a sort of green energy major," said chief executive Patrick Pouyanné. Big energy firms
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Electricity consumers may finally begin to get some compensation for under-supply of power to their homes and businesses from July, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said. The move comes against the backdrop of complaints by energy consumers that the Service-Based Tariff (SBT), which has led to a huge increase
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