Bitcoin plunged by 30 percent on Wednesday after China signalled a new crackdown on the cryptocurrency and tycoon Elon Musk hinted that his Tesla car company could unload its huge holdings in the unit. The virtual currency fell to almost $30,000 — less than half the record value it reached last
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Argentina’s government has ordered social media giant Facebook to halt the use of its new data use policy that allows it to harvest information from its WhatsApp user, it said on Monday. According to an official statement, the suspension of the policy will last up to at least six months, with
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Microsoft has officially decided to discontinue Windows 10X, its slimmed-down alternative to Windows 10, and will take some of the Windows 10X technology and incorporate it into Windows 10 as a whole. The announcement was made on the same day that the latest major Windows 10 upgrade released. Earlier this month,
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The Senate on Wednesday asked the Federal Government to suspend plans to deploy the 5G network technology in Nigeria till further notice. The red chamber equally directed the Nigerian Communications Commission, and the Mobile Network Operators to put the exercise on hold for now to enable them to study the trend
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The House of Representatives has resolved to investigate the alleged abandonment of the Eastern Rail Line, the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri section, after the Federal Government awarded the reconstruction contract for N72.34bn. At the plenary on Wednesday, the House resolved to set up an ad hoc committee to investigate the N19.2bn railway rehabilitation
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If we entrepreneurs have learned something during the last 12 months, it is to build agile companies that are capable of operating efficiently, resilient to the changing context of the markets and with the necessary flexibility to adjust to any unforeseen event. If we want to maintain this agility in the
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As more people call for action against climate change, more than 500 cities worldwide have established low-carbon and net-zero carbon goals intended to substantially reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the coming decades. But a major challenge to these decarbonization plans is the lack of a consensus on how to measure urban
Read MoreInternational Metering Expert – Remote/Abuja, Nigeria Job no: 498968 Work type: Contract Location: Nigeria Categories: Infrastructure UKNIAF Role for a metering expert supporting the roll-out of mass metering by the Nigerian Government 10-month part time role Working remotely with a team based in Abuja, Nigeria The Programme The United Kingdom Nigeria Infrastructure Advisory Facility (UKNIAF) is a
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With the rise of the digital age, the amount of Wi-Fi sources to transmit information wirelessly between devices has grown exponentially. This results in the widespread use of the 2.4GHz radio frequency that Wi-Fi uses, with excess signals available to be tapped for alternative uses. To harness this under-used source of
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Google and Samsung said they were teaming up on a joint software platform for smartwatches and other wearables in a move ramping up competition with market leader Apple. The move, announced at the Google developer conference in California, means Samsung will use Google's Wear OS for its upcoming Galaxy smartwatches instead
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