Machine learning has burst onto the scene in the past two decades and will be a defining technology of the future. It is transforming large sectors of society, including healthcare, education, transport, and food and industrial production, as well as having an enormous impact on science and research. A subset of
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Earlier this year, researchers found new support for this second idea when they measured the performance of the ability to follow pointing gestures in dog families. Puppies that were more closely related performed more similarly on the pointing test, suggesting that their stats could in part be explained by their
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Diners could be serving up a lot more than just their burger order if they use the contact-free QR codes suddenly available at many restaurants and bars, warns David Choffnes, who studies cybersecurity at Northeastern. The square, black and white pixelated codes have become ubiquitous at many restaurants in the wake
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In comparison with Moore's Law, the nonsilicon world's progress can seem rather glacial. Indeed, some designs made of wood or metal came up against their functional limits generations ago The length-to-beam ratio (LBR) of large oceangoing vessels offers an excellent example of such technological maturity. This ratio is simply the quotient
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Shell Nigeria Exploration and Production Company (SNEPCO), operator of the Bonga Northwest oil field, has displayed a new technology known as ‘digital twin’ at SAIPEC 2021, which enables the company to operate safely on the Bonga Floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel located offshore Nigeria. Bonga is the first deep
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The Board of Directors of Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG) has approved the appointment of Dr. Philip Mshelbila as the gas giant’s Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer. He succeeds Mr. Tony Attah. Attah will return to his parent company, Shell, on August 30, 2021 at the expiration of his five-year tenure. Attah was
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Not many Nigerians have had the opportunity of being appointed chancellor of an European university. It is a rare feat that is achieved through hard work and a sterling track record. Yekemi Otaru, a Nigerian-born serial entrepreneur, has just been named the chancellor-elect of the University of the West of
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Three of the largest cement manufacturers in Nigeria saw their combined profit before tax jump by 61.90 per cent in the first half of this year, an analysis of their unaudited financial statements has shown. Dangote Cement Plc, BUA Cement Plc and Lafarge Africa Plc posted a total pre-tax profit of
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The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) plans to fine electricity distribution companies (DisCos) for wrongfully disconnecting customers’ electricity supply. The commission proposed that any DisCo that disconnected a customer’s electricity supply “in violation of this regulation commits an offence and is liable upon conviction to pay the customer a penalty.” The penalties
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A 680-tonne tidal turbine billed as the most powerful in the world has started to generate electricity off the northeastern coast of Scotland. The Orbital O2 is anchored near Orkney and has the capacity to meet the annual electricity demand of 2,000 homes for the next 15 years. It took Orbital Marine Power
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