The cellphone of a passenger on an Alaska Airlines jet caught fire after the plane landed at the Seattle–Tacoma International Airport, forcing the crew to deploy evacuation slides to get everyone off, the carrier said Tuesday. Ray Lane, an Alaska Airlines spokesperson, said the passenger's phone "overheated and began sparking" after
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National Grid has said it will start pumping heat from its electricity transformers into heat networks to generate hot water and heat homes in efforts to help decarbonise the grid. The heat-recovery technology is currently undergoing a proof of concept trial at National Grid’s Deeside Centre for Innovation. It is estimated that
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The Federal Government appears to have reversed the exclusive petrol importation rights for holders of local refining licence to import petroleum products, following the signing into law of the Petroleum Industry Act, PIA. Current holders of crude oil refining licences in Nigeria include Dangote Oil Refinery Company, Waltersmith Refining and Petrochemical
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Imagine if you could power your kettle using the energy generated from the vegetable cuttings quietly breaking down in your kitchen's compost bin. That reality might not be so far off with the growth of biogas technology. Biogas is a green alternative to fossil fuels that not only helps to reduce
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Samsung Group unveiled a $205 billion investment blueprint on Tuesday aimed at making the company a leader in a range of technologies from semiconductors to robotics and creating 40,000 new jobs. The tech giant is South Korea's largest conglomerate and its overall turnover is equivalent to a fifth of the national
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For the first time, WhatsApp plans to provide entirely native tablet apps, as the messaging service strives to enhance its encryption capabilities for genuine multi-device connectivity without the need for a smartphone. For the first time, both iPad and Android tablets will be able to be used as “connected devices” to
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Popular video collaboration Zoom has resumed normal services following a brief outage earlier. The video communication platform, which experienced astronomical adoption over the past year on the back of a pandemic-fueled remote collaboration surge, simply stopped working for potentially millions of users worldwide at around 08:45 am BST (3:45 pm
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Power generation increased to 3,910 megawatts on Tuesday morning following the restoration by the Transmission Company of Nigeria of the national grid which had collapsed the preceding day. The TCN explained that the grid collapse, the second time within a period of one month, followed a sudden drop in system frequency. Figures
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Consumers of today's 5G cellphones may have experienced one of the following tradeoffs: impressive download speeds with extremely limited and spotty coverage, or widespread and reliable coverage with speeds that aren't much faster than today's 4G networks. A new technology developed by electrical engineers at the University of California San Diego
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