In 1960, Science published a paper by Heinz von Foerster predicting that on Friday, 13 November 2026, the "human population will approach infinity if it grows as it has grown in the last two millennia." Just a few years after this preposterous doomsday alarm, the annual growth of global
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September 30, 2021 was the day when millions of electronic devices across the world cease to work. This happened because authentication certificate that is necessary to validate the connection of a device with the base server expired. Therefore, those devices that cannot update this driver will no longer be able
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The Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers has elected her first female chapter chairman in its 38 years of existence. In an election conducted at the chapter’s secretariat. Engr (Mrs) Ime Eseme Essien emerged as the first female chapter chairman with other executive committee members. The new Ikot Ekpene chapter chairman will
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has blasted Jeff Bezos' space firm Blue Origin in leaked documents, over the billionaire founder's decision to take the space agency to court. Bezos' firm is suing NASA due to the space agency opting to only give SpaceX a contract to build a lunar lander for upcoming missions to the Moon. Now, it's revealed
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Concert venues, international airports and even restaurants are increasingly asking patrons for a recent negative COVID-19 test before entering their premises. Some organizations offer to test people on the spot as they enter. But current COVID-19 testing options aren't convenient enough for the kind of mass daily screening that some businesses
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Engineers at MIT have developed a new approach to removing lead or other heavy-metal contaminants from water, in a process that they say is far more energy-efficient than any other currently used system, though there are others under development that come close. Ultimately, it might be used to treat lead-contaminated
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