It’s World Password Day and everyone should be familiar with the phrase “Open Sesame”. Ali Baba (not the tech company) in Antoine Galland’s version of One Thousand and One Nights used it to open the mouth of a cave in which forty thieves have hidden a treasure. Ali Baba got
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TronicBoards, created by researchers from the Faculty of Information Technology (IT), are a range of customized color-coded printed circuit boards with large controls and recognizable symbols adapted to facilitate easy circuit making for diverse intellectual abilities. Lead researcher Ph.D. candidate Hashini Senaratne said a variety of simplified electronics toolkits are increasingly
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Buildings don’t just collapse. They always show telling signs. But many Nigerians either don’t know, recognize the signs or pay attention. Here are ways to identify an impending building collapse: Cracks in the wall Major cracks in your walls are indications of impending danger. The most common causes of cracking are Ground movement (beneath
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In the ultimate use of telemedicine, a medical researcher at the University of North Carolina worked with Nasa to treat a US astronaut’s blood clot during a mission on the International Space Station. Are astronauts more likely to develop blood clots? That’s the question Nasa is trying to answer alongside UNC
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A new MIT study reveals that language processing programs can assign many kinds of information to a single word, just like the human brain. Natural language processing models capture rich knowledge of words’ meanings through statistics. From search engines to voice assistants, computers are getting better at understanding what we mean.
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Globally, the cyber threat level to organisations remains high, and the current situation only serves to highlight this further. To this point, any organisation with substantial gaps in its cybersecurity capabilities is operating at risk. When the threat landscape changes, as it has now, we become more aware of the vulnerabilities
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Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is finalising plans to disconnect fake and counterfeit phones from all networks in the country. This will be implemented through the deployment of the Device Management System (DMS), a technology solution that will also allow the telecoms regulator to disconnect any phone flagged as stolen. According to a
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AMID poor generation, the 11 Distribution Companies (DisCos) operating across the country, yesterday, denied rejecting 2,495.3 megawatts electricity within a week. Executive Director, Research and Advocacy for the Association of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED), Sunday Oduntan, insisted yesterday, in Abuja, that energy supply to DisCos has been constrained. He said: “There were
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New research from Monash University uses food to help demonstrate the basic building blocks of computer science while creating new frontiers in dining experiences. The past decade has seen great strides in innovative food experiences like 3D-printed food, ingestible sensors, combining robots with food service and eating with augmented reality. So
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IEEE Women in Engineering, formed 25 years ago, now has more than 35,000 members and 1,000 affinity groups worldwide. WIE facilitates the recruitment and retention of women in technical disciplines around the world. It also works to inspire girls to pursue a career in engineering. Both women and men can
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