The Nigerian government has said that electricity companies that fail to deliver assigned volumes will face penalties under newly agreed contracts. The step will be taken as part of measures to boost power supply in the country, and explains the government’s recent assurance that supply will improve from July, power minister
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European Union countries have agreed to impose stricter climate rules aimed at slashing EU greenhouse gases by at least 55 per cent in 2030. After more than 16 hours of negotiations, environment ministers from the European Union’s 27 member states have reached an agreement on five laws from a broader package
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Common bacteria typically found in soil can be used to generate alternative jet fuel through their production of an unusual carbon molecule, researchers have said. “In chemistry, everything that requires energy to make will release energy when it’s broken,” said lead author Pablo Cruz-Morales from the Technical University of Denmark. When petroleum
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Cyber threat warnings have increased in research times. In fact, most businesses receive countless alerts, be it from their threat intelligence solutions or enforcement agencies. Yet, threats keep evolving and continue to go undetected, causing problems to businesses everywhere. In Southeast Asia, cyberthreats continue to be rampant in all countries. Be
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Ever since Meta announced its big plans for the metaverse, several other big tech companies have echoed the move and announced similar investments in the platform as well. While many were skeptical at first about the metaverse, the reality is, that the integrated network of 3D virtual worlds now provides
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Today's artificial intelligence systems used for image recognition are incredibly powerful with massive potential for commercial applications. Nonetheless, current artificial neural networks—the deep learning algorithms that power image recognition—suffer one massive shortcoming: they are easily broken by images that are even slightly modified. This lack of 'robustness' is a significant hurdle
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It's already known that mammals such as dogs sniff each other to decide who is friend or foe. Now, researchers in Israel have found that humans do the same, although on a more 'covert' and subconscious level. By smelling clothes with a device called an 'eNose', the experts found people who have
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Biometric authentication like fingerprint and iris scans are a staple of any spy movie, and trying to circumvent those security measures is often a core plot point. But these days the technology is not limited to spies, as fingerprint verification and facial recognition are now common features on many of
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Explanation methods that help users understand and trust machine-learning models often describe how much certain features used in the model contribute to its prediction. For example, if a model predicts a patient’s risk of developing cardiac disease, a physician might want to know how strongly the patient’s heart rate data
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This robotic system uses radio frequency signals, computer vision, and complex reasoning to efficiently find items hidden under a pile. For humans, finding a lost wallet buried under a pile of items is pretty straightforward — we simply remove things from the pile until we find the wallet. But for a
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