The world’s largest camera sits within a nondescript industrial building in the hills above San Francisco Bay. If all goes well, this camera will one day fit into the heart of the future Vera C. Rubin Observatory in Chile. For the last seven years, engineers have been crafting the camera in
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As part of the Artemis mission, Nasa will conduct two multi-week field tests in the US near Flagstaff, Arizona. Meanwhile, Airbus engineers have been testing the Sample Fetch Rover (SFR) at a quarry in Milton Keynes, UK. Nasa has announced it will conduct two multi-week field tests near Flagstaff, Arizona, in
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Renewables met all of the rise in global electricity demand in the first half of 2022, preventing any growth in coal and gas generation, a report by energy think tank Ember has found. The rise in wind and solar generation met over three-quarters of the demand growth in the first half
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The field of artificial intelligence has embraced deep learning—in which algorithms find patterns in big data sets—after moving on from earlier systems that more explicitly modeled human reasoning. But deep learning has its flaws: AI models often show a lack of common sense, for example. A new nonprofit, Basis, hopes
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The Advertising Regulatory Council of Nigeria (ARCON) has sued Meta, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, alongside its Nigerian public relations agency AT3 Resources at the Federal High court, Abuja Judicial Division. ARCON is seeking ₦30 billion (~$50 million) in sanction for the violation of the advertising laws and
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The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, said Nigeria has recorded over 200 percent increase in digital data generation in the last three years. He stated this on Tuesday at a validation workshop on a proposed Data Protection Bill, jointly organised by Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB)
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The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) has embarked on skills acquisition training and empowerment of 100 auto mechanics in Kano to boost their skills and encourage job creation among youth. Speaking while opening the programme, the executive vice chairman of NASENI, Engineer Professor Muhammad Sani Haruna, said the
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The great inventor Thomas Edison once said, "So long as the sun shines, man will be able to develop power in abundance." He wasn't the first great mind to marvel at the notion of harnessing the power of the sun; for centuries inventors have been pondering and perfecting the way
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The rapid increase in electric car sales is causing a battery shortage. To solve this problem, we must get better at recycling the raw materials used in batteries and accelerate the development of new battery types. It seems like a natural consequence of his conviction when Professor Poul Norby drives his
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Hybrid cloud infrastructure is still in many businesses’ transformation futures as the cloud continues to develop. Since a hybrid cloud is a mix and match of services from a public cloud, private cloud, and possibly data center, it can easily integrate the advantages of all three infrastructures. This kind of
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