Rishi Sunak has unveiled plans to issue hundreds of new oil and gas licences in the North Sea as part of efforts to make Britain more energy-independent. In order for the new licences not to compromise the UK’s net zero plans, the government also confirmed a raft of new carbon capture
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A defunct weather monitoring satellite has performed an assisted crash into the Atlantic Ocean in a historic manoeuvre, the European Space Agency has said. The British-built satellite Aeolus has reached its final resting place: the Atlantic Ocean. The re-entry of the weather satellite was guided by mission controllers at the European Space
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In 2016, just weeks before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, Brown’s death could stir the government to action. Since then, automotive AI in the United States has been linked to at least 25 confirmed deaths and to hundreds of injuries and instances of property damage. The
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Membrane technologies can provide efficient purification of unclear water sources to address a growing water shortage. However, when engineers develop state-of-the-art membranes, they are constrained by a lack of selectivity relative to high permeability. Current membranes also only poorly remove low-molecular weight neutral solutes and are vulnerable to degradation due
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Reforestation and afforestation are two essential components of natural climate solutions, which refer to actions that aim to mitigate climate change and enhance carbon sequestration through nature-based approaches. A new analysis describes steps planners can take to make forests more effective “natural climate solutions.” To limit the frequency and severity of droughts,
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“PhotoGuard,” developed by MIT CSAIL researchers, prevents unauthorized image manipulation, safeguarding authenticity in the era of advanced generative models. As we enter a new era where technologies powered by artificial intelligence can craft and manipulate images with a precision that blurs the line between reality and fabrication, the specter of misuse
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As the tech firm nears 25, investors and executives alike look for fresh sources of growth LAST NOVEMBER something strange happened in Mountain View. A thick fog enveloped the headquarters of Alphabet, the parent company of Google. Not the meteorological sort—this stretch of Silicon Valley is reliably sunny. It was a
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The Niger Delta Power Holding Company Limited has said that out of the 4,000 megawatts of electricity that is mostly available from the National Integrated Power Projects, only an average of 700MW is being dispatched, It explained that the reason for this was due to electricity load rejection by power distribution
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Experts and key players in the Nigerian technology ecosystem have emphasised the need for government’s interventions in creating the right atmosphere for technology to thrive, especially, through common sense regulations that do not stifle innovation. They also called for deliberate actions and strategies to ensure that the benefits of technology and
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A group of researchers, with cooperation from Meta, looked at content that millions of Facebook and Instagram users were shown during and after the 2020 US presidential election to analyse its impact on political views. The results of the research found that tweaking the platform’s features had an impact on the content
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