Back in 2014, under the looming shadow of the end of Moore’s Law, IBM embarked on an ambitious, US $3 billion project dubbed “7-nm and Beyond”. The bold aim of that five-year research project was to see how computing would continue into the future as the physics of decreasing chip dimensions conspired
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Don’t cover your camera, Apple has warned MacBook users — it could break your display. Consumers should rely on the green camera indicator light adjacent to their laptop camera, Apple told owners of MacBooks, MacBook Airs and MacBook Pros this month. Putting a sticker, Post-it note or other covering in front
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The world’s most relied-upon renewable energy source isn’t wind or sunlight, but water. Last year, the world’s hydropower capacity reached a record 1,308 gigawatts (to put this number in perspective, just one gigawatt is equivalent to the power produced by 1.3 million race horses or 2,000 speeding Corvettes). Utilities throughout
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TradeDepot, a four-year-old startup solving supply chain issues in Nigeria’s informal retail market is expanding to financial services. Shoprite, SPAR, Mr Price, Game, Ebeano and JustRite are some of the biggest retail chains in Nigeria. They’re increasingly becoming a household name as they position themselves for the growth of a Nigerian
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Renewable energy broke another record for the European electricity mix in the first quarter of 2020, reaching a 40% share, the highest quarterly figure on record. That’s according to the latest quarterly report on European Electricity Markets, which suggests renewables had a very successful quarter, expanding by 38TWh year-on-year and becoming
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Research suggests that workers spend as much as 6.5 hours per day reading and replying to emails. Even at the lower end, that’s more than a quarter of each working day and that’s just the average; some workers in information-intensive roles or industries may spend much more than that. This can create significant bottlenecks
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Nigeria, like most developing countries, is an "information-poor" country. But this notion is already changing due to the vast development and technological advancement by Nigerian Institutions within the country. Ideally, as a developing country, the rate of growth and development in the aspect of technology requires a lot of factors
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Artificial intelligence has the power to help put an end to the Covid-19 pandemic. Not only can techniques of machine learning and natural language processing be used to track and report Covid-19 infection rates, but other AI techniques can also be used to make smarter decisions about everything from when
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In 1887, Lord Acton famously wrote, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.” He was, of course, referring to people who wield power, but the same could be said for software. As Luke Wagner of Mozilla described in these pages in 2017, the Web has recently adopted a system
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Twenty years ago, engineers specializing in radio-frequency circuits dared to dream of an “ideal switch.” It would have superlow resistance when “on,” superhigh when “off,” and so much more. It would be tiny, fast, readily manufacturable, capable of switching fairly high currents, able to withstand billions of on-off cycles, and
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