Unbreakable quantum keys that use the laws of physics to protect their secrets could be transmitted from orbiting devices a person could lift with one hand, according to experiments conducted from the International Space Station. Researchers launched a tiny, experimental satellite loaded with optics that could emit entangled pairs of photons. Entangled
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US-based seed-stage accelerator, Y Combinator (YC), is reducing the standard deal of its investment from $150,000 to $125,000. However, it is maintaining its 7% equity stake in backed startups. This was made known yesterday by Y Combinator president, Geoff Ralston. Also, this announcement coincides with the accelerator’s call for application for
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Cybercrooks are not resting on their oars as they keep devising ways to beat security measures put in place by business organisations and individuals. A house wife and mother of four had lost her bag which contained her mobile phone, automated teller machine (ATM) card, cash and other personal effects on
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The Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Chief Timipre Sylva in Abuja inaugurated the new Governing Council of the Nigerian Content Development and Monitoring Board (NCDMB), with a charge to the members to support the attainment of the Nigerian Content 10-Year Strategic Roadmap. He stated that accomplishing the lofty goals of
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Despite unmet metering gaps to over six million customers/households, some electricity Distribution Companies (DisCos) have begun to inform customers that tariff will rise from July 1, following approval from the regulator and the Nigerian Government. With over six million Nigerian households still facing estimated billing, according to the latest data from
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Women in Energy Network (WIEN), has decried exclusion of women in the newly-reconstituted board of Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC), despite there being many female executives in the oil industry with the requite experience, skill and competence. President of WIEN, Funmi Ogbue, who raised the concern in a statement, in Lagos,
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Cloud-edge solutions and 5G are cited as two top technologies that will propel post-COVID-19 value creation for vendors and businesses particularly in the telecom industry. This is according to new research from global tech market advisory firm ABI Research. According to the analysts, the importance of cloud-edges is highlighted in their
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Worldwide shipments of smart audio devices, including smart speakers and smart personal audio devices, reached 96.2 million units in Q1 2020, according to new figures released by Canalys. The analyst firm says the coronavirus pandemic caused the smart speaker category to suffer it first global decline, falling 1.9% as vendors shipped
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“Spring Festival. New virus. Spreading person to person. This one has everything.” That’s the whole of an email message that I dashed off to a friend, a fellow China watcher, on 21 January, after reading a BBC story about China’s then-tiny COVID-19 epidemic. Something in that story rang alarm bells
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When Nicole Poindexter left the energy efficiency focused startup, Opower a few months after the company’s public offering, she wasn’t sure what would come next. At the time, in 2014, the renewable energy movement in the US still faced considerable opposition. But what Poindexter did see was an opportunity to
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