Scientists say that endangered bees are critical to terrestrial plant life, which has a direct impact on animals as well as the food we eat. But what if they weren’t? What if, instead, we constructed tiny, airborne robots that could do the work of bees via bubble guns? It may sound like
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Amazon's Shield protection service says that it successfully defended against the biggest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack ever recorded. According to a regular report from Amazon's AWS Shield division, which is specifically designed to safeguard Amazon cloud customers against DDoS attacks, the effort topped out at 2.3 terabits per second. The
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Rapid Trace, an innovative mobile app, key to the fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) has been developed by Cadnetwork Enterprise, a fledgling Nigerian firm. The app designed for Nigeria by Nigerians is free to download on www.rapidtrace.com.ng but currently available only on Android. The mobile app features include: contact tracing; social distance enforcement;
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In February, researchers from MIT and Takeda Pharmaceuticals joined together to celebrate the official launch of the MIT-Takeda Program. The MIT-Takeda Program aims to fuel the development and application of artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to benefit human health and drug development. Centered within the Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine
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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), through its IT project clearance mandate, had assessed and cleared 62 Information Technolgy related projects worth 1,168,145,213,150 naira between January and May this year. Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, director general, NITDA, made this known during his speech delivered by Dr Usman Gambo Abdullahi, director
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Ford’s upcoming all-electric Mustang Mach-E will offer hands-free driving when it hits the road next year, the automaker said Thursday. The feature, dubbed Active Drive Assist, arrives six years after Tesla and four years after General Motors introduced similar features. It will be offered on several Ford models, but most notably
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Engineers at University of California Los Angeles have found a way to create a stretchable adhesive skin chemistry sensor without serpentine electrical conductors. Instead, they persuaded the liquid sweat to move sideways through the film – maintaining stretchability – while electrical connections are made through the thickness of the sensor to
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Nigeria Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has announced that the country is working on launching a new satellite to replace NigeriaSat-2. NigeriaSat-2 was launched alongside NigeriaSat-X at the Yasny military base in Russia. The satellite was developed and built by UK-based film Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) and it was launched
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The News Agency of Nigeria reports the minister said this on Thursday in Abuja at a webinar organised by the Nigerian Economic Summit Group Adegbite named the minerals as coal, iron ore, bitumen, gold, limestone, lead-zinc and barite. He noted that the country was endowed with over 44 different mineral resources occurring
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Multiple telecoms masts were destroyed by Bolivian villagers who feared that 5G technology could transmit coronavirus, media reports said. The South American country does not yet have 5G wireless infrastructure, which has been linked to the pandemic in viral posts on social media. According to the conspiracy theory, electromagnetic radiation causes the
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