Real-world use cases of partial- or full-body exoskeletons have been picking up in the automation sector in recent times, and can be increasingly seen doing the literal ‘heavy lifting’ on more and more manufacturing floors. There are now estimates that the global exoskeleton market will be worth US$8.3 billion by 2025,
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As waves of new, more sophisticated cyber attacks become more prevalent in the wake of COVID-19 it’s becoming more apparent that risky password behaviour can lead to serious consequences. It’s one of the basics of internet security hygiene, but according to a new report from Kaspersky, 83% of internet users think
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This week it was reported that healthcare giant Magellan Health was hit by a ransomware attack. The American firm, a Fortune 500 for-profit managed health care and insurance outfit, reportedly suffered a breach of its corporate servers – well after the pandemic took hold. The attack came after leading cybercrime gangs
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The Nigeria LNG Limited says it has paid over $13bn to the Federal Government for feed-gas purchase since the inception of its operations. The NLNG disclosed this on Twitter on Sunday while marking the 31st anniversary of its establishment. It also said over $7bn in dividends and $8bn in taxes had been
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Ekiti State Government has approved the development and operation of an Independent Power Plant in the state to improve power supply in the state. The Commissioner for Information, Muyiwa Olumilua, who disclosed this on Sunday said the IPP would also reduce costs incurred in the provision and fueling of generators. Olumilua, who
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With solid-state batteries, electric vehicles should be able to achieve an autonomy (driving range) matching—and eventually surpassing—that of cars with an internal combustion engine. For electric cars to really take off, they ideally should match—or even exceed—the driving range of vehicles with an internal combustion engine. The key to achieving this lies in the battery itself, more specifically in
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New research has revealed that secure hardware technology markets will be negatively impacted by COVID-19. ABI Research finds that two areas in particular, Trusted Platform Modules (TPM) and Trusted Execution Environments (TEE) will be hard hit. The firm projects that 2020 shipments of TPMs are forecasted to decline year-over-year more than 17%
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NVIDIA has today announced that the very first GPU based on the company’s Ampere architecture is generally available and shipping to customers worldwide. The GPU, called NVIDIA A100, unifies AI training and boasts a performance level up to 20 times more powerful than its predecessors. It comes as the world's demand for data
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The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown a spanner in the works for many sectors and industries that thought 2020 was going to be their year. A classic example of this is the great expectation of 2020 being the year of 5G – devices with 5G capabilities were being rolled out, more were
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What do companies like Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify and Lyft know that you don’t know? What do these companies have that you might be lacking? Sure, they had an initial idea. But we’ve all had good ideas. How did each of these new market heroes move from the seed of an idea
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