The Federal High Court has authorised judges to adopt virtual proceedings for cases in all its judicial divisions nationwide. The Chief Judge of the court, Justice John Tsoho, gave the new direction titled: 'Practice Directions 2020 for the COVID-19 Period,' which became effective from yesterday. However, the new rules provide that the
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Like the atomic particles he studies, Pablo Ducru seems constantly on the move, vibrating with energy. But if he sometimes appears to be headed in an unexpected direction, Ducru, a doctoral candidate in nuclear science and computational engineering, knows exactly where he is going: “My goal is to address climate
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Machine learning and AI are highly unstable in medical image reconstruction, and may lead to false positives and false negatives, a new study suggests. A team of researchers, led by the University of Cambridge and Simon Fraser University, designed a series of tests for medical image reconstruction algorithms based on AI
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This spring, under the threat of mass infection and with little or no preparation or planning, millions of professors and instructors around the world shifted their lectures, seminars, discussion sessions, and other in-person classes to online learning platforms. Millions of college students made the shift with them. Steering the giant
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The Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity to rethink how cities are designed—and make them better equipped to stop disease from spreading. The cities of the world are sick. As the coronavirus pandemic continues, people living in metropolitan areas have been among the worst hit, unable to socially distance effectively and sometimes
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Coronavirus could soon be detected by sneezing or coughing onto a phone, using a tiny sensor that will produce results within 60 seconds, according to reports. University of Utah engineering professor Massood Tabib-Azar said he’s leading a team of researchers to develop a quarter-size device that can be plugged into the
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Elon Musk's private company SpaceX has confirmed that its first manned space shuttle will launch next week. NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will take off in the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on May 27 at 4:32 pm EDT (9:32pm BST). As part
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A brief look at the history of venture capital and ask: What values have been historically important for a VC to achieve success? Now that we have reached the end of a long bull run in the financial markets, valuations are coming down, logic and common sense are returning to the
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Some 108 million people in China’s northeast region are being plunged back under lockdown conditions as a new and growing cluster of infections causes a backslide in the nation’s return to normal. In an abrupt reversal of the re-opening taking place across the nation, cities in Jilin province have cut off
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It's not easy to relax in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are some simple tips and techniques that can help you get some shut-eye. Life in the Covid-19 pandemic has taken on some unpleasant and unexpected contours. Time has lost all meaning. Dreams have become assailingly vivid. That
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