The National Broadband Plan Committee recently constituted to draw a robust plan for broadband Nigeria, has just submitted its report to the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy. Part of the brief of the Committee, headed by Nigeria’s tech Amazon and Chief Executive of MainOne, Funke Opeke, is to set new
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MIT researchers have invented a way to integrate “breadboards” — flat platforms widely used for electronics prototyping — directly onto physical products. The aim is to provide a faster, easier way to test circuit functions and user interactions with products such as smart devices and flexible electronics. Breadboards are rectangular boards
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Alien life may be lurking within a mysterious caver under the surface of Mars, scientists claim. An eerie crater on the dusty slopes of Mars’ Pavonis Mons volcano was picked out by two space scientists as a prime spot for extraterrestrials. NASA says the “unusual” feature “appears to be an opening to
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No one could be more astonished to find Ciara Sivels ’13 where she is today than Ciara Sivels herself. “Never in a million years would I have predicted that I’d be working as a nuclear engineer in a major research laboratory,” says Sivels. “My original dream was to be a
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West Virginia is opting not to use a widely criticized voting app in the state’s coming primary elections after a blistering report found potential security flaws in the platform. Donald Kersey, general counsel in the West Virginia Secretary of State’s office, said Monday that an MIT analysis of the Voatz app
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For many of today’s applications and workloads, cloud computing offers the enterprise a host of advantages over traditional data centers, including lowered operational and capital expenditures, improved time to market, and the ability to dynamically adjust provisioning to meet changing needs globally. Consequently, there has been a massive shift to
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Financially motivated cybercrime happened on an almost continuous basis in 2019, according to a CrowdStrike report released today. The study also found an increase in ransomware incidents, as well as a rise in demands from eCrime actors. The CrowdStrike global threat report confirmed cases of data exfiltration have been rising, which can
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Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has allayed the fear of Nigerians over the introduction of the 5G network in the country saying it has non-ionising radiation and would not have adverse health effects on humans. “So, radiation in 5G is going to be minimal and not harmful.” Rather, Nigeria will derive huge
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Oil demand is set to contract in 2020 as the coronavirus outbreak widened to 72 countries outside China as of Wednesday, threatening to put more pressure on the global economy and fuel demand, according to analyst projections this week. This is notable because oil demand has consistently increased every year for
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Kunle got to Yaba at 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday to board a bus to Yenagoa, Bayelsa state. After one hour of searching for a suitable vehicle heading in that direction, he settled for a minivan. It took another four hours for the vehicle to fill up, even though he
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