Thousands of people in Sweden are having futuristic microchips implanted into their skin to carry out everyday activities and replace credit cards and cash. More than 4,000 people have already had the sci-fi-ish chips, about the size of a grain of rice, inserted into their hands — with the pioneers predicting
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With an estimated number of over seven billion users of the cell phone around the world, it has become pertinent to look into the potential negative health effects of the use of mobile phones and possible health risks of exposure to radio frequency energy it generates to mankind in the
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With the remarkable exploits of the Silicon Valley, a tech site located in San Francisco Bay, North-Carolina famed for producing world-leading tech companies as Google, Facebook and Apple but a few to mention, nations around the world have sought to replicate this model in their tech-economic sectors by strategically concentrating
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A marine biologist who pioneered a 'shark-proof' wetsuit in the late 1970s is so confident about the strength of his invention that he regularly puts them to the test by thrusting his protected limbs into the predators' jaws. Jeremiah Sullivan is a marine biologist who is best known for his research into
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UNCERTAIN economic climates are a bane to all retailers and businesses are scrambling to adopt new methods and markets to see them through these unpredictable times. To revive sales numbers amid sluggish growth, online retailer JD.com is setting its sights on China’s smaller cities and is deploying artificial intelligence (AI) to
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In 1968, NASA astronaut Jim Lovell gazed out of a porthole from lunar orbit and remarked on the “vast loneliness” of the moon. It may not be lonely place for much longer. Today, a new rush of enthusiasm for lunar exploration has swept up government space agencies, commercial space companies
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Researchers at MIT have come up with a new pulsed laser deposition technique to make thinner lithium electrolytes using less heat, promising faster charging and potentially higher-voltage solid-state lithium ion batteries. Key to the new technique for processing the solid-state battery electrolyte is alternating layers of the active electrolyte lithium garnet
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Tech giant Google is being criticized for what many are calling an attempt to create a modern company town, where Google itself owns the majority of houses and businesses. CNBC reports that Google announced last month that the company would invest $1 billion in the construction of 20,000 Bay Area homes,
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Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) has enjoined Nigerians not to expect a regular supply of electricity any time soon. Corporate affairs manager of the company, Mr. Fadipe Oyebode, while refuting claims in some quarters that AEDC was deliberately denying the people of Niger State electricity, said: “we can only give what
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Another week, another trade war. And unlike most trade wars these days, this one didn’t originate from the confines of the Rose Garden with the Marine One whirlybird in the background. No, like any Ice Bucket Challenge-worthy meme, others are getting in on the trade war bandwagon and making it
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