An international team of engineers in US and China have developed powerful artificial muscles which can generate power 40 times that of human muscles. A study published online in the journal Science explained that the engineers developed the muscles using a polymer sheath around inexpensive yarns. It described the sheath-run artificial muscles
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WHILE MOST business leaders are talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and exploring AI-powered applications, not everyone has an enterprise-wide AI strategy. Think tank and market research giant IDC recently conducted a survey of global organizations of organizations already using AI and found that only 75 percent of them haven’t put plans
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Carbon fiber composites are incredibly strong for their weight; that’s why they’re key to the newest aircraft designs. However, they’re only strong in one direction, so they’re generally layered or woven in grid patterns before being shaped into structures. That means one set of fibers carries the load some of the time,
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Just about every car manufacturer—including BMW, Ford, General Motors, Jaguar, and Toyota—has announced plans to build more electric vehicles and phase out cars with internal combustion engines. As of early 2018, automakers in Germany had investedUS $52 billion in EVs, Chinese car companies $21 billion, and these in the United States at least $19 billion, according to Reuters. BloombergNEF’s 2019 Electric
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To achieve affordable industrial energy, Ghana has announced very ambitious plans to introduce nuclear power into the country’s energy mix. Ghana’s Atomic Energy commission is currently preparing a report on the Nuclear Power Programme and upon presentation to government, a decision would be taken regarding financing the project. A nine-member board, known as ‘Nuclear
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Uber and Lyft going public may have put closer public scrutiny on the economics of ridesharing, but it hasn’t had a chilling effect on the level of competition in the space. In the latest development, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that Bolt, the Estonian ridesharing, scooter and food delivery company that
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Ten out of the nation’s 27 power plants saw their total output reduced by 1,664 megawatts on Thursday as a result of low demand by power distribution companies, data obtained from the Transmission Company of Nigeria showed. Total power generation in the country stood at 3,627.3MW as of 6.00am on Thursday,
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Volkswagen Automobile Group has reopened its auto assembly factory on the Badagry Expressway, Lagos, after 20 years of suspending operations in the country. According to the German automaker, the reopening was made possible through its partnership agreement with a private auto company, the Stallion Group for the assembly of the Volkswagen
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MODEC has contracted Siemens for power generation equipment for Eni’s Area 1 FPSO offshore Mexico. The vessel will be stationed in 105 ft (32 m) of water, 6 mi (10 km) from the coast. It will have capacity to process 90,000 b/d of crude oil and to store up to 900,000
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A report reveals that Nigeria’s significantly slow Internet download speed has caused the nation to rank 176th out of 207 countries — down from 95th place just two years ago. The Worldwide broadband speed league 2019 report says it takes an average of over seven hours to download a five-gigabyte movie in
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