Alphabet Inc.’s Google said it plans to spend more than $13 billion on data centers and offices in the United States this year. “These new investments will give us the capacity to hire tens of thousands of employees, and enable the creation of more than 10,000 new construction jobs in Nebraska,
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Information and Communications Technology stakeholders have urged Lagos State Government to increased adoption of Information Technology in its governance. They made this call at the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) Lagos 2019 Stakeholders Forum held in Lagos on Wednesday. The theme of the event was ‘NCS @ 40: NCS Lagos Roadmap in the
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Both outlived and outperformed expectations, on opposite sides of Mars. The golf-cart-size rovers were designed to operate as geologists for just three months, after bouncing onto our planetary neighbor inside cushioning air bags in January 2004. They rocketed from Cape Canaveral a month apart in 2003. It’s no easier saying goodbye
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Vision 2020 Youth Empowerment and Restoration Initiative, in collaboration with the United State Embassy in Nigeria, recently advised young Nigerian girls to be more determined and focused in their passion for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) courses at school, in order to develop skills in that would enable them
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The Republic of India is sourcing about 10 per cent of its energy requirement from Nigeria, the Indian High Commissioner to Nigeria, Abhay Thakur, stated on Tuesday. He disclosed this during his visit to the Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, Maikanti Baru, at the headquarters of the
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A combination of vein patterns, skin creases, scars, tattoos and pigmentation are used as key biometrics used to identify an individual. These techniques have previously been used successfully in a court of law to identify child abusers from images of their hands. The project will combine 'hard biometrics', such as fingerprints with
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The U.S. military wants to expand its use of artificial intelligence in warfare, but says it will take care to deploy the technology in accordance with the nation's values. In a 17-page report, the Pentagon laid out how it plans to inject artificial intelligence into future military operations and how it will
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Looking for love online? You may want to use some extra caution. A new notice released Tuesday by the Federal Trade Commission highlights a surge in 'romance scams,' or scenarios where scammers trick love-lusting internet users into sending them money, only to later disappear. The scams cost victims an astonishing $143 million
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Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos launched a tirade against the invasion of his privacy, last week, after the National Enquirer reportedly obtained private images of the billionaire. Bezos’ company Amazon, however, helped create the culture of invasion of privacy he now protests. In a blog post, Bezos’ claimed
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In a move to get airborne vehicles off the ground in Japan, the government last August established the Public-Private Conference for Future Air Mobility. The group is made up of two government agencies, several universities, and 22 private companies and institutes, including NEC Corp, Japan Airlines, Subaru, Uber Japan, and Boeing
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