Perovskites — a broad category of compounds that share a certain crystal structure — have attracted a great deal of attention as potential new solar-cell materials because of their low cost, flexibility, and relatively easy manufacturing process. But much remains unknown about the details of their structure and the effects
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Your kids are pros at fighting Fortnite zombies. Question is: What’s happening to their brains in real life? While some critics slam video games for turning young minds to mush, technology optimists promote some games as IQ-boosting silver bullets. The truth is complicated, according to researchers at the University of Oxford.
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The four others targeted by operatives include three lawyers involved in related lawsuits in Israel and Cyprus alleging that the company, the NSO Group, sold its spyware to governments with questionable human rights records. The fourth is a London-based journalist who has covered the litigation. Two of them — the
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Ericsson has launched a new Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based managed services offering for communications service providers – the Ericsson Operations Engine. The solution is an end-to-end managed services operating model that, through Artificial Intelligence, automation, and the power of data, reimagines network and IT operations, network design and optimization, and applications development
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Google reportedly hosted a “malware” app on its Google Play store that stole users’ cryptocurrency, leading tech site Ars Technica to claim the company “can’t be trusted to proactively keep malware out of Play.” According to Ars Technica, the “clipper” malware app “masqueraded as a legitimate cryptocurrency app,” and “worked by
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Can robots be creative? British gallery owner Aidan Meller hopes to go some way towards answering that question with Ai-Da, who her makers say will be able to draw people from sight with a pencil in her bionic hand. Meller is overseeing the final stages of her construction by engineers at
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RUSSIA is shutting off its internet as part of a dramatic test to help it defend against devastating cyber attacks. The experiment is part of preparations for a potential cyber war with the US that could see Donald Trump shut down Russia's internet access. Officials will use it to gather information and
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Apple’s iPhone sales in China fell 20 percent year-on-year in the fourth quarter of 2018, while sales for smartphones made by home-grown rival Huawei soared by 23 percent, data from industry research firm IDC showed on Monday. The report is the first to put a firm number on the scale of
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Members of Omadino Welders and Fitters Association, OWFA, under the umbrella of Nigerian Welders Association, have lamented their marginalization in the area of employment by International Oil Companies operating in their area. In a letter by Kennedy Ugbameta, President and Mr. Omasanjuwa Oghanrandukun, Assistant Secretary addressed to President Muhammadu Buhari, they
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