Facebook's parent firm opened its Horizon Worlds virtual reality platform on Thursday to the public in North America, in a step toward building its metaverse vision for the future. Horizon Worlds is far from a fully realized metaverse, a future internet where online experiences like chatting to a friend would eventually
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The Centre for Information Technology and Development (CITAD) has said 114 communities in Nigeria have either weak or lack internet connectivity. It also disclosed that 100 million Nigerians do not have access to internet services. These were revealed by the Executive Director of the centre, Yunusa Zakari Yau, who addressed newsmen in
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The Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN), has blamed the importation of materials necessary to build power infrastructures, among other issues, as the bane of development of the sector despite its privatization. Speaking at the maiden Abuja Electric Roundtable organized by the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industry (ACCI) in Abuja, the
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The Federal Government has said it will carefully scrutinise oil companies that will bid for the takeover of assets that Shell and other oil majors will be divesting from in the country. Shell and ExxonMobil had indicated their interests to divest from onshore and shallow water assets in the country. Speaking at
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Margaret Oguntala has become the first female engineer to win the position of Deputy President of the Nigerian Society of Engineers in its over 63 years of existence. The election filled with so much euphoria was keenly campaigned by contestants. The election which was disclosed by the Society’s Deputy President, Engr. Tasiu
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Google said it has moved to shut down a network of about one million hijacked electronic devices used worldwide to commit online crimes, while also suing Russia-based hackers the tech giant claimed were responsible. The so-called botnet of infected devices, which was also used to surreptitiously mine bitcoin, was cut off
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The United Bank for Africa (UBA) took over 60 percent equity of private investors in Abuja Electricity Distribution Company (AEDC) to recover its acquisition loans KANN, the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC), has said. The Commission in a joint statement with the Bureau of Public Enterprises (BPE) on Wednesday, also said
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MYSTERY "UFO sounds" recorded from under a lake in the USA have sparked a bizarre alien base conspiracy. But science may have some more mundane explanations as to where this Martian noise is coming from. Recordings taken from Steamboat Springs in Colorado were recorded by an employee of the Colorado Parks and
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Stablecoins have been hailed by many to be a “safer” alternative to cryptocurrencies because of the perception that their values are less volatile. In fact, its perceived value is so immense, that Palau became the first country in the world to make it their nation’s first digital currency. But are stablecoins really
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The Minister of State for Power, Goddy Jedy-Agba, has said the rehabilitation of a turbine and the installation of two new turbines at Kainji Hydropower Plant in Niger State will add 220 megawatts (MW) to the national grid. The minister stated this in Abuja at the signing ceremony of the turbine
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