China’s chip dreams of self-sufficiency may be coming true sooner rather than later with an unlikely new player in the semiconductor industry. The pandemic, if anything, has fueled a huge need for self-sufficiency, especially among technology giants that are often stuck in between the supply and demand conundrum. Joining the self-sufficiency
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Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft for urban commuting are currently under development by more than a dozen different companies. These concepts and prototypes, representing well over a billion dollars of venture capital investment in 2020 alone, promise that sometime in the near future, point-to-point travel between suburbs and
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YOUR iPhone has a a hidden weather map that tells you exactly where it's going to rain. It's also possible to scroll along the time of the day, so you can see when the rain will be at its worst in your local area. You can easily check for bad weather with
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From January to August, 2021, about 34 million calls were made by Nigerians, who were seeking succor during emergencies or under any circumstance posing security issue and unrest within their communities. These emergency calls were made using the 122 Emergency Number. The calls were processed through the Emergency Call Centres (ECC). Executive
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Despite last month’s impressive production and importation figures for Liquefied Petroleum Gas, the cost of the commodity is defying all odds, rising almost weekly. The situation has aggravated public concerns of the public, which fear that the commodity may get out of hand, reports. All things being equal, the disclosure by
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has lauded the National Assembly for empowering the agency to determine and deploy appropriate technology in future elections. The commission also appealed to the National Assembly to make broad provisions of laws to empower it to continue innovating without restriction to a specific technology. INEC’s Chairman,
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Gbenga Komolafe, chief executive officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Upstream Regulatory Commission (NURC), has asked his management team to double their efforts to increase the country’s oil revenue. Komolafe said this at the defunct Department of Petroleum Resources (DPR) office in Abuja. On Monday, Timipre Sylva, minister of state for petroleum resources,
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In a deal subject to approval from the Central Bank of Nigeria, MFS Africa has signed an agreement to acquire Capricorn Digital, one of Nigeria’s largest digital solutions and distribution companies with a 90,000-strong agent network across the country, for an undisclosed amount. As the largest fintech interoperability hub in Africa,
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The Royal Mint has signed an agreement with a Canadian tech start-up, Excir, with a view to introducing a new technology to the UK. This will allow the Mint to retrieve and recycle gold and other precious metals from e-waste. Each year, more than 50 million tonnes of e-waste is produced;
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“ESA had the opportunity to contribute to Woodsat’s payload and we requested Zortrax to manufacture one of the payload functional part we designed using PEEK,” said ESA engineer Ugo Lafont. “We had very tight time constraints and the use of dual 3D printing process has proven to be an asset
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