The Fifth-Generation (5G) connectivity could save over 250 million tonnes in CO2 emissions globally by 2030 if the move to wind and solar energy is accelerated. A study titled: “Connectivity and Climate Change: How 5G will help lay the path to net zero,” by Building Mobile Britain, which revealed this, based
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A new machine-learning system costs less, generates less waste, and can be more innovative than manual discovery methods. The growing popularity of 3D printing for manufacturing all sorts of items, from customized medical devices to affordable homes, has created more demand for new 3D printing materials designed for very specific uses. To
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Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, teenage girls around the world have reportedly been showing up at doctors’ offices with newly developed tics — physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts — which doctors believe could be caused by the Chinese-owned social media app, TikTok. Movement-disorder doctors were confused at first, as
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Gas-fired power plants are increasingly making a loss in both Europe and the US, a situation not helped by soaring fuel prices, a report from Carbon Tracker reveals. The financial think tank estimates that developers of most gas plants planned or under construction will never recover their initial investment and more
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Healthtracka, a Nigeria-based healthtech startup decentralised laboratory testing in Africa by providing at-home tests and digital results, has announced joining the Techstars Toronto Accelerator programme. The three-month-long scheme will provide direct mentorship, funding, and access to a global network for the platform. The five-month-old startup will be joining 11 other startups
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As a robotics engineer, Yasemin Ozkan-Aydin, assistant professor of electrical engineering at the University of Notre Dame, gets her inspiration from biological systems. The collective behaviors of ants, honeybees and birds to solve problems and overcome obstacles is something researchers have developed in aerial and underwater robotics. Developing small-scale swarm
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Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc, has received the International Standards Excellence Awards for Best World Class Energy/Power Brand of the Year 2021. The organizers say the award is in recognition of Transcorp’s phenomenal contributions to Nigeria’s power sector through its power businesses – Transcorp Power Limited and Trans Afam Power Limited. The
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Immunotherapy is a promising strategy to treat cancer by stimulating the body’s own immune system to destroy tumor cells, but it only works for a handful of cancers. MIT researchers have now discovered a new way to jump-start the immune system to attack tumors, which they hope could allow immunotherapy
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As African governments grapple to manage economies digitally, integrated digital payment and e-commerce company, Interswitch, has tipped block- chain technology to be the surest way. Blockchain technology is a digital ledger that stores transactions. The digital system essentially records transactions in multiple places at the same time, thereby making it impossible to
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Nigeria and Turkey, yesterday, signed eight major memorandum of understandings (MoUs) on key sectors, including energy, defence, mining and hydrocarbons with the implementation to commence immediately. President Muhammadu Buhari made the disclosure at a joint press conference on the occasion of the official visit of Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan to
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