New research from Datadobi and 451 Research suggests that more organisations are holding on to unstructured data, causing headaches for the planning, storage, and management of on-premise and cloud data The Voice of the Enterprise: Storage, Data Management & Disaster Recovery 2021 report found that data growth is the top challenge when
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Dams have a net negative impact on climate change as they release twice as much carbon as they store, researchers have found. With dams serving as reservoirs for drinking water, agricultural irrigation or the operation of hydropower plants, it had been assumed that dams act as net carbon stores. Researchers from the
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While business leaders know the importance of data to an organisation, more than a third are not using it to make critical business decisions, according to new research. The survey, from data integration and integrity firm Talend, highlighted the challenges businesses face in becoming data-driven organisations and the solutions to these
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Battery swapping has become a lot like hydrogen fuel cells for passenger cars: They’re automotive ideas that are never quite born, but just won’t die. Here in 2021, Battery swapping in EVs has become an especially bad idea. It’s a technical and market dead-end that seems more about separating green investors
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Gabbie Acot started off on a pre-med track at Princeton before broadening her studies to include structural engineering and then neuroscience. Her senior thesis project brought together all of these interests, combining video analysis, neuroimaging and numerical modeling to perform a forensic reconstruction of college football head impacts. Acot’s adviser called
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Kaduna State government on Thursday commended residents for monitoring the execution of development projects in their communities. Mrs Jumai Bako, Director, Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E), Planning and Budget Commission (PBC), gave the commendation when she spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kaduna. She said the monitoring was helping government
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The International Space Station (ISS) photographed by Expedition 56 crew members from a Soyuz spacecraft after undocking, October 2018. NASA/Roscosmos Russia’s space agency said Thursday it was sending an actress and a director to the International Space Station in October to make the first feature film in space. “Filming will take place
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The Rivers State government has said its ongoing automation of the transportation sector would tackle insecurity and provide jobs in the state. The digital registration and connection involves the enumeration of all commercial vehicles and their operators. Senior Special Assistant to Governor Nyesom Wike on Information and Communication, Technology (ICT), Asaro Ibifuro,
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The African nation of Equatorial Guinea is rich in oil and gas reserves, yet poor in most other ways. It has over a billion barrels of proved crude oil and over a trillion cubic feet of proved natural gas reserves. On key measures, through—life expectancy, education, per-capita income—it ranks near the bottom of
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The Biden administration has announced it has approved the first large-scale offshore wind farm for the US. It hopes the project will launch a new domestic energy industry that will help eliminate emissions from the nation’s power sector. The project, called Vineyard Wind, will be located off the coast of Massachusetts
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