For some, all the talk about artificial intelligence sounds like science fiction, where futuristic societies are overrun by robots that begin to think for themselves. And given all the hype about AI, it is not surprising that 61 percent of respondents in a recent Reuters poll believed that AI poses
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Operational efficiency is always important for a business. Everywhere you turn, there are threats to stability, from supply chain disruption to war in Europe to inflation in the US and even deflation in China. Efficient activity and productive operations haven't been more important to successful business since the Great Recession started
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Africa’s leading payments technology company, Flutterwave, has announced its plan to launch an inaugural Engineering Mobility Programme in India with the support of Capgemini, a global leader in business and technology transformation services. The announcement reaffirms Flutterwave’s commitment to empower its engineers to build innovative payment solutions. Flutterwave’s Nigeria and UK-based engineering
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Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives, Benjamin Okezie Kalu, has said the National Assembly is committed to the advancement and utilization of biotechnology innovations for crops improvement. Kalu, according to a statement by his Special Assistant on Press Affairs, Udora Orizu, gave the assurance,on Monday, while declaring open the maiden conference of
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In a hangar at the University of Edinburgh, a triangular steel contraption sits beside a giant tank of water. Inside the tank, a technician in a yellow dinghy adjusts equipment so that the triangled structure can be hoisted into the water to see how it deals with simulated waves and
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Technologies for space are designed to be tough, safe, and long-lasting. So what happens when you bring the battery chemistry deployed on the International Space Station, nickel-hydrogen, down to Earth? “[It’s] the most durable battery ever invented,” says Jorg Heinemann. Nickel-hydrogen batteries, he says, can last for 30,000 charge cycles, is
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OpenAI’s ChatGPT is getting a major update that will enable the viral chatbot to have voice conversations with users and interact using images, moving it closer to popular artificial intelligence assistants like Apple’s Siri. The voice feature “opens doors to many creative and accessibility-focused applications,” OpenAI said in a blog post on Monday. Similar AI services like
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Excessive screen time may be taking more from children than their attention. For the first time, researchers in Turkey have shown that blue light exposure can speed up the onset of puberty in male rats, demonstrating a potential link between smart device screens and early childhood development. A joint team from Gazi
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Asphalt is primarily known for use in roadways, but it's also used to pave playgrounds, bicycle paths, running tracks and tennis and basketball courts—all platforms for activities where breathing toxic fumes can be dangerous. Outdoor use on driveways, rooftops and parking lots, especially in the Arizona sun, also can lead
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There is a largely untapped energy source along the world's coastlines: the difference in salinity between seawater and freshwater. A new nanodevice can harness this difference to generate power. A team of researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has reported a design for a nanofluidic device capable of converting ionic
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