French television company Canal+ has acquired the ROK film studio from VOD company IROKOtv for an undisclosed amount. Founded by Jason Njoku in 2010 — and backed by $45 million in VC — IROKOtv boasts the largest online catalog of Nollywood film content in the world. Nollywood is a movie genre popularized
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The man who first invented the password to protect user accounts has died aged 93 of complications related to diabetes. Computer pioneer Fernando Corbato oversaw a project which would allow different users to access a computer at the same time. The technique, which he began during the sixties at Massachusetts Institute for Technology
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Prof. Eyitope Ogunbodede, the Vice-Chancellor of Obafemi Awolowo University (OAU), Ile-Ife, says the institution will complete its power generating plant in October. Ogunbodede made this known on Monday at the biennial conference of the African Institute for Science Policy and Innovation held at OAU. The vice-chancellor said the project, which started
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SystemSpecs, the Nigerian company with interests in financial technology, designs and development of human resource management, (HRM) solutions and NIBOX, a multi-platform payment solution provider, have entered a partnership to extend financial products and services to the banked, under-banked and unbanked in the country. SystemSpecs in a statement, said it would
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The challenge to Nigerian airlines operating international service is how to take passengers beyond point to point. Does Air Peace have code-share partner for its Dubai operations? First and foremost, I thank God almighty for what happened recently, I thank Nigerians, the media and the Federal Government for their supports. We
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A marine biologist who pioneered a 'shark-proof' wetsuit in the late 1970s is so confident about the strength of his invention that he regularly puts them to the test by thrusting his protected limbs into the predators' jaws. Jeremiah Sullivan is a marine biologist who is best known for his research into
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Tech giant Google is being criticized for what many are calling an attempt to create a modern company town, where Google itself owns the majority of houses and businesses. CNBC reports that Google announced last month that the company would invest $1 billion in the construction of 20,000 Bay Area homes,
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Another week, another trade war. And unlike most trade wars these days, this one didn’t originate from the confines of the Rose Garden with the Marine One whirlybird in the background. No, like any Ice Bucket Challenge-worthy meme, others are getting in on the trade war bandwagon and making it
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WHILE MOST business leaders are talking about artificial intelligence (AI) and exploring AI-powered applications, not everyone has an enterprise-wide AI strategy. Think tank and market research giant IDC recently conducted a survey of global organizations of organizations already using AI and found that only 75 percent of them haven’t put plans
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Carbon fiber composites are incredibly strong for their weight; that’s why they’re key to the newest aircraft designs. However, they’re only strong in one direction, so they’re generally layered or woven in grid patterns before being shaped into structures. That means one set of fibers carries the load some of the time,
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