It’s been five years since Facebook shelled out $2 billion to buy Oculus — and finally, the virtual-reality startup has produced a device that may grab the attention of more than just tech geeks. The $400 Oculus Quest is the company’s fourth headset, but the first that is completely wireless. This
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Omer Tanovic, a PhD candidate in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, joined the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems (LIDS) because he loves studying theory and turning research questions into solvable math problems. But Omer says that his engineering background — before coming to MIT he received
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The resolve by banks to enhance technology driven services may pose threats to conventional banking such that it will reduce physical expansion and loss of man power while it will increase efficiency. To those who are technologically savvy, investment in technology is seen as the only way to go because it
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Arm’s top CPU architect Mike Filippo has left the company after ten years to join Apple. At Arm he was responsible the development of the Cortex-A76, A72, and A57, and Arm’s Hercules-AE automotive CPU. Before joining Arm, Filippo worked for AMD and Intel. The move is teported to be related to Apple’s plans
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Prof. Umar Danbatta, executive vice chairman, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has said that it is an offence for any telecommunication operator to disclose data of subscribers on their network. Danbatta, who stated this at the 88th Edition of the Telecom Consumer Parliament with the theme: “Challenges to Cybercrime: The Role of
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Paradigm Initiative, a digital rights group, has asked the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to provide it with information on the Nigerian surveillance and interception regime. This is because it believes that the government of President Muhammadu Buhari is allowing foreign governments to spy on Nigerians. Relying on the Freedom of Information
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MTN Nigeria yesterday said it has launched 4G+ in Lagos, Abuja and Port-Harcourt, saying the enhance service platform will help it deliver a premium experience to more people across the country. MTN 4G+ runs on 4G LTE Advanced Technology, using a combination of the recently acquired 800 MHz spectrum and
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Multichoice Nigeria, pay-tv operator, raked in N133.2 billion in revenue from subscriptions in the last one year, according to the Group’s financial results for the full year ended March 31, 2019. According to the results released to the Group’s investors last week, the Nigeria operating unit generated R5.3 billion in
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The Nigerian Communications Commission has urged software and hardware providers in the country to register with relevant government agencies and obtain operating licences for their businesses. The providers under the aegis of the Association of Handset, Hardware and Software Repairer of Nigeria were asked to register with appropriate agencies of government
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Airtel Africa Plc, the second largest telecommunications group in Africa is set to sell its shares to Nigerian investors at between N363 and N454 per share, according to offer prospectus of the telco. The company said the shares would be offered to high networth investors and institutional investors through book building
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