Meet Angell, a new smart bike from a French startup led by Marc Simoncini who is mostly known for founding Meetic. The company is announcing its first electric-bike today. And the goal is to make an e-bike that is smarter than everything out there. “We dedicate half of public space to
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Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), has pledged to increase the figures of bank customers enrolled on the Bank Verification Number (BVN) system from 38 million to 100 million in the next five years. According to the CBN Update, the apex bank said increase in BVN enrollment would address the constraint that
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Websites and apps using Google’s advertising tools will be able to block personalized ads to internet users in California and elsewhere as part of the company’s effort to help them comply with the state’s new privacy law, it told clients this week. The California Consumer Privacy Act, which goes into effect
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Gartner estimates that China exports around US$10 billion of IT application and business process services, primarily to North America, Western Europe, Asia Pacific, and Japan. Indian outsourcing firms generated more than US$45 billion in global services in 2018. For the companies outsourcing IT applications and business process services to China, India,
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Data Science Nigeria, a leading Nigerian AI organization has launched the first AI (Artificial Intelligence) textbook in Africa. The book was launched at the 2019 AI summit in Lagos, Nigeria. Data Science Nigeria aims to train up to 1 million AI talents by 2029. Titled ‘Beginners’ Artificial Intelligence & Python Programming
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Senate yesterday passed an amendment that will ensure collection of tax from transaction on YouTube, Google, Amazon and other online transactions. The lawmakers’ resolution was sequel to the consideration of the report of Senate Committee on Finance, which was presented by Senator Olamilekan Adeola. According to Adeola, all transactions through Google, Amazon,
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The Minister of State, Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah, has said what Nigeria need is skills and not certificate for economic development. Ogah who stated this when he visited Metallurgical Training Institute, Onitsha, said government would continue to pay attention to job creation through skills training and acquisition. The minister,
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Eighty years ago, the world’s first industrial gas turbine began to generate electricity in a municipal power station in Neuchâtel, Switzerland. The machine, installed by Brown Boveri, vented the exhaust without making use of its heat, and the turbine’s compressor consumed nearly three-quarters of the generated power. That resulted in
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A "simply extraordinary" 9-year-old prodigy from Belgium will soon earn a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering before beginning doctoral studies while pursuing medical degree. Laurent Simons is expected to graduate next month from the Eindhoven University of Technology (TUE) in December "Laurent is the fastest student we have ever had here," Sjoerd
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A few years ago, I found myself in the laundry room of a house in Austin, Texas, looking at some disturbing electrical signals on an oscilloscope. In my capacity as chief technology officer for the nonprofit clean-energy-research firm Pecan Street, examining the effect on the grid of homes with rooftop
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