Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JEDC) says it recorded no less than 200 cases of meter bypass and 54 cases of transformer vandalism in six months. The JEDC Head, Corporate Communications, Dr Adakole Elijah, who disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Gombe on Monday, said 30 cases of transformer oil
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Ancient maps give us a slight glimpse of how landscapes looked like centuries ago. But what would we see if we looked at these older maps with a modern lens? Henrique Andrade is a student at Escola Politécnica da Universidade de Pernambuco, Recife who has been studying maps of his hometown
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I’ll be honest: when the original AxiDraw came out from Evil Mad Scientist Laboratories in 2016, I thought it was cute but a curiosity. My thought was that if you were going to play around with reintroducing the venerable technology of the pen-and-paper X-Y plotter, why not do something really
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Businesses have until midday on 17 April to apply for grants for Innovate UK funding of up to £50,000 to cover the cost of projects that develop or use technology during this Covid-19 pandemic. Technology can be used to meet the new way of working, whether that is re-engineering working practices,
Read MoreDescription Manage and deepen existing relationships with existing and prospective customersWin new accounts and resuscitate dormant relationships.Marketing of bank’s products to meet customer needsInitiate development of products required to meet customer needs.Ensure efficient
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Current nuclear waste storage methods are less stable than previously thought and could be leaking harmful radioactive material, scientists have warned. Disposal of nuclear waste involves mixing it with other materials to form glass or ceramics, and then encasing those pieces of glass or ceramics – now radioactive –inside metallic canisters. These
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Researchers in California have extended the spectral range of perovskite light-emitting diodes into the blues. How did they do it? By cracking the mystery of why the optical and electronic properties of the materials change when current flows through them. Painstaking measurements revealed that current-induced heating deformed cells in the semiconductor crystals. That
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The Brookings Institution last week published a report from global economy expert Indermit Gill prophesying that the AI leader in 2030 will go on to rule the planet until at least 2100. The territories in the running include the US, China, and the European Union. Economists appear to have reached a general
Read MoreI’m writing a book about augmented reality, which forced me to confront a central question: When will this technology truly arrive? I’m not talking about the smartphone-screen versions offered up by the likes of Pokémon Go and Minecraft Earth, but in that long-promised form that will require nothing more cumbersome
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During an interview at the World Economic Forum in Davos Switzerland, Trump praised Tesla CEO and SpaceX founder Elon Musk calling him one of the world’s “great geniuses,” and comparing him to Thomas Edison. Musk is “one of our great geniuses, and we have to protect our genius,” President Trump said, adding: “You know, we
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