Technology

  Facial recognition is one of the fastest-growing technologies in the world. Facial recognition is a biometric technology used to identify or authenticate faces by digitally mapping a person’s facial features. While the novel technology offers some noteworthy benefits, it also threatens certain fundamental rights and freedoms. In this article, we look at some of the reasons why the advancement ...

  First Bank of Nigeria Limited has announced that its mobile banking application, FirstMobile has been upgraded with new and improved features to promote safe and convenient Mobile Banking experience for customers. The bank in statement said the mobile banking application has been redesigned with improved security and self-service features to ease the navigation capability and proficiency of customers. Explaining ...

NASA wants you to help put the loo in lunar, so it’s offering $35,000 in prizes to design a toilet that can be used on the moon. The space agency has set an ambitious goal of sending astronauts back to the moon by 2024 and the crew will obviously have to go to the bathroom during the mission. NASA may ...

  An incredible submarine is all set to give tourists a sea view like no other. The Triton Deepview 24 can take 24 passengers to depths of up to 100m (328ft) and afford them magnificent views thanks to vast panoramic windows – and all from the comfort of a 15.4m (50.5ft) long air-conditioned interior big enough to stand up in. ...

Morocco has rapidly expanded its fleet of drones as it battles the coronavirus pandemic, deploying them for aerial surveillance, public service announcements and sanitisation. “This is a real craze. In just weeks, demand has tripled in Morocco and other countries in the region,” said Yassine Qamous, chief of Droneway Maroc, African distributor for leading Chinese drone company DJI. Moroccan firms ...

Following the shutdown of schools amid coronavirus crisis, Nollywood actress, Tonto Dikeh has revealed that her son has resumed schooled from home via technology. Sharing pictures of her son, Andre receiving lectures, Tonto Dikeh wrote: “Good bless technology.. KINGS ZOOM SCHOOLING #VirtualLearning She also added that ”He was mad cause he thought he dressing up to go shopping.. Little lad ...

Russia’s National Guard will monitor compliance with tough measures imposed in response to the pandemic during holidays this week. The use of military technology follows a recorded rise in Covid-associated deaths of 58 in the past 24 hours, taking the official death count to 1,280. As the number of confirmed coronavirus cases reached 134,687, Russia is now recording more new ...

Medics have deployed a robot in a Tunisia’s hospital caring for coronavirus victims to limit contact between staff and infected patients, in a first for the North African country. The tall, single-limbed machine is mounted on wheels and is capable of taking pulses and checking temperatures and blood oxygen levels. It enables nurses, doctors and patients’ relatives to make virtual ...

A clinically-tested ventilator that can work without electricity has been presented to the management of the University of Benin (UNIBEN) in Edo State, led by the Vice-Chancellor, Prof. Lilian Salami. The ventilator was produced by a team of researchers in the Faculties of Engineering and Medical Sciences of the federal university. The invention, according to UNIBEN’s Spokesperson, Dr. Benedicta Ehanire, ...

The Ogun State government has deployed a mobile application for residents to undergo assessment on an individual basis in the event of being infected with COVID-19. This comes a month after the state launched an updated mobile application for health workers which has been deployed to all government and private health facilities across its 20 local government areas to aid ...

Spring graduation ceremonies in Japan have been cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, but students at one school were able to attend remotely by controlling avatar robots while logged on at home. The robots, dubbed “Newme” by developer ANA Holdings, were dressed in graduation caps and gowns for the ceremony at the Business Breakthrough University in Tokyo. The robots’ “faces” ...

The National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure has produced the first made in Nigeria ventilators. The development is aimed at combating the COVID-19 disease in the country. Ventilator is a vital equipment in the treatment of coronavirus patients. NASENI has equally produced mobile sprayers, which are to be used to disinfect Nigerian cities and homes. A notice by NASENI ...

Football fans in Nigeria are in for a big thrill as Samuel Eto’o Fils, one of Africa’s greatest football legends has arrived in Lagos for the launch of the 2020 edition of Castle Africa 5s, the continental leg of the Trophy 5-A-Side developmental football tournament. Eto arrived in Lagos yesterday. Castle Africa 5s is the continent’s biggest amateur 5-A-side football ...

China has opened its first coronavirus hospital after around 500 workers and volunteers spent just 48 hours converting an empty building. The medical building had been set to open in May, but following the deadly outbreak, it was all hands on deck to get it completed. It now boasts 1,000-beds and the first batch of coronavirus patients were transferred at ...

  These pictures might move you to tears! Working country! Nothing beats being able to handle situations as a country all by yourself and making it effective! The 25,000-square-metre Huoshenshan Hospital, one of two new hospitals being built, is scheduled to open today. On 24 January, diggers were speedily clearing the ground where the hospital will sit. The Chinese city ...

WhatsApp recently bade farewell to Windows Phone. The giant chatting app is now ready to do the same with some Android and iOS devices. This is not surprising as there have been talks about it for quite a while. Starting from February 1, 2020. WhatsApp will no longer work on phones running Android 2.3.7 or iOS 7 (and earlier). So, ...

In Malawi, 14 million people rely mainly on agriculture as a means of subsistence. In 2017, drought in the country affected more than half the population. Since 2016, Malawi has stood at the forefront of utilizing unmanned aircraft systems — also known as drones in Africa. This year, the country took a step further by opening the African Drone and ...

The world’s first soft robotic heart is in development which could clear NHS transplant waiting lists. The “hybrid heart” will be the first ever made of soft artificial muscles and sensors and then coated in human tissue grown in a lab. A pioneering Dutch surgeon is working in partnership with the British Heart Foundation to transplant it in to the ...

Internet users across more than a dozen sub-Saharan African nations experienced slow service after two undersea cables to the continent’s western coast were damaged this week. -The so-called WACS and SAT3/WASC cable systems are in the Atlantic Ocean and connect South Africa and many other African countries to Europe, according to Openserve, a unit of South Africa’s biggest fixed-line telecommunications ...

It’s the end of an internet era as Sergei Brin and Larry Page are stepping down as head of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, and ceding management control to Sundar Pichai who will take over as CEO.   Page and Sergey Brin, who co-founded Google more than two decades ago while graduate students at Stanford University, will continue as members of Alphabet’s ...

  An unidentified man is currently trending on twitter for creating a power generating transformer,   According to twiter user, @GospelJosiah who shared the photos, the young man built the transformer from scraps,  though he gave no further details about the transformer or the man that built it.   Sharing the pictures on his twitter page, he wrote: This young ...

Experts have warned that sex robots could ‘easily’ malfunction and attack users.   According to Brick Dollbanger, who works with Realbotix, he said a simple coding error could turn sexbots against their owners. He said: “It scares me to death, it’s a machine and it’s always going to be a machine. It’s not going to be something you can hit ...

The moon is covered in human poo left behind by astronauts and there’s a reason for that.   Astronauts left behind a number of things on the moon, including their poo. According to Metro UK, the Apollo astronauts had been tasked with bringing lots of moon rocks back to earth. But the weight of all these rocks had to be ...

  Today’s kids are three times more likely to aspire toward a career as a YouTuber rather than an astronaut, according to a new study. Toy production firm Lego surveyed 3,000 children between the ages of eight and 12 from the U.S., the U.K. and China, as well as 326 parents who had children aged between five and 12. Almost ...

Obviously, no aviator wishes to encounter with this heart-stopping moment. Fortunately, this plane avoids a fatal crash. Check the footage of this one-off incident here! The video was about a hair-raising moment in 2014 wherein a Boeing 767-300 of a Russian Airline, the UTAir from Moscow to Barcelona had to abort its landing when witnessing another aircraft getting into the ...