Google pulled out 1.7 billion bad ads from sites with machine learning technology in 2016, an official, Ms Jenn Kaiser, has said. Kaiser, the Head of Ads PR, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Google and YouTube, gave the figure on Monday in Johannesburg, South Africa. She spoke on “Good
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The Senate Committee on Information Communication Technology ( ICT) has begged the Ministry of Communication to provide fund for its annual conference on cyber space security. Senator Abdulfatahi Buhari (APC Oyo North), made the appeal while hosting the Minister of Communications, Abdulrasheed Adebayo Shittu for the Ministry’s 2018 budget defence in Abuja. Also, the Vice
Scientists have found a potential food source for astronauts, using microbes to convert human waste into Marmite-like food, local media reported. This is contained in their study published in the quarterly scientific journal Life Sciences in Space Research by Professor of Geosciences, Christopher House and Director of the Penn State Astrobiology Research Centre. According
French carmaker PSA, owner of the Peugeot, Citroen, Opel, Vauxhall and DS brands, will offer an electric version of all its models by 2025, CEO Carlos Tavares has said. Speaking on the sidelines of the Detroit Motor Show Tavares said the PSA group would be “100 percent electrified” by 2025, meaning all cars would be […]
Nigeria has agreed a $550-million deal to buy two Chinese communications satellites and hopes to sign the contract before the end of the month, the communication minister said on Wednesday. Adebayo Shittu said China Exim Bank and the manufacturer, China Great Wall, have agreed to pay for the new satellites after Nigeria renegotiated an earlier […]
China on Thursday opened a 1-km section of the world’s first solar expressway for testing. Solar panels are laid beneath part of a ring road surrounding Jinan, capital city of Shandong Province in east China. The road surface is made of a transparent, weight-bearing material that allows sunlight to penetrate. The panels, covering 5,875 square […]
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