HON. YAKUBU UMAR BARDE DONATES 150 LAPTOPS, OFFERS FREE MEDICAL SURGERIES

A total of one hundred and fifty laptop computers, modems, flash drives and other basic accessories was distributed to people of Chikun/Kajuru federal constituency today under the capacity building training workshop of the member representing the federal constituency at the National Assembly. The beneficiaries drawn from all political parties, tribes and religion in the constituency […]

Stephen Hawking, one of the world’s great physicists, has died

PREDESTINATION was not part of Stephen Hawking’s system of belief. It was mere coincidence that he was born 300 years to the day after Galileo Galilei died. But he did share something with him, other than being a great physicist; he became famous as much for his suffering as for his physics. His was caused […]

Zaria Academy Student Creates Automated Alarm System

Necessity they say is the mother of invention. This age long cliché found relevance in Zaria Academy as a student of the institution produced and automatic alarm system for the school. Abdulahi Abubakar, when demostrating the Automatic Alarm System to Procyon News at the 39th Kaduna International Trade Fair, said the components used are basic electronic […]

Nigeria Student Develops Traffic Solution For Nigerian Roads

A student of Zaria Academy, Shika, Kaduna, North Central Nigeria, has developed a smart Vehicle Trafficking light as part of his contribution to developing a home grown automated indigenous traffic management system for Nigeria. The smart traffic light, developed by Ibrahim M. Amody of the JET Club, Zaria Academy, is configured and programmed to calculate […]

Mass Market Hopes for Battery-free Cell Phone Technology

Mass Market Hopes for Battery-free Cell Phone Technology

Reuters Pedestrians view their smartphones as they walk along a sidewalk in Beijing, Aug. 9, 2017. China has become one of the world’s largest mobile phone markets as the devices grow more popular among all age groups in China. Researchers in the United States have unveiled a prototype of a battery-free mobile phone, using technology […]

When Silicon Valley Took Over Journalism

The pursuit of digital readership broke the New Republic—and an entire industry. Like ​The Atlantic? Subscribe to ​The Atlantic Daily​, our free weekday email newsletter. Chris hughes was a mythical savior—boyishly innocent, fantastically rich, intellectually curious, unexpectedly humble, and proudly idealistic. My entire career at the New Republic had been spent dreaming of such a benefactor. For years, my colleagues and […]