October 5, 2020 - Nasni Consultants

COVID-19: Domain name price cuts will take Nigerians online, NiRA says

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 5, 2020
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Nigeria's internet domain name manager says an interim price cut will help local businesses migrate online in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Close-up Photographer of the Year celebrates dramatic detail

Post author:Diran Taofeek Folami
Post published:October 5, 2020
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The Close-up Photographer of the Year competition highlights seldom-seen close-up textures and details of animals, insects, plants and materials. Galice Hoarau's electrifying image of an eel larva snapped during a blackwater dive is the 2020 winner.

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Nigeria’s telecoms watchdog hit by Facebook identity theft

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Post published:October 5, 2020
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The Nigerian telecoms watchdog says it has suffered an identity theft attack on popular social media service, Facebook, raising the bar of high-profile cyber crime.

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Tesla posts a quarterly record for electric car deliveries

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Post published:October 5, 2020
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After having its operations impacted by the coronavirus through the early and middle parts of the year, Tesla has posted a new record for deliveries with just under 140,000 cars shipped in the third quarter of 2020.

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Machine learning tool scans lung X-rays to predict heart failure

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Post published:October 5, 2020
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One of the ways physicians can gain some forewarning of impending heart failure is through the detection of excess fluid in the lungs, and MIT researchers have developed a new machine learning tool that could offer them a helping hand.

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New evidence links age-related cognitive decline & the gut microbiome

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Post published:October 5, 2020
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Scientists have found fecal transplants from old mice to young mice result in the younger animals displaying learning and memory impairments. The findings build on a growing body of research linking age-related cognitive decline with gut microbiome changes.

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Promising “molecular tweezer” Parkinson’s therapy looks to human trials

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Post published:October 5, 2020
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New research reveals a novel drug, designed to break up the aggregations of toxic proteins associated with Parkinson’s disease, can effectively slow the disease in mouse models. The researchers are now looking at moving toward human trials.

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