NGO wants NIMC to take action over Nigeria’s ID database breach

Paradigm Initiative (PIN), a non-governmental organisation (NGO), today demanded urgent action from the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC) following an expose of alleged breach of its National Identification Numbers (NIN) database containing personal records of Nigerians.

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Green Pioneer: World-first ammonia ship fills up in Singapore

In 2021, Australian mining and cleantech company Fortescue announced a plan to float the world's first ammonia-powered ship by 2022. It's a bit late, and not quite as ammonia-powered as we hoped, but the Green Pioneer now appears ready to roll.

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Earth 2: Next-gen NVIDIA AI aims to solve weather and climate forecasting

This week’s global NVIDIA GTC, GPU Technology Conference, included a discussion about using accelerated computing to drive climate action. Three startup companies have taken advantage of NVIDIA's AI and Earth-2 platform to do just that.

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BVN: Nigeria records 2.4m new sign-ups in six months

No fewer than 2.47 million Nigerians have registered for the Bank Verification Number (BVN) in the six months, data from the Nigeria Inter-Bank Settlement System (NIBSS) have shown.

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Winged cargo ship saves three tonnes of fuel per day on first voyage

An age of greener, more efficient shipping may be in the offing as a specially modified 43,000-tonne bulk freighter completes a six-month sea trial using a combination of diesel engines and a set of high-tech automatic sails to catch the wind.

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NVIDIA GTC Keynote: Blackwell Architecture Will Accelerate AI Products in Late 2024

NVIDIA’s newest GPU platform is the Blackwell (Figure A), which companies including AWS, Microsoft and Google plan to adopt for generative AI and other modern computing tasks, NVIDIA CEO Jensen…

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