NCC Digital Park to be completed January 2023

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) says its first Digital Industrial Park (DIP) located in Kano State is to be completed by January next year. The telecoms regulator says the DIPs being built across Nigeria’s six geo-political zones are to provide Innovation Labs and Digital Fabrication Laboratories (Fablabs) for digital innovators and entrepreneurs to use in […]

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Eating off certain colored plates improves taste of food for picky eaters

Researchers have found picky eaters perceive food eaten out of red bowls to be saltier and less desirable than the same food served in white bowls. The findings add to understandings of how taste perception can be influenced by plates and cutlery.

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Full-suspension Lyke CF SE is Haibike’s lightest eMTB to date

Back before all the brands jumped on the eMTB bandwagon, Haibike was making high-end electric mountain bikes of its own. The German firm recently announced the Lyke CF SE, which at 18 kg (39.7 lb) is the lightest model the company has ever made.

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WHO officially renames monkeypox to mpox

Ever since this year's outbreak of monkeypox began, infectious disease experts have called for the disease's name to be changed. After "months of consultations" the WHO has finally decided the preferred term for the disease will now be "mpox."

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Xeter Spark combines four outdoor lights in one system

If you're the outdoorsy type, it's possible you might have use for a flashlight, headlamp, bicycle headlight and camping lantern. Well, if you wanna keep things streamlined, Xeter Spark combines all four in one modular system.

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New technique uses candy to apply microcircuits to curved surfaces

Ordinarily, the microcircuit patterns used in microchips are printed onto flat silicon wafers, potentially limiting their applications. A new technique lets such patterns be more easily applied to curved surfaces – and it uses "candy" to do the job.

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Starchitect Shigeru Ban’s hybrid timber tower will soar to new heights

There has been a huge boom in sustainable timber construction lately. Pritzker Prize winner Shigeru Ban offers the latest example of this trend with an ambitiously tall hybrid timber tower that's currently under construction in Antwerp, Belgium.

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