Minister orders phone networks to cut lines not linked to NIN by Dec. 30

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Dr. Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy has ordered telcos to deactivate any phone line not linked with the user’s National Identity Number (NIN) by December 30.

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Telcos, Govt hold talks today over embargo on sales of phone lines in Nigeria

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The top telecoms companies in Nigeria and government are to hold crucial talks today over the nationwide embargo on sales of new phone lines ordered by Dr Isa Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy.

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Little things, grand visions: The best small photography of 2020

Photography social network Agora's latest contest tasked its community with taking portraits of small things, and the results run the gamut from a close up of a tiny damselfly to shots of humans eclipsed by the scale and majesty of Mother Nature.

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DARPA’s X-61A Gremlin drone misses airborne retrieval by inches

DARPA says that air-recovery of three X-61A Gremlins missed success by just inches during recent tests. Nine attempts to capture the combat drones as they flew behind a C-130 transport plane failed, and they had to parachute to earth.

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Leica puts the focus on movie-making with SL2-S release

Last year, Leica announced a 47.3-MP full-frame mirrorless camera called the SL2, which was itself an update to 2015's SL. Now the SL2-S has been unveiled, which comes with a big buffer for unlimited video recording time.

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NCC: Minister ordered embargo on sales of phone lines in Nigeria

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Dr Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy issued the order stopping telecoms companies from selling new phone lines in Nigeria, the industry regulator says. The Minister handed down the order suspending sales of new SIMs by mobile network operators (MNOs) that he also directed the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) to enforce to allow […]

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Roland gets in a serious groove with pro-grade digital wind instrument

Roland has unveiled a new digital wind instrument called the Areophone Pro that's destined for the hands of professional players, and is said to put entire brass and woodwind sections at a player's disposal.

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Soft aquatic robot activated by light and magnets to quickly crawl

Researchers at Northwestern University have developed a new soft robot that can walk at roughly the speed of a human, activated by light and magnetic fields. The robot can squeeze into tight spaces and pick up, carry and release objects on demand.

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Samsung nixes modularity to make MicroLED TV consumer-ready

A few years ago Samsung unveiled The Wall, a huge display that was more billboard than home entertainment. Now it is bringing the technology behind it, MicroLED, to consumer-ready TVs, although we’d imagine it's still too much for most people to handle.

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