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Metamaterial concrete lays foundation for smart, self-powered infrastructure

Traditional concrete is so last century. A team of engineers has created a concrete that is strong but flexible, can generate electricity and have its qualities fine-tuned for tailor-made builds. And one day it might even help guide driverless cars.

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BMT Sparrow tech uses autonomous modules to steer drone-delivered goods

If a drone is large and powerful enough to carry packages long distances, then that drone is likely too big and noisy to be landing in amongst trees, houses and bystanders. The BMT Sparrow system could help, by autonomously steering lowered loads.

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Minister: Cyber attacks crossed 3.8m during Guber polls

Nigeria’s internet space was hit by over 3.8 million cyber attacks during the 2023 Gubernatorial and State Assembly Elections, Professor Isa Pantami, Communications and Digital Economy Minister said today. A series of hacking attempts including Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS), email and internet Protocol Spoofing (IPS), SSH Login Attempts, Brute force Injection attempts, Path Traversal, […]

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The genie escapes: Stanford copies the ChatGPT AI for less than $600

Stanford's Alpaca AI performs similarly to the astonishing ChatGPT on many tasks – but it's built on an open-source language model and cost less than US$600 to train up. It seems these godlike AIs are already frighteningly cheap and easy to replicate.

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