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Thursday, 10 June 2021 05:44

Ivory Coast finds new use for its cocoa wastes

If you've indulged in a chocolate dessert lately, there is a good chance that its cocoa came from Ivory Coast. This West African country is the largest producer of cocoa in the world, where more than 40% of all cocoa beans originate. With more than six million people working in cocoa in the country, it is Ivory Coast's largest export by far. The country's cocoa beans have been fuelling people worldwide for decades, but now another part of the cocoa plant will soon be powering Ivory Coast. The coveted cocoa bean is just one small part of the cocoa plant.…

Tuesday, 08 June 2021 05:40

How this startup aims to disrupt copywriting forever

How AI can help change the world of copywriting Writer's block is too often a big impediment to effective copy, which means it lowers a scribe's performance in the eyes of a client or employer. Every writer may go through it but there's more demands placed on storytellers given today's breakneck speed of digital marketing and social media. Copy.ai taps into the power of artificial intelligence (AI) to give professional wordsmiths, editors, marketers and even students the ability to review several written versions of what they'd like to write about to overcome the psychological barrier of writer's block. This tool…

Monday, 07 June 2021 05:16

New weight-loss drug heralded as 'game changer' in obesity crisis

A new weight-loss treatment is being heralded by some health experts as "groundbreaking," and a potential "game changer" in the growing epidemic of obesity. Semaglutide, an injectable drug made by the pharmaceutical company Novo Nordisk, was approved Friday by the Food and Drug Administration, for patients struggling with chronic obesity. "We don't use those terms lightly," Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine professor Dr. Robert F. Kushner, an obesity medicine specialist and trial investigator for the drug, told ABC News. "I've been involved in the field for 40 years. The reason we think that way, it results in amount of…

Sunday, 06 June 2021 05:57

Twitter suspension: Five ‘dangers’ of using VPNs

Federal government on Friday announced the indefinite suspension of Twitter operations in the country. This action by the government has left many Nigerians with no other choice but to engage the services VPN providers as an alternative option to access Twitter and other social media networks. A virtual private network — better known as a VPN — is a key path for digital anonymity. Checks show that using a VPN understandably makes one feel invincible, but there are still a few important risks involved that should one keep in mind. VPNs provide two of the most important services which are…

Saturday, 05 June 2021 05:55

How to use Twitter despite FG’s ban

Shortly after the federal government announced that Twitter has been suspended, a virtual private network (VPN) started to dominate discussions on social media platforms. But what is VPN? It is a connection that allows users to establish a protected network connection when using public networks. It is essential in helping users to protect their internet traffic and keep their identities private online. By connecting to a secured VPN server, for instance, your internet traffic goes through an encrypted tunnel that nobody can see into, including hackers, governments, and your internet service provider. How can VPN help you use Twitter despite…

Saturday, 29 May 2021 05:43

This is the maximum age humans can physically reach, scientists say

Researchers believe they have identified the upper limit of human mortality: 150 years old. This would top the current record for oldest human — Jeanne Calment, who passed away in 1997 at 122 years — but it sure does put a damper on efforts to live forever. Using an iPhone app and a huge amount of medical data from volunteers in the UK and US, scientists think they’ve confirmed the maximum age people can anticipate ever living to, the researchers wrote in a study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications. Artificial intelligence analyzed the health- and fitness-related information, and…

Thursday, 27 May 2021 05:36

Startup teaches young Nigerians to code on smartphones

Samuel Anyaele regularly tells his students that everything they need to write a software code can be found on their mobile phones. He writes HTML codes on his phone, which are displayed on a monitor in a tiny classroom in Lagos, Nigeria’s megacity. His students look up at the big screen and down at the smaller one in their hands. “We are effectively giving them a tool to work whether they have a PC (personal computer) or not,” said Anyaele, who runs three-month courses. Coding skills are seen by many young Nigerians as a way to earn money from clients…

Thursday, 20 May 2021 14:42

UFO sightings were an everyday occurrence for some Navy pilots - Report

When the Navy pilot first spotted the strange object hovering in restricted airspace off the Atlantic Coast, he was stunned — no exhaust plume, no visible engine and all the makings of something secret, something mysterious or something dangerous. But years later, Ryan Graves sounded almost bored as he recounted for a national television audience his history with unidentified aerial phenomena — UAPs, better known as UFOs. Perhaps because for him and some of his former Navy colleagues, such sightings became a regular occurrence. “Every day,” Graves said in an interview with CBS’s “60 Minutes” that aired Sunday. “Every day…

Thursday, 20 May 2021 05:40

Govts need to reveal what they have been hiding about UFOs - Expert

Last week, investigative filmmaker Jeremy Corbell released a never-before-seen clip that appears to show an unidentified flying object disappearing into the water off the coast of San Diego, sparking renewed national interest into the existence of UFOs. The video was captured on July 15, 2019 by a Navy aircraft and recorded in the USS Omaha's Combat Information Center. According to Corbell, the object is believed to be a transmedium spherical vehicle approximately six feet in diameter. The Department of Defense confirmed the clip's authenticity and said it will be reviewed by the Pentagon's Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force. Jeremy Corbell…

Saturday, 15 May 2021 05:48

China lands on Mars in latest advance for its space programme

China landed a spacecraft on Mars for the first time on Saturday in the latest advance for its space program, state media said. Plans call for a rover to stay in the lander for a few days of diagnostic tests before rolling down a ramp to explore an icy area of Mars known as Utopia Planitia. It will join an American rover that arrived at the red planet in February. China’s first Mars landing follows its launch last month of the main section of what will be a permanent space station and a mission that brought back rocks from the…

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Sunday, 09 May 2021 05:37

After update, only 4 percent of iOS users in U.S. let apps track them

New data shows that, when given the choice, people would rather not be tracked. Sorry, Facebook. Apple released iOS 14.5 to the public at the end of April, which included the ability to stop apps from tracking your activity for ad targeting purposes. New data shows just how popular the feature is. When a user opens, downloads, or updates an app for the first time after they download the new iOS, they have to opt in to letting that app track them. According to Verizon Media-owned Flurry Analytics, almost everyone is saying "no, thanks." Just around 4 percent of U.S.…

Saturday, 08 May 2021 05:26

Study finds milk may shorten lifespan, but with one big exception

A growing body of research has linked milk consumption to potentially negative health effects, particularly when it comes to aging — and yet, other studies have found that consuming fermented milk products like yogurt and kefir may help protect health. A new study out of Germany explores the effects of pasteurized non-fermented milk on health and why fermented dairy doesn’t have the same negative impact. Sweden is often the focus when it comes to dairy studies for one big reason: milk consumption in the nation is high. This provides researchers with a chance to study the potential effects of milk…

Tuesday, 27 April 2021 05:41

Obama administration scientist says climate ‘emergency’ is based on fallacy

Steven E. Koonin ‘The Science,” we’re told, is settled. How many times have you heard it? Humans have broken the earth’s climate. Temperatures are rising, sea level is surging, ice is disappearing, and heat waves, storms, droughts, floods, and wildfires are an ever-worsening scourge on the world. Greenhouse gas emissions are causing all of this. And unless they’re eliminated promptly by radical changes to society and its energy systems, “The Science” says Earth is doomed. Yes, it’s true that the globe is warming, and that humans are exerting a warming influence upon it. But beyond that — to paraphrase the…

Sunday, 25 April 2021 05:52

Follow-up study finds a single dose of one drug can ease anxiety and depression for 5 years

The Journal of Psychopharmacology published a study in 2016 in which researchers found that a one-time, single-dose of psilocybin offered rapid improvements in the levels of anxiety, depression and dread of death in cancer patients. A recent update found that the single dose, combined with psychotherapy, led to long-lasting improvements in these patients approximately five years later. Psilocybin, a compound found in psychedelic mushrooms, was given to patients in the study in 2016 and resulted in immediate, substantial relief of symptoms that was sustained and documented at their follow-ups more than six months later. Almost five years later, researchers found…

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