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NVIDIA has announced the Titan V

Nvidia has announced the Titan V, the "world's most powerful PC GPU".It's based on Nvidia's Volta, the same architecture as the Nvidia Tesla V100 GPUs behind Amazon Web Service's recently launched top-end P3 instances, which are dedicated to artificial-intelligence applications.The GV100-powered Tit ...
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How safe is your car in your own premises?

It seems that in light of the Mercedes Benz which was stolen in September in the UK. A device that lets thieves steal cars that use key fobs has been identified by a national watchdog group.The device, which allows a person to open car doors, start vehicles and drive them away suggests the auto indu ...
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Industrialisation in Africa

The United Nations System ever since 1989 has held events on November 20 to create awareness on the need for the industrialisation of the continent and tackle impediments to this goal. Industrialisation is meant to create production and allow us as Africa to manufacture our own products and not rely ...
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Statistics and the influence they have on innovation

Statistics are an invaluable tool; without which, we’d have difficulty in making sense of the world around us. Without statistics, there’d be no standard for measuring data. Without this standard, we’d lose control and predictability over our environment. Just imagine not being able to know wh ...
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Addressing Mental Health and Innovations

This year, Google launched a depression screening test that appears alongside search results for depression-related queries. Many companies offer Employee Assistance Programs, which provide support or benefits to employees with personal and/or work-related issues. And the National Alliance on Mental ...
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Innovation in Transportation

There have been many advances in the transport sector. Most of them have been in trailer technology or in the fuel saving abilities of the engine. Based in California, Peloton Technologies, an automated vehicle technology company solving truck crashes and fuel use challenges faced by the trucking in ...
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Cyber Security Awareness Month

Since 2004, the United States and other countries around the world have used this opportunity to educate, providing tools and training to help arm us against the daily threats that go hand-in-hand with the dynamic technology we enjoy in our personal and business lives. Even if you have chosen strong ...
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The future of world energy

According to the director general of State Atomic Energy Corporation Rosatom, the world’s biggest challenge is energy poverty, as 2 billion people around the world are being "constrained" in terms of their access to power.Speaking on a panel at Russian Energy Week 2017, Alexey Likhachev said that ...
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Innovation in Construction

Concrete is one of the most common construction materials used in the world. It is cheap, strong and easy to make. Concrete allows cities to build skyscrapers, builds levees to hold back flood waters, and bridges to help roads stretch across the land. Concrete technology dates back to the ancient Ro ...
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Native Creations is a youth organisation which specialises in self-sustainable projects which use recycled materials to make their products. The organisation won the second prize for one of the most Innovative stand.The products which were exhibited at the Expo are made by students at Sir Humphrey G ...
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