Hydropower developers must consider many factors when it comes time to license a new project or renew an existing one: How can environmental impacts be mitigated, including to fish populations? Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory have landed a unique solution: using 3-D printing and sensors to create fake fish for…
Facebook on Monday began enlisting outside developers to create ways its Messenger service can help health organizations battling the novel coronavirus. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-facebook-aims-messenger-coronavirus.html Views: 0
SoftBank Group said Monday it would sell up to $41 billion in assets to finance a stock buyback, reduce debts and increase its cash reserves after weeks of heavy losses in its shares. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-softbank-bn-assets-debt.html Views: 0
European aviation giant Airbus said Monday it would cancel the planned dividend payment for 2019 and also abandon its earnings forecasts for the current year because of the economic uncertainty sparked by the coronavirus pandemic. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-airbus-cancels-dividend-due-coronavirus.html Views: 0
Royal Dutch Shell said Monday it will slash costs and capital expenditure by billions of dollars due to the worsening coronavirus pandemic, which has sparked an oil price collapse. Read More https://techxplore.com/news/2020-03-shell-slashes-virus-turmoil.html Views: 0
Son of Nigeria’s former Vice President, Atiku Abubakar, has tested positive for Coronavirus. Atiku confirmed this on his verified Twitter handle on Sunday. He said, “My son has tested positive for Coronavirus. “@NCDCGov has been duly informed and he has been moved to Gwagwalada Specialist Teaching Hospital in Abuja for treatment and management. “I will appreciate…
Dayo Ojo, a football player with Enyimba Football Club of Aba, has been abducted by gunmen in Ondo State. Ojo was kidnapped on Sunday alongside a friend identified as Benjamin Iluyomade of Abia Comet. SaharaReporters learnt that the two footballers were waylaid on Benin-Owo Road in Ondo State. Another player identified as Emma James, who…
The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission will on Monday, March 23, 2020 arraign the immediate past Head of Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita. She will be arraigned before Justice Taiwo Taiwo of the Federal High Court, Abuja. Others to be arraigned along with Oyo-Ita are Frontline Ace Global Services Limited; Asanaya Projects Limited;…
German Chancellor, Angela Merkel, is currently quarantined after a doctor, who administered a vaccine on her, tested positive for Coronavirus, according to NY Daily News. Merkel’s spokesperson, Steffen Seibert, said the 65-year-old was informed about the doctor’s test shortly after holding a news conference on Sunday to announce new measures to curb the spread of the virus,…
Google The Nigerian Centre for Disease Control has confirmed three more cases of Coronavirus in Lagos. This was confirmed on Sunday evening via the agency’s Twitter handle. It said, “Three new cases of #COVID19 have been confirmed in Lagos. “Two cases are returning travellers and one is a contact of a confirmed case.” The latest…