Author: Agboola Sodiq
Agboola Sodiq
To the outside world, I'm just an ordinary geek. But in secret, I work to make my world information-safe. In order to succeed, I must become someone else... I must become something else.
Sometimes, as a scientist, you have to draw eyes on a bunch of cow butts. But before you dismiss conservation biologist Dr. Neil Jordan as a cattle-smearing madman, consider what we can potentially gain here: a super-cheap, sustainable way to protect both valuable cattle and threatened lions in the African nation of Botswana, and elsewhere eventually if the strategy proves effective. Sure, in an ideal world, humans would go about their business over here and lions would do their thing over there, but the approximate 30,000 lions left in the wild have to coexist with 7.4 billion of us. We sometimes steal…
Carnegie Mellon faculty member Scott E. Fahlman perhaps accidentally created what would spawn a new form of communication: the emoticon. On Sept. 19, 1982 following a post on a digital message board about a fake mercury spill that was mistaken for a serious safety emergency, Fahlman proposed typing out : – ) as a joke marker. “I propose that [ sic ] the following character sequence for joke markers: : – ) Read it sideways. Actually, it is probably more economical to mark things that are NOT jokes, given current trends. For this, use: : – (.” These “smileys,” as…
As we all know that the TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world and the list of the fastest supercomputers in the world’s TOP500 has a new leader, as the Sunway TaihuLight which manages to do 93 quadrillion calculations per second. Meet The World’s Fastest Supercomputer Which Has 10 Million Cores Fastest Supercomputer the Tianhe-2 supercomputer just lost the post of the fastest supercomputer in the world. Hence, the TOP500 is a project which ranks and details of the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world and now the list…
The Finnish multinational communications and information technology company Nokia signs a strategic brand and intellectual property licensing agreement with the HMD global just to create the new generation of Nokia smartphones and Nokia tablets with the brand. Nokia Returning To The World Of Smartphones Nokia announced plans that will see Nokia return marks for telephony and mobile tablets markets on a global basis. Under a strategic agreement covering trademark rights and intellectual property licensing, Nokia Technologies will grant HMD global, a newly established company based in Finland, an exclusive worldwide license to create Nokia mobile phones and tablets with…