Sci-Tech

  “Such scientific wizardry should find a befitting “coven” for our teeming youths at NASENI rather than allowing them to surf the internet daily expending their natural gifts and talents in unproductive personal enterprises that do not bring honours to the country.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 27, 2023 I am doing this open Letter of Appeal to the President-Elect, ...

  “Yusuf Bilesanmi is a 37-year-old Nigerian who had his first degree at Lagos State University where he studied Law before he switched paths later to science and engineering.” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | MARCH 26, 2023 A Nigerian engineer, Yusuf Bilesanmi, has won the One-to-Watch Award at the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation for the creation of a ventilator he ...

  “From time to time, a post goes viral warning consumers about the wax on fruit. A TikTok post about apple waxing from 2020 garnered nearly 6,000 likes, and a subsequent post from 2021 racked up more than 100,000 likes. The latter post went so far as to warn viewers that eating the wax could cause cancer” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS ...

   “However, in another 5 million to 10 million years, changes in the EARS could result in a drastically different-looking world. Around this timeframe, we are likely to see a new ocean form between the Somalian plate and the Nubian plate. The great continent of Africa will lose its eastern shoulder and a vast sea will cut off East Africa.“ ...

  “We advise phone and computer users not open files from people they do not know, not to click ‘OK’ and immediately exit the application if they receive a warning that opening an attachment or link can damage their computer or files and to promptly share an unknown email they believe to be genuine with a security or Windows administrator ...

  “We find that these devices come bundled with a number of third-party applications, some of which are granted dangerous runtime permissions by default without user consent, and transmit traffic containing a broad range of geolocation, user-profile and social relationships [personally identifiable information] to both phone vendors and third-party domains, without notifying the user or offering the choice to opt-out” ...

  “On December 31, the app will stop supporting 49 different models of smartphones as the developers note that these devices may not latest security updates needed to run the service” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | DECEMBER 28, 2022 WhatsApp, the popular messaging service with over two million users, is about to stop working on older smartphone models from a number ...

  “While commending the SON, FCCPC and LASCOPA for rising up to their task, it bemoaned the fact that some of these agencies are not only understaffed, but most of them are also poorly financed leaving them to source for funds to carry out their responsibilities” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 28, 2022 The SON/GIZ Inverter Stakeholders Forum was held ...

  “The befuddled bovines also yawned more, produced more saliva and snot, and exhibited overactive tongues; the researchers report today in Nature Food. Some even exhibited reddening in their eye membranes and unsteady movements” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 14, 2022 They were displaying the typical symptoms of being stoned: red eyes, wobbly gaits, and drowsy demeanors. But these weren’t ...

  “The sun could rise again on Twitter Africa if, somehow, Musk gains the knowledge and humility needed to run a global media platform. But don’t hold your breath—all of this started as a $150 million weed joke and it could get worse” PEGASUS REPORTERS, LAGOS | NOVEMBER 13, 2022 Elon Musk’s first acts as Twitter’s owner included impulsive account ...