The tech giant, Google will work directly with a major automaker, Chrysler for the first time as it announced plans to bring its self-driving technology to about 100 Chrysler minivans. The tech company will use the Pacifica hybrids to more than double the size of its test fleet, which operates in four U.S. cities and has driven more than 1.5 million miles autonomously. Fiat Chrysler will lead on the design and engineering of about 100 minivans built specifically for Google’s technology. Google engineers will join the automaker’s engineers at a Michigan facility to collaborate on designing the van so that Google’s…
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The son of a Pakistani immigrant bus driver and a seamstress, Sadiq Khan of Britain’s opposition Labour Party was sworn in as Mayor of London on Saturday, becoming the first Muslim to head a major European capital after an election campaign marked by the ruling Conservatives’ efforts to link him to extremism. Khan defeated Conservative candidate Zac Goldsmith, the son of a billionaire financier, by a record margin to secure the biggest individual mandate in British political history. The Financial Times said the result highlighted London’s tolerance, a “remarkable triumph over the racial and religious tensions that have bedevilled other…
The worst wildfire in Alberta history is boosting Canadian crude prices as oil companies evacuate workers and shut in output. Western Canadian Select, the benchmark for oil sands production, strengthened $1.35 to a $11.50-a-barrel discount to U.S. West Texas Intermediate on Thursday at 7:38 a.m. Calgary time, the smallest difference since July, data compiled by Bloomberg show. The absolute price rose $2.90 to $33.83 a barrel. Suncor Energy, Royal Dutch Shell, Cnooc’s Nexen, Husky Energy and ConocoPhillips are among companies that shut plants or reduced production. More than 1 million barrels a day of oil sands production capacity may be…
Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ), one of Germany’s most reputable newspapers, said on Friday that the source of millions of documents leaked to the German newspaper from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca had sent them a manifesto, saying his motivation was the “scale of injustices” the papers revealed. The source had never before publicly stated why he leaked the documents, now known as the Panama Papers, said Sueddeutsche Zeitung (SZ). In an 1,800 word manifesto published on the SZ website on Friday, the source, calling himself “John Doe”, praised others who have leaked secret and sensitive documents, such as Edward Snowden, who…
Toyin Saraki’s Wellbeing Foundation Africa, the International Confederation of Midwives, UNFPA And Partners Merge Global Health Frameworks With In-Country Priorities; Building Capacity For Improved Midwifery Outcomes In Nigeria. For two days, from 4th May till 5th May 2016, in Abuja, Nigeria, the Wellbeing Foundation Africa and the National Association Of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM) marked the International Day of the Midwife, highlighting innovative skills-building training with partners including UNFPA, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), GE Healthcare, Access Bank, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), and many others at Nigeria’s First Global Midwifery Conference, themed “IDM2016; Midwives Save…
Toyin Saraki’s Wellbeing Foundation Africa, Partners UNFPA, Academic Institutions To Bring International Confederation Of Midwives Midwifery Services Framework To Heart Of Nigeria’s Midwives And Nursing Profession. The Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) marked the International Day of the Midwife, with the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), UNFPA, the International Confederation of Midwives (ICM), GE Healthcare, Access Bank, the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (LSTM), and many other partners at a two-day conference from 4th until 5th May in Abuja, Nigeria. This conference was held to promote and raise awareness on maternal, newborn and child health, especially including the…
Hundreds of millions of hacked usernames and passwords for email accounts and other websites are being traded in Russia’s criminal underworld, a security expert told Reuters. The discovery of 272.3 million stolen accounts included a majority of users of Mail.ru, Russia’s most popular email service, and smaller fractions of Google;, Yahoo; and Microsoft; email users, said Alex Holden, founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security. It is one of the biggest stashes of stolen credentials to be uncovered since cyber attacks hit major U.S. banks and retailers two years ago. Holden was previously instrumental in uncovering some of…
Facebook recently paid a $10,000 (£6,895) reward to a 10-year-old Finnish boy for detecting a bug in its picture sharing app Instagram. Jani, whose last name was not released for privacy reasons, is the youngest ever recipient of Facebook’s “bug bounty”, paid to users who find bugs or weaknesses in its platforms. “I wanted to see if Instagram’s comment field could stand malicious code. Turns out it couldn’t,” Jani told Finland’s Iltalehti newspaper. Facebook said the glitch was fixed in February and the reward was paid in March. Jani, who is still too young to have a Facebook or Instagram account of his…
World stocks fell for the second successive day on Wednesday and metals prices declined, pressured by signs of a renewed and prolonged downturn in global growth. In a holiday-shortened week, share prices fell in Asia and Europe. The gloom looked set to carry over to Wall Street, according to index futures <ESc1> <1YMc1>. Lacklustre manufacturing data from across the world set off this week’s selling spree, notably Chinese factory activity shrinking for the 14th straight month and British output at three-month lows. Tuesday’s surprise interest rate cut in Australia and downgraded growth and inflation forecasts from the European Commission also…
Australian tech entrepreneur Craig Wright identified himself as the creator of controversial digital currency bitcoin on Monday but experts were divided over whether he really was the elusive person who has gone by the name of Satoshi Nakamoto until now. Uncovering Nakamoto’s real identity would solve a riddle dating back to the publication of the open source software behind the cryptocurrency in 2008, before its launch a year later. Bitcoin has since become the world’s most commonly used virtual currency, attracting the interest of banks, speculators, criminals and regulators. Worth a total of $7 billion (5 billion pounds) at current…
Apple on Friday ended its worst week on the stock market since 2013 as worries festered about a slowdown in iPhone sales and after influential shareholder Carl Icahn revealed he sold his entire stake. Apple Shares, a mainstay of many Wall Street portfolios and the largest component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 index, have dropped 11 percent in the past five sessions. That shrank the technology behemoth’s market capitalization by $65 billion (44.4 billion pounds), about equivalent to Cambodia’s net wealth. Confidence in the Cupertino, California company has been shaken since posting its first-ever quarterly decline in iPhone sales and…
As a debate raged across the internet Monday over whether the mysterious founder of the bitcoin digital currency had finally been identified, executives at a major bitcoin conference in New York had a simple message: we’ve moved on. That’s because bitcoin, the digital currency, has largely been supplanted by blockchain, the technology that underlies it, as the main interest of investors, technology companies and financial institutions. “If there is a 100 percent opportunity in the blockchain, bitcoin, or the currency, is only 1 percent of it,” said Jerry Cuomo, vice president, Blockchain Technologies at International Business Machines Corp (IBM.N);. “So…
On August 2, Canada dissolved its Parliament, clearing the way for new elections in October. The campaign — all 78 days of it — was an unusually long one for the country. That same day, the U.S. presidential race, which formally began with Ted Cruz’s announced candidacy March 23, was 132 days old. During the period that Canada was holding its elections, the total change in the U.S. field was the addition of one candidate (Larry Lessig), bringing the total field to 20 major candidates (depending on whom you consider “major”). There were also two debates in that time. That’s…
At the Capacity Development Forum (CDF), being held in Harare from 3 – 5 May, there was general agreement for a more coordinated and strategic approach to developing capacity if Africa is to achieve the ambitious goals as defined by Agenda 2063. The 3rd CDF is being held as part of the Silver Jubilee of the African Capacity Building Foundation, one of the leading capacity building actors on the continent. Experts gathered in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare today to discuss various continental capacity development initiatives within the wider context of the sustainable development goals and the AU’s Agenda 2063. With the…
Ahead of the Inaugural Global Midwifery Conference, Her Excellency Mrs Toyin Saraki, the Founder-Director of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), and ICM Global Goodwill Ambassador, outlines the importance of investing in midwifery. HE Toyin Saraki expressed the following points: The value of midwives in Nigeria is being shown in the unlikeliest of places – camps for internally displaced people (IDP) uprooted by Boko Haram militants. Around one in five babies are dying during childbirth in northeast Nigeria, where the Islamist group has waged a six-year insurgency, yet the survival rate of pregnancies delivered in IDP camps in the region is…
To mark the International Day of the Midwife, the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), UNFPA and the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA) – led by Her Excellency Mrs. Toyin Saraki – will be holding the Inaugural Global Midwifery Conference in Nigeria on the 4th and 5th May 2016, at The Sheraton Hotel, in Abuja, Nigeria. Nigeria has one of the poorest indices of maternal, neonatal and child health in the world. According to UNICEF, Nigeria is the second largest contributor to the under-five and maternal mortality rates in the world. The chance of a woman dying during pregnancy…
Every four years, the United States’ two major political parties hold separate conventions to nominate their respective presidential candidates. But voting at the Republican and Democratic conventions to nominate a candidate is typically just a formality. In most elections, the nominees are determined months before. That is because in the months before the conventions, U.S. states and territories hold primary elections in which registered voters cast ballots for the candidates they would like to nominate. Republican voters choose from among the Republican contenders, and Democrats do the same for candidates in their own party. In some places, voters who are…
Africa Finance Corporation (AFC) has announced the appointment of Grant T. Harris as an independent Director. This was contained in the press release of 26 April 2016 in Lagos, Nigeria. Mr. Harris joins AFC after serving four years at the U.S. National Security Council at the White House in Washington, D.C. As Special Assistant to President Obama and Senior Director for African Affairs, he was the primary lead in crafting U.S. policy toward sub-Saharan Africa. Mr. Harris was particularly instrumental in institutionalising trade and investment as a key pillar of U.S. policy toward Africa, including by launching and coordinating the ‘Doing Business in…
Nigeria CommunicationsWeek recently organised this year’s Beacon of Information & Communications (BoICT) awards 2016, an annual event which held at Eko Hotel & Suites, Victoria Island, Lagos. The event had the who-is-who in the technology industry as well as a number of startups. This year’s event was chaired by Ernest Ndukwe, pioneer Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), who challenged Government on the need to make the required investments and policies that will help deepen broadband penetration. In the same vein, the Managing Director of Rack Centre, Ayotunde Coker, who delivered the BoICT lecture stressed the importance…
When Americans go to the polls in November to elect their next president, it’s almost certain that they will be selecting between only two candidates: one Republican and one Democrat. In fact, since 1852, a candidate from the Republican or a Democratic parties has placed either first or second in U.S. presidential elections, except for one. In that election, in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt, a popular former Republican president, ran as a “third-party” candidate, and he came in second place, losing to Woodrow Wilson. And before the Republican Party and the Democratic Party were the two major parties, the Democratic Party…