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Friday, April 1, 2016

Nasa reveals plan to get humans living on Mars

Nasa has revealed its plans to try to get humans living on Mars in the next few decades.
The space agency has set out a three part plan, which it hopes will eventually lead to humans living on Mars by the 2030s.
Unlike the Moon, humans have never physically set foot on Mars, we've only ever used robots like the Curiosity Rover.
By exploring Mars with robots for the last 40 years Nasa has found out lots about our neighbouring planet, including the recent discovery that there is flowing icy water under the crust.
They hope that this huge mission will help us to learn even more about not just Mars, but Earth as well.
So, how will they do it?

Could a computer tell you when your time is up?

Date:
March 30, 2016
Source:
University of East Anglia
Summary:
Statisticians, computer scientists and medics are launching a new project to predict how long you will live. They will use 'Big Data' to predict life expectancy -- and particularly how various chronic diseases and their treatments impact longevity.
Statisticians, computer scientists and medics from the University of East Anglia are launching a new project to predict how long you will live.
They will use 'Big Data' to predict life expectancy -- and particularly how various chronic diseases and their treatments impact longevity.
While many people may not want to know how long they have left, the team say the research will bring practical, financial and medical benefits -- such as helping people plan for retirement, and knowing how particular drugs such as statins or beta-blockers affect longevity.

Telecoms: Ntel plans N200bn capital outlay in four years, begins operation April 8, 2016

Natcoms Investments Limited, the parent company of Ntel, which acquired the assets of Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) has restated its commitment to investing $1 billion (N200 billion) in building infrastructure in the nation’s telecoms sector over the next four years.
This is coming as Ntel, Nigeria’s newest entrant into the telecommunications space, has fixed April 8, 2016 as the rollout date for its fourth generation Long Term Evolution (4G LTE) network in Lagos and Abuja.
Chief Executive Officer, Ntel, Mr. Kamar Abass, who disclosed this yesterday, said that all was sent for the commercial launch, following link from completion of agreements with channel partners as well as go-ahead from Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

'Internet of Everything is 2016's big bang theory'

2016 will be the year of the Internet of Everything, as technology characterising big data, cloud and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will gain maturity.
This is according to Professor Barry Dwolatzky, director of the Johannesburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE), who anticipates a solid impact from big data and AI as a result of the hype over the past two years.
Gartner says by the year 2020, 25 billion devices will be generating data on a variety of subjects – and while there will be a plethora of data, making sense of it will present a challenge.

And the challenge, according to the Professor, is figuring out how to use the information produced by all the devices and associated technology. "I would like to think that there is an effort to utilise the data from smart devices and sensors companies have started using on a daily basis. This simple data that is collected has to be of more value to a business, especially as it increases and the real meaning of big data becomes evident. It is not just the amount or size of data, but also the different sets of data that has to be integrated."
He refers to the Fitbit device, by Discovery, as an example of the importance of AI and how it facilitates the analysis of information and intelligent use by connecting the different sets of data.