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A robot is killing weeds by zapping them with electricity Three robots have been assigned a mission in an English field: to locate and zap weeds with electricity prior to planting seeds in the cleared soil. The robots, dubbed Tom, Dick, and Harry, were developed by Small Robot Company to eliminate weeds without the use of chemicals or heavy machinery. Since 2017, the startup has been developing autonomous weed killers and launched Tom, its first commercial robot, in April. Tom is now operatio.

Femi Iromini is enhancing students' employability in Nigeria Femi Iromini has been a part of the African technology ecosystem for five years. He ran numerous businesses as a young student—at one point, he performed due diligence for foreign investors interested in investing in African startups. He is now concentrating his efforts on enhancing Nigeria's educational system and increasing the employability of Nigerian graduates. To comprehend how he arrived here, let us examine his life jou.

What tech investors fear and find interesting about Nigeria’s Twitter ban For the second time in six months, a significant government announcement has startup founders and investors contemplating the impact of politics and sudden regulation on doing business in Nigeria. It was the Central Bank of Nigeria's ban on cryptocurrency transactions in February. This time, it's Twitter, a social media platform that has been used for everything from crowdsourcing pro bono lawyers for people in nee.

How To Enable or Disable Windows 10's User Account Control We will describe four distinct methods for changing or disabling User Account Control on your Windows 10 computer in this guide, including the Control Panel, the Registry Editor, the Local Group Policy Editor, and the command line (Command Prompt). Additionally, we will explain what UAC is and the arguments for and against disabling it on your computer. Without further ado, let's look at how to modify or disable User Account Control (UA.

How to Turn off Notifications in Windows 10 While notification popups on your computer can be a major annoyance, the good news is that you can disable them in a few simple steps in Windows 10. We'll show you how to customize your notification settings in Windows 10 so you can focus on your work without being distracted. Additionally, we will demonstrate how to selectively allow notifications from a particular app while blocking all others. Without further ado, let's take a look at how to disabl.

How to Remove Windows 10's Built-in Ads While all editions of Windows 10 include advertisements, the good news is that the majority of them can be permanently disabled. Thus, here's how to remove ads from the Start Menu, Lock Screen, File Explorer, and Notification Prompts in Windows 10. Additionally, we'll demonstrate how to disable the Windows Ad ID for increased privacy and disable all distracting 'Live Tiles' on the Start Menu.    Remove Ads from the Start Menu of Windows 10 1..

Best Windows 10 Tips & Tricks Windows 10 introduces a slew of innovative new features, including Cortana, Edge, and an updated Start menu, but that's not all. There are some truly fantastic hidden features that Microsoft has largely avoided discussing. Windows has long been known for its customizability, owing to numerous hacks and mods, and Windows 10 is no exception. Along with hidden features, there are some cool tricks that allow you to tailor Windows 10 to your specific needs. These ti.

Telcos lost more subscribers in April following the NCC's decision to lift the sim card ban For Nigerian telcos, 2021 will continue to be a year of declining numbers. Even after the sim registration ban was lifted in December last year, the downward trend continues. According to recently released statistics from the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the country's telcos lost a total of 3.7 million subscribers in April following the lifting of the ban. By comparison, the March ban resu.

Nigerian drivers are abandoning Uber and Bolt in favour of local e-hailing companies Drivers of ride-hailing services have signed a new partnership agreement with two indigenous competitors to Bolt and Uber that they claim will provide them with better working conditions. Comrade Idris Shonuga, the National President of the Professional E-Hailing Drivers and Private Owners Association (PEDPA), confirmed to TechNext that the association had signed a deal with Active Rides and My Cab, two indige.

El Salvador has become the world's first country to legalize bitcoin as a form of payment El Salvador has become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as legal tender, following the adoption of President Nayib Bukele's proposal. A supermajority of 62 out of 84 votes was required to win the vote. President Obama intends to sign this legislation into law later tonight or early tomorrow morning. President Bukele explained in an early morning Twitter Space conversation that he is using .