Galaxy TV now on DStv

Galaxy TV now on DStv

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MultiChoice Nigeria has announced the addition of Galaxy TV, a popular free to air (FTA) channel from Lagos, to its DStv platform on Thursday, 7 July 2016. Galaxy TV now on DStv. Galaxy TV now on DStv.

 

Galaxy TV will broadcast current news from Nigeria, Africa and the rest of the world and will be on DStv channel 258. The channel will be available to Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access subscribers.

Galaxy TV, which was previously only available on GOtv, now joins the growing number of Nigeria’s FTA channels on DStv. Other FTA stations on DStv include; NTA I, Channels TV, Africa Independent Television (AIT), SilverBird Television, TVC, Lagos Television and ONTV MAX.

Managing Director, MultiChoice Nigeria, John Ugbe, said the addition of Galaxy TV will offer subscribers more local content options to choose from.
“We are deeply committed to Africa and support the growth of original African programming. Galaxy TV is Nigeria’s premiere private television station that broadcasts content from not only Nigeria but Africa and the rest of the world. The addition of Galaxy TV to our FTA genre will complement and boost our local content offering on our platform”, he said.

The 24-hour channel will feature a wide range of programming and shows ranging from news, business, sports, entertainment and other local programmes.

Galaxy TV will be available from 7 July 2016 to Premium, Compact Plus, Compact, Family and Access subscribers on DStv.

A super-fast WiFi Coming soon

A super-fast WiFi Coming soon

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 A super-fast WiFi pavement in UK with 166 Mbps speed

Chesham market town in Buckinghamshire will be the first in world to get a 'smart' pavement with super fast public WiFi all free for residents.

United Kingdom’s Chesham market town in Buckinghamshire will be the first in world to get a ‘smart’ pavement with super fast public WiFi all free for residents. Virgin Media
United Kingdom’s Chesham market town in Buckinghamshire will be the first in world to get a ‘smart’ pavement with super-fast public WiFi free for all its residents. 

UK-based Virgin Media is overseeing the installation of this WiFi network and according to a report in Telegraph UK, the smart WiFi pavement will benefit “Chesham’s high street and parts of Lowndes Park.” According to a press statement from Virgin Media, the company is promising download speeds of up to 166 Mbps and they can download a 634 MB file in less than 35 seconds, which should cover favorite TV episodes for many.

Virgin Media adds that the “Smart Pavement” will connect directly to the company’s fibre network and provides the ultra-fast WiFi via a submerged access point which is placed beneath a specially developed resin cover. It is also rainproof and the company adds that the access point uses a “mixture of the latest tech including fibre optic cabling and superior DOCSIS 3 technology.” According to Virgin Media, the WiFi will be accessible even at distances of up to 80 metres. 

“Not only is this the first time we’ve built metropolitan WiFi directly from our street cabinets, it is also the UK’s first deployment of a WiFi connected pavement,” said Gregor McNeil, Managing Director of Consumer at Virgin Media in a press statement. 

The pilot is available to all 21,000 residents and businesses of Chesham.

Live watch from Space Station

Live watch from Space Station

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International Space Station marks 15 years of nonstop human presence 

Watch live view from Space Station

Since the first permanent crew moved in on Nov. 2, 2000, 220 people have come and gone,
representing 17 countries.

  Image: NASA 

The International Space Station when it was under construction (left) to what it is now. 

                                                                                          

Humankind marked an off-the-planet pinnacle Monday: the 15th anniversary of continuous residency at the International Space Station.

NASA and its global partners celebrated the milestone, as did the six astronauts on board. The U.S., Russian and Japanese spacemen planned a special dinner 250 miles up.
Commander Scott Kelly, seven months into a yearlong mission, said the biggest benefit of the orbiting lab is furthering long-term exploration goals deeper into space.

“The space station really is a bridge. It’s a test bed for the technologies that we need to develop and understand in order to have a successful trip to Mars,” American astronaut Kjell Lindgren noted during a news conference.Since the first permanent crew moved in on Nov. 2, 2000, 220 people have come and gone, representing 17 countries.

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The United States is in the lead because of all the space shuttle flights that were needed to deliver station pieces; Russia is in second place, and Canada and Japan tied for third. At least one American and one Russian have been on board at all times. 

More than 26,500 meals have been dished up, according to NASA, and the complex has grown from three to 13 rooms since 2000. 

The current structure has a mass of nearly 1 million pounds and as much pressurized volume as a Boeing 747. 

The most important experiment, Kelly said, is about keeping humans alive in space. His one-year mission with Russian Mikhail Kornienko, due to end in March, includes 400 experiments, many of them medical. 

Americans have never spent this long in space; the Russians have, but it was decades ago on the former Mir station. NASA puts the number of experiments at this space station, over the years, at more than 1,760. At the same time, there have been 189 spacewalks to build and maintain the outpost since construction began in 1998; No. 190 will occur Friday when Kelly and Lindgren venture out for the second time in 1½ weeks. As the space station ages, more maintenance will be required. 

NASA hopes to keep the complex running until 2024. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden called Monday’s milestone “a remarkable moment 5,478 days in the making.” “It has taught us about what’s possible when tens of thousands of people across 15 countries collaborate to advance shared goals,” Bolden said in a statement. 

One sticking point, one to two decades ago, was a name for the place other than International Space Station — ISS in NASA shorthand. The original inhabitants — American Bill Shepherd and Russians Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko — christened their high-flying home Alpha when they arrived, but the name didn’t last. Kelly remembers wishing back then that the space station had a real name, but the various countries couldn’t agree on one. 

“Now, it’s the ‘space station’ to me and I think it’s a great name,” Kelly told reporters. “The name ‘International Space Station’ really represents what it is. So in some ways, maybe it’s a better name.” As for day-to-day life, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui said the space station has yielded a unique culture given all the nationalities involved, with the crew members respecting each other. If this were practiced back on the planet, he noted, “the Earth will be a much better place.

Google planning a ‘watershed’ quantum computing announcement

Google planning a ‘watershed’ quantum computing announcement

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Google planning a ‘watershed’ quantum computing announcement for December 8

According to Steve Jurvetson, venture capitalist and board member at pioneer quantum computing company D-WAVE (as well as others, such as Tesla and SpaceX), Google has what may be a “watershed” quantum computing announcement scheduled for early next month. This comes as D-WAVE, which notably also holds the Mountain View company as a customer, has just sold a 1000+ Qubit 2X quantum computer to national security research institution Los Alamos…

It’s not exactly clear what this announcement will be (besides important for the future of computing), but Jurvetson says to “stay tuned” for more information coming on December 8th. This is the first we’ve heard of a December 8th date for a Google announcement, and considering its purported potential to be a turning point in computing, this could perhaps mean an actual event is in the cards.

Notably, Google earlier this year entered a new deal with NASA and D-WAVE to continue its research in quantum computing. D-WAVE’s press release at the time had this to say:

The new agreement enables Google and its partners to keep their D-Wave system at the state-of-the-art for up to seven years, with new generations of D-Wave systems to be installed at NASA Ames as they become available.

Jurvetson made mention of the date in a comment on his Flickr account, specifically below a photo that he posted 3 years ago (below) showing Rose’s Law, a theory that suggests that sometime around the end of this year quantum computers should have power that’s “faster than the universe.” So far, he notes, Rose’s Law has seen itself proven mostly accurate — not unlike Moore’s Law, which was remarkably predicted by Gordon E. Moore after just five data points.

Bra saves woman’s life

Bra saves woman’s life

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Bullet proof @ Bra saves woman’s life

A woman had a narrow escape with life but thanks to her "life-saving" bra, she's still breathing. According to sources, the 41-year-old tourist, who was cycling across a field with her husband, suddenly got a sharp pain in her chest and to her utter amazement she realised that the underwire of her bra had stopped a bullet, the Daily Star reported.

The worried couple immediately discovered the suspected shooter after spotting him at a neighbouring farm in Germany. The Police spokesman Andre Falke said that this was not the first time that a woman's undies have stopped a bullet, as earlier a Brazilian woman's black underwire bra had stopped a stray round from piercing her heart.