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Security
TPM 2.0 chip for enterprise security
Enterprise-grade protection with Windows Hello face sign-in


Cameras, video, and audio
Windows Hello face authentication camera (front-facing)
720p HD camera (front-facing)
Stereo microphones
Omnisonic Speakers with Dolby® Audio™ Premium

Software
Windows 10 Home
Microsoft Office 365 30-day trial

Wireless
Wi-Fi: IEEE 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac compatible
Bluetooth Wireless 4.1 technology


Sensors Ambient light sensor

Exterior
Casing: Aluminum
Colors: Burgundy, Platinum, Cobalt Blue, Black2
Physical buttons: Volume, Power

What’s in the box:

Surface Laptop 2
Power Supply
Quick Start Guide
Safety and warranty documents

more on Surface laptop 2...


Dimensions: 12.13” x 8.79” x .57” (308.1 mm x 223.27 mm x 14.48 mm)

Storage: Solid-state drive (SSD) options: 128GB, 256GB, 512GB, or 1TB

Display:
Screen: 13.5” PixelSense™ Display
Resolution: 2256 x 1504 (201 PPI)
Aspect ratio: 3:2
3.4 million pixels
Surface Pen* enabled
Touch: 10 point multi-touch
Corning® Gorilla® Glass 3

Memory 8GB or 16GB RAM

Graphics
Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (i5)
Intel® UHD Graphics 620 (i7)

Processor Intel® Core™ 8th Gen i5 or i7

Connections
1 x full-size USB 3.0
3.5 mm headphone jack
Mini DisplayPort
1 x Surface Connect port
Compatible with Surface Dial off-screen interaction*

The matte black finish on the Surface Laptop 2 is rather striking — it’s deep, dark, and well saturated, giving the machine a stealthy finish. That is until you touch it, where like many other aluminum laptops with black finishes, it collects fingerprints with ease. Aside from the new finish, Microsoft says the keyboard is redesigned to be quieter and easier to type on, and in the brief time I spent with the machine, I found its keyboard to be rather silent. Though, to be fair, it’s rather loud in the demo area Microsoft has set up here.The new Laptop is said to be 85 percent faster than its predecessor, thanks to an on-board 8th-gen Quad Core Intel processor. The battery also gets an impressive 14.5 hours, which should more than get you through that flight. That’s even more impressive because Microsoft is giving the laptop a brighter, thinner and higher-resolution display, too. read further here. www.naijarebrander.com


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Microsoft has just announced the first refresh of its Surface Laptop since it was originally launched and along with all new processing components, it now comes in a matte black finish. The new Surface Laptop 2 starts at $999 and is available to order starting today, with shipments expected later this month 16th October.

Strickland and Mourou's development of very short and intense laser pulses, known as "chirped pulse amplification," have made it possible to cut or drill holes in materials and living matter incredibly precisely. The technology they pioneered has led to corrective eye operations for millions of people.
While Ashkin's optical tweezers may sound stranger than science fiction, they make it possible for scientists to hold, observe, and move tiny objects with "laser beam fingers." That means laboratories can examine and manipulate viruses, bacteria, and other living cells without damaging them.
"Advanced precision instruments are opening up unexplored areas of research and a multitude of industrial and medical applications," the Nobel organizers wrote on prize's Twitter feed.
Each of the six Nobel prizes come with an award of 9 million Swedish kronor (roughly $1 million), which can be shared by as many as three recipients. Strickland and Mourou will take half of the 2018 award, and Ashkin the other half.
According to the Academy, Ashkin was so busy with his latest scientific paper that he might not be available for interviews.
Alfred Nobel created five prizes in his 1895 will for medicine, physics, chemistry, literature and peace. A sixth prize in economics was created, in Nobel's memory, by Sweden's central bank in 1968.

cc.lalastica

The Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a woman for the first time in 55 years, and for only the third time in its history.
Donna Strickland, a Canadian physicist, was awarded the 2018 prize jointly with Gérard Mourou, from France, for their work on generating high-intensity, ultra-short optical pulses. They share the award with an American, Arthur Ashkin, who at 96 becomes the oldest Nobel Laureate, for developing "optical tweezers."
Both inventions had "revolutionized laser physics," the Royal Swedish Academy said.The announcement comes a day after a senior scientist at CERN, the Geneva-based nuclear research center that is home to a number of Nobel winners, was suspended for saying that physics was invented and built by men.
Strickland said the achievements of women scientists deserved recognition. "We need to celebrate women physicists because we're out there. I'm honored to be one of those women," Strickland said by video link at a news conference following the announcement in Stockholm.
Marie Curie was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903, recognized for her co-discovery of radiation, followed by Maria Goeppert-Mayer in 1963 for discoveries about nuclear structure.
Strickland she said she thought there might have been more than three physics laureates, adding: "Hopefully in time it will start to move forward at a faster rate.


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I never knew that the spirit of Mavrodi of MMM is still roaming around Calabar all this while...please shine your eyes

Are you sure it's not Ponzi scheme because Bitcoins is still existing and getting stronger...please don't be deceive

All i can see is mobile first Aid boxes for un-emergency cases

RIPEnglish:
So he just death like that with no reason for us to knew? Villagers are at works.

what kind of Engrish is that you spoked?

Do you mean leadership position or what op?

In a matter of days, a new owner will be announced for the country’s fourth largest telecom network, 9mobile. The company, which was hitherto known as Etisalat, ran into troubled waters when it could not meet its obligations of $1.2billion to a consortium of 13 banks that were asking for the loan repayment with accrued interests. This forced its United Arab Emirate-based major shareholders to pull out of the company, giving up 45 per cent stake to a trustee after the intervention of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). This left the local company with no option but to go for a name change. That was followed with the constitution of a new board. But the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), determined to protect the interest of the company’s millions of customers, decided to get a new owner for it so that it can operate optimally. Thus began the process of getting a new investor for the company.
At the initial stage, the process, supervised by Barclays Bank, the financial adviser to the creditor banks, had as many as 16 companies expressing interest in the takeover. The companies include, Globacom Limited, Virgin Mobile, Helios Investment Partners LLP, MTN, Smile Telecoms Holdings, Blackstone Private Equity, Ntel, Vodacom, Teleology Holdings Limited, Obot Etiebet & Co, Bharti Airtel, BUA Group, Morning Side Capital Partners, and Hamilton and George International Limited but a number of them baulked when it was time to back the expression of interest with a bank guarantee of $100m.
The number was further pruned down to five by Barclays Bank. Those who made the last five are Globacom Limited, Smile Telecoms Holdings, Bharti Airtel, Helios Investment Partners LLP and Teleology Holdings Limited.
Speaking recently about the takeover of the company, the Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Professor Umar Garba Danbatta, emphasized that the takeover would not be a hostile one, adding that whichever of the shortlisted bidders is eventually picked must be able to grow the business and deliver value to the subscribers.
His words, “In the final analysis, we will like to see a 9mobile taken over by a bidder who has the financial and technical capacity to improve on the operations of the telecom and add value in delivery of qualitative telecoms services in the country.”
Going by the submission of the NCC boss, the regulator is looking at picking a company that is financially strong, technically competent and sufficiently innovative to keep pace with other service providers. The question is which of the bidding companies fits the bill the most?


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just observing in 3D

BigIyanga:
Always hosting a festival or carnival. How about IEEE conference? How about coding conference? How about ITU conference? How about an IT startup Confrence?

No mind them Bros let us create one from this forum as start

victorisreal02:
Nigerian Popular Blogger "Ejump" Shares His Inspiring Hustle Story

Mr Ejump is one of Nigeria's popular blogger, the CEO and founder of 9jaflaver.com

He took to his facebook timeline to share his inspiring hustle story

Read below:-



Screenshots below:-

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Let me even check his name on Forbes to see if he's really existing...lol

I really hail those guys for the work on old matter. more of these please

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2016 has been awarded to three British scientists working in the US for their theoretical work explaining strange states of matter, including superconductors, superfluids and thin magnetic films.
The prize was split between David J Thouless of the University of Washington, Duncan M Haldane of Princeton and J Michael Kosterlitz of Brown University. They will share a sum of US$928,000. Their work has helped shape an enormous amount of research over the past three decades and this well-deserved prize reflects the continuing importance of new discoveries that have and will continue to emerge from it.
“Normal” states of matter are ones you’re likely familiar with: solids, liquids and gases. The transition between these states is characterised by what is referred to as “symmetry breaking”.
For example, in a liquid, atoms are arranged uniformly in space and it looks identical no matter how you rotate it. However, when a liquid turns into a solid the atoms are locked into a crystal lattice. This new state of matter is less symmetrical in the sense that it only looks the same if it is rotated at certain angles. However, Thouless, Haldane and Kosterlitz found that matter is a lot more interesting than this. Their work showed how new phases of matter can occur where no symmetry is broken – and they used a mathematical idea to explain this. What distinguished these phases of matter – which display strange behaviour such as unusual patterns of electrical conductivity – were “topological properties”.
Topology is the mathematical study of how surfaces can be deformed continuously and smoothly. A famous example is the surface of an orange, a croissant, a coffee cup and a doughnut. To a mathematician, all these objects are imagined to be made of a malleable material that we are allowed to deform continuously without cutting or tearing. In this way an orange and croissant are identical, since we could mould both of them into a sphere. Likewise the coffee cup and doughnut are also the same to a mathematician because they both have one hole – the cup has a hole in its handle and the doughnut at its centre.
So, in this abstract sense the orange and croissant are in one distinct class, while the coffee cup and doughnut are in another. The difference between them boils down to whether their surface has a hole in it or not. This is the topological property of the object that is robust to any form of moulding we might do. The work of Thouless, Kosterlitz and Haldane made important steps in understanding how the notion of topology plays a role in the phases of matter.
This connection was exposed by considering the energies that electrons in materials can occupy – which can be plotted as a surface (when presented as a function of their momentum). In the 1980s scientists discovered that electrons in certain two-dimensional thin films move in a strange way when subjected to a strong magnetic field. These electrons order into perfectly conducting channels, located at the edge of the material, based on a quantum mechanical property known as spin. What’s more, this conductivity increases in discrete steps as the magnetic field increases – an effect called the quantum Hall effect. Thouless and coworkers found that the “energy surface” for these materials could be described as a doughnut in topological terms, and the channels of energy that were seen were effectively the number of holes in that surface. Along with further work by Kosterlitz and Haldane on other systems, like vortices superconductors and hidden ordering in magnetic materials, their work demonstrated that the idea of topology could be used to predict the behaviour of solids.
Thouless, Kosterlitz and Haldane’s work has laid the foundations for new emerging fields. In particular they have been crucial to an area of solid state physics called topological insulator materials. These are new three-dimensional materials that carry electricity on the surface but not in their interior. Their energy surface can also be described by topology. These materials have many “spintronic applications”, and heads of hard drives based on this technology are currently used in industry.
Technological applications of materials often rely on how they behave when they are “excited” as a result of some energy transfer. We can imagine an excitation as being a bit like a pulse travelling down a string if we shake it at one end.
One device that is currently being studied is made of topological insulator layered on top of a superconductor (a material with zero electrical resistance at low temperatures). If we poke this system in the right way then it is excited at the interface between the materials. These excitations carry a topological property, like a hole in a doughnut, which is robust to noise and imperfections that might scatter the excitation (which could be some sort of signal).
This effect is potentially very useful for quantum computing. The “bits” of data in a normal computer are 1 or 0. However a quantum computer uses quantum bits, which can be in superpositions of states (according to quantum mechanics) – making calculations super fast. Currently scaling quantum computing up to commercially applicable sizes is hampered by noise from the external environment, such as something shaking. However, by exploiting excitations of topological materials, the information encoded in them could be protected and preserved.
This is an exciting avenue of research that could help revolutionise information processing technologies.

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i wasted my hard earn data but was disappointed nevertheless let's go for Bronze

No matter what we need to thank God that we are disgraced like Fiji...bronze here we come

let me adjust my mat and begiin to sleep and hope for bronze..we try no be small

6 more minutes to goal i'm sobbing with the help of onions someone tell me to stop or.....

The newly added words, phrases and abbreviations reflect the growing influence of texting and cyberspeak on the English language, with many entries that come from the Internet. And a large number of the new entries have their roots in American, British and Australian slang.
TL;DR: An influential dictionary added a bunch of crazy new words. Here are 15 of them, along with their official definitions:

air punch (noun): an act of thrusting one's clenched fist into the air, typically as a gesture of elation or triumph
budgie smugglers (noun): men’s brief, tight-fitting swimming trunks
butt ugly (adjective): extremely unattractive
deffo (adverb): definitely, certainly
folktronica (noun): style of popular music incorporating elements of folk and electronic music
FWIW (abbreviation): for what it's worth
glamping (noun): a form of camping involving accommodation and facilities more luxurious than those associated with traditional camping
hockey mom (noun): a mother who devotes a great deal of time and effort to supporting her children’s participation in ice hockey.
ICYMI (abbreviation): in case you missed it (used in electronic communication to draw attention to something noteworthy)
ROFL (abbreviation): rolling on the floor laughing (used to convey great amusement)
Scooby Snack (noun): a snack, especially given as a reward or inducement; specifically a bite-sized treat or a large multilayered sandwich. Also: food eaten to satisfy a hunger induced by drinking,smoking, or drug use.
starter marriage (noun): a short-lived first marriage between young adults, viewed as a form of preparation for a subsequent, more lasting one with different partners
TBH (abbreviation): to be honest
TL;DR (abbreviation): used as a dismissive response to a lengthy online post, or to introduce a summary of a lengthy post. (It stands for "too long; didn't read.
"listicle," defined as "a piece of writing or other content presented wholly or partly in the form of a list."

Not all the newly added words are as quirky as the ones above. Some, like "Afrofuturism" and "Hitchcockian," have their roots in the arts; others, like "agender," reflect changing attitudes about gender and identity in society.


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That's is welcome development just hope it will be real and not paper work

jmichlins:
sadly you can not hear about this here and i do not know why we are not scientificaly inclined. For up four days now this stuff is trending on twitter and facebook now

You very right all i see in this forum is more of gossip...though i posted something on the very matter

I thought she just gave birth to her first child, if that is true, she should be having a maternity rest by now

I need the video and 3D display of the car before i believe

The national fireworks on July 4 this year will be joined by celestial fireworks as NASA’s Juno mission arrives at Jupiter after five years of travel from Earth. Principals of the mission and its scientific experiments discussed the plans for the orbital insertion at a press conference at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, CA, today, as Juno reached Jupiter’s doorstep. Juno, in Roman mythology, was the wife of the king of the gods, Jupiter.
Juno’s path is to thread a needle between Jupiter’s radiation belts and its atmosphere. Starting at 11:18 pm EDT (8:18 pm PDT) on July 4’s evening, the spacecraft will burn its main engine to slow it from its 165,000 mph speed with respect to Earth, one of the highest speeds ever reached. The burn should last 35 minutes, until 11:53 pm EDT (8:53 pm PDT). Eager scientists and engineers, joined by journalists and those watching on NASA TV around the world, will listen for a beep at the beginning of the engine burn and another beep at the end of the burn, hoping that the exact timing indicates a successful insertion into a polar orbit around Jupiter. All action actually took place 48 minutes earlier, since the radio signals from Jupiter currently take 48 minutes to travel to Earth at the speed of light. The last commands to Juno are being sent today; the spacecraft will then be on its own for a few days, though, of course, it will be monitored.
It will then take a couple of days before the instruments are turned on. The spacecraft has been made to spin faster than previously, 5 rpm, to improve its stabilization before the burn; it will be slowed to 2 rpm for its science observations. Not since the Pioneer spacecraft has rotation been used for stabilization, but this spacecraft is in one of NASA’s smaller (and less expensive) spacecraft series, following on the very successful New Horizons spacecraft that flew by Pluto last year.
Most of the instruments deal with Jupiter’s particles and magnetic field, which is 20,000 times more powerful than Earth’s. The main instruments, to protect them, are in a vault made of 400 pounds of titanium to protect them from high radiation. The Junocam, its imaging camera, is outside that protection, and may not last as long as other instruments; further, it will give images as it rotates that will have to be transformed to the equivalent of steady views.
Juno’s instruments will be powered by huge solar panels; end to end, the spacecraft would fill a basketball court from hoop to hoop. A boom at the end of one arm extends even further, to put the magnetic-field measuring equipment as far from the metal at the spacecraft’s center as possible, to minimize distortions.
When the planets of our solar system formed about 5 billion years ago, Jupiter took up about half the leftover material besides the Sun. Juno’s main goals include discovering what the inside of Jupiter is like, as part of understanding how the planets formed. One specific goal is to discover whether Jupiter has a rocky or ice core of elements heavier than helium. It has been estimated as being 10 to 20 times the Earth’s mass; though dense, it is not necessarily solid, even under the huge pressure near Jupiter’s center.
Juno will be in an extended elliptical orbit, coming as close as only 5000 miles above the cloudtops at its lowest point. Its 14-day elliptical orbit will be timed so that each time it comes close it passes a few degrees in longitude around the planet, so that by the time it completes three dozen orbits after about a year, it will have mapped the planet at high accuracy completely. But unlike previous spacecraft to Jupiter, it is concentrating on a layer under the visible cloud deck, where the magnetic field is apparently formed. That layer stays much steadier than does Jupiter’s atmosphere above it.
Jupiter’s magnetosphere is huge; if we could see it, it would appear as big as our Moon appears in our sky. We know from measuring radio signals from Jupiter that the magnetic field rotates like clockwork, even though the cloud deck rotates at different speeds at different latitudes. The magnetic field generates a huge, fairly steady aurora, over twice as large as Earth. The spacecraft has been traveling within Jupiter’s magnetosphere, where the magnetic field dominates, for about a week.

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In its latest report, the World Health Organization(WHO) reclassifies hot beverages, which include coffee, tea and mate, as probable cancer risk for people
The list of cancer-causing agents is long—and getting longer. Experts already tell us to avoid smoking, exposure to UV radiation from the sun and even air pollution because these can increase the risk of cancer. Now the World Health Organization says that hot drinks like coffee, tea and maté belong on that list too. The group’s International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC), made up of 23 scientists from 10 countries, reviewed around 1,000 studies that investigated a connection between high-temperature beverages and their potential link to cancer. Based on the available evidence, they conclude that drinking very hot beverages, which they defined as anything above 149F (65C)—cooler than a cup of coffee from most take-out spots—is linked to higher risk of cancer of the esophagus.
They based their conclusion, which is published in Lancet Oncology, on studies that found higher rates of esophageal cancer among people who drank extremely hot tea or coffee compared to those who consumed their drinks at lower temperatures. The link to cancer remained strong even after they adjusted for things like smoking and other possible cancer risk factors. Animal studies also seem to hint that even very hot water can increase the risk of this type of cancer, presumably because the temperature scalds delicate tissues in the esophagus; that damage may then trigger more rapid turnover of the cells, which can in some cases lead to out-of-control malignant growth.
The group of probable cancer-causing agents in people includes 79 substances, most recently red and processed meat, fried foods, DDT and the human papillomavirus (which is linked to cervical cancer).
The report also concludes, however, that there isn’t adequate evidence to classify coffee itself as a carcinogen. That’s a downgrading of the risk for coffee from its previous analysis, done in 1991, when studies linking coffee consumption to a higher risk of bladder cancer led the IARC to deem coffee as “possibly” carcinogenic to people. Now, says Dana Loomis, deputy head of the IARC, “the available scientific evidence base is much larger and stronger. There are quality studies available today that are significantly better than those in 1991.” Recently, more studies that control for such factors support the benefits of coffee in lowering risk of cancer in certain parts of the body. But for 20 other types of cancer, the evidence isn’t strong enough to suggest either a benefit or risk, so the IARC is changing the designation to “inadequate evidence for carcinogenicity of coffee drinking overall.”
That seems to contradict the finding about hot beverages, since most people drink their coffee hot. But the classifications aren’t necessarily mutually exclusive. People who drink more coffee seem to have lower rates of certain cancers, including liver and endometrial cancers. But, says Dr. Otis Brawley, chief medical and scientific officer at the American Cancer Society, “that’s not where hot beverages hit. Hot beverages hit the mouth, throat, esophagus and stomach.” So that means that even though coffee may be hot, as long as it’s not too hot, there doesn’t seem to be evidence linking coffee to higher risks of cancer other than esophageal cancer.
In the studies the group reviewed, there seemed to be an increased risk of esophageal cancer only when people drank very hot beverages, usually above 149F. The National Coffee Association USA recommends holding coffee at 180 to 185F; most coffee sellers serve their drinks at about 10 degrees below that after a lawsuit by a customer who was scalded by cup at the holding temperature at McDonald’s—but that’s still higher than experts now recommend to avoid cancer risk.
The people who might want to discuss the latest classification change with their doctors are people with Barrett’s esophagus, a condition that often precedes esophageal cancer. For almost every else, says Brawley, the risk from the higher temperature drinks is much smaller than the risk from other, more common risk behaviors. “I would say anybody who drinks alcohol shouldn’t even worry about this because alcohol is far more of a cancer-causer than coffee or hot drinks. Anybody who smokes cigarettes also shouldn’t worry about this because cigarettes are a far greater cause of cancer than alcohol.”
“Basically this is a reassuring message for coffee drinkers,” says Dr. Alberto Ascherio, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at Harvard T. H. Chan School of Public Health. Just don’t drink it too hot.

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