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Romance / Re: American Nicki Minaj Vs Naija Nicki Minaj by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:24pm On Mar 08, 2017 |
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Romance / Re: Is my Ashawo friend beautiful ? PHOTO by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:48pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
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Education / Re: 25 Greatest Unsolved Mysteries Ever by KennedyOkpara(m): 5:47pm On Mar 06, 2017 |
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Romance / Re: Please Who Knows This Girl? She seems to be everywhere[pic] by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:47pm On Mar 05, 2017 |
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Education / Re: Remember D Nigeria Vs India Match People Talks Abt? Here Is All You Need To Know by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:03pm On Mar 05, 2017 |
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Jokes Etc / Re: Funny Meme (PIC) by KennedyOkpara(m): 4:04pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Celebrities / Re: Runtown Will Be Getting Laid By This Lady If He Enters South Africa by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:52pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Celebrities / Re: Spotted: Falz The Badt Guy And Lookalike (Photo) by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:49pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Politics / Re: Breaking News : Buhari Hands Power To Osinbajo (CNN) by KennedyOkpara(m): 3:14pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Jokes Etc / Re: 6 Funny Meme To Brighten Your Day*** by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:17pm On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Culture / Re: Historical Facts About Ilorin And Kwara Yoruba by KennedyOkpara(m): 9:15am On Mar 04, 2017 |
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Education / Re: Some Bizarre Facts You May Know. by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:55am On Mar 04, 2017 |
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TV/Movies / Re: BBNaija: Voting Polls Favour Efe Despite Dirty Nose-Picking Habit by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:10pm On Mar 02, 2017 |
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Art, Graphics & Video / Re: Let's Draw! A Hand (Lessons on how to draw) by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:13pm On Feb 14, 2017 |
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Art, Graphics & Video / Cartoon Effect#need Help by KennedyOkpara(m): 8:10pm On Feb 14, 2017 |
pls how do I make my picture look like this with photoshop
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Gaming / Subway Surfers Cheat Apk by KennedyOkpara(m): 6:20pm On Feb 12, 2017 |
please I heard of subway cheat please I need the link to download it .Thank you. |
Phones / Re: Play Store Not Working by KennedyOkpara(m): 6:25pm On Feb 11, 2017 |
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Phones / Play Store Not Working by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:08pm On Feb 11, 2017 |
pls play store is not working on Leno go s890, I have tried every means(including Root) but to no avail I need your help. |
Jokes Etc / Re: Closed by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:01pm On Feb 11, 2017 |
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Jokes Etc / Post by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:54pm On Feb 11, 2017 |
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Jokes Etc / Funny Photos by KennedyOkpara(m): 1:14pm On Jan 28, 2017 |
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Phones / Re: How Many Of Us Remember This Lamp by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:23pm On Jan 28, 2017 |
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Science/Technology / Technologies To Watch Out For by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:48pm On Dec 24, 2016 |
WHILE WE can’t really predict what the future holds, we can look at how far we’ve come with technology in merely the last decade and realize the present we know now will, very soon, find itself memorialized in nostalgia. Here are some technologies on the horizon that are poised to change your life. 2017 Ultrabooks – The last two years have been all about the tablet. Laptops, with their “untouchable” screens, have yet to match any tablet’s featherweight portability and zippy response times. However, by next year, ultraportable notebooks — Ultrabooks — will finally be available for under $1000, bringing a complete computing experience into areas of life which, until now, have only been partially filled by smaller technologies such as tablets and smartphones. They weigh around three pounds, measure less than an inch thick, and the hard drives are flash-based, which means they’ll have no moving parts, delivering zippy-quick startups and load times. The Mars Science Laboratory – By August 2012, the next mission to Mars will reach the Martian surface with a new rover named Curiosity focusing on whether Mars could ever have supported life, and whether it might be able to in the future. Curiosity will be more than 5 times larger than the previous Mars rover, and the mission will cost around $2.3 billion — or just about one and a half New Yankee Stadiums. The Brain Cap, from U of Maryland. The paralyzed will walk. But, perhaps not in the way that you’d imagine. Using a machine-brain interface, researchers are making it possible for otherwise paralyzed humans to control neuroprostheses — essentially mechanical limbs that respond to human thought — allowing them to walk and regain bodily control. The same systems are also being developed for the military, which one can only assume means this project won’t flounder due to a lack of funding. 2018 The Rise of Electronic Paper – Right now, e-paper is pretty much only used in e-readers like the Kindle, but it’s something researchers everywhere are eager to expand upon. Full-color video integration is the obvious next step, and as tablet prices fall, it’s likely newspapers will soon be fully eradicated from their current form. The good news: less deforestation, and more user control over your sources. 4G will be the new standard in cell phone networks. What this means: your phone will download data about as fast as your home computer can. While you’ve probably seen lots of 4G banter from the big cell providers, it’s not very widely available in most phones. However, both Verizon and the EU intend to do away with 3G entirely by 2013, which will essentially bring broadband-level speeds to wireless devices on cell networks. It won’t do away with standard internet providers, but it will bring “worldwide WiFi” capabilities to anyone with a 4G data plan. Read more: 10 ways technology will change travel by 2020 The Eye of Gaia, a billion-pixel telescope will be sent into space this year to begin photographing and mapping the universe on a scale that was recently impossible. With the human eye, one can see several thousand stars on a clear night; Gaia will observe more than a billion over the course of its mission — about 1% of all the stars in the Milky Way. As well, it will look far beyond our own galaxy, even as far as the end of the (observable) universe. 2019 A 1 Terabyte SD Memory Card probably seems like an impossibly unnecessary technological investment. Many computers still don’t come with that much memory, much less SD memory cards that fit in your digital camera. Yet thanks to Moore’s Law we can expect that the 1TB SD card will become commonplace in 2014, and increasingly necessary given the much larger swaths of data and information that we’re constantly exchanging every day (thanks to technologies like memristors and our increasing ever-connectedness). The only disruptive factor here could be the rise of cloud-computing, but as data and transfer speeds continue to rise, it’s inevitable that we’ll need a physical place to store our digital stuff. The first around-the-world flight by a solar-powered plane will be accomplished by now, bringing truly clean energy to air transportation for the first time. Consumer models are still far down the road, but you don’t need to let your imagination wander too far to figure out that this is definitely a game-changer. Consider this: it took humans quite a few milennia to figure out how to fly; and only a fraction of that time to do it with solar power. The Solar Impulse, to be flown around the world. Photo by Stephanie Booth The world’s most advanced polar icebreaker is currently being developed as a part of the EU’s scientific development goals and is scheduled to launch in 2014. As global average temperatures continue to climb, an understanding and diligence to the polar regions will be essential to monitoring the rapidly changing climates — and this icebreaker will be up to the task. $100 personal DNA sequencing is what’s being promised by a company called BioNanomatrix, which the company founder Han Cao has made possible through his invention of the ‘nanofluidic chip.’ What this means: by being able to cheaply sequence your individual genome, a doctor could biopsy a tumor, sequence the DNA, and use that information to determine a prognosis and prescribe treatment for less than the cost of a modern-day x-ray. And by specifically inspecting the cancer’s DNA, treatment can be applied with far more specific — and effective — accuracy. 2019 The world’s first zero-carbon, sustainable city in the form of Masdar City will be initially completed just outside of Abu Dhabi. The city will derive power solely from solar and other renewable resources, offer homes to more than 50,000 people. Personal 3D Printing is currently reserved for those with extremely large bank accounts or equally large understandings about 3D printing; but by 2015, printing in three dimensions (essentially personal manufacturing) will become a common practice in the household and in schools. Current affordable solutions include do-it-yourself kits like Makerbot, but in four years it should look more like a compact version of the uPrint. Eventually, this technology could lead to technologies such as nanofabricators and matter replicators — but not for at least a few decades. 2016 Space tourism will hit the mainstream. Well, sorta. Right now it costs around $20-30 million to blast off and chill at the International Space Station, or $200,000 for a sub-orbital spaceflight from Virgin Galactic. But the market is growing faster than most realize: within five years, companies like Space Island, Galactic Suite, and Orbital Technologies may realize their company missions, with space tourism packages ranging from $10,000 up-and-backs to $1 million five-night stays in an orbiting hotel suite. The sunscreen pill will hit the market, protecting the skin as well as the eyes from UV rays. By reverse-engineering the way coral reefs shield themselves from the sun, scientists are very optimistic about the possibility, much to the dismay of sunscreen producers everywhere. Read more: 13 future car technologies for your road trip in 2020 A Woolly Mammoth will be reborn among other now-extinct animals in 2016, assuming all goes according to the current plans of Japan’s Riken Center for Developmental Biology. If they can pull it off, expect long lines at Animal Kingdom. 2017 Portable laser pens that can seal wounds – Imagine you’re hiking fifty miles from the nearest human, and you slip, busting your knee wide open, gushing blood. Today, you might stand a chance of some serious blood loss — but in less than a decade you might be carrying a portable laser pen capable of sealing you back up Wolverine-style. 2018 Light Peak technology, a method of super-high-data-transfer, will enable more than 100 Gigabytes per second — and eventually whole terabytes per second — within everyday consumer electronics. This enables the copying of entire hard drives in a matter of seconds, although by this time the standard hard drive is probably well over 2TB. Insect-sized robot spies aren’t far off from becoming a reality, with the military currently hard at work to bring Mission Impossible-sized tech to the espionage playground. Secret weapon: immune to bug spray. 2019 The average PC has the power of the human brain. According to Ray Kurzweil, who has a better grip on the future than probably anyone else, the Law of Accelerating Returns will usher in an exponentially greater amount of computing power than ever before. The Web Within Us. Image by Anna Lena Schiller. Web 3.0 – What will it look like? Is it already here? It’s always difficult to tell just where we stand in terms of technological chronology. But if we assume that Web 1.0 was based only upon hyperlinks, and Web 2.0 is based on the social, person-to-person sharing of links, then Web 3.0 uses a combination of socially-sourced information, curated by a highly refined, personalizable algorithm (“they” call it the Semantic Web). We’re already in the midst of it, but it’s still far from its full potential. Energy from a fusion reactor has always seemed just out of reach. It’s essentially the process of producing infinite energy from a tiny amount of resources, but it requires a machine that can contain a reaction that occurs at over 125,000,000 degrees. However, right now in southern France, the fusion reactor of the future is being built to power up by 2019, with estimates of full-scale fusion power available by 2030. 2020 Crash-proof cars have been promised by Volvo, to be made possible by using radar, sonar, and driver alert systems. Considering automobile crashes kill over 30,000 people in the U.S. per year, this is definitely a welcome technology. 2021 So, what should we expect in 2021? Well, 10 years ago, what did you expect to see now? Did you expect the word “Friend” to become a verb? Did you expect your twelve-year-old brother to stay up texting until 2am? Did you expect 140-character messaging systems enabling widespread revolutions against decades-old dictatorial regimes? The next 10 years will be an era of unprecedented connectivity; this much we know. It will build upon the social networks, both real and virtual, that we’ve all played a role in constructing, bringing ideas together that would have otherwise remained distant, unknown strangers. Without twitter and a steady drip of mainstream media, would we have ever so strongly felt the presence of the Arab Spring? What laughs, gasps, or loves, however fleeting, would have been lost if not for Chatroulette? Keeping in mind that as our connections grow wider and more intimate, so too will the frequency of our connectedness, and as such, your own understanding of just what kinds of relationships are possible will be stretched and revolutionized as much as any piece of hardware. Truly, the biggest changes we’ll face will not come in the form of any visible technology; the changes that matter most, as they always have, will occur in those places we know best but can never quite see: our own hearts and minds.
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Education / What Department Is The Best In Secondary School by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:20pm On Dec 24, 2016 |
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Phones / Re: Affordable Internet Data Plan & Call Tariff Plan Of All NG Networks This Month by KennedyOkpara(m): 12:17pm On Dec 24, 2016 |
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