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DaddyRochie1642:
The Smile of the Second girl in The Second Picture

Priceless

A group of Nigerian girls living in Ireland have won an international tech competition with an app that helps people with dementia.

Three teens took first place in Technovation Girls, a contest challenging young women and families to use technology to address real-world problems.

Their app, Memory Haven, was on one of 16 finalists at the Technovation World Summit, taking the senior girl's division and being named People's Choice.

In all, nearly 2,000 entrants from more than 60 countries entered the competition.

Memory Haven has a half-dozen features targeting memory loss and speech and recognition problems - all of which are key issues faced by people with dementia.

Photo albums allow users to view tagged photos and identify who is in the image, while a reminder feature alerts both patients and caregivers when its time for medication.

Memory games in the app allow users to 'to put their cognitive ability to the test while promoting memory retention in a fun way and improving focus and speed,' Rachael Akano, 16, told NPR.

The results from the games are kept in the app, helping doctors monitor their ongoing condition.

'It detects the mood of the user and plays playlists based on their mood,' Akano told the Cable. 'So if they're sad, it will play something to brighten up their spirits.'

Patients’ medical records are stored on the app for easy use by doctors, hospitals and caregivers - including symptoms, diagnoses, lab results, medications and treatments.

A mood tracker presents patients with prompts asking about their physical health, emotional state and mental wellbeing, while a vital tracker continuously measures temperature, respiration, pulse rate, blood pressure and other diagnostics.

Rather than a password, that may be forgotten, security is maintained with touch ID or facial recognition program.

Akano and her teammates - her sister, Margaret, and their friend Joy Njekwe - live in Drogheda, about 30 miles north of Dublin.

They were mentored by Evelyn Nomayo, an Afro-Irish data scientist at Trinity College, whose mother suffered from dementia.

Nomayo got involved in mentoring because she was tired of women and people of color feeling isolated in STEM fields.

'I'm currently doing a Ph.D. [in computer science and statistics]. During this process, I found that most of the time, I was either the only girl in class or the only black person or person of color,' she told NPR.

'Whether I'm working or being educated, it's so obvious that there's a shortage of women in this space. So I just felt it: There was a need to bring more girls and people of color into that space.'

Nigerians represent the largest African community in Ireland, with many coming in the early 2000s to pursue education or economic opportunities.

Between 2002 and 2006 alone, the population of Nigerian citizens in Ireland grew by over 80 percent.

Sadly the girls felt the sting of bigotry and xenophobia after making the finals.

'We got amazing comments, but the negative ones just naturally stick with you,' Akano told NPR. 'People said we weren't Irish and that we didn't deserve to represent the country. They put a monkey face. Just crazy, crazy oceans of racism for absolutely no reason.'

But it didn't cool their enthusiasm - their excited reaction to winning was caught on video.



Memory Haven will launch in app stores later this month.

Other winners included a team of younger girls in India who developed a digital caretaker for Alzheimer's patients and a family in Kazakhstan who developed an automated sign language interpreter that translates signs into text.

All winners will receive a portion of almost $30,000 in cash and prizes, which will go to further their STEM education and/or help bring their product to market.

A global technology education nonprofit, Technovation empowers families and children ages 8-18 to use technology to solve real-world problems.

'Every year we are blown away by the tenacity of the girls and families participating in our programs around the world and the incredible empathy and creativity they apply to tackling critical, timely issues such as climate change and distance learning, or COVID-19 and mental health,' said Technovation founder Tara Chklovski in a statement.

'In a year when all of us are reeling from new and different realities brought on by the global pandemic, their resilience and determination to positively impact their communities continues to be an inspiration.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8824059/Nigerian-Irish-teens-win-international-prize-app-helps-people-dementia.html#article-8824059

People are just beating people anyhow these days.

You talk small talk that pass your mouth now, somebody will just come and beat somebody anyhow, somebody cannot even be playing with words anymore these days, next thing you will hear is gbas gbos!

Ehn na wa o!

“STUPID” In Randy Orton’s voice

Mrscarter:
I think everyone has that ex they still think bout years after a breakup. But if Ur imagining her wen Ur with Ur girl U really need get over her. Maybe U should talk to Ur ex n get closure of some sort? Isn't fair on Ur girl that Ur thinking of someone else while Ur with her. I know U can't help it but U need find a way to get closure n stop her invading your thoughts lol
But I think U should do wat the guy up further from this comment said n focus on Ur girl n find all the good in her n make beautiful memories with her n everytime U think of the other girl remind yourself she was a cheat n a liar. I think in time you'll think of her less n less.

Okare! You made sense! I once felt like this but thats all gone now, you occupy your thoughts with what’s most important and move on.

No point holding on to what was....

greatbuc:
Pure murder. The crime scene is very unrelated to suicide. The killers did a very poor job.
Pointers:
He was probably killed before his body was lifted to the noose.. See the folded part on his trouser indicating he was lifted.
No stool or block to have giving him the height he needed to hang himself. How did he climb up to the noose?? If you say the hole in the walls then he should have been facing backwards and his foot should also be dusty and bruised.
He is scared of dying from covid by wearing a mask but took his life by hanging? Haba. Poor job by the criminals.. Let them check how much was left for him to complete the instalment money.. Some people fit kill person so the bike will be theirs even when the instalment money is almost completed.

Thumbs up on your analogy.

30m for 1 Toyota Hiace bus 2016 model. Haba! That money will buy 2 of that bus conveniently with change remaining and also pay the salary of the drivers for both buses for a year, and to think i thought her toilet would be suspended in the air given the amount she wants to build it with.

Why are we like this in this country?

Tobi my mahn! One Hennessy for you this weekend.

Some of this oyinbo people ehn, madt people everywhere

oliverjiad:
Hyundai 2012:#1.250m
Camry 2013:#1.4m

Jaid

That clearance fee for Hyundai sonata 2012 is plenty o. Thats quite expensive. Is it the same amount for a 2011?

How much is it to clear Hyundai sonata 2012 and Toyota camry 2013? Very urgent please.

grandiose4ever:
You all run away clamoring succession when you should be talking about expelling the North west - A backward zone lacking the will to integrate with the rest.

God bless your intellect you have sense, if I was in your adugbo i would have bought you 1 chilled bottle of whatever brand you drink.

You have just echoed my sentiments, this is exactly what i keep saying, instead of chest beating and trying to force a secession that in a hundred years cannot come to fruition, they should have formed a coalition with the west, it makes for strange bed fellows but the ultimate goal still remains and it moves it ever more achievable.

The west needs to the sold on the idea of a secession, there is no united front, it is imperative to state that we cannot live in unison in this country given the ideologies of the people from the core north. We need to expunge people with such credo’s from our mist to become great again. we have a common enemy, and as the saying goes “ The enemy of my enemy is my friend “

If the Nigerian police force wants to work, they will work! Now to serve these evil congregation a dose of their own medicine.

Incompetent NPF, Never there when it isn't bribe related.

Nigeria my Nigeria. .... there was a country!

proclinician:
After I heard "that portrait of yours hanging in the sitting room was my hard earned money" several times and got real tired, I called the number of the artist on the frame and asked him how much it costs to do such. He told me. I wired the money to her and destroyed the stupid portrait. She asked what's the money for I said it's your hard earned money for the portrait. She never saw the portrait again, she never asked why and most importantly I never heard that crazy line again.

Ever since then I stopped taking anything from women especially on my birthday. That way I'm not obliged to give u shishi on ur birthday. They are even very predictable that once my birthday is approaching I will hear pls send me ur most recent picture in ward coat. I be like pls I dont want any portrait. Besides I have a perfect idea for a birthday present, like a new car.

Fear women.

Smart man! Dont even eat their food sef, except na you take money buy the ingredients.

omoharry:
If you tell a woman please borrow me some money, kindly pay back and if she does same she should pay should stop playing the victims here.

What exactly are you on about? I stated it clearly that not under any circumstance should you collect money from a woman, be it loan, borrow lend, dash or otherwise, you only emphasized on loan and returns and you’re foaming at the mouth at it.

I’ld rather leave your kind to their vices and seek out help from an enemy rather than ask from you, so when shit hits the fence, I do not owe you shit! and there’s absolutely nothing for you to gloat about.

Men please go ahead, however you choose spend your money on a woman but if you need assistance with monetary issues seek it elsewhere, leave them condescending, scheming, self entitled prats to their vices.

As men, may the odds always be in our favor.

True talk never ask, borrow, collect, loan money from a woman, not even the smallest of amount.

If you dare collect as little as 1kobo for any reason, she will go round telling the world how she was the one who fed you, clothed you, paid your rent, paid your bills and put money in your pocket

Ask at your own peril.

Vladimir for world president!

Pasitor wah!!!

Abel ma niggah, badt guy.

Wear sunscreen “Metaphorically” Just relax, put your feet up, live your life.

Don’t feel guilty if you don’t know what you want to do with your
Life.

The most interesting people I know didn’t know at 25 what they wanted to do with their lives. Some of the most interesting 40-year-olds I know still don’t

Live your life, it is way ahead of you. Everything eventually falls into place, you’ll see.

Excerpts from Baz Lurhmann “Sunscreen”

What is all this? Why are human’s so wicked?.

Govt with misplaced priorities, places importance on terrorist than the terrorized.

People who benefit from all of these, may they meet their doom soon.

Sh***y country.

Nigeria my Nigeria, where everything falls into place when you have money.

What a beautiful country

Part of the people who plunged Nigeria into the darkness it is in today.

Useless leaders.

God help us.... may their souls rest in peace.

Wonderful!

Pretty, sexy thing.....

God!!!!

“Is this guy normal?”