UNICAL Admission list 2016/2017

The University of of calabar Nigeria, sets to release their 2016/2017...........Admission list,
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Are You Ready for a Computer That Reads Your Mind?

When will humans and computers fully interact?

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This article was originally published at The Conversation. The publication contributed the article to Live Science's Expert Voices: Op-Ed & Insights.

The first computers cost millions of dollars and were locked inside rooms equipped with special electrical circuits and air conditioning. The only people who could use them had been trained to write programs in that specific computer's language. Today, gesture-based interactions, usingmultitouch pads and touchscreens, and exploration of virtual 3D spaces allow us to interact with digital devices in ways very similar to how we interact with physical objects.

This newly immersive world not only is open to more people to experience; it also allows almost anyone to exercise their own creativity and innovative tendencies. No longer are these capabilities dependent on being a math whiz or a coding expert: Mozilla's "A-Frame" is making the task of building complex virtual reality models much easier for programmers. And Google's "Tilt Brush" software allows people to build and edit 3D worlds without any programming skills at all.

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Europe Lost Contact with Mars Lander 1 Minute Before Touchdown By Megan Gannon, Space.com Contributor

After a suspenseful night waiting for a signal from the ExoMars Schiaparelli lander, the European Space Agency (ESA) confirmed today that the spacecraft went silent less than a minute before it was set to reach the Martian surface Wednesday (Oct. 19).

ESA mission managers said this morning (Oct. 20) that they need more time to understand what went wrong with Schiaparelli, and to figure out exactly where and in what condition the test lander ended up. But theExoMars team was optimistic that the capsule had collected enough data during its descent to set the stage for the next phase of the mission: the planned 2020 launch of a life-hunting ExoMars rover.

"The test has yielded a huge amount of data," David Parker, ESA's director of human spaceflight and robotic exploration, said at a news conference early this morning. "It gives us a lot of confidence for the future. We need to understand what happened in the last few seconds before the planned landing, and that is likely to take some time." [In Photos: Europe's Schiaparelli Mars Landing Day]

The Schiaparelli Mars lander deploys its parachute in this artist's illustration.

Credit: ESA/ATG medialab

The European Space Agency's ExoMars project involves an orbiter, lander and rover, launched on two separate Proton rockets.

Credit: Details of the ExoMars orbiter, lander and rover.

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Playing With Fire!!! 20-Yr-Old Man In Prison For Stealing Motorcycle At A Police Headquarters

 
A 20-year-old man, Abeeb Wasiu, has been sentenced to three months imprisonment by a Magistrate Court sitting in Osogbo, the capital of Osun State, for stealing a motorcycle from the State Police Command headquarters.
Daily Post reports that the convict sneaked into the station and was in the process of making away with the motorcycle before he was arrested.
The police prosecutor, Mereti Wilson, had told the court presided by Magistrate A. Bashiru. that the suspect had stolen the motorcycle belonging to one Wodi Michael from the police headquarters on August 23, 2016, at about 11am.
Wilson added that the offense contravened Section 303 and was punishable under Section 390 of the Criminal Code, Cap 34, volume II, Law of Osun State, Nigeria.
When the charge was read to him, Waisu who had no counsel, pleaded guilty to the offense and begged for clemency.
In delivering judgment, Magistrate Bashiru sentenced him to three months’ imprisonment or a fine of N10,000 which he could not raise and was hauled to prison

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