How Quantum Computing Works and Why It’s Important
By: Chris Lee Computers have radically changed society. Shortly after the end of World War II, scientists were using computers to solve all sorts of problems. Progress was unbelievably fast. By the 1970s, the home computer was born. Yet for all that progress, some problems are still really hard. No matter how good computers […]
Centralized vs Decentralized — The Internet of the Past, Present and Future
By: Ryan Shea Co-founder of Blockstack The internet of the future is still unwritten. There are warning signs it’s driving towards further centralization, and flickers of hope that a new wave of decentralization is about to take hold. How will we know which version of the future we’re headed towards? Is one destined to win? Initial […]
The One Skill that will Stop you from Being Replaced By Robots
The single most important skill you will ever learn is in itself an oxymoron. It is dependent on your ability to vanquish procrastination and achieve something today with view to tackling the unknown that comes tomorrow. As I’ve written previously it requires the drive to tackle the modern world head on: doing nothing has never been […]
Digital Natives Gather For UpSkilling Nigerian Youths At TechPreneurs Hangout 2018 In Abeokuta
Nigeria’s foremost Digital Content Platform, the OnlineHubNG.com on Sunday, July 15, 2018 hosted a pool of TechPreneurs and Tech Enthusiasts in and around Ogun State at the second edition of her annual #TechPreneursHangout (a special World Youth Skills Day #WYSD2018 event) at NEST by KUTA, Oke-Ilewo, Abeokuta. TechPreneurs Hangout is an annual convergence for coders, […]
ONLINE HUB EDUCATIONAL SERVICES RECEIVES FUNDING FROM GOOGLE FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME IN NIGERIA
Online Hub Educational Services has received funding from Google’s CS Educator Grants Programme for Professional Development in the delivery of Computer Science Curriculum for Secondary school teachers with experience teaching CS and other STEM discipline in the 6-Southwest States of Nigeria. With the high demand for computer literacy, the teaching and learning of these skills […]
When artificial intelligence meets human stupidity
By: Cherine Fahim, Founder and CEO, Endoxa Neuroscience From the US Government’s Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotechnology initative (BRAIN) to Google’s deep-learning artificial intelligence (AI) project, Brain; from Facebook hiring neuroscientists to work on a brain-computer interface to Elon Musk’s Neuralink, a company that aims to download your mind; or Bryan Johnson’s Kernel, a company that wants to merge the human brain […]
Are Machines Taking Over The Space?
By Faye Flam People concerned about robots taking away jobs might want to consider where it’s already happened. Machines with varying levels of intelligence have quietly taken over the most glamorous, coveted and admirable job in the world — space exploration. It’s not that people can’t still be astronauts — it’s just there aren’t nearly enough jobs for all the […]
The Real Story of Who Invented Emoji
(Hint: They’re Ancient) By: John Brownlee In 1969, the New York Times asked Vladimir Nabokov, the famous Russian-American author of Lolita and Pale Fire, how he would rank himself amongst all living and dead literary greats, He slyly responded: “I often think there should exist a special typographical sign for a smile — some sort of concave mark, a supine round bracket, which I would […]
MUST READ: How Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest Hook Users
Type the name of almost any successful consumer web company into your search bar and add the word “addict” after it. Go ahead, I’ll wait. Try “Facebook addict” or “Twitter addict” or even “Pinterest addict,” and you’ll soon get a slew of results from hooked users and observers deriding the narcotic-like properties of these […]
Cloud Is Not a Digital Transformation Strategy (Unless You Are Amazon)
How did an online bookstore eat the cloud? In 2002, Jeff Bezos did an odd, remarkable thing. He applied an IT architecture (SOA) to the culture, processes, and organizational structure at Amazon. Bezos sent an internal mandate demanding that Amazon teams communicate with each other by exposing “their data and functionality through services interfaces.” Anyone who disobeyed […]