UNICROSS staff invent BMV-6 Medical Ventilator, selected as 3rd best innovation in Nigeria

Prof. Babson Ajibade of the University of Cross River State (UNICROSS) has invented a BMV-6 Medical Ventilator which has been selected as the third-best innovation in Nigeria. It was selected among 108 innovations from across Nigeria. Of the 108 innovations from around Nigeria, the ten best were exhibited at the Academy’s prestigious Annual Technology Dinner,…

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“No salary increase, no work”, all Samsung unions launch first general strike in Samsung’s 55-year history

Samsung Electronics Workers’ Union of Korea (hereinafter referred to as the All-Samsung Electronics Workers’ Union) announced a general strike on 1st July due to major differences in labour-management negotiations , and stated that it will continue to assert its demands until the employees’ demands for salary and vacation benefits are met. According to Reuters, the union…

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Google releases Gemma 2 open source AI model with 9/27 billion parameters: performance is better than its peers and can be run on a single A100/H100 GPU

Google issued a press release yesterday, releasing the Gemma 2 large language model to researchers and developers around the world . It comes in two sizes: 9 billion parameters (9B) and 27 billion parameters (27B). Compared with the first generation, the Gemma 2 large language model has higher reasoning performance and efficiency, and has made significant progress…

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