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The average retail price paid by consumers for petrol rose by 47.18 per cent in April, the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) has said. The bureau said this in its “Premium Motor Spirit (Petrol) Price Watch” report for April 2023 released on Friday. The NBS said the average retail price paid by consumers for petrol in April 2023 was N254.06, indicating an increase of 47.18 per cent relative to the value recorded in April 2022 (N172.61). The bureau also said that comparing the average price value with the…

RDOC, recalcitrant dissolved organic carbon; POC, particulate organic carbon; DOC, dissolved organic carbon. Credit: Science China Press A marine research team led by Professor Yan Qingyun has proposed a method to assess the net carbon sink of marine macroalgae (Gracilaria) cultivation. Then, they calculated the net carbon sink of Gracilaria cultivation in China based on the yield of annual cultivated Gracilaria in the last…

Time series of average summer (black) and maximum summer (red) daily maximum temperatures averaged over England and Wales, 1960-2021. Trend-lines are also shown for each time series. Image credit: Matthew Patterson, Department of Physics, University of Oxford. Credit: Matthew Patterson, Department of Physics, University of Oxford. New research led by the University of Oxford has found that climate change is causing the hottest…

via Buena Vista Adapting any form of popular source material presents plenty of risks, with the creative team tasked with bringing something beloved by so many into live-action having to strike the delicate balance between appealing to general audiences without alienating the existing fandom, something The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy just about managed. Douglas Adams’ seminal sci-fi novel had been dubbed a classic since its initial release for a reason, and there were many out there who were skeptical a…

If you’ve ever had a hard disk drive (HDD) fail on you, you’re certainly not alone. It turns out that this is actually a lot more common than most people think. According to research carried out across a sample of over 17,000 hard drives, the average life span of an HDD is only two years and 6 months. Does that make the HDD one of the weakest components inside your PC? Benjamin Lehman / Unsplash Cloud storage and backup company Backblaze released an interesting report about the average time it takes for an HDD to…

Buyers of Apple's iPhones are paying more than ever according to a new report that looks at the average selling price of models sold in the United States.As Apple gets ready to replace the iPhone 14 lineup with what will be the best iPhone to date, the iPhone 15, it appears that nobody told customers that — the average selling price of iPhones during the last quarter reached an impressive $988.To put that into perspective, the quarter in question is normally a challenging one for Apple with customers choosing to buy…

Quordle 457 answer for April 26: The Wednesday puzzle has just one trick in its sleeve and it is the one with repeated letters. However, do not think they are easy to deal with just because only one trick is at play. Solving them is easier said than done. This happens because while playing the game, you go from clue to clue and then try to unjumble the letters into a word that can be the solution, but if you can't find more clues after 4th letter, usually players tend to eliminate more letters, which just wastes their…

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RHEL-based distributions have dnf, which is equally as simple:sudo dnf install firefox -y I can also visit either the Snapcraft store or Flathub and find all kinds of necessary software available that I might not otherwise have access to. So, not only do both Snap and Flatpak make installing software much easier on Linux, but they also open the floodgates to software that would otherwise be either challenging or impossible to install on Linux. To make this even more appealing, some distributions roll Snap and/or…