Generation

The gaming wing of consumer tech giant Asus, the Republic of Gamers, has unveiled the latest edition of the ROG Phone, a mobile gaming powerhouse running Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon chipset and sporting a 165-Hz AMOLED HDR10+ display.The team leader for the ROG Phone 6 series is the Pro model, which is available in white only and features a 6.78-inch (2,448 x 1,080) AMOLED display at 20.4:9 aspect and a refresh rate of up to 165 Hz plus a 1-ms response time and 720-Hz touch-sampling rate. It's topped by Corning Gorilla…

The Debt Management Office (DMO) says revenue generation is a major constraint of the Federal Government and impacts the country’s debt situation negatively. The Director-General of the DMO, Patience Oniha, said this in a telephone interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja. According to Ms Oniha, the systemic resource mobilisation has been compounded by recent economic recessions. She said that the most viable solution to the country’s challenge remained to grow…

Air travel remains one of the largest contributors to global warming in the transportation sector, producing 915 million tonnes of CO2 worldwide in 2019, per ATAG. In an effort to usher in a more sustainable era of flight, NASA announced Thursday that it is seeking partners "to develop technologies needed to shape a new generation of lower-emission, single-aisle airliners that passengers could see in airports in the 2030s."  NASA is looking to fund the design, building, testing and flying of large-scale demonstrators as…

Fresh off the release of his new EP The Big 3, Roddy Ricch isn’t shying away from putting himself in the conversation about being the biggest rapper of his generation.During a recent interview with Power 106, the Los Angeles lyricist was asked to name the “Big 3” of his generation, with L.A. Leakers Justin Credible defining Roddy’s era as artists who are currently between the ages of 20 and 25.Roddy didn’t waste time making his picks, offering up himself, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Kodak Black.It didn’t take long…

The younger generation is also more likely to express positivity about the metaverse Metaverse is a virtual reality/augmented reality universe that helps you build social connections virtually. By far everyone knows about this technology. In 1992, science fiction novelist Neal Stephenson used the world metaverse, but this virtual world got recognition when Facebook changed its name to Meta to reflect its strategic focus on making this sci-fi vision a reality. YPulse’s recent The Metaverse trend report…

Neural NetworksA comprehensive explanation of what GANs are, how they work and how to build them in PythonGenerative Adversarial Networks (GANs). Image by author.There has been so much hype over Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) in the Data Science community. But, as you start learning about them, you immediately see why. GAN architecture is a genius setup that has unlocked the potential for realistic data generation and augmentation.In this article, I will take you through the fundamentals of GANs and show you how…

Over a year after the US authorized its first vaccines, COVID cases continue to pile up, leaving many vaccinated people wondering: “Do I need a vaccine upgrade?” People who are fully vaccinated and boosted have been testing positive in huge numbers, particularly since the omicron-triggered wave started its relentless burn across the United States in December. Vaccines that once caused experts to declare COVID-19 a “pandemic of the unvaccinated” don’t protect as well against illness, even as they continued to protect…

From Left to Right: Timothy Shriver, Robert Shriver, Danny Kaye, Lady Bird Johnson, Mrs. Lou Maginn (Director of a Head Start Project in East Fairfield, Vermont), Sargent Shriver, at the Ceremony for National Head Start Day in the East Room of the White House, Washington, DC. Credit: Children's Bureau Centennial/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0 New research is the first to show large-scale intergenerational effects of the federal…

From under a mop of curls, Caleb Harper – Spacey Jane frontman, guitarist and songwriter – looks every part the disaffected Gen Z idol. But under the surface, and on songs like their mega-hit Booster Seat, he excavates specific and devastating memories of a life lived under a cloud of anxiety and depression.“There’s a lot of theatre around what we do – that sort of smoke and mirrors and lights,” Harper says from his home in Perth, where he’s settling back in after six months away, including a 17-date tour in Europe and…

In an increasingly bland pop world, it’s great to see Kate Bush back at No 1 with Running Up That Hill (Report, 17 June). Not just known for her haunting melodies and poetic lyrics and sensual dance routines, Kate was an innovator. The “manual reset” of streaming ratios means classic tracks will get their due share of success and compete with new material if all record companies vie for it to become normal practice. A new generation of pop fans will be introduced to the great music and artists that they’ve been missing…