NITDA: Nigerian Curriculum Needs Overhaul To Meet 21st-Century Needs
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NITDA: Nigerian Curriculum Needs Overhaul To Meet 21st-Century Needs

Technology tamfitronics DG NITDA Kashifu Shadow The director-general of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA)Kashifu Inuwa, is urging for an overhaul of curriculums across all levels to meet 21st-century digital skills.Mr Inuwa made the call on Friday during a meeting in Abuja with the management team of the Nigerian Educational Research and Development Council (NERDC)led by its executive secretary, Ismail Junaidu.The DG said the review would be in line with President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, which aims to create millions of jobs by leveraging digital technologies and achieving a digital literacy rate of 70 per cent by 2027.“Digital technology has an important role to play in the design of the curriculum, content and processes due to the evolution of technology.“Disruptive technology has substituted the way of doing things worldwide, of which Nigeria as...
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Husband Sues Apple After Wife Finds Deleted Messages Which Led to Divorce
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Husband Sues Apple After Wife Finds Deleted Messages Which Led to Divorce

Technology tamfitronics A British businessman is suing technology giant Apple for £5 million, alleging that the company’s misleading information about deleting messages contributed to his divorce.The businessman, who remains unnamed, claims that deleted messages, which he believed were permanently erased, were still accessible on his family’s iMacultimately exposing his infidelity.According to reports from The Times, the issue arose when the man’s wife discovered messages on their iMac that he had previously deleted from his iPhone.These messages were not only recent but also included communications from several years ago with sex workers, which he thought had been completely wiped from all devices.The man expressed his frustration over the discovery, stating, “If you are told a message is deleted, you are entitled to believe it’s deleted.” He revealed that the unexpected discovery by his wife led to...
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How we test internal SSDs at PCWorld
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How we test internal SSDs at PCWorld

Technology tamfitronics Skip to contentImage: Jon L. JacobiWe’ve tested a lot of internal SSDs over the last decade or so, and the improvement to the technology has been astounding. The ongoing advancements in SSDs keep us on our toes and our testing methodology has evolved accordingly. Here’s how it stands at the moment.What hardware does PCWorld use for testing internal storage? Our current test platform features all of the latest transport technologies: USB 3.2×2 (20Gbps), Thunderbolt 4, PCIe 5.0. There is no discrete USB 4 port, so we test that using the Thunderbolt 4 ports, which do support that protocol. The operating system is Windows 11 (22H2) 64-bit (updates are disabled) running on an X790 (PCIe 5.0) motherboard/Core i5-12400 CPU combo with two Kingston Fury 32GB DDR5 modules (64GB of memory total). Intel integrated graphics...
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