CEO Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook Will Use These Lasers To Beam Internet From The Sky

On Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg said he envisions a world where we can digitally send our emotions to others. But that technology is still a few years out, so it looks like now Zuck will have to settle for drones that shoot internet through lasers from the sky.

Zuckerberg gave us a sneak peak at some of the lasers the Facebook Connectivity Team are building in their project to project to expand internet connectivity around the world.

Video: Yes To Giant Robot Duel With America - Japan

Last week, American giant robot makers Megabot challenged Japanese giant robot makers Suidobashi Heavy Industry to a giant robot battle. The video, subtitled in Japanese and filled with waving American flags, coincidentally happened to come out right before a striking Women’s World Cup championship match where the U.S. handily beat the Japanese national team. Yesterday, Suidobashi Heavy Industries posted their response:

Network Outages, Like NYSE, United Airlines, Are The New Natural Disasters

The ups and downs of network infrastructure are a growing problem without a solution.

This week saw two nearly simultaneous infrastructure failures in major industries: finance and transportation.
On Wednesday, July 8th, the New York Stock Exchange abruptly went down for a big chunk of the trading day. Suspicions of a cyber attack erupted almost immediately after the exchange went dark, but the NYSE denied this, and later clarified that the problem had resulted from gateway software compatibility.
The same day United Airlines experienced a network crash due to what they say was a faulty router connection that degraded network connectivity. After 59 cancelled flights, the network was mostly back online.

Nigerian embassy in Saudi Arabia snubs president Buhari's family?

That is what Leadership newspaper is claiming. According to the report, the Nigerian embassy in Saudi Arabia this week side-stepped protocol by giving preference to former Vice President Namadi Sambo and his entourage of 15 family members over that of President Buhari when both arrived for the lesser Hajj (Umrah) in Saudi Arabia.

ISIS releases pic of one of the suicide bombers who carried out attack in N'Djamena, Chad

On Monday June 15, suicide bombers attacked a Police Academy where a graduation ceremony was going on killing at least 30 cadets in Chadian capital, N’Djamena. (read here). ISIS just released a photo of one of the suicide bombers..

Pro-Dogara group say they won't accept Gbajabiamila for House Majority Leader - House of Reps leadership tussle

 

 

Pro-Dogara group in the House of Reps say they will never accept Hon Femi Gbajabiamila as the House Majority Leader. In a statement signed by Abdulmumini Jibrin representing Kano state, the group said true federal character as stated in the Nigerian constitution for the appointment of key positions in the National assembly must be enforced. 

 

The group argue that the North East and the South West cannot produce any principal officer again after Hon Dogara from Bauchi state in the North East and Yusuf Lasun from Osun state in the South West already occupy key positions as Speaker and Deputy Speaker respectively. 

The group has however offered to give the Gbajabiamila faction the opportunity to produce the next Majority leader but says that Femi Gbajabiamila himself cannot occupy the position. This has however been refused by the Gbajabiamila led faction who have said their position to ensure that Femi Gbajabiamila is made Majority Leader is non negotiable

Messi the best in history, says Arda

The Turkey winger can't wait to get started at Camp Nou and named the two Barcelona stars he is looking forward to playing alongside the most

New Barcelona signing Arda Turan says he can't wait to play alongside Lionel Messi - a player he has described as "the best ever" - and his idol Andres Iniesta.