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Secret to good grades? Study claims teens addicted to video games do BETTER at school

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Teens who spend a lot of time playing video games do better at school, an international study has suggested. The Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said there was strong evidence that playing computer games on handheld consoles like Nintendo DSs and Sony PSPs had ‘positive effects on learning’. It said many games ‘incorporate

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Do YOU pass as a human? Facebook develops quiz to differentiate robots from people

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Our ability to answer questions currently separates us from machines in the world of artificial intelligence. But researchers are working on algorithms to give computers this skill too. Now, scientists at Facebook have come up with questions that they say artificially intelligent machines must answer, if they can ever match human brainpower – but some

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Classwork Series and Exercises {Physics- SS1}: Speed and Velocity

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Position, Distance, Displacement, Speed, Velocity and Distance-Time graph The position of a point in space is determined by its distance and direction from other points. The statement of position is accomplished by means of a frame of reference or point of reference, which we shall call the origin. Distance is the movement coverage of a

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JAMB: 1.4m Candidates To Write Computer-based UTME Starting Monday

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The Joint Admission and Matriculation Board, JAMB, has said that the 2015 Unified Tertiary and Matriculation Examinations, UTME, will commence next week March 9, across the country. Its Public Relations Officer, Mr. Fabian Benjamin, told Vanguard, yesterday: “All the logistics for the examination have been put in place and the examination will start on March

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Are we becoming smarter? Research suggests Humans’ IQ scores are getting steadily higher

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Contrary to an earlier report that said humans’ IQ scores are decreasing due to advancement in technology, scientists have now claimed that the average intelligence of the human race has actually been steadily increasing. In research looking back over IQ tests from the past few decades, they found that the tests were becoming harder –

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Police arrest 50 protesting JAMB candidates in Benue

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The Benue Police Command on Monday arrested 50 candidates of the Joint Admission and Matriculation Board (JAMB) for violent protests and stoning of security officials. The Commissioner of Police in the state, Hyacinth Dagala, said the police intervened to prevent breakdown of law and order when the candidates started throwing stones at JAMB officials. According

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President Jonathan offers 164 Ex-NYSC members automatic employment, scholarships

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President Goodluck Jonathan on Monday announced automatic employments and scholarships for post-graduate studies for 164 former members of the National Youth Service Corps. Jonathan made the announcement at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, during the 2014 President’s NYSC Honours Award and the flag off of the NYSC Hope Alive Programme aimed at helping corps members who

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Facebook launches new suicide alert system that allows users report their friends

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Facebook has rolled out a new system to try and identify and help users having suicidal thoughts. It allows concerned friends to report content for review. After reviewing a report and confirming that it may indicate suicidal feelings in a user, Facebook will send that user notifications stating that a friend has attempted to help

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Why your pets really DON’T remember being told off: Average short-term memory span of animals is 27 seconds!

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There’s a reason why telling your dog off for bad behaviour doesn’t always work. Compared to humans, animals don’t remember specific events, but instead tend to retain useful information that could help them survive. Dogs forget an event within two minutes, while chimpanzees will forget at around 20 seconds. Baboons, pig-tailed macaques, and squirrel monkeys,

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