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WATCH: Dr Tony Holohan pays tribute to BT Young Scientist participants Chief Medical Officer Dr Tony Holohan has praised the participants of this year’s BT Young Scientist and Technologist Exhibition (BTYSTE) and reflected on the importance of scientific research in fighting COVID-19. Speaking in a pre-recorded video message, Dr Holohan said taking part in Young Scientist despite the pandemic was an ‘amazing achievement’ for 1,000 or so second level students entered in this year’s virtu...

Shares Despite a global pandemic, Nigeria’s financial sector has grown significantly in 2020. At the beginning of the year, Adedeji Olowe, Trium Networks CEO and Open Banking Nigeria trustee made some interesting economic predictions. However, few people would have foreseen the wave of COVID-19 that caused massive disruptions in every economic sector across the globe. Interestingly, some of Olowe’s predictions or “playful educated guesses” came to pass. Some came close, while others sho...

Christopher Michel/Kevin Kelly, portrait We live in a timeline that oscillates somewhere between strangeness and doom. Much of the blame gets placed on new technologies and society’s digestion of them. And though many of the growing pains we’re experiencing amount to history rhyming, our newfound access to enormous amounts of  information has produced anomalies. Notably, we can create and live in elaborate simulative bubbles. Whether via politics (QAnon) or nostalgic cu...

While 2020 has proved a challenging year, we have learned a lot, and there are glimmers of hope as we move into 2021. The pandemic has promoted massive technological innovation and has led to many of us changing our habits, shifting our priorities, and looking forward in a new way.