A language Generation Program’s Ability to Write Articles, Produce Code and Compose Poetry Has Wowed Scientists

ColumnsNewsScience & TechnologyA language Generation Program’s Ability to Write Articles, Produce Code and Compose Poetry Has Wowed Scientists

PilotnewsSeptember 24, 2020

Seven years ago, my student and I at Penn State built a bot to write a Wikipedia article on Bengali Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore’s play “Chitra.” First, it culled information about “Chitra” from the internet. Then it looked at existing Wikipedia entries to learn the structure for a standard Wikipedia article. Finally, it summarized the information it had retrieved from the internet to write and publish the first version of the entry. However, our bot...

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Movie Theaters Are on Life Support – How Will the Film Industry Adapt?

EntertainmentFilm & TVNewsOpinionMovie Theaters Are on Life Support – How Will the Film Industry Adapt?

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Since the start of the pandemic, the film industry has been in free fall. As deaths have continued to climb, so have studio losses, with crowded theaters – once a source of collective entertainment and escapism – now seen as petri dishes for the virus. Familiar blockbuster franchises whose summer releases studios banked on to balance bleeding ledgers have been barred from shuttered theaters. The 25th James Bond film, “No Time to Die,” the 7th “Mission Impossible,”...

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At UNGA, AU Chairman Solicits ‘Comprehensive Stimulus Package’ for Africa

NewsAt UNGA, AU Chairman Solicits ‘Comprehensive Stimulus Package’ for Africa

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa on Tuesday solicited a comprehensive stimulus package for Africa to enable its recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Ramaphosa made the appeal in his pre-recorded video statement to the virtual General Debate of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Speaking in his capacity as Chairman of the African Union (AU), he also called for suspension of interest payments on Africa’s external and public debts. The South African president...

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How and When Will We Know that a COVID-19 Vaccine is Safe and Effective?

ColumnsCoronavirusHealthHow and When Will We Know that a COVID-19 Vaccine is Safe and Effective?

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

With COVID-19 vaccines currently in the final phase of study, you’ve probably been wondering how the FDA will decide if a vaccine is safe and effective. Based on the status of the Phase 3 trials currently underway, it is unlikely that the results of these trials will be available before November. But it is likely that not just one but several of the competing COVID-19 vaccines will be shown to be safe and effective by the end...

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Multinational Companies Drill for Water Without Approval – FG Alleges

BusinessNewsNigeriaMultinational Companies Drill for Water Without Approval – FG Alleges

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

The Federal Government has expressed worry over multinational companies’ usage of the nation’s underground water resources for commercial purposes without obtaining license. The Minister of Water Resources, Mr Suleiman Adamu, said this in Abuja on Tuesday at a joint press conference with the Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to address the controversies surrounding the National Water Resources Bill. Adamu said it was worrisome that without a law to protect the nation’s water resources sector,...

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Why Foreign Countries are Scrambling to Set Up Bases in Africa

Foreign PolicyMilitaryOpinionWhy Foreign Countries are Scrambling to Set Up Bases in Africa

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Recent media reports claim that a covert Kenyan paramilitary team is responsible for the unconstitutional killing of terror suspects in nighttime raids. The reports are based on interviews with US and Kenyan diplomatic and intelligence officials. The team was trained, armed and supported by US and British intelligence officers. It has been reported that since 2004, a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) programme has been operational in Kenya without public scrutiny. For its part, the British...

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Emily Dickinson is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time

Arts & CultureNewsEmily Dickinson is the Unlikely Hero of Our Time

PilotnewsSeptember 23, 2020

Since her death in 1886, Emily Dickinson has haunted us in many forms. She has been the precocious “little dead girl” admired by distinguished men; the white-clad, solitary spinster languishing alone in her bedroom; and, in more recent interpretations, the rebellious teenager bent on smashing structures of power with her torrential genius. As the world continues to endure the ravages of COVID-19, another ghost of Dickinson steps into view. This one, about 40 years old, seems...

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Electricity/Fuel Pump Hike: NLC Insists on Nationwide Protest

LabourNewsNigeriaElectricity/Fuel Pump Hike: NLC Insists on Nationwide Protest

PilotnewsSeptember 22, 2020

The Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has insisted that it would proceed with its planned nationwide protest with effect from Sept. 28 over Federal Government refusal to reverse the hikes in electricity tariff and fuel pump price. Mr Ayuba Wabba, NLC President, said this while addressing newsmen at the end of the National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the NLC on Tuesday in Abuja. News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the NLC’s Central Working Committee...

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PTF, Ministry to decide on Edo 2020 Sports Festival – Official

NewsSportsPTF, Ministry to decide on Edo 2020 Sports Festival – Official

PilotnewsSeptember 22, 2020

Executive Chairman Edo State Sports Commission, Godwin Dudu-Orumen, says the state will wait for the Presidential Task Force (PTF) on COVID-19 to give clearance for preparation to commence for the Edo 2020 Sports Festival. Dudu-Orumen disclosed this on Tuesday in an interview with News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). The Sports Festival Committee had earlier suggested Oct. 22, as the date for opening of the Games Village and Oct. 25, for commencement of the festival proper,...

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Run people-oriented Programme as `Godfatherism` Ends – Ex-agitator tells Obaseki

NewsNigeriaPoliticsRun people-oriented Programme as `Godfatherism` Ends – Ex-agitator tells Obaseki

PilotnewsSeptember 22, 2020

Mr Kingsley Muturu, a peace ambassador and leader of Amnesty Phase II in Delta, has described Gov. Godwin Obaseki`s victory as the final blow to godfatherism in Nigerian Politics. He, however, called on the governor to carry everyone along and ensure that his administration ran a purposeful and people-oriented programme. Muturu said this in a congratulatory message to Gov. Obaseki following his victory at the just-concluded Edo governorship election. He noted that Obaseki`s victory in...

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