YOUR WEEKLY NEWS UPDATE
- 1. After Turkey’s terrible earthquake, a young girl has been saved 248 hours later. At Kahramanmaraş, a southern city, 17-year-old Aleyna Olmez was rescued from the wreckage. Aleyna endured 10 days of frigid temperatures and injuries. Rescues like hers are getting harder to come by. The 7.8 magnitude earthquake has claimed more than 41,000 lives in Turkey and Syria. Many people are still missing but has not been disclosed by any nation. Turkish network said that Aleyna was carefully removed from the wreckage of an apartment building.
- 2. President Buhari has declared that one of the three currencies would be reintroduced into circulation in an effort to defuse tensions caused by a lack of cash in Nigeria. Violent protests have been occurring as people fought for freshly designed banknotes. It was supposed to be possible to turn in old currency. but, there haven’t been enough replacement notes printed, leaving many people short on cash to buy necessities. Elections are scheduled and Mr. Buhari urged to intervene to prevent the All Progressives Congress from losing support.
- 3. Some of the ancient stone tools were discovered by archaeologists in Kenya and dating back 2.9 million years. It demonstrates that early humans other than the Homo Sapiens forebears also employed the tools. According to researchers, the tools were used to butcher hippos and crush plant resources like tubers and berries. The site has two enormous fossilised teeth that belonged to Paranthropus, an extinct relative of humans. Oldowan tools were assumed to be utilised by our species’ and our closest relatives’ predecessors, Homo Sapiens.
- 4. According to a zoo, a critically endangered primate known as the dancing lemur was successfully bred for the first time in Europe. The birth of the infant Coquerel’s sifaka was a “landmark moment for the species,” according to Chester Zoo. A spokesman claimed that 18 months after Beatrice and Elliot were relocated from the US, their “wonderful small child” was delivered to them. The species had an 80% decline in the previous 30 years due to massive deforestation, and it is only found in the wild in the treetops of north-west Madagascar.
- 5. According to Virgin Orbit, the first satellite mission from the UK to ever fail to launch due to a rocket fuel filter being disloged. In turn, a rocket engine overheated and the rocket and satellites it was carrying were destroyed. Virgin Orbit launched the rocket from Cornwall aboard a jumbo aeroplane. The plane made a successful return. The corporation will “move cautiously towards the launch” of its next rocket, according to CEO Dan Hart. According to the data, a fuel filter within the fuel feedline had been moved from its regular location.
- 6. A data centre is used in many daily tasks. All of these activities require data storage and accessibility. Although the speed and convenience of those services are fantastic, it has a price. Data centres require enormous quantities of power to operate; a large facility will consume as much as a medium-sized town. In Ireland, where a sizable number of data centres are being housed on a very limited energy system, the situation is particularly dire. In Dublin, Microsoft and Amazon have established very huge centres.
Date: 3/2/23
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