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Chevron Nigeria Limited has concluded plans to sack 25 per cent of its workforce in Nigeria.CNL said the slash was due to review of its manpower requirement going by the changing business environment. The oil major in a statement on Friday by its General Manager, Policy, Government and Public Affairs,…

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Google warns that Daydream may not work on some devices running Android 11 We’ve got another one for the Google Graveyard just in time for spooky season, folks. In a new update on the Google Daydream support page, the company bluntly notes the VR software “is no longer supported.” If…

At last year’s hardware event, Google stopped selling the Daydream View, while many apps dropped support long before that. Google announced today that “Daydream VR software is no longer supported” and that it ended with Android 11. A “Daydream service update” posted by Google Support (via Android Police) says that…

Survios has raised $16.7 million to continue building gripping virtual reality games such as the just-launched The Walking Dead: Onslaught. This is the company’s fourth funding round and is particularly important as the VR industry approaches a new hardware cycle. Facebook is launching the Oculus Quest 2 wireless VR headset…

The square-faced, three-legged alien shoves and jostles to get at the enormous plant taking over its tiny planet. But each bite just makes the forbidden fruit grow bigger. Suddenly the plant’s weight flips the whole sphere upside down and all the little creatures drop into space. Quick! Reach in and…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Hendrick Motorsports and Richard Childress Racing will combine to establish one common Chevrolet engine specification.Chevrolet is the only original engine manufacturer in NASCAR with two organizations building and supplying powertrains. Both Ford and Toyota have streamlined engine building to one supplier.But Hendrick and Childress have noted…

All you need is a text editor, a makefile and a USB-serial cable. Introduction Are you an 8-bit or a 32-bit programmer? At OMZLO, we have been mainly focussing our development efforts on newer 32-bit Arm-Cortex chips (STM32 and SAMD), which typically offer more RAM, more speed, more peripherals, at…

Eugenie Bouchard has continued her own comeback story by halting Daria Gavrilova's in a three-set French Open comeback to reach the third round on Wednesday.The Canadian's 5-7 6-4 6-3 defeat marked the end of Australian women's hopes in the draw after Astra Sharma had bowed out earlier in the day.On…

Daria Gavrilova only has to look around to know that anything can happen as she guns for a French Open third round berth on Wednesday.Fit-again after more than a year out, the former world No.20 will join lucky losers Astra Sharma and Marc Polmans as the three most unlikely Australian…