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Nigeria will join other countries of the world to experience a total lunar eclipse on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019, the National Space Research and Development Agency (NASRDA) has said. Felix Alle, head, media and public communications of the agency, revealed this in a statement on Friday. A lunar eclipse is a celestial incident where the moon appears darkened as it passes into the earth’s shadow. It occurs only when the sun, and the moon are exactly aligned with the earth between the two. “There will be a lunar eclipse over Nigeria on Monday, Jan. 21, 2019. The eclipse, expected to be total, will begin in the evening of Sunday and end on Monday. The eclipse will start across Nigeria in the early hours of Monday at approximately 3:36 am to reach its maximum at 6:12am and end at about 6:43am. The total duration of the occurrence over Nigeria will be three hours and 15 minutes,” the statement read. Alle said the lunar eclipse would, by 4.33am, become a partial eclipse, where the mo...

The easier it is to replace a battery, the less willing people are to buy a new iPhone Apple just revealed it’s expecting a $9 billion loss in revenue  due to weak iPhone demand  that’s partly caused by more people replacing their batteries, according to  a letter issued by CEO Tim Cook addressed to investors. Last year, Apple admitted it was throttling older iPhone models to compensate for degrading batteries that caused the phones to sometimes shut down. It offered to  cut its $79 battery replacement fee down  to $29 as a way of apologizing. The lower fee coupled with the greater transparency meant that more people in 2018 ended up swapping their batteries — instead of upgrading to the latest iPhone models, it turns out. Now that iPhone batteries are cheaper and easier to replace, fewer people are shelling out for new iPhones that can now cost up to $1,449. And once Apple admitted it was throttling older iPhone models,  users became more info...