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NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

REUTERS 2020-08-02 15:34:07

The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space...

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

-- 2020-07-30 20:39:04

NASA has launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a six-month journey to the Red Planet as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be ana...

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Reuters 2020-07-30 16:45:16

Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed schools four month...

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Reuters 2020-07-23 15:16:06

Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands. In twe...

China launches independent, unmanned Mars mission

China launches independent, unmanned Mars mission

REUTERS 2020-07-23 12:20:17

China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, a bid for global leadership in space and a display of its technological prowess an...

GP introduces portable pocket router

GP introduces portable pocket router

-- 2020-07-20 10:19:03

To address the growing need for home office and remote working solutions, Grameenphone has introduced a new LTE pocket router (MF927U) that enables 4G LTE mobile data access for homes, retail stores,...

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

Reuters 2020-07-19 12:44:34

Twitter disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from t...

Google bans ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content

Google bans ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content

-- 2020-07-18 11:49:32

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes against scientific cons...

Scientists identify gel-like substance found on Moon

Scientists identify gel-like substance found on Moon

Xinhua 2020-07-17 19:01:50

Chinese researchers have published an analysis of a gel-like substance spotted by the country's Yutu-2 lunar rover in a crater on the far side of the moon last year. In a research paper published in...

Major US Twitter accounts hacked to solicit digital currency

Major US Twitter accounts hacked to solicit digital currency

-- 2020-07-16 22:55:15

Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including former US President Barack Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Ki...

Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination: UN expert

Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination: UN expert

-- 2020-07-16 21:41:40

An independent UN human rights expert called for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality, discrimination and intolerance. Special R...

New depth map over the Arctic Ocean comes out in Scientific Data

New depth map over the Arctic Ocean comes out in Scientific Data

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-16 15:59:33

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the nature journal Scientific Data, according to a press release. The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the form of a...

Every person has unique visual fingerprint: Study

Every person has unique visual fingerprint: Study

Xinhua 2020-07-15 18:20:52

Our human ability to pinpoint the exact location and size of objects varies from one to another, and even within our own individual field of vision, according to a research released by the University...

Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G

Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G

Reuters 2020-07-14 13:50:35

Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia launched on Tuesday software which enables mobile operators to upgrade their 4G radio stations to new 5G technology without visiting the site or replacing equipme...

Amazon says no TikTok ban for employees

Amazon says no TikTok ban for employees

-- 2020-07-11 16:19:40

Amazon says on Friday that it will not ask employees to remove the social video-sharing app TikTok from their mobile devices, and an earlier email asking workers to do so was sent in error. "This mor...

‘90pc important services to be digital by 2021’

‘90pc important services to be digital by 2021’

-- 2020-07-08 23:00:25

The government plans to provide 90 per cent of important services digitally by 2021. As per the plan, 90 per cent citizens will be brought under internet facilities within next year. State Minister...

Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

-- 2020-07-07 13:33:52

Finland’s Nokia on Tuesday became the first major telecom equipment maker to commit to adding open interfaces in its products that will allow mobile operators to build networks that are not tied...

Bangladesh wins two Int’l Blockchain Olympiad awards

Bangladesh wins two Int’l Blockchain Olympiad awards

-- 2020-07-06 21:58:00

Two Bangladeshi teams which participated for the first time in the ‘International Blockchain Olympiad Award (IBCOL) 2020’ competition have won two out of six main awards. President of Hon...

Bill Gates blames social media for misinformation about coronavirus

Bill Gates blames social media for misinformation about coronavirus

-- 2020-07-05 17:20:49

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has partly laid the blame on social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, saying they can do better at kerbing the spread of misinformation about coronavirus....

India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps

India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps

-- 2020-06-30 10:55:50

India's government has banned TikTok and dozens more Chinese-made apps it says are a danger to the country. In a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, d...

Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum

Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum

Reuters 2020-06-30 10:36:08

Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site’s hate speech r...

Training on ‘Robotics Technology’ held

Training on ‘Robotics Technology’ held

FE Online Report 2020-06-29 17:25:17

The “Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project” on Monday organised a daylong online training on "Robotics Technology". The training began after the inaugural programm...

Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens

Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens

-- 2020-06-27 13:27:36

Facebook Inc said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company’s policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative info...

India to allow private firms to build rockets, satellites

India to allow private firms to build rockets, satellites

-- 2020-06-25 16:16:37

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan has said that startups and private firms will be enabled to build rockets and satellites as well as provide launch services. The ISRO chief we...

Singapore’s Grab puts partnership with troubled Wirecard on hold

Singapore’s Grab puts partnership with troubled Wirecard on hold

-- 2020-06-24 13:53:24

Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments company Grab said it had put a partnership with scandal-hit Wirecard on hold, days after the German payments firm disclosed a $2.1 billion financial hole that...

UN probes reports on record Arctic heat in Siberia

UN probes reports on record Arctic heat in Siberia

-- 2020-06-23 21:09:59

The United Nation weather agency has been investigating media reports suggesting the Arctic Circle has recorded a new record high temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius amid a heat wave and prolonged...

Google faces employee petition to end tech sales to police

Google faces employee petition to end tech sales to police

-- 2020-06-23 10:17:37

More than 1,600 workers at Alphabet Inc are petitioning its Google unit to stop selling email and other services to police departments, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The workers i...

Facebook takes down Trump ads over 'organised hate' policy

Facebook takes down Trump ads over 'organised hate' policy

Reuters 2020-06-19 11:20:35

Facebook said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organised hate. The ads showed a red inverted t...

AI training programme concludes

AI training programme concludes

FE Online Report 2020-06-18 18:21:33

A daylong online training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) was organised by the Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division...

German virus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in 24 hours

German virus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in 24 hours

Reuters 2020-06-17 15:42:03

Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said on We...