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Artificial Intelligence: The modern day electricity that'll transform everything

Artificial Intelligence: The modern day electricity that'll transform everything

Bashiir Ahammed 2023-02-25 18:21:03

In the 1999 film 'The Matrix,' Neo, the protagonist, talks about Artificial Intelligence in a scene. Many people learned the term 'Artificial intelligence' from that groundbreaking film. But they forg...

Top EU bodies ban TikTok on staff phones for cybersecurity reasons

Top EU bodies ban TikTok on staff phones for cybersecurity reasons

-- 2023-02-24 21:36:13

The European Union's two biggest policy-making institutions have banned TikTok from staff phones for cybersecurity reasons, marking growing concerns about the Chinese short video-sharing app and its u...

Netflix making preparations to open Vietnam office

Netflix making preparations to open Vietnam office

-- 2023-02-24 18:33:19

US streaming giant Netflix Inc is making preparations to open an office in Vietnam after years of negotiations with authorities and completing a risk assessment, two sources with knowledge of the matt...

Search engine war spices up with Microsoft Bing's AI rejuvenation

Search engine war spices up with Microsoft Bing's AI rejuvenation

Bashiir Ahammed 2023-02-23 16:47:52

Microsoft’s own search engine Bing is one that everyone heard of but hardly used regularly. But with some effective steps from Microsoft and the recent announcement of the artificial intelligenc...

Why Google-ChatGPT comparisons are not right

Why Google-ChatGPT comparisons are not right

Safrina Kabir 2023-02-22 16:25:18

ChatGPT has created quite a buzz since its launch- an AI program, an advanced chatbot designed to answer any question from the information available on its database. This program is awe-inspiring due...

Can earthquakes be predicted?

Can earthquakes be predicted?

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2023-02-22 12:49:18

Recently, the northern parts of Syria and the eastern parts of Turkey witnessed an earthquake, with unprecedented casualties for this decade.  As per the latest news, more than 46,000 people hav...

'Detachable cabin' in aircraft could it revolutionise air travel safety

'Detachable cabin' in aircraft could it revolutionise air travel safety

Iftekharul Islam 2023-02-20 15:20:45

Flying can be a scary experience, with many people experiencing anxiety regarding air travel. Ukrainian aviation engineer, Vladimir Tatarenko, has spent over three years designing a new safety system...

Facebook parent Meta to introduce monthly subscription service

Facebook parent Meta to introduce monthly subscription service

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-20 10:30:26

Meta Platforms on Sunday announced that it is testing a monthly subscription service, called Meta Verified, which will let users verify their accounts using a government ID and get a blue badge,...

How Marc Lore became billionaire battling against Jeff Bezos

How Marc Lore became billionaire battling against Jeff Bezos

Ahnaf Tahmid Fahid 2023-02-19 17:08:58

In the world of e-commerce, Jeff Bezos is a living legend. Bezos developed an online empire that redefined how we shop and changed the face of retail as the founder and former CEO of Amazon.  Bu...

Smart contact lenses to show map directions

Smart contact lenses to show map directions

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2023-02-19 15:06:38

Until recently, if someone couldn’t find proper directions while going to some place, they would have to ask the passersby nearby to know the appropriate location. However, this now seems to be...

Microsoft limits Bing chats to 5 questions per session

Microsoft limits Bing chats to 5 questions per session

Reuters 2023-02-18 13:10:03

Microsoft said on Friday it will limit chat sessions on its new Bing search engine powered by generative artificial intelligence (AI) to five questions per session and 50 questions per day. "As we me...

Twitter to charge users to secure accounts

Twitter to charge users to secure accounts

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-18 10:16:06

Twitter said on Friday it will allow only paid subscribers to use text messages as a two-factor authentication (2FA) method to secure their accounts, reports Reuters. After March 20, "only Twitter Bl...

Twitter shuts two of its three offices in India

Twitter shuts two of its three offices in India

-- 2023-02-17 19:13:23

Twitter Inc has closed two of its three offices in India, a global media reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter. The social media company shut down offices in New Delhi and Mumbai...

TikTok plans to open two more data centres in Europe

TikTok plans to open two more data centres in Europe

-- 2023-02-17 16:28:45

Chinese social media company TikTok plans to open two more data centres in Europe, a senior executive said on Friday, a move that could mitigate concerns over the security of users' data and ease regu...

Google, Twitter, Meta, Apple face tougher EU online content rules

Google, Twitter, Meta, Apple face tougher EU online content rules

-- 2023-02-17 15:54:44

Alphabet Inc's Google, Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter and Apple face stricter EU online content rules, based on monthly user numbers published by the companies, which exceeded an EU thres...

YouTube CEO Wojcicki steps down

YouTube CEO Wojcicki steps down

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:32:42

YouTube Chief Executive and one of the first Google employees, Susan Wojcicki, is stepping down from her role at the tech giant that started in her garage nearly 25 years ago, she said in a personal u...

Microsoft-backed OpenAI to let users customise ChatGPT

Microsoft-backed OpenAI to let users customise ChatGPT

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-17 10:06:06

OpenAI, the startup behind ChatGPT, on Thursday said it is developing an upgrade to its viral chatbot that users can customise, as it works to address concerns about bias in artificial intelligence....

Elon Musk says end-2023 'good timing' to find new Twitter head

Elon Musk says end-2023 'good timing' to find new Twitter head

Reuters 2023-02-15 14:01:44

Twitter Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Wednesday that towards the end of 2023 would be "good timing" to find someone else to run Twitter, when he expects the social media platform to be stable. "I...

ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown options

ChatGPT frenzy sweeps China as firms scramble for home-grown options

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-13 11:11:00

Microsoft-backed OpenAI has kept its hit ChatGPT app off-limits to users in China, but the app is attracting huge interest in the country, with firms rushing to integrate the technology into their pro...

Google cautions against 'hallucinating' chatbots

Google cautions against 'hallucinating' chatbots

REUTERS 2023-02-11 11:22:00

The boss of Google's search engine warned against the pitfalls of artificial intelligence in chatbots in a newspaper interview published on Saturday, as Google parent company Alphabet battles to...

ChatGPT 'will change our world': Gates

ChatGPT 'will change our world': Gates

-- 2023-02-10 16:40:36

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates believes ChatGPT, a chatbot that gives strikingly human-like responses to user queries, is as significant as the invention of the internet, he told German business dail...

Bezos-owned Blue Origin awarded NASA launch contract for Mars mission

Bezos-owned Blue Origin awarded NASA launch contract for Mars mission

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-02-10 14:34:55

Blue Origin, the private space company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos, was awarded its first interplanetary NASA contract on Thursday to launch a mission next year to study the magnetic field aroun...

Fraudulent activities involving MFS a barrier to building 'Smart Bangladesh': Jabbar

Fraudulent activities involving MFS a barrier to building 'Smart Bangladesh': Jabbar

Reuters 2023-02-10 09:12:37

Posts and Telecommunication Minister Mustafa Jabbar on Thursday said gambling and fraudulent activities using mobile financial services (MFS) have become a grave concern towards building 'Smart Bangla...

Google to add generative AI features in search results soon

Google to add generative AI features in search results soon

-- 2023-02-08 21:16:18

Google said on Wednesday it would soon integrate artificial intelligence (AI) capable of generating text and other content in search results, as it battles to answer the challenge of Microsoft's popul...

Alibaba developing ChatGPT-like AI tool

Alibaba developing ChatGPT-like AI tool

-- 2023-02-08 18:52:07

Alibaba on Wednesday confirmed it is developing a ChatGPT style AI tool which is currently in internal testing, Reuters reports.  ChatGPT - which can generate articles, essays, jokes and even po...

Baidu to finish testing ChatGPT-style project 'Ernie Bot' in March

Baidu to finish testing ChatGPT-style project 'Ernie Bot' in March

Reuters 2023-02-07 14:13:18

China's Baidu Inc said on Tuesday it would complete internal testing of a ChatGPT-style project called "Ernie Bot" in March, joining a global race as interest in generative artificial intelligence (AI...

Why is Discord so popular among the young users?

Why is Discord so popular among the young users?

Sofia Noor 2023-02-05 18:54:35

Social media communication got introduced as a refreshing way of staying connected via Discord, a social communication platform. It has become one of the most popular mediums for keeping connected to...

Palak meets Saudi telecommunication company chairman in Riyadh

Palak meets Saudi telecommunication company chairman in Riyadh

-- 2023-02-05 17:18:18

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak had a meeting with Chairman of Saudi Telecommunication Company (STC) Mohammed Bin Khalid Al Abdullah Al Faisal at t...

Elon Musk says to attempt Starship launch in March

Elon Musk says to attempt Starship launch in March

Reuters 2023-02-05 12:39:28

SpaceX may attempt a Starship rocket system launch in March, its billionaire chief Elon Musk said in a tweet on Saturday. "If remaining tests go well, we will attempt a Starship launch next month," M...

How a small online shop became world's biggest e-commerce platform

How a small online shop became world's biggest e-commerce platform

Ahnaf Tahmid Fahid 2023-02-04 14:48:50

When it comes to e-commerce, no one does it better than Amazon. With over 175 million active customers and a market capitalisation of over USD 1 trillion, Amazon has firmly established itself as the d...