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Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

-- 2021-10-06 11:16:17

Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday's Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearl...

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

-- 2021-10-05 12:07:24

Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as Wha...

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

-- 2021-10-05 08:56:21

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp lit up again late on Monday afternoon Eastern time after a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from ac...

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

-- 2021-10-04 22:15:55

Facebook Inc's suite of apps –including popular photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp– have gone down in a major outage in several parts of the world. The apps compl...

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

-- 2021-10-03 16:00:12

Dr Tommy Korn, MD, an ophthalmologist working at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego, USA, recently went viral for demonstrating how he uses the new iPhone 13 Pro macro camera to photograph h...

Facebook aware of Instagram harm to teens, US senators say

Facebook aware of Instagram harm to teens, US senators say

-- 2021-10-01 08:23:30

US senators on Thursday grilled Facebook on its plans to better protect young users on its apps, drawing on leaked internal research that showed the social media giant was aware of how its Instagram a...

Apple Watch Series 7: What is Different?

Apple Watch Series 7: What is Different?

Sofia Noor Rafa 2021-09-30 21:08:55

The Apple Watch Series 7 will be hitting the market in the fall this year. Up for a new smartwatch? The difference is there but how much discrepancy is there between the previous Watch releases and th...

Gaming Mattress goes on sale in Japan

Gaming Mattress goes on sale in Japan

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-30 13:13:24

Bauhutte is now producing a 'Gaming Mattress', a high-quality urethane mattress that supports the sleeping environment of gamers, claims the product's official webpage. The Japanese firm makes a vari...

Google adds visual search features

Google adds visual search features

-- 2021-09-30 08:42:15

Google users can soon combine images and text in search queries, a feature unveiled on Wednesday that could help the Alphabet unit expand its role in e-commerce and dominance in online video, reports...

YouTube announces to block all anti-vaccine content

YouTube announces to block all anti-vaccine content

-- 2021-09-29 20:50:25

YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond COVID-19 to include content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines, it s...

One charger for all: Advantages - disadvantages

One charger for all: Advantages - disadvantages

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-09-27 10:39:47

The European Commission (EC) is pushing to impose a universal charger (USB-C type) for smartphones, putting Apple and its widely used iPhone in conflict. EC, the executive body of the European Union...

How Google becomes popular search engine overcoming Yahoo and Bing

How Google becomes popular search engine overcoming Yahoo and Bing

Sofia Noor Rafa 2021-09-24 19:15:03

Why is Google the most popular and used search engine? It is one of the most arguable topics ever. The discussion on this might get bigger than big, and facts can hit each other up. Long ago, technol...

India's Silicon Valley state proposes ban on online games

India's Silicon Valley state proposes ban on online games

-- 2021-09-24 17:04:07

The Indian state of Karnataka, home to India's Silicon Valley, has proposed a ban on online games involving betting and wagering, sparking concerns that growing state regulations could hit the nascent...

Clubhouse launches 'wave' feature for private chats

Clubhouse launches 'wave' feature for private chats

-- 2021-09-24 09:05:00

US social audio app Clubhouse launched a feature on Thursday to let users virtually wave at friends inside its audio-only chat app to show they are open to a private chat, in a move to expand beyond p...

Bangladesh to launch 5G services this year, Joy says

Bangladesh to launch 5G services this year, Joy says

-- 2021-09-22 18:00:20

The government of Bangladesh plans to launch fifth-generation (5G) mobile network services on a trial basis at the end of this year. Prime Minister's Information and Communication Technology Affairs...

History-making space tourists return to earth safely

History-making space tourists return to earth safely

-- 2021-09-19 12:01:37

Four amateur astronauts have splashed down successfully in the Atlantic Ocean after three days in space. They are the first all-civilian team ever to orbit the Earth. The Inspiration4...

Bangladeshi software firms take a hit from Covid

Bangladeshi software firms take a hit from Covid

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-09-19 10:02:35

Like most of the businesses in Bangladesh, the pandemic Covid-19 has brought the software and ICT sector, especially the smaller and medium ones, to its knees. Over a third of computer software firms...

Bangladesh's SOLbazaar among 15 finalists for Earthshot Prize 

Bangladesh's SOLbazaar among 15 finalists for Earthshot Prize 

-- 2021-09-18 17:17:42

SOLbazaar, Bangladesh, the world's first peer-to-peer energy exchange network, has been named as one of the 15 finalists for the Earthshot Prize 2021. The Earthshot Prize has announced its first ever...

India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance

India antitrust probe finds Google abused Android dominance

-- 2021-09-18 15:20:44

Google abused the dominant position of its Android operating system in India, using its "huge financial muscle" to illegally hurt competitors, the country's antitrust authority found in a report on it...

Three Chinese astronauts return to earth after 90-day space mission

Three Chinese astronauts return to earth after 90-day space mission

-- 2021-09-17 20:58:14

Three Chinese astronauts returned to earth on Friday after a 90-day visit to an unfinished space station in the country's first crewed mission since 2016. In a small return capsule, the three men - N...

Google, Apple remove Navalny voting app from stores as Russian elections begin

Google, Apple remove Navalny voting app from stores as Russian elections begin

-- 2021-09-17 12:54:22

Alphabet's Google and Apple have removed jailed Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny's tactical voting app from their stores, his team said on Friday, after Russia accused the US tech firms of medd...

Facebook cracks down on harmful real networks

Facebook cracks down on harmful real networks

-- 2021-09-17 09:57:23

Facebook is taking a more aggressive approach to shut down coordinated groups of real-user accounts engaging in certain harmful activities on its platform, using the same strategy its security teams t...

Ozone hole over Antarctica larger than usual, scientists say

Ozone hole over Antarctica larger than usual, scientists say

-- 2021-09-16 18:44:12

Scientists say the Southern Hemisphere ozone hole is larger than usual and already surpasses the size of Antarctica.  The European Union’s Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service said Thu...

SpaceX’s first all-civilian crew rocket ship launched into orbit

SpaceX’s first all-civilian crew rocket ship launched into orbit

-- 2021-09-16 09:09:58

A SpaceX rocket ship blasted off from Florida on Wednesday carrying a billionaire e-commerce executive and three less-wealthy private citizens he chose to join him in the first all-civilian crew eve...

New iPhone 13 touts faster 5G, sharper cameras to encourage trade-ins

New iPhone 13 touts faster 5G, sharper cameras to encourage trade-ins

-- 2021-09-15 10:12:30

Apple Inc unveiled the iPhone 13 and a new iPad mini on Tuesday, expanding 5G connectivity and showing off faster chips and sharper cameras without raising the phone's price. The Cupertino, Cali...

Russia fines Facebook, Twitter for not deleting content that Moscow deems illegal

Russia fines Facebook, Twitter for not deleting content that Moscow deems illegal

-- 2021-09-14 19:30:42

A Russian court on Tuesday said it had fined US social media giants Facebook and Twitter for failing to delete content that Moscow deems illegal, part of a wider crackdown on the internet and Big Tech...

Apple issues software patch to block 'zero-click' iPhone spyware

Apple issues software patch to block 'zero-click' iPhone spyware

-- 2021-09-14 10:35:38

Apple has issued a software patch to block so-called "zero-click" spyware that could infect iPhones and iPads. Independent researchers identified the flaw, which lets hackers access devices t...

SpaceX to launch first all-civilian crew into orbit this week

SpaceX to launch first all-civilian crew into orbit this week

-- 2021-09-13 11:30:59

Yet another billionaire entrepreneur is set to ride into space this week, strapped inside the capsule of a SpaceX rocketship as part of an astro-tourist team poised to make history as the first all-ci...

Apple dealt huge blow in Epic Games trial

Apple dealt huge blow in Epic Games trial

-- 2021-09-11 12:02:04

Apple has been dealt a major blow in its ongoing trial against Fortnite-maker Epic Games. A court in Oakland, California, has ruled that Apple cannot stop app developers directing users to th...

Google may be exposed to EU fine of 10pc of global turnover

Google may be exposed to EU fine of 10pc of global turnover

-- 2021-09-10 10:51:19

Alphabet Inc’s Google (GOOGL.O) under investigation by EU antitrust regulators to see if this could force device makers to use Google Assistant as the default voice assistant on Android devices,...