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Turn off, turn on: The simple steps that can thwart top phone hackers

Turn off, turn on: The simple steps that can thwart top phone hackers

AP 2021-07-28 15:26:32

As a member of the secretive Senate Intelligence Committee, Sen Angus King has reason to worry about hackers. At a briefing by security staff this year, he said he got some advice on how to help keep...

Facebook launches vaccine finder feature in Bangladesh

Facebook launches vaccine finder feature in Bangladesh

-- 2021-07-28 12:41:37

Facebook, in collaboration with the Health Ministry and ICT Division, has launched 'Vaccine Finder', a new tool to help Bangladeshis confirm their eligibility and identify nearby places to get a shot...

UNESCO defers downgrade of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

UNESCO defers downgrade of Australia's Great Barrier Reef

-- 2021-07-25 16:08:12

UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee has deferred its decision to downgrade the status of Australia's iconic Great Barrier Reef after the Australian government managed to garner enough internationa...

Bangladesh to launch ‘Jogajog’ as alternative to Facebook, says Palak

Bangladesh to launch ‘Jogajog’ as alternative to Facebook, says Palak

-- 2021-07-24 18:45:28

Bangladesh is going to create its own social media platform called ‘Jogajog’ as an alternative to Facebook and ‘Alapon” for WhatsApp, State Minister for Information and Communi...

SpaceX bags NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa

SpaceX bags NASA launch contract for mission to Jupiter's moon Europa

Reuters 2021-07-24 10:20:55

Elon Musk's private rocket company SpaceX was awarded a $178 million launch services contract for NASA's first mission focusing on Jupiter's icy moon Europa and whether it may host conditions suitable...

Global outage hits major websites

Global outage hits major websites

REUTERS 2021-07-23 09:17:03

Many websites were briefly down in an outage sparked by a glitch in Akamai Technologies Inc's systems, the second major disruption linked to the cloud company in about a month. "We have implemented a...

India watchdog accuses Amazon of concealing facts in deal for Future Group unit

India watchdog accuses Amazon of concealing facts in deal for Future Group unit

Reuters 2021-07-22 16:01:16

India's antitrust regulator has accused Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) of concealing facts and making false submissions when it sought approval for a 2019 investment in a Future Group unit, a letter to the U...

Facebook says it should not be blamed for US failing to meet vaccination goal

Facebook says it should not be blamed for US failing to meet vaccination goal

REUTERS 2021-07-19 10:54:54

Facebook has defended itself against US President Joe Biden's assertion that the social media platform is "killing people" by allowing misinformation about coronavirus vaccines to proliferate, saying...

Google to allow users delete last 15 minutes of search history

Google to allow users delete last 15 minutes of search history

-- 2021-07-17 15:50:26

Google has rolled out a set of new privacy features, including an option that would let users delete their last 15 minutes of search history on mobile. Announcing extra protection for Google’s s...

18-year-old student to fly with Jeff Bezos in inaugural space tourism flight

18-year-old student to fly with Jeff Bezos in inaugural space tourism flight

-- 2021-07-17 12:47:34

An 18-year-old physics student whose father heads an investment management firm is set to take the place of a person who put up $28 million in an auction to take part in the inaugural space tourism fl...

Microsoft says Israeli group sold tool to hack Windows

Microsoft says Israeli group sold tool to hack Windows

Reuters 2021-07-16 11:17:06

An Israeli group sold a tool to hack into Microsoft Windows, Microsoft and technology human rights group Citizen Lab said on Thursday, shedding light on the growing business of finding and selling too...

TikTok hits 3b download milestone only after Facebook

TikTok hits 3b download milestone only after Facebook

-- 2021-07-15 13:28:51

Video-sharing platform TikTok, and its Chinese sister app Douyin, has become the fifth non-game app to surpass 3.0 billion global installs across app stores, a tier that used to be the exclusive domai...

Microsoft to offer cloud-based version of Windows operating system

Microsoft to offer cloud-based version of Windows operating system

-- 2021-07-14 22:33:28

Microsoft Corp on Wednesday said it will offer its Windows operating system as a cloud-based service, aiming to make it easier to access business apps that need Windows from a broader range of devices...

Russian-linked ransomware gang websites disappear from internet

Russian-linked ransomware gang websites disappear from internet

-- 2021-07-14 14:01:19

Websites for a Russian-linked ransomware gang blamed for attacks on hundreds of businesses worldwide have gone offline. Monitors say a payment website and a blog run by the REvil group became sud...

WhatsApp puts its new privacy policy on hold in India

WhatsApp puts its new privacy policy on hold in India

UNB 2021-07-09 20:02:14

After nearly a six-month stand-off with the Indian government over its new contentious privacy policy, Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has finally blinked. The California-headquartered...

Reporting of Huawei’s two test satellites launch for 6G research is fake news: Huawei

Reporting of Huawei’s two test satellites launch for 6G research is fake news: Huawei

-- 2021-07-06 16:48:46

Chinese technology giant Huawei on Tuesday refutes reports that it is set to launch two test satellites for 6G technology verification in July. The company tagged media reports of the launch of two s...

Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content, says Indian govt

Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content, says Indian govt

REUTERS 2021-07-06 15:36:39

Twitter Inc no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the US microblogging giant has failed to comply with new IT rules, the Indian government said in a court fili...

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world affected by ransomware attack: Kaseya CEO

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world affected by ransomware attack: Kaseya CEO

Reuters 2021-07-06 10:56:03

Between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world have been affected by a ransomware attack centred on US information technology firm Kaseya, its chief executive said on Monday. Fred Voccola, the Flo...

Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 US businesses

Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 US businesses

Reuters 2021-07-03 10:48:57

Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The...

Facebook asks its users: Are your friends becoming extremists?

Facebook asks its users: Are your friends becoming extremists?

REUTERS 2021-07-02 10:59:43

Facebook is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday. Screenshots shared on Twitter showed a notice asking "Are...

India says US social media giants must obey the country's laws

India says US social media giants must obey the country's laws

Reuters 2021-07-01 10:07:13

India's technology minister said on Wednesday that US social media giants must obey the laws of his country, where they are doing brisk business. The comments by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad follo...

SAU-BBDF researchers produce biogas from kitchen waste

SAU-BBDF researchers produce biogas from kitchen waste

UNB 2021-06-27 22:18:08

A joint research team of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) and Bangladesh Biogas Development Foundation (BBDF) has successfully generated biogas from kitchen waste and municipal solid waste...

Coronavirus outbreak struck East Asia over 20,000 years ago, study finds

Coronavirus outbreak struck East Asia over 20,000 years ago, study finds

-- 2021-06-27 20:04:24

New research by the authors of the Australian National University has revealed that a coronavirus outbreak may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. The authors in an article on The...

AI is watching: Things you need to know about workplace surveillance

AI is watching: Things you need to know about workplace surveillance

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-26 12:31:44

From Swedish retailer H&M being fined 35 million euros ($42 million) for recording employees' private data to Britain's Barclays bank accused of spying on its staff, workplace surveillance has com...

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 operating system

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 operating system

REUTERS 2021-06-25 11:31:41

Microsoft Corp on Thursday unveiled Windows 11, its first major operating system revamp since 2015 with new changes that take direct aim at Apple's lucrative App Store business model. Windows 11, whi...

Australian scientist speaks to frogs, fears their silence

Australian scientist speaks to frogs, fears their silence

-- 2021-06-24 17:51:02

Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at the Australia's Universit...

Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee commits suicide, lawyer says

Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee commits suicide, lawyer says

-- 2021-06-24 11:07:01

British-born US technology entrepreneur John McAfee died on Wednesday by suicide in a Barcelona prison after the Spanish high court authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charg...

imo announces stronger ‘security layer’ to stop tech-savvy criminals

imo announces stronger ‘security layer’ to stop tech-savvy criminals

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-06-21 14:46:47

In view of increasing cyber risks and threats, instant communication platform imo has added new features to enhance its security protection system, inclusive of an anti-fraud mechanism, the company ha...

UNDP, Puncforon launches 'MyResponse' campaign against cyberbullying

UNDP, Puncforon launches 'MyResponse' campaign against cyberbullying

UNB   2021-06-18 20:41:09

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has teamed up with Puncforon, the winner of its Digital Khichuri Challenge 2020, to launch the "#MyResponse" campaign to raise awareness against online...

Shakuntala Thilsted wins World Food Prize 2021 for mola fish research

Shakuntala Thilsted wins World Food Prize 2021 for mola fish research

  Md Abdul Wahab 2021-06-17 17:06:58

The World Food Prize Foundation has awarded the World Food Prize 2021 to Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, global lead for Nutrition and Public Health of WorldFish. She won the most prestigious priz...