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BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

Sheikh Tausif Ahmed 2021-05-05 20:46:42

A team of engineers from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has developed a low-cost oxygen supply instrument called OxyJet, an innovation which may offer lifeline to people se...

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-05 16:05:15

The World Bank on Wednesday awarded the four winning teams of the competition titled ‘Plastic Circularity Innovation Challenge’, which sought innovative solutions to combat plastic polluti...

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-05-04 18:28:29

Citing a recent statistics, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Division (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said cloud-based business in Bangladesh reached currently worth nearly Tk 13 m...

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

TASS 2021-05-02 18:13:43

The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with the Crew-1 mission aboard has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth, NASA is broadcasting live. The undocking of the Resilienc...

EU hits Apple with music streaming charge in boost for Spotify

EU hits Apple with music streaming charge in boost for Spotify

-- 2021-05-02 16:53:44

EU regulators accused Apple on Friday of distorting competition in the music streaming market, siding with Spotify in a case that could lead to a hefty fine and changes in the iPhone maker's lucrative...

Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

-- 2021-05-01 15:43:31

Turkey added cryptocurrency trading platforms to the list of firms covered by anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulation, it said in a presidential decree published early on Saturday. T...

Alibaba freezes executive pay amid China's curbs on big tech

Alibaba freezes executive pay amid China's curbs on big tech

REUTERS 2021-04-30 16:14:06

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has frozen pay for senior executives in 2021 and is instead giving junior staff bigger salary increases, sources said, in an effort to preserve its workf...

UK first country to green light ‘self-driving’ cars on roads

UK first country to green light ‘self-driving’ cars on roads

-- 2021-04-28 15:16:01

The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways, with the first such cars possibly appearing on public...

Spotify launches podcast subscription platform to challenge Apple

Spotify launches podcast subscription platform to challenge Apple

-- 2021-04-28 11:03:01

Spotify launched on Tuesday a paid subscription platform for podcasters in the United States and plans to expand in other regions in the coming months, a week after Apple unveiled a similar service....

Musk trolls Bezos after SpaceX wins moon landing contract

Musk trolls Bezos after SpaceX wins moon landing contract

REUTERS 2021-04-27 21:03:27

The space race between the world's two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos' attempt to challenge a major NASA contract. The two billiona...

Bangladeshi IT firm to launch virtual office platform

Bangladeshi IT firm to launch virtual office platform

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-04-25 10:02:15

A Bangladeshi leading IT firm, Synesis IT, is introducing a ‘world class’ virtual office platform named Convay to accommodate as many as 1200 people at a time to meet the need of changing...

Facebook starts testing ads in Instagram Reels

Facebook starts testing ads in Instagram Reels

REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:33:57

Facebook Inc on Thursday said it will begin testing ads on its TikTok clone Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany and Australia, as the social media giant aims to make money from its short-form vi...

Musk's SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

Musk's SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:22:54

NASA and Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday, the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a r...

NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

-- 2021-04-22 15:44:39

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday,...

Apple announces iMacs for work-from-home world

Apple announces iMacs for work-from-home world

Reuters 2021-04-21 09:34:06

Apple announced on Tuesday (US standard time) a range of new computers, a paid podcasting service and devices for finding lost items, signalling the continued expansion of its once-simple product...

China plans $3bn supercomputing centre

China plans $3bn supercomputing centre

REUTERS 2021-04-20 15:52:47

China's southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end to analyse data obtained from space, according to state media on Tuesday. With a planned investment o...

NASA's helicopter Ingenuity makes successful maiden flight on Mars

NASA's helicopter Ingenuity makes successful maiden flight on Mars

Reuters 2021-04-20 11:50:23

NASA scored a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it sent its miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity buzzing above the surface of Mars for nearly 40 seconds, marking the first powered contr...

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

NASA's Mars helicopter makes history with successful flight on Red Planet

Reuters 2021-04-19 17:47:11

NASA's miniature robot helicopter Ingenuity performed a successful takeoff and landing on Mars early on Monday, achieving the first powered, controlled flight by an aircraft over the surface of anothe...

US banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers

US banks deploy AI to monitor customers, workers

REUTERS 2021-04-19 17:31:56

Several U.S. banks have started deploying camera software that can analyze customer preferences, monitor workers and spot people sleeping near ATMs, even as they remain wary about possible backlash ov...

Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA

Mars helicopter flight test promises Wright Brothers moment for NASA

-- 2021-04-18 21:05:14

NASA hopes to score a 21st-century Wright Brothers moment on Monday as it attempts to send a miniature helicopter buzzing over the surface of Mars in what would be the first powered, controlled flight...

Google Earth's timelapse feature puts a spotlight on climate change

Google Earth's timelapse feature puts a spotlight on climate change

REUTERS 2021-04-17 21:14:44

Google Earth has added a timelapse feature to the popular platform, providing a glimpse into how climate change, urbanization and deforestation have altered the planet over the last four decades. Cre...

Three astronauts return to Earth after months in space

Three astronauts return to Earth after months in space

Reuters 2021-04-17 14:51:43

Three members of the International Space Station's crew returned safely to Earth on Saturday on a Russian Soyuz craft, Russia's Roscosmos space agency reported. The Soyuz MS-17 spacecraft carrying NA...

UAE partners with Japan to send rover to the moon in 2022

UAE partners with Japan to send rover to the moon in 2022

-- 2021-04-15 10:48:59

Lunar exploration company ispace will transport a United Arab Emirates rover to the moon in 2022, the company said on Wednesday, as the UAE pushes for rapid expansion in the space exploration business...

Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content

Facebook oversight board widens scope to rule on content

-- 2021-04-14 10:42:44

Facebook users will now be able to ask the company’s independent oversight board to rule on content that has been left up on the platform, not just content that has been taken down, in a key exp...

WHO, agencies urge countries to suspend sale of live wild mammals at markets

WHO, agencies urge countries to suspend sale of live wild mammals at markets

-- 2021-04-13 18:25:21

International agencies including the World Health Organization urged countries on Tuesday to suspend the sale of live wild mammals in food markets, warning they may be the source of more than 70 per c...

500 million LinkedIn users’ data posted for sale on hacker forum

500 million LinkedIn users’ data posted for sale on hacker forum

-- 2021-04-11 17:48:44

Some LinkedIn data, including publicly viewable member profile, was extracted and posted for sale, Microsoft Corp’s professional networking site said based on an investigation. The incident was...

Gender bias in Facebook's ads tools?

Gender bias in Facebook's ads tools?

-- 2021-04-10 12:58:14

Facebook users may not be learning about jobs for which they are qualified because the company’s tools can disproportionately direct ads to a particular gender “beyond what can be legally...

Facebook sued by US-based Muslim advocacy group for failure to police hate speech

Facebook sued by US-based Muslim advocacy group for failure to police hate speech

Reuters 2021-04-09 11:39:52

Civil rights group Muslim Advocates sued Facebook and its top executives on Thursday, alleging they misled the US Congress and others by falsely claiming the company removes content that violates its...

Google's AI scientist resigns after colleagues' firings

Google's AI scientist resigns after colleagues' firings

Reuters 2021-04-07 10:08:32

Google research manager Samy Bengio said on Tuesday he was resigning, according to an internal email seen by Reuters, in a blow to the Alphabet unit after the firings of his colleagues who questioned...

Google finds US Supreme Court backing over Oracle in major copyright case

Google finds US Supreme Court backing over Oracle in major copyright case

REUTERS 2021-04-06 09:46:29

The US Supreme Court handed Alphabet Inc’s Google a major victory on Monday, ruling that its use of Oracle Corp’s software code to build the Android operating system that runs most of the...