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Coronavirus: Twitter tells staff to work from home

Coronavirus: Twitter tells staff to work from home

-- 2020-03-03 11:44:02

Twitter has told its employees to work from home to help stop the spread of the coronavirus. In a blog post, the social media giant said it was mandatory for staff in Hong Kong, Japan and South Korea...

Ten innovations win National Hackathon awards

Ten innovations win National Hackathon awards

FE Online Report 2020-03-01 15:38:52

Ten innovations were awarded during the two-day long National Hackathon in Dhaka city. They were earlier selected for the awards after sorting out from 349 shortlisted innovative solutions. Top 51 t...

Australia scientists detect largest explosion since Big Bang

Australia scientists detect largest explosion since Big Bang

-- 2020-02-29 18:17:44

Australia Scientists detect largest explosion since Big Bang   Scientists in Australia have detected the largest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang, which emitted five times the...

China's lunar rover unveils underground secrets on far side of moon

China's lunar rover unveils underground secrets on far side of moon

Xinhua 2020-02-27 21:06:51

China's lunar rover Yutu-2, or Jade Rabbit-2, has helped scientists unveil the secrets buried deep under the surface on the far side of the moon, enriching human's understanding about the history of c...

Musk’s SpaceX rocket production facility approved by Port of Los Angeles

Musk’s SpaceX rocket production facility approved by Port of Los Angeles

-- 2020-02-26 11:42:53

SpaceX, the private rocket company of high tech entrepreneur Elon Musk, won final approval on Tuesday to build a research and manufacturing plant for its deep-space Starship project on a tract of vaca...

Samsung confirms coronavirus case at South Korea factory

Samsung confirms coronavirus case at South Korea factory

-- 2020-02-22 19:30:30

Samsung Electronics on Saturday confirmed one coronavirus case at its mobile device factory complex in the southeastern city of Gumi in South Korea, causing a shutdown of its entire facility there unt...

Scientist behind cut, copy and paste dies

Scientist behind cut, copy and paste dies

-- 2020-02-20 17:47:07

Larry Tesler, an icon of early computing, has died at the age of 74, reports the BBC. Mr Tesler started working in Silicon Valley in the early 1960s, at a time when computers were inaccessible to the...

Facebook expresses 'deep concern' after Singapore's blocking order

Facebook expresses 'deep concern' after Singapore's blocking order

-- 2020-02-19 17:20:47

Facebook has expressed concern after it was ordered by Singapore to block access to a news site's page. Singapore said the fringe site States Times Review had broken a newly introduced "fake news" la...

Japan approves bill to help firms to develop 5G

Japan approves bill to help firms to develop 5G

-- 2020-02-18 11:47:28

Japan’s cabinet on Tuesday approved a bill to support companies to develop secure 5G mobile networks and drone technologies amid growing alarm among Tokyo policymakers over the increasing influe...

Twitter says Olympics, IOC accounts hacked

Twitter says Olympics, IOC accounts hacked

-- 2020-02-16 11:28:53

Twitter said on Saturday that an official Twitter account of the Olympics and the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) media Twitter account had been hacked and temporarily locked. The accou...

UK to make social media platforms responsible for harmful content

UK to make social media platforms responsible for harmful content

Reuters 2020-02-12 16:56:15

Britain has decided to make social media companies --- such as Facebook, Twitter and Snap --- responsible for blocking or removing harmful content on their platforms. A duty of care will be imposed t...

Samsung to unveil square-shaped foldable phones to challenge Apple

Samsung to unveil square-shaped foldable phones to challenge Apple

-- 2020-02-11 13:20:05

Samsung Electronics is set to unveil a new, square-shaped foldable smartphone and updated versions of its flagship Galaxy S range on Tuesday, seeking to revive sales after ceding its smartphone crown...

Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram accounts hacked

Facebook’s Twitter, Instagram accounts hacked

-- 2020-02-08 10:29:16

Facebook's social media accounts were temporarily taken over by a group of hackers on Friday afternoon. The hacking group OurMine posted on the Twitter and Instagram accounts for Facebook and Messeng...

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 search bar fault

Microsoft fixes Windows 10 search bar fault

-- 2020-02-06 12:14:53

Microsoft has fixed a glitch in Windows 10 that meant one of the operating system's core features stopped working. Dozens posted on social media that Windows Search had stopped working for them on We...

Facebook to remove coronavirus misinformation

Facebook to remove coronavirus misinformation

Reuters 2020-01-31 16:35:31

Facebook will remove misinformation about China’s fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a...

Australia scientists claim first re-creation of coronavirus outside China

Australia scientists claim first re-creation of coronavirus outside China

-- 2020-01-29 17:39:42

A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that could help c...

Facebook asks employees to put off non-essential travel to China

Facebook asks employees to put off non-essential travel to China

Reuters 2020-01-28 11:05:14

Facebook Inc has asked employees to suspend non-essential travel to mainland China to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The company also told employees who had trave...

As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum

As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum

-- 2020-01-28 10:52:58

Britain’s decision on whether to allow Huawei to supply equipment for 5G mobile networks comes at a delicate time, with debate raging in European capitals over the security implications of relia...

Bdstall releases Free PC-Builder 2020

Bdstall releases Free PC-Builder 2020

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-23 21:39:50

Bdstall, a popular online marketplace, has released PC Builder as new year's special feature. The PC Builder option at the Bdstall website will allow visitors to build own PC with required components...

SpaceX to simulate rocket failure in final astronaut capsule test

SpaceX to simulate rocket failure in final astronaut capsule test

-- 2020-01-18 13:20:43

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test...

India launches telecom satellite "GSAT-30"

India launches telecom satellite "GSAT-30"

-- 2020-01-17 13:01:43

India's telecommunication satellite "GSAT-30" was successfully launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on Friday. The satellite was launched from the Kourou launch base, French Guiana, by...

SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

-- 2020-01-07 15:17:03

California's SpaceX company has launched another 60 satellites in its Starlink network. It brings to 182 the number of spacecraft the firm has now put in the sky as part of its plan to provide a glob...

Samsung Electronics says will unveil ‘innovative devices’ on Feb 11

Samsung Electronics says will unveil ‘innovative devices’ on Feb 11

-- 2020-01-05 12:00:30

Samsung Electronics said on Sunday that it will introduce new, innovative devices in San Francisco on Feb 11, with the electronics giant widely expected to unveil its new foldable phone and a new vers...

Huawei gets India nod to participate in 5G trials

Huawei gets India nod to participate in 5G trials

REUTERS 2019-12-31 10:54:18

The Indian government has allowed Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co HWT.UL to participate in trials for 5G networks, a company spokesman said on Monday. India’s nod to Huawei comes...

China sentences ‘gene-editing’ scientist to three years in jail

China sentences ‘gene-editing’ scientist to three years in jail

-- 2019-12-30 12:58:29

A Chinese court sentenced the scientist who created the world’s first ‘gene-edited’ babies to three years in prison on Monday, according to the official Xinhua news agency, on charge...

Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020

Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020

-- 2019-12-28 11:26:50

Spotify Technology SA said on Friday it would pause selling political advertisements on its music streaming platform in early 2020. The world’s most popular paid music streaming service, with n...

Chimpanzees likely to share tools during complex tasks: Study

Chimpanzees likely to share tools during complex tasks: Study

Xinhua 2019-12-25 17:49:55

Chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices, according to a study published in this week's Proceedings of the National Ac...

Scientists develop bio-inspired membrane to harvest energy from seawater

Scientists develop bio-inspired membrane to harvest energy from seawater

-- 2019-12-24 18:05:17

Scientists in Australia and the United States have developed a membrane, inspired by bone and cartilage, that can produce electricity from saltwater. The study published this week in the journal Joul...

Active internet users fall half a million in Nov: BTRC

Active internet users fall half a million in Nov: BTRC

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-24 14:50:16

The country witnessed its active internet users drop by half a million in November, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said in a report on Tuesday. There were 99.569 million ac...

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Saudi spying case

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Saudi spying case

-- 2019-12-21 11:11:14

Weeks after US authorities brought a spying case against three Saudi nationals for digging up dissidents’ personal data at Twitter, the company suspended tens of thousands of accounts that appea...