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Twitter, Facebook shut Chinese accounts targeting HK protests

Twitter, Facebook shut Chinese accounts targeting HK protests

-- 2019-08-20 11:57:49

Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong. Twitter said it susp...

Reliance-Microsoft tie-up poses threat to Amazon, Google in India

Reliance-Microsoft tie-up poses threat to Amazon, Google in India

-- 2019-08-13 11:35:05

India’s Reliance Industries Ltd Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft’s  Azure cloud platform, in a move that deepens the offerings of its Jio telecoms unit while posing a d...

China to push to attract more high-tech manufacturers

China to push to attract more high-tech manufacturers

-- 2019-08-11 13:32:04

China will push to attract more high-tech manufacturers to set up in the world’s No.2 economy, the nation’s commerce ministry said late on Friday, without giving further details, reports R...

Scientists develop nighttime color-changing film

Scientists develop nighttime color-changing film

Xinhua 2019-08-10 19:15:23

Scientists in China and the United States developed a thin film that can shine brightly and change color at night, which could be used to make road signs to benefit drivers and pedestrians. The study...

Huawei launches its own operating system

Huawei launches its own operating system

Global Times 2019-08-09 17:53:13

Chinese tech firm Huawei released its much-anticipated self-developed operating system (OS) HarmonyOS on Friday amid the company's US ban and an escalation of trade tensions. A Huawei executive said t...

Beijing to host World Robot Conference 2019 in August

Beijing to host World Robot Conference 2019 in August

Global Times 2019-08-04 17:54:35

Beijing will host the World Robot Conference 2019 at the end of August, with more than 200 guests from 22 countries and regions expected to attend, the organiser said at the weekend. The fair will f...

Scientists develop shape-changing robot

Scientists develop shape-changing robot

-- 2019-08-04 17:27:39

Scientists in the United States developed a kind of remotely-controlled soft robots that can move to a targeted position and be reconfigured into new shapes, revealing potential applications in biotec...

China builds more powerful ‘eyes’ to observe the sun

China builds more powerful ‘eyes’ to observe the sun

Global Times 2019-08-02 19:06:11

Chinese scientists are building new devices to watch the sun from North China, which will enhance China's capability of detecting and forecasting spatial disasters caused by solar variation. Research...

Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to combat climate change

Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to combat climate change

-- 2019-07-30 16:53:29

Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is leading the project, which aims to counter the effects o...

Internet users in BD near 100m, official data shows

Internet users in BD near 100m, official data shows

FE Online Desk 2019-07-30 13:51:14

Internet users in Bangladesh have reached nearly 100 million at the end of June 2019, the statistics of the country's telecom regulator has showed. Of them, about 5 million new users joined in the fi...

WhatsApp to roll out payments feature this year

WhatsApp to roll out payments feature this year

-- 2019-07-26 15:17:12

WhatsApp will roll out its payments service in India this year following a year-long pilot, its global chief Will Cathcart has said, as the Facebook-owned messaging giant taps an upsurge in digital pa...

BD ICT industry grows 40pc per year: Report

BD ICT industry grows 40pc per year: Report

-- 2019-07-26 14:04:16

The ICT sector in Bangladesh has grown by 40 per cent annually since 2010, thanks to public and private sector initiatives, says a new report. Bangladesh has laid down an exemplary digital foundation...

Facebook removes accounts, pages from Russia

Facebook removes accounts, pages from Russia

-- 2019-07-25 14:03:46

Facebook said on Thursday it had removed accounts from Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Honduras, in its latest move against “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Facebook said it was taking down...

Samsung Galaxy Fold may launch soon

Samsung Galaxy Fold may launch soon

-- 2019-07-24 16:58:46

Now that South Korean tech giant Samsung's much-awaited foldable smartphone -- the 'Galaxy Fold' -- has passed the final round of tests with "flying colours", the company may soon announce its release...

Facebook to pay $5b to settle privacy allegations

Facebook to pay $5b to settle privacy allegations

Reuters 2019-07-24 12:05:51

The Federal Trade Commission is set to announce today (Wednesday) that Facebook has agreed to a sweeping settlement of significant allegations it mishandled user privacy and pay $5 billion, two people...

Computer genius Roopkotha’s game on Google Play

Computer genius Roopkotha’s game on Google Play

-- 2019-07-23 13:57:08

Another feather has been added to the crown of Wasik Farhan Roopkotha, a teenage Bangladeshi computer sensation, as an arcade game developed by him was released recently from Google Play Store. &ldqu...

India launches its second lunar mission successfully

India launches its second lunar mission successfully

-- 2019-07-22 18:07:34

India has successfully launched its second lunar mission a week after it halted the scheduled blast-off due to a technical snag. Chandrayaan-2 was launched at 14:43 local time (09:13 GMT) on Monday f...

Xiaomi makes Fortune Global 500 list

Xiaomi makes Fortune Global 500 list

FE Online Desk 2019-07-22 14:24:38

Xiaomi Corporation has for the first time made the Fortune Global 500 list, nine years after its iteration. The Beijing-based global technology leader announced this in a media statement received tod...

Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins returns to launch site on 50th anniversary

Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins returns to launch site on 50th anniversary

-- 2019-07-17 16:13:51

Michael Collins, 88, one of the surviving crew members of the first manned mission to the Moon - Apollo 11 - has returned to the site where the mission set off 50 years ago. He visited Florida's Kenn...

Computer password inventor dies at 93

Computer password inventor dies at 93

-- 2019-07-16 18:22:13

Computer pioneer Fernando Corbato, who first used passwords to protect user accounts, has died aged 93. Dr Corbato introduced the basic security measure while developing methods that let more people...

NASA shake-up in new race to the moon

NASA shake-up in new race to the moon

-- 2019-07-16 13:12:39

As NASA scrambles to meet US President Donald Trump’s mandate to return humans to the moon by 2024, two longtime heads of NASA’s human exploration wing were demoted Wednesday in a slew of...

India aborts moon mission launch for technical glitch

India aborts moon mission launch for technical glitch

-- 2019-07-15 16:48:12

India aborted the launch on Monday of a spacecraft intended to land on the far side of the moon less than an hour before liftoff. The Chandrayaan-2 mission was called off when a “technical snag...

Powerful X-ray telescope launched to map cosmos

Powerful X-ray telescope launched to map cosmos

BBC 2019-07-13 18:53:48

One of the most significant Russian space missions in the post-Soviet era has launched from Baikonur, Kazakhstan. The Spektrum-SG telescope is a joint venture with Germany that will map X-rays across...

US okays $5b Facebook settlement over privacy issues

US okays $5b Facebook settlement over privacy issues

-- 2019-07-13 10:36:45

The US Federal Trade Commission approved a roughly $5.0 billion settlement with Facebook Inc this week over its investigation into the social media company’s handling of user data, a source fami...

BASIS National ICT Awards kicks off

BASIS National ICT Awards kicks off

FE Online Report 2019-07-09 16:04:17

The third edition of BASIS National ICT Awards 2019 has begun today (Tuesday). The winners of this award will be nominated for the APICTA Awards 2019 which is going to be held at Ha Long Bay, Vietnam...

Junior antitrust researchers behind India’s latest Google probe

Junior antitrust researchers behind India’s latest Google probe

-- 2019-07-09 11:23:24

Two junior Indian antitrust research associates and a law school student were behind a complaint that sparked a probe into Google’s alleged anti-competitive practices in the country, in what has...

Chinese AEW aircraft 50pc more efficient than US ones

Chinese AEW aircraft 50pc more efficient than US ones

Global Times 2019-07-07 18:05:48

China's aerial early warning (AEW) aircraft are 50 per cent more efficient than US ones in terms of electromagnetic resources utility. Military analysts said on Sunday that the Chinese aircraft could...

Man pours water on Baidu chief

Man pours water on Baidu chief

-- 2019-07-04 16:40:32

The chief executive of Chinese tech giant Baidu has been doused with water during a speech about artificial intelligence (AI). Robin Li, co-founder of the firm, was mid-presentation when a man walked...

Climate change makes heatwave five times more likely: Scientists

Climate change makes heatwave five times more likely: Scientists

-- 2019-07-04 16:27:02

Last week's record breaking heatwave across much of Europe was made "at least five times" more likely to happen by climate change, say scientists. Their rapid attribution study says that rising tempe...

Facebook evacuates buildings after possible sarin exposure

Facebook evacuates buildings after possible sarin exposure

Reuters 2019-07-02 13:20:30

Facebook evacuated four buildings and two people were being evaluated for possible exposure to the nerve agent sarin on Monday (local time) after a package at the social media company’s Silico...