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New Horizons begins hunt for distant moons

New Horizons begins hunt for distant moons

-- 2019-01-05 18:47:48

After studying a space rock some 4.0 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system’s most distant edge, sear...

Chinese rover exploring far side of moon

Chinese rover exploring far side of moon

-- 2019-01-05 16:33:29

A Chinese robotic rover has got its wheels dirty after rolling off its landing craft and onto the lunar soil. The Chang'e-4 spacecraft touched down on the far side of the Moon at 10:26 Beijing time (...

China starts 6G research

China starts 6G research

-- 2019-01-05 14:44:05

Southeast University in eastern China's Jiangsu Province recently said that a team has begun to research 6G mobile networks. You Xiaohu, a professor with the university and the team leader, said they...

Offices becoming 'smart' in Berlin

Offices becoming 'smart' in Berlin

-- 2019-01-04 14:51:32

Employees will not need a key to get into the office of the future when it opens in Berlin this year, featuring ample meeting space, plenty of copy machines always stocked with paper along with high-q...

China rocket first to land on far side of moon

China rocket first to land on far side of moon

-- 2019-01-03 19:27:08

A Chinese probe has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, according to state media, in a groundbreaking mission in space exploration. The unmanned Chang'e 4 spacecraft successfully...

NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world

NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world

-- 2019-01-03 13:58:39

Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, unveiling the very...

Google's radar-based hand motion sensor gets approval

Google's radar-based hand motion sensor gets approval

Reuters 2019-01-02 14:27:16

Alphabet’s Google unit won approval from US regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as Project Soli. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on...

Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies

Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies

-- 2019-01-01 14:56:44

American scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. In the late 1960s, he ran the part of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) giv...

Google Doodle marks New Year's Eve

Google Doodle marks New Year's Eve

-- 2018-12-31 12:34:51

Google is celebrating New Year's Eve with an animated playful doodle which shows two purple baby elephants wearing a yellow and a green party cap each. The baby elephant on the left is seen blowing...

Rapid march of ICT in 2018

Rapid march of ICT in 2018

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-31 09:43:25

A satellite in space, the launch of 4G service and the advent of local handset assembling are some of the highlights from 2018 for Bangladesh in telecoms, and information and communication technolog...

Cyber attack hits US newspaper distribution

Cyber attack hits US newspaper distribution

-- 2018-12-30 13:03:53

A cyber attack caused major printing and delivery disruptions on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times and other major US newspapers, including ones owned by Tribune Publishing Co such as the Chicago Trib...

Scientists may use 'tunnelbot' to find life on Europa

Scientists may use 'tunnelbot' to find life on Europa

-- 2018-12-29 20:07:12

Scientists have proposed a way to retrieve samples from Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which is believed to contain a liquid ocean underneath that could hold microbial life. Andrew Dombard, associate pr...

S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

-- 2018-12-29 16:28:21

Africa's most advanced nanosatellite, developed by South Africa, was successfully launched on Thursday, the South African Department of Science and Technology said. "Today marks another historic mile...

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

-- 2018-12-28 20:35:23

Data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveals that water mixed in with clay minerals has been discovered in the asteroid Bennu. As reported by NASA, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Re...

New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

-- 2018-12-28 15:11:02

Chinese scientists have said they have come up with a more efficient luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), which can be made into "solar windows" that turn sunlight into electricity. Researchers at t...

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

-- 2018-12-27 19:13:56

Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the co...

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

-- 2018-12-27 14:14:53

The Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has won nine international awards in different categories and a national award this year for various digital innova...

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

-- 2018-12-26 13:52:16

The government has launched 16 digital services and platforms this year in line with its vision of transforming the country into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ to render services to the citizens thr...

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

-- 2018-12-25 17:46:02

Israel will give Intel Corp a $185 million (700 million shekel) grant in return for a planned $5 billion expansion of its production operations in Israel. Intel is one of the biggest employers and ex...

Australia plans drone-identifying system

Australia plans drone-identifying system

-- 2018-12-25 14:33:55

Drone "hot spots" in Australia are getting sensors to automatically identify the aircraft and their pilots. Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said it would install the equipment at t...

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

-- 2018-12-24 15:23:24

A SpaceX rocket carrying a US military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Sunday (local time), marking the space transportation company’s first national secu...

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

-- 2018-12-23 11:36:55

Elon Musk’s SpaceX scrapped Saturday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the US military due to strong upper level winds. The next launch attempt will be on Sunday at 8:51...

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

-- 2018-12-22 14:20:02

Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, bringing back the three astronauts who have completed their missions on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian mission...

India empowers agencies to snoop on computers

India empowers agencies to snoop on computers

Reuters 2018-12-22 11:33:58

India has authorised 10 federal government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”....

Pictures reveal 'winter wonderland' on Mars

Pictures reveal 'winter wonderland' on Mars

-- 2018-12-21 20:55:59

Earth's North Pole is famous for its snowy climes - and for hosting Santa's workshop, of course. But as this picture reveal, it's not the only planet with snow scenes this holiday season. The Korole...

Scientists discover 10 new plants in 2018

Scientists discover 10 new plants in 2018

BBC 2018-12-21 17:38:04

Plant collectors have searched for the hidden wonders of the plant world for centuries. Yet plants that are new to science are still being described, at a rate of about 2,000 a year. Scientists at th...

FCC fines Swarm $900,000 for unauthorised satellite launch

FCC fines Swarm $900,000 for unauthorised satellite launch

-- 2018-12-21 13:45:07

A company called Swarm Technologies Inc in US will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and...

Elon Musk unveils LA transport tunnel

Elon Musk unveils LA transport tunnel

-- 2018-12-20 13:10:56

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles which is designed to transport cars at high speed around the city. The tunnel is only a mile (1.6km) long at the mome...

Tea plants can send chemical "Mayday" during pest attacks

Tea plants can send chemical "Mayday" during pest attacks

-- 2018-12-19 14:43:09

Chinese researchers have found that tea plants can send a chemical "Mayday" signal during pest attacks and the signal can be received by neighbouring plants so they can fortify their defences. Previo...

Twitter warns of ‘unusual activity’ from China, Saudi Arabia

Twitter warns of ‘unusual activity’ from China, Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-12-18 11:08:59

Twitter has warned of ‘unusual activity’ from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day after - could have revealed the...