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HQ Trivia, Vine app co-founder Colin Kroll found dead

HQ Trivia, Vine app co-founder Colin Kroll found dead

-- 2018-12-17 10:50:41

The co-founder of the popular app HQ Trivia, Colin Kroll, has been found dead in his apartment in New York at the age of 34. The CEO, who also co-founded the video platform Vine, was found by police...

Parker Solar Probe captures closest ever image of Sun's surface

Parker Solar Probe captures closest ever image of Sun's surface

-- 2018-12-16 18:52:14

  WASHINGTON, Dec 16: NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently dove deeper into the sun's atmosphere than any spacecraft before. And it has the photos to prove it. Its approach brought it within 15 m...

Israel's tech sector faces challenge from shortage of workers

Israel's tech sector faces challenge from shortage of workers

-- 2018-12-16 17:52:22

Israel is struggling to recruit enough workers to its technology sector, a report showed on Sunday, creating a challenge for an industry seen as the country’s main potential driver of economic g...

Software bug may have exposed photos from 7.0m Facebook users

Software bug may have exposed photos from 7.0m Facebook users

-- 2018-12-16 17:00:15

  Facebook's privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users who had photos exposed to a much wider audience than intended, report...

Nations agree global climate pact rules, set aside political divisions

Nations agree global climate pact rules, set aside political divisions

-- 2018-12-16 11:15:25

Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerou...

Facebook reveals bug exposed millions of photos

Facebook reveals bug exposed millions of photos

-- 2018-12-15 13:55:38

Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted. It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experi...

Amazon deploys dummy parcels to catch thieves

Amazon deploys dummy parcels to catch thieves

-- 2018-12-14 17:01:18

Amazon has teamed up with police in the US in an effort to stop thieves who steal parcels left outside homes. Officers in New Jersey are planting dummy boxes fitted with GPS trackers, coupled with hi...

Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93

Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93

-- 2018-12-13 14:33:18

The woman who created and sold what many recognise as the world's first word processor has died aged 93. Evelyn Berezin called the device the Data Secretary when, in 1971, her company Redactron launc...

Arctic posts second warmest year on record in 2018

Arctic posts second warmest year on record in 2018

-- 2018-12-12 20:31:59

The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth’s weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the US...

'No plans' to launch search engine in China: Google CEO

'No plans' to launch search engine in China: Google CEO

-- 2018-12-12 20:08:22

Google has “no plans” to relaunch a search engine in China though it is continuing to study the idea, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told a US congressional panel on Tuesday amid increased...

‘BD takes the lead in piloting ICT programme’

‘BD takes the lead in piloting ICT programme’

-- 2018-12-12 17:59:27

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Wednesday said Bangladesh is one of the leading countries in the world in piloting digital programme. “We’ve started our journey a bit late in t...

MIT engineers develop effective water distilling device

MIT engineers develop effective water distilling device

-- 2018-12-12 15:02:44

American engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a device with cheap optics that can soak up heat from sun to produce steam hotter than 100 degrees Celsius. The study pu...

East Antarctica's glaciers are stirring

East Antarctica's glaciers are stirring

-- 2018-12-11 15:01:32

Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic cha...

China sends probe to explore dark side of moon

China sends probe to explore dark side of moon

-- 2018-12-09 16:56:55

China on Saturday launched a first probe ever to explore the dark side of the Moon, marking another milestone in its ambitious space programme, reports Reuters citing official Xinhua News Agency. Th...

Jashore motor mechanic achieves glory with various inventions

Jashore motor mechanic achieves glory with various inventions

-- 2018-12-09 14:24:15

Mizanur Rahman Mizan, locally known as a motor mechanic, has turned out to be a very inspiring man as he achieved the national acclaim through inventions of new devices and machines. Mizan, who has a...

BD teams make it to Top 4

BD teams make it to Top 4

FE Report 2018-12-09 10:53:06

For the first time, two projects prepared by Bangladeshi teams have been named at the top four in two separate categories of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s international challe...

China launches two satellites for Saudi Arabia

China launches two satellites for Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-12-08 13:33:22

China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:12 pm on Friday. Each weighing 425 kg, the two low orbit rem...

Kurigram boy invents awareness device for cars

Kurigram boy invents awareness device for cars

-- 2018-12-07 16:25:34

A talented young student of Kurigram Polytechnic Institute has come up with a novel invention that can put a check on reckless driving on the country's roads induced by drug or alcohol abuse, and even...

Producing fuel from plastic

Producing fuel from plastic

-- 2018-12-07 13:58:01

A rural youth lacking higher education and enduring various odds has embarked on a successful mission of innovating an environment-friendly technology of generating fuel from plastic wastes such as po...

Google targets Europe for delivery via drones

Google targets Europe for delivery via drones

-- 2018-12-06 14:40:38

Google's parent company, Alphabet, will test its drone delivery service in Finland next year, it has announced. Helsinki will be the first European location for Wing, which has been testing drones in...

Rats, pigeons replace iconic fauna and flora

Rats, pigeons replace iconic fauna and flora

-- 2018-12-05 18:47:14

The modification of land for farming and building cities is favouring the same species everywhere, according to a new study. Animals like rats and pigeons are taking over from less common ones, which...

India launches 'heaviest' satellite for internet access

India launches 'heaviest' satellite for internet access

-- 2018-12-05 13:04:18

India's heaviest satellite has gone into orbit on a French rocket to help boost broadband internet services. Weighing about 5,854kg (12,906lb), the GSAT-11 is India's "most-advanced" multi-band commu...

Quora discloses massive breach that affects 100 million users

Quora discloses massive breach that affects 100 million users

-- 2018-12-04 10:26:26

About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a “malicious third party,” the knowledge-sharing website said on Monday. Account information...

NASA selects nine US companies to make lunar robotic payloads

NASA selects nine US companies to make lunar robotic payloads

-- 2018-12-02 14:33:14

The United States space agency NASA on Thursday announced nine commercial American companies in a partnership to develop lunar robotic landers in the coming decade. NASA would buy space on commercial...

Vibrations offer new way to track elephants

Vibrations offer new way to track elephants

-- 2018-12-01 15:11:12

Researchers have come up with a new way of tracking elephants, via the vibrations that the animals make. Scientists Dr Beth Mortimer and Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer discovered that elephants generate vib...

Marriott hack hits 500 million guests

Marriott hack hits 500 million guests

-- 2018-11-30 19:36:23

The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International have been involved in a data breach. The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood division had be...

Chinese firm plans to provide free worldwide WiFi by 2026

Chinese firm plans to provide free worldwide WiFi by 2026

-- 2018-11-30 17:01:03

A Chinese internet technology firm is planning to launch a constellation of 272 satellites by 2026 with an aim to provide free WiFi service worldwide. LinkSure Network, founded in Shanghai in 2013, &...

Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'

Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'

-- 2018-11-30 15:13:40

The US Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader push into advanced gear to eq...

China orders halt to medical team on gene-edited babies

China orders halt to medical team on gene-edited babies

-- 2018-11-29 19:13:56

China’s government has ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. Vice Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping t...

Amazon launches machine learning chip

Amazon launches machine learning chip

-- 2018-11-29 17:10:37

Amazon.com on Wednesday launched a microchip aimed at so-called machine learning, entering a market that both Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. A...