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Advertisers begin to grill Musk over Twitter 'free-for-all'

Advertisers begin to grill Musk over Twitter 'free-for-all'

-- 2022-11-03 10:39:50

Elon Musk promised advertisers he would keep Twitter from turning into a "free-for-all hellscape." This week, advertisers are beginning to demand details on how he plans to uphold the commitment. A m...

Elon Musk to be new Twitter CEO

Elon Musk to be new Twitter CEO

-- 2022-11-02 10:46:58

Tesla boss Elon Musk said on Monday he will serve as chief executive of Twitter, the social media company he just bought for $44 billion, a move that Wall Street analysts have said could stretch the b...

Musk says Twitter will charge $8/month for blue check mark

Musk says Twitter will charge $8/month for blue check mark

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-02 10:00:37

Twitter Inc will charge $8 a month for its Blue service, which includes its sought-after "verified" badge, new boss Elon Musk said on Tuesday as he seeks to boost subscriptions and make the soci...

Hundreds of Apple workers in Australia set to strike again

Hundreds of Apple workers in Australia set to strike again

-- 2022-10-31 16:54:29

Hundreds of Apple workers in Australia are set to strike again after almost two-thirds of employees rejected a pay and benefits deal, the latest escalation of a fight that has seen weeks of walkouts a...

Fall of Motorola - the company that launched cell phone for the first time

Fall of Motorola - the company that launched cell phone for the first time

Safrina Kabir 2022-10-29 17:24:27

Motorola, the first company to publicly market cellular phones, made its first test call in 1973. Ten years after that, they hit the market.  Starting from 1983, they launched dozens of mobile p...

Zuckerberg to testify in US case against Facebook's virtual reality deal

Zuckerberg to testify in US case against Facebook's virtual reality deal

-- 2022-10-29 10:25:33

Meta Platforms Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will testify in a case by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) that argues the company's proposed deal to buy virtual reality (VR) content maker Wi...

Metaverse opens up new world of cybercrime: Interpole

Metaverse opens up new world of cybercrime: Interpole

-- 2022-10-28 16:23:08

Global police agency Interpol said it was preparing for the risk that online immersive environments - the "metaverse" - could create new kinds of cybercrime and allow existing crime to take place on a...

Two NASA spacecraft detect biggest meteor strikes at Mars

Two NASA spacecraft detect biggest meteor strikes at Mars

-- 2022-10-28 16:11:37

Two NASA spacecraft at Mars — one on the surface and the other in orbit — have recorded the biggest meteor strikes and impact craters yet. The high-speed barrages last year sent seismic w...

Turkey fines Meta $18.6m for violating competition law

Turkey fines Meta $18.6m for violating competition law

-- 2022-10-26 16:29:33

Turkey's competition authority has fined Facebook parent Meta Platforms Inc 346.72 million lira ($18.63 million) for breaking competition law, it said on Wednesday. The company held a dominant positi...

WhatsApp back online after global outage

WhatsApp back online after global outage

-- 2022-10-25 16:40:44

Messaging app WhatsApp was starting to come back online at 0900 GMT and the company said the issue has been fixed after users across the world reported problems earlier on Tuesday. At around 0750 GMT...

WhatsApp down for thousands of users across the world

WhatsApp down for thousands of users across the world

-- 2022-10-25 14:42:51

Popular messaging app WhatsApp has stopped working for many users across the world, with users across India, the United Kingdom, South Africa and Asia reporting issues with sending and receiving t...

Netflix opens 'immersive' store for fans of popular shows

Netflix opens 'immersive' store for fans of popular shows

-- 2022-10-22 19:57:16

Streaming giant Netflix has opened a Los Angeles store that it hopes will combine retail therapy with an 'immersive' experience for fans of its popular 'Stranger Things,' 'Bridgerton,' and 'Squid Game...

Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada’s revenue-sharing bill

Facebook threatens to block news content over Canada’s revenue-sharing bill

-- 2022-10-22 19:35:03

Facebook warned on Friday that it may block sharing of news content on its platform in Canada over concerns about legislation that would compel digital platforms to pay news publishers. The Online Ne...

Google calls India antitrust watchdog's Android decision a 'setback' for consumers

Google calls India antitrust watchdog's Android decision a 'setback' for consumers

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-22 11:58:40

Alphabet Inc's Google said on Friday that the Indian antitrust watchdog's decision to fine it 13.38 billion Indian rupees ($161.95 million) for anti-competitive practices was a "major setback" fo...

A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California warehouse

A 1990s relic, floppy disks get second life at California warehouse

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-21 10:30:09

It has been two decades since their heyday, but one bulk supplier of the iconic 3.5-inch floppy disk used to store data in 1990s says business is still booming, Reuters reports....

Google fined $162m by India antitrust watchdog for abuse of Android platform

Google fined $162m by India antitrust watchdog for abuse of Android platform

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-21 09:49:24

India's competition regulator on Thursday ordered Alphabet Inc's Google to change its approach to its Android platform and fined the US tech company 13.38 billion Indian rupees ($161.95 million)...

Useful AI-enhanced browser extensions to serve your needs  

Useful AI-enhanced browser extensions to serve your needs  

Sofia Noor 2022-10-20 18:23:19

Artificial Intelligence (AI) isn't a newfound love of technology, but it has spread its wings and gone to variegated extents to prove its prowess. AI has even made its way onto browser extensions, the...

Genetic findings from Siberian caves give glimpse into Neanderthal life

Genetic findings from Siberian caves give glimpse into Neanderthal life

-- 2022-10-20 18:22:39

Bone and tooth remnants from two Siberian caves are helping scientists for the first time decipher the social organisation of our cousins the Neanderthals through genetic sleuthing, including on the r...

Bangladeshi website ‘Blogpotro’ promises productivity with joy

Bangladeshi website ‘Blogpotro’ promises productivity with joy

Ahnaf Tahmid   2022-10-20 17:11:17

People use social media to get refreshments and to temporarily escape from their hectic lives. But most of the time, they get hooked on the juicy news and videos. Therefore, they lose both their time...

Webb Space Telescope renders Pillars of Creation with fresh clarity and colour

Webb Space Telescope renders Pillars of Creation with fresh clarity and colour

-- 2022-10-20 16:01:30

One of the most celebrated, awe-inspiring images of modern astronomy, revealing colossal spires of interstellar gas and dust called the Pillars of Creation, has been rendered anew with greater depth,...

Britain orders Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy after antitrust battle

Britain orders Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy after antitrust battle

-- 2022-10-18 20:15:09

Britain's competition regulator ordered Facebook-owner Meta to sell animated-images platform Giphy on Tuesday after its view that the acquisition reduced innovation in the advertising market was uphel...

Semiconductor industry: A new possibility for Bangladesh

Semiconductor industry: A new possibility for Bangladesh

Safrina Kabir 2022-10-18 16:44:26

The hassle of manufacturing long-wired and tubed machines was put to an end by an interesting material named semiconductor chips.  Having the conductance between conductors and insulators, semic...

Musk says SpaceX cannot fund Ukraine's Starlink internet indefinitely

Musk says SpaceX cannot fund Ukraine's Starlink internet indefinitely

-- 2022-10-14 16:53:17

Elon Musk said on Friday SpaceX cannot "indefinitely" fund the Starlink internet service in Ukraine and send it several thousand more terminals after a report suggested that his rocket company had ask...

Google may face EU antitrust charges over its digital advertising business

Google may face EU antitrust charges over its digital advertising business

-- 2022-10-14 15:56:21

Alphabet Inc.’s Google could face EU antitrust charges next year over its digital advertising business, putting the company at risk of its fourth fine in the EU of more than a billion euros, peo...

E-waste: 5 billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

E-waste: 5 billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

BBC 2022-10-14 11:42:19

This year, 5.3 billion mobile phones will be thrown away not recycled, the international waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) forum says. Its estimate, based on global trade d...

Trump's Truth Social approved for Google Play Store

Trump's Truth Social approved for Google Play Store

-- 2022-10-13 16:55:16

Alphabet Inc's Google has approved former US President Donald Trump's social media app Truth Social for distribution in the Google Play Store, a company spokesperson said on Wednesday. Trump Media &a...

'Although not alive, I can still create art,' robot tells UK lawmakers

'Although not alive, I can still create art,' robot tells UK lawmakers

-- 2022-10-12 20:23:00

A "robot artist" called Ai-Da told British lawmakers on Tuesday that although it was an artificial creation, it was still capable of producing art, as it spoke at a parliamentary inquiry into ho...

TikTok takes up to 70pc from Syrian children begging on its platform, says BBC

TikTok takes up to 70pc from Syrian children begging on its platform, says BBC

-- 2022-10-12 19:35:51

Displaced families in Syrian camps are begging for donations on TikTok while the company takes up to 70 per cent of the proceeds, a BBC investigation found. Children are live streaming on the social...

Apple, Samsung to upgrade phone software in India for 5G rollout by Dec

Apple, Samsung to upgrade phone software in India for 5G rollout by Dec

-- 2022-10-12 18:44:24

Meta Platforms unveiled its Quest Pro virtual and mixed reality headset on Tuesday, marking a milestone for Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg's break into the higher-end market for extended reality comp...

In first, planetary defence system alters asteroid's path

In first, planetary defence system alters asteroid's path

-- 2022-10-12 16:55:46

The spacecraft NASA deliberately crashed into an asteroid last month succeeded in nudging the rocky moonlet from its natural path into a faster orbit, marking the first time humanity has altered the m...