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Facebook says spammers, scammers using US election

Facebook says spammers, scammers using US election

REUTERS 2020-10-22 09:46:08

Fraudsters from Albania to Vietnam are posting about US politics and the upcoming presidential election to build fake audiences, maximise clicks and make money online, Facebook Inc said on Wednesday....

Google faces biggest antitrust lawsuit in two decades

Google faces biggest antitrust lawsuit in two decades

-- 2020-10-20 20:49:31

The US Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals, reports R...

Nokia to build cellular network on the moon by 2022

Nokia to build cellular network on the moon by 2022

-- 2020-10-19 20:57:30

NASA has selected Nokia to build the first cellular network on the moon within 2022, as the US space agency plans for a future where humans return there and establish lunar settlements. The US agency...

Study finds remdesivir ineffective in treating Covid patients

Study finds remdesivir ineffective in treating Covid patients

Reuters 2020-10-16 11:22:49

Gilead Sciences remdesivir had little or no effect on Covid-19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found. The antivi...

Globe Biotech pairs with icddr,b for vaccine human trial

Globe Biotech pairs with icddr,b for vaccine human trial

FE REPORT 2020-10-15 10:42:00

Bangladesh's lone coronavirus vaccine candidate Globe Biotech on Wednesday assigned icddr,b as a contract research organisation (CRO) to start human trials of the homegrown immunisation in the country...

Eight nations sign US-led Artemis pact for moon exploration

Eight nations sign US-led Artemis pact for moon exploration

Reuters 2020-10-14 13:43:53

Eight countries have signed an international pact for moon exploration called the Artemis Accords, NASA announced on Tuesday as the US space agency tries to shape standards for building long-term sett...

Facebook will now ban ads that discourage vaccines

Facebook will now ban ads that discourage vaccines

Reuters 2020-10-14 11:05:49

Facebook will start banning ads that explicitly discourage people from getting vaccinated, the world's largest social media company said on Tuesday, as it also announced a new flu vaccine informa...

Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G

Apple unveils iPhone 12 with 5G

-- 2020-10-14 11:04:08

Apple Inc on Tuesday launched its next-generation iPhone 12, with faster 5G connectivity that the California company hopes will spur consumers to trade in their old phones and keep its sales booming t...

Climate change causes more weather disasters every year, UN says

Climate change causes more weather disasters every year, UN says

-- 2020-10-13 17:51:44

In the wake of heat waves, global warming, forest fires, storms, droughts and a rising number of hurricanes, the UN weather agency is warning that the number of people who need international humanitar...

Twitter flags Trump tweet for violating its rules

Twitter flags Trump tweet for violating its rules

Reuters 2020-10-12 10:22:47

Twitter on Sunday (US standard time) flagged a tweet by Donald Trump in which the US President claimed he was immune to the coronavirus, saying it violated the social media platform’s rules abou...

100m rural people in Bangladesh to get high-speed internet this year

100m rural people in Bangladesh to get high-speed internet this year

-- 2020-10-11 17:55:41

About 100 million rural people in Bangladesh are going to get high-speed internet access by the end of this year. The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC), under the Department of Information and Commu...

Twitter imposes more restrictions ahead of US election

Twitter imposes more restrictions ahead of US election

Reuters 2020-10-10 11:38:42

Twitter said on Friday (US standard time) it will remove tweets calling for people to interfere with the US election process or implementation of election results, including through violence, as the c...

70pc victims of cybercrimes are teenage girls: Palak

70pc victims of cybercrimes are teenage girls: Palak

-- 2020-10-08 17:40:51

State Minister for ICT Junaid Ahmed Palak has said has said about 70 per cent of the victims of cybercrimes in the country are teenage girls. The state minister came up with the information while spe...

Facebook, Twitter take action on Trump's posts downplaying Covid-19

Facebook, Twitter take action on Trump's posts downplaying Covid-19

Reuters 2020-10-07 10:07:58

Facebook and Twitter took action on posts from US President Donald Trump on Tuesday for violating their rules against coronavirus misinformation by suggesting that Covid-19 was just like the flu. Fac...

Tasmanian Devils set paw on mainland Australia after 3,000 years

Tasmanian Devils set paw on mainland Australia after 3,000 years

-- 2020-10-06 20:03:36

The world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia’s mainland for the first time in 3,000 years, reports Reuters. Actor co...

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon contract for missile tracking satellites

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon contract for missile tracking satellites

Reuters 2020-10-06 12:33:33

Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the company’s first governmen...

17 teams from Bangladesh to participate NASA’s global competition

17 teams from Bangladesh to participate NASA’s global competition

-- 2020-10-05 16:55:41

Nine champion teams and eight runners up teams will get opportunity to participate in the global space apps competition to be organised by US space research organisation NASA this year. The names of...

Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content

Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content

-- 2020-09-24 16:22:34

Thailand’s digital ministry filed legal complaints with cybercrime police after the two social media companies missed 15-day deadlines to comply fully with court-issued takedown orders from Aug....

Facebook removes Chinese accounts active in Philippines and US politics

Facebook removes Chinese accounts active in Philippines and US politics

-- 2020-09-23 16:49:56

Facebook Inc said Tuesday it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering in Asian and American politics, including some that posted material supporting and opposing US...

Bangladesh-South Korea ‘ideaTHON’ contest inaugurated

Bangladesh-South Korea ‘ideaTHON’ contest inaugurated

FE Online Report 2020-09-20 13:39:00

Intending to increase the knowledge and skills of startups in Bangladesh as well as develop a digital startup ecosystem, Bangladesh-South Korea is going to organise the ‘ideaTHON’ contest...

Scientists find SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Bangladesh wastewater

Scientists find SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Bangladesh wastewater

-- 2020-09-19 16:27:40

A team of scientists from Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) and North South University (NSU) has claimed to make the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses' genetic...

Trump to block US downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

Trump to block US downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

-- 2020-09-18 21:28:51

The US Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on Septemb...

Twitter places warning label on Trump tweet

Twitter places warning label on Trump tweet

Reuters 2020-09-18 12:21:30

Twitter on Thursday (US standard time) placed a warning label on a tweet by US President Donald Trump, saying his post included potentially misleading information regarding the process of mail-in voti...

Facebook will no longer show health groups in recommendations

Facebook will no longer show health groups in recommendations

Reuters 2020-09-18 11:12:16

Facebook will no longer show health groups in its recommendations to ensure that its users get health information from authoritative sources, the social media giant said on Thursday. The company took...

Apple’s new watch to monitor blood oxygen

Apple’s new watch to monitor blood oxygen

-- 2020-09-16 10:19:55

Apple Inc rolled out a new virtual fitness service and a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One, focusing a holiday-season product launch on services that are the backbone of Apple's growth strate...

Govt moves to launch `Safe Drive’ app to avert accident

Govt moves to launch `Safe Drive’ app to avert accident

-- 2020-09-15 16:50:47

The government in collaboration with a private sector automotive maintenance startup, Zantrik, has developed an AI-based app `Safe Drive’ to avert accident on the roads. Leveraging ICT project...

YouTube announces TikTok rival ‘Shorts’, rolls out beta version in India

YouTube announces TikTok rival ‘Shorts’, rolls out beta version in India

-- 2020-09-15 11:13:34

YouTube has announced it will test a beta version of its new TiktTok rival in India. YouTube Shorts will limit videos to 15 seconds, and the platform will feature creator tools that are similar to Ch...

Scientists find sign of alien life on Venus

Scientists find sign of alien life on Venus

REUTERS 2020-09-15 09:35:06

Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor, a tantalising sign of...

Google may face lawsuit soon

Google may face lawsuit soon

Reuters 2020-09-12 09:37:56

With expectations of a US government lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google within weeks, two progressive Democrats tweeted support for legal action against tech giants who break the law, in a rare i...

a2i wins WSIS awards for seventh consecutive year

a2i wins WSIS awards for seventh consecutive year

FE Online Report 2020-09-11 15:50:37

The a2i Programme has succeeded at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) awards for the 7th consecutive time as two of its projects were declared champions in two different categories. E-Com...