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EU regulators fine Google for blocking advertising rivals

EU regulators fine Google for blocking advertising rivals

-- 2019-03-20 19:30:33

EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company’s third penalt...

UAE launches Arab space group

UAE launches Arab space group

-- 2019-03-20 15:35:27

Eleven Arab states, including the UAE, on Tuesday set up the first Arab space organisation, whose first project will be developing a satellite to monitor environmental and climate changes. Sheikh Moh...

'Govt projects to use software from local firms'

'Govt projects to use software from local firms'

-- 2019-03-19 20:38:45

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government will procure software for its projects from local firms. "No software will be collected from any foreign company," he said....

Facebook provides new details on Christchurch attack video

Facebook provides new details on Christchurch attack video

-- 2019-03-19 13:57:38

Facebook has said a live broadcast of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed fewer than 200 times, as the firm faces growing criticism for failing to block the footage. On Friday, a gunman live-...

Facebook removes 1.5m videos of NZ mosque attack

Facebook removes 1.5m videos of NZ mosque attack

-- 2019-03-17 12:10:23

Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the incident. "In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack glob...

Google doodle celebrates Children’s Day

Google doodle celebrates Children’s Day

-- 2019-03-17 11:59:18

Search engine giant Google has created a special Doodle, celebrating National Children's Day and the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Doodle 'Children'...

Tech firms struggle to remove NZ mosque attack video

Tech firms struggle to remove NZ mosque attack video

-- 2019-03-16 14:04:34

Internet companies scrambled Friday to remove graphic video filmed by a gunman in the New Zealand mosque shootings that was widely available on social media for hours after the horrific attack. Faceb...

First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA

First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA

-- 2019-03-15 21:01:21

The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on...

Ancient migration completely changed Spaniards’ DNA, study suggests

Ancient migration completely changed Spaniards’ DNA, study suggests

-- 2019-03-15 18:58:21

A migration from Central Europe transformed the genetic make-up of people in Spain during the Bronze Age, a study reveals. DNA evidence shows the migrants streamed over the Pyrenees, replacing existi...

Facebook to use AI to combat 'revenge porn'

Facebook to use AI to combat 'revenge porn'

-- 2019-03-15 18:31:55

Facebook would use artificial intelligence to combat the spread of intimate photos shared without people’s permission, sometimes called “revenge porn,” on its social networks. The n...

Facebook outage hits users across the globe

Facebook outage hits users across the globe

-- 2019-03-14 11:42:06

Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday. The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude wa...

BD 2nd in mobile malware attacks

BD 2nd in mobile malware attacks

FE Report 2019-03-13 11:59:34

Bangladesh had the second highest percentage of mobile malware attacks in the world in 2018, according to a report coming from global cyber security firm Kaspersky. Almost 43 percent of mobile user...

Google doodle celebrates Women’s Day with quotes from achievers

Google doodle celebrates Women’s Day with quotes from achievers

-- 2019-03-08 13:04:46

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage celebrating the International Women's Day on Friday. Bangladesh is also celebrating the International Women's Day with the rest of...

Women constitute only 15pc of ICT workforce: Survey

Women constitute only 15pc of ICT workforce: Survey

-- 2019-03-07 21:11:45

Women comprise only 15 per cent of the total workforce employed in the country’s ICT industry, a survey result has revealed. According to the study, smaller e-commerce companies have higher con...

Facebook 'shifting its focus' from public posts to private chats

Facebook 'shifting its focus' from public posts to private chats

Reuters 2019-03-07 14:56:49

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world’s biggest social...

Google plans to ban political ads ahead of Canada election

Google plans to ban political ads ahead of Canada election

-- 2019-03-05 12:56:59

Alphabet Inc’s Google will ban political advertising on its platform before the Canadian federal election, after the country introduced stringent transparency rules. The Bill C-76, which was pa...

Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers

Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers

-- 2019-03-02 18:16:10

Facebook Inc has filed a lawsuit along with Instagram in US federal court against four companies and three people based in the People’s Republic of China for promoting the sale of fake accounts,...

SpaceX rocket with unmanned US capsule blasts off for space station

SpaceX rocket with unmanned US capsule blasts off for space station

-- 2019-03-02 17:30:04

A SpaceX rocket with an unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk’s space company and NASA’s long-delayed goal to...

YouTube turns off comments on videos featuring kids

YouTube turns off comments on videos featuring kids

-- 2019-03-01 13:34:33

YouTube has said it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving...

Scientists find better way to recycle plastic bottles

Scientists find better way to recycle plastic bottles

-- 2019-02-28 14:09:03

American scientists have developed a more effective and greener way to recycle the single-use plastics made from a common polyester material, which could help protect oceans from plastic waste by jump...

BlackBerry files patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter

BlackBerry files patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter

-- 2019-02-28 10:37:18

BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging applications that had been developed by the former smartphone maker....

FB to adopt BD culture in publishing contents

FB to adopt BD culture in publishing contents

-- 2019-02-27 18:27:44

Facebook authorities have pledged to follow the legal framework and culture of Bangladesh in publishing contents. They came up with the promise during a meeting with Tele Communication and ICT Minist...

Scientists use captured carbon dioxide to help produce rare earth

Scientists use captured carbon dioxide to help produce rare earth

-- 2019-02-27 13:33:43

Capturing carbon dioxide at power plants is a promising way to reduce carbon emission and fight global warming, but the energy industry has been reluctant to use it due to cost and footprint. The stu...

Declining biodiversity poses great threat to food

Declining biodiversity poses great threat to food

-- 2019-02-26 21:23:45

The plants, animals, and micro-organisms that are the bedrock of food production are in decline, reports BBC citing a UN study. If these critical species are lost, the report says, it "places the fut...

Man receives under-skin chip implant live at mobile show

Man receives under-skin chip implant live at mobile show

-- 2019-02-26 14:13:36

A man volunteered to have a chip inserted under his skin live on stage at a trade fair in Barcelona on Monday, and another man who had already undergone the procedure showed off how he could make a pa...

England's NHS mulls to ditch 'outdated' pagers

England's NHS mulls to ditch 'outdated' pagers

-- 2019-02-24 14:20:49

The National Health Service or NHS in England has been told to stop using pagers for communications by 2021, in order to save money. The health service still uses about 130,000 pagers, which is about...

Branson's Virgin Galactic takes another step toward space tourism

Branson's Virgin Galactic takes another step toward space tourism

-- 2019-02-23 14:46:17

A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson’s company closer to its goal of suborbi...

Japanese space probe touches down on asteroid

Japanese space probe touches down on asteroid

-- 2019-02-22 14:45:01

A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, J...

Samsung unveils folding phone with $2,000 price tag

Samsung unveils folding phone with $2,000 price tag

-- 2019-02-21 14:21:12

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday unveiled a nearly $2,000 folding smartphone in a bid to top the technology of Apple Inc and Chinese rivals and reignite consumer interest amid slumping sales....

Oracle accelerates adoption of enterprise blockchain worldwide

Oracle accelerates adoption of enterprise blockchain worldwide

FE Online Desk 2019-02-21 12:56:00

Businesses around the world have already reaped the benefits of blockchain applications built on Oracle Blockchain Platform. Companies using Oracle’s business-ready blockchain have been...