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Zuckerberg rejects Trump bias claims

Zuckerberg rejects Trump bias claims

-- 2017-09-28 10:44:45

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has dismissed comments made by Donald Trump that the site has always been against him. “Trump says Facebook is against him. Liberals say we helped Trump. Both s...

Twitter doubles character limit

Twitter doubles character limit

BBC 2017-09-27 11:06:34

Social media site Twitter is trialling longer character limits to help users "easily express themselves". Twitter currently limits tweets to 140 characters, but has doubled that to 280 characters for...

2017 is 'tipping point' for electric cars

2017 is 'tipping point' for electric cars

Reuters 2017-09-26 12:00:00

This year looks set to be the “tipping point” for electric cars, Arnoud Balhuizen, chief commercial officer at BHP, said on Tuesday, adding that the impact for raw materials producers woul...

China disrupts WhatsApp ahead of Communist meeting

China disrupts WhatsApp ahead of Communist meeting

BBC 2017-09-26 11:01:39

The messaging service WhatsApp has been disrupted in China as the government steps up security ahead of a Communist Party meeting next month. Users have faced problems with the app for more than a we...

Internet giants on defensive in Washington

Internet giants on defensive in Washington

Reuters 2017-09-25 12:00:00

Internet giants, including Alphabet's Google and Facebook, are moving to compromise on several major policy issues as they adjust to an abrupt shift in the political winds in Washington.  Just l...

Talented BD youths 'need global exposure'

Talented BD youths 'need global exposure'

FE Online Desk 2017-09-24 12:00:00

Seedstars World, the global seed-stage startup competition for emerging markets and fast-growing startup scenes brought its Bangladesh round to a successful close during Seedstars Dhaka. The event...

Researchers develop tool to measure wisdom

Researchers develop tool to measure wisdom

-- 2017-09-24 08:45:11

Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine have developed a new tool to assess an individual’s level of wisdom, reports hindustantimes.com citing Indo Asian News...

NASA's asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock

NASA's asteroid chaser swings by Earth on way to space rock

-- 2017-09-23 07:44:05

NASA's asteroid-chasing spacecraft swung by Earth on Friday on its way to a space rock, reports AP.   Launched a year ago, Osiris-Rex was on track to pass within about 17,700 kilometres of the...

Nepal to measure Everest to check height lost

Nepal to measure Everest to check height lost

-- 2017-09-22 06:43:23

Nepal will measure Mount Everest afresh to settle a controversy over height of the world’s tallest peak, especially after some estimates suggested it became a little shorter in the wake of an ea...

Researchers find Pangolins in Bangladesh

Researchers find Pangolins in Bangladesh

-- 2017-09-21 12:00:00

Researchers have found pangolins do persist in many forested areas of Bangladesh.   With the help of the Mro tribe in Bangladesh Researchers found the pangolins, but in small, isolated populati...

Google launches UK 'anti-terror fund'

Google launches UK 'anti-terror fund'

BBC 2017-09-20 12:21:16

Google has announced it will give a total of £1m ($1.3m) to fund projects that help counter extremism in the UK.   The UK fund was part of a $5m global commitment, the search giant said....

Snapchat blocks Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia

Snapchat blocks Al Jazeera in Saudi Arabia

BBC 2017-09-18 10:39:58

Social media platform Snapchat has blocked access to Al Jazeera content in Saudi Arabia.   Snapchat on Sunday said it was asked by the Saudi authorities to remove the Qatari-backed broadcaster'...

BMW plans to replace car keys with mobile apps

BMW plans to replace car keys with mobile apps

Reuters 2017-09-17 12:00:00

BMW is reviewing the necessity of car keys, Ian Robertson, the company’s board member responsible for sales told the Reuters news agency.   The fact that customers now all carry a smartph...

Former employees sue Google for gender pay discrimination

Former employees sue Google for gender pay discrimination

-- 2017-09-16 12:00:00

Google, which is already under federal investigation over claims of unfair pay practices, has been sued by three former employees who allege that the company pays women less than men for similar work....

Cassini plunges into Saturn, ends 20-year space journey

Cassini plunges into Saturn, ends 20-year space journey

-- 2017-09-15 12:00:00

US space agency NASA received the final signal from its Cassini spacecraft, which ended a groundbreaking 13-year Saturn mission on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the planet’s atmosphere,...

Cassini heads towards fiery death on Saturn

Cassini heads towards fiery death on Saturn

-- 2017-09-15 02:57:18

US space agency NASA’s Cassini spacecraft will end its groundbreaking 13-year mission to Saturn on Friday with a meteor-like plunge into the ringed planet’s atmosphere, transmitting data u...

Trump bans Kaspersky

Trump bans Kaspersky

-- 2017-09-14 12:00:00

The Trump administration on Wednesday told US government agencies to remove Kaspersky Lab products from their networks, saying it was concerned the Moscow-based cyber security firm was vulnerable to K...

Carmakers face electric reality as  combustion engine outlook dims

Carmakers face electric reality as combustion engine outlook dims

Reuters 2017-09-13 12:00:00

European car bosses gathering for the Frankfurt auto show are beginning to address the realities of mass vehicle electrification, and its consequences for jobs and profit, their minds focused by gover...

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton steps down

WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton steps down

-- 2017-09-13 11:01:17

Brian Acton, co-founder of WhatsApp, now owned by Facebook Inc, will leave the messaging service company to start a new foundation, he said in a Facebook post on Tuesday.   Acton spent eight ye...

Google appeals against EU anti-trust fine

Google appeals against EU anti-trust fine

BBC 2017-09-12 10:59:51

Tech giant Google has lodged an appeal against the 2.4billion euro fine (£2b / $2.8b) which was ordered to pay by the European Commission in June.   The regulator had ruled that positioni...

Apple set to unveil anniversary iPhone in major product launch

Apple set to unveil anniversary iPhone in major product launch

Reuters 2017-09-12 01:39:45

A decade after then-CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the first iPhone, Apple Inc (AAPL.O) on Tuesday is set to introduce a completely redesigned top-of-the-line iPhone along with two other new phones, as well...

Apple hit by major iPhone leak

Apple hit by major iPhone leak

BBC 2017-09-11 12:00:00

Details of new iPhones and other forthcoming Apple devices have been revealed via an apparent leak.   Two news sites were given access to an as-yet-unreleased version of the iOS operation syste...

Breakthrough in stretchable electronics

Breakthrough in stretchable electronics

Xinhua 2017-09-10 12:39:27

Using rubbery materials, scientists at the University of Houston have successfully created a new form of stretchable electronics that holds promise in health monitors, medical implants and artificial...

Black hole 100,000 times bigger than the Sun discovered

Black hole 100,000 times bigger than the Sun discovered

-- 2017-09-08 06:23:17

An immense black hole 100,000 times bigger than the sun has been discovered at the heart of the Milky Way, reports foxnews.com.   The enormous void, which lies around 25,000 light years from Ea...

Modern tech helps boost output of Thai guava

Modern tech helps boost output of Thai guava

Roving Correspondent 2017-09-07 12:00:00

The Thai guava peasants of Tentulia under Panchagarh are happy over the good market price of the fruit this season. Sources said farmers can harvest the fruit within a few months of the plantation...

New system can reconstruct faces using DNA

New system can reconstruct faces using DNA

-- 2017-09-07 06:42:23

Scientists have reconstructed faces from people's DNA, an advance that challenges the idea that genetic databases can be anonymous, reports The Times of India.   Research institutions regularly...

Facebook reveals ‘Russian propaganda’ on US election

Facebook reveals ‘Russian propaganda’ on US election

BBC 2017-09-07 01:53:02

Facebook says it has discovered a Russian-funded campaign for promoting divisive social and political messages on its network.   The company said $100,000 (£77,000) was spent on about 3,0...

SpaceX to launch US spaceplane on Sept 7

SpaceX to launch US spaceplane on Sept 7

-- 2017-09-04 05:15:52

The US Air Force's spaceplane is getting a new ride on September 7, when the fifth X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV-5) lifts off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 booster from Launch Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space...

8 of the top 10 deadliest cyclones occurred

8 of the top 10 deadliest cyclones occurred

-- 2017-06-11 10:36:52

Eight of the top ten deadliest cyclones on record have occurred in the Bay of Bengal, according to one list on Weather Underground, according to a report by /www.weathernationtv.com.  Some of th...

natnwide mobile handset recycling

natnwide mobile handset recycling

-- 2017-06-06 10:27:30

Mobile phone operators Grameenphone (GP) on Monday launched a nationwide "Mobile Handset Recycling" campaign for greener environment. Under this campaign, GP urges interested patrons to deposit their...