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How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem

How belief in AI sentience is becoming a problem

-- 2022-06-30 18:02:40

AI chatbot company Replika, which offers customers bespoke avatars that talk and listen to them, says it receives a handful of messages almost every day from users who believe their online friend is s...

Gone are the days of story-telling video games

Gone are the days of story-telling video games

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-29 16:40:05

Some game titles are embedded into our nostalgia as reminiscents of our ‘good old days.’ It was a time when having a computer with no GPU or a 256 MB RAM wasn’t a barrier to enjoying...

Chip shortages result in record wire fraud reports by desperate buyers

Chip shortages result in record wire fraud reports by desperate buyers

REUTERS 2022-06-29 10:25:13

A severe semiconductor shortage has resulted in record wire fraud cases last year reported by desperate buyers, a company that tracks counterfeit and fraud in the chip industry said on Tuesday. ERAI...

Meta hires local experts to prevent hate speech through Facebook in Bangladesh

Meta hires local experts to prevent hate speech through Facebook in Bangladesh

-- 2022-06-27 22:29:39

Facebook has hired Bangladeshi experts who understand the Bangla language, culture, and market to combat the spread of hate speech and extremist ideology through its platform in the country. Nawab Os...

Foxconn: Labour exploitation behind the glittering techs

Foxconn: Labour exploitation behind the glittering techs

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-27 15:15:09

The tech industry is one of the most dynamic, progressive, and flamboyant industries in the world. The latest techs that drive us crazy are not only the symbols of new technological feats but they are...

Mid-range laptops you can consider buying

Mid-range laptops you can consider buying

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-26 14:05:46

The mid-range laptop category is the trickiest in the market. Customers want practicality, performance and a bit of aesthetics, all on a limited budget. There are a lot of laptops competing in this pr...

Instagram tests face-scanning artificial intelligence tool for age verification

Instagram tests face-scanning artificial intelligence tool for age verification

-- 2022-06-24 20:03:20

Instagram is testing new ways to verify the age of people using its service, including a face-scanning artificial intelligence tool, having mutual friends verify their age or uploading an ID. But the...

Toyota, Suzuki take hybrid route in India

Toyota, Suzuki take hybrid route in India

-- 2022-06-24 18:18:12

Toyota Motor Corp and Suzuki Motor Corp on Friday said they would begin production of hybrid vehicles in India, a category that Toyota has said is currently best suited to such markets. A T...

Samsung fined $9.7m in Australia over false water-resistance claims

Samsung fined $9.7m in Australia over false water-resistance claims

-- 2022-06-23 13:12:41

Australia's competition regulator said on Thursday a court has ordered the local unit of Samsung Electronics to pay a penalty of A$14 million ($9.65 million) over misleading claims about a water-resis...

Microsoft stops selling emotion-reading tech

Microsoft stops selling emotion-reading tech

-- 2022-06-22 12:11:10

Microsoft Corp on Tuesday said it would stop selling technology that guesses someone's emotion based on a facial image and would no longer provide unfettered access to facial recognition technology....

Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, without Apple

Meta and other tech giants form metaverse standards body, without Apple

-- 2022-06-22 10:27:32

Meta, Microsoft and other tech giants racing to build the emerging metaverse concept have formed a group to foster the development of industry standards that would make the companies' nascent digital...

Meta loses appeal in Russian court over 'extremist activity' tag

Meta loses appeal in Russian court over 'extremist activity' tag

-- 2022-06-21 19:48:36

A Moscow court on Monday rejected an appeal brought by Meta Platforms Inc after it was found guilty of "extremist activity" in Russia in March, reports Reuters citingTASS news agency. Russia res...

Elon Musk's SpaceX fires at least five over critical letter

Elon Musk's SpaceX fires at least five over critical letter

-- 2022-06-18 13:23:06

Private rocket company SpaceX fired at least five employees after it found they had drafted and circulated a letter criticising founder Elon Musk and urging executives to make the firm's culture more...

Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express: A processor revolution on the horizon

Universal Chiplet Interconnect Express: A processor revolution on the horizon

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-18 12:49:56

Building a PC requires a number of components - monitors, graphics cards, processors, power supplies, RAM, and so on. All of these different components are made and manufactured by different companie...

How to use Microsoft Lists: File sorting made easy

How to use Microsoft Lists: File sorting made easy

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-16 16:44:12

What is MS Lists? MS Lists helps you organise information, lists, drafts, and lets you seamlessly collaborate with others on your Lists platform. Of course, there is pre-existing software that offers...

UK mulls probing Apple, Google's mobile browser dominance

UK mulls probing Apple, Google's mobile browser dominance

-- 2022-06-11 15:40:22

Britain's competition watchdog said it was planning to investigate the market dominance of Apple Inc and Google's mobile browsers, as well as the iPhone maker's restrictions on cloud gaming through it...

Join 10 Minute School as a Sales Executive

Join 10 Minute School as a Sales Executive

FE Online 2022-06-09 16:52:59

10 Minute School is the leading Edtech startup of Bangladesh, teaching more than 2m students online every day. It is also the only Bangladeshi startup to be backed by Sequoia Capital. 10MS believes in...

5 Websites that offer important utilities for free

5 Websites that offer important utilities for free

FARDEEN KABIR 2022-06-08 15:23:04

There is a common perception that free websites are not of much use as the paid ones. While it is true to some extent; people often do not get the best free utilities due to a lack of knowledge about...

EU agrees single mobile charging port in blow to Apple

EU agrees single mobile charging port in blow to Apple

-- 2022-06-07 20:41:34

Apple will have to change the connector on iPhones sold in Europe by 2024 after EU countries and lawmakers agreed on Tuesday to a single mobile charging port for mobile phones, tablets and cameras in...

Join Programming Hero and earn Tk 1 lakh per month

Join Programming Hero and earn Tk 1 lakh per month

FE Online 2022-06-07 14:45:36

Programming Hero is a Bangladeshi ed-tech startup with the mission to make programming education more fun. Vacancy: not specified Vacancy Type: Tech Lead, MERN Stack Job Context: We are looking...

How to run hard disk defragmentation to speed up your computer

How to run hard disk defragmentation to speed up your computer

Fardeen Kabir 2022-06-06 19:49:35

Consider all of the data on your hard disk to be a pile of laundry. There are various colours and clothing items, and then they all get muddled up in the wash. Your clothes are all there, but they've...

Earn Tk 50000-70000 a month as a Backend Developer at Neovotech

Earn Tk 50000-70000 a month as a Backend Developer at Neovotech

FE Online 2022-06-05 14:56:17

Neovotech provides IT solutions like project management, technical debt reduction, MVP development, and e-commerce.  Vacancy: not specified Vacancy Type: Backend Developer Job Responsibilities...

China launches three astronauts to space station

China launches three astronauts to space station

-- 2022-06-05 11:23:45

China launched a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the Chinese space station, due to be completed by the end of the year, as construction entered a pivotal stage. A Long March-2F rock...

EU deal on single mobile charging port likely June 7 in setback for Apple

EU deal on single mobile charging port likely June 7 in setback for Apple

-- 2022-06-04 17:31:39

EU countries and EU lawmakers are set to agree on a common charging port for mobile phones, tablets and headphones on June 7 when they meet to discuss a proposal that has been fiercely criticised by A...

46,000 people lose over $1.0b in crypto scams since 2021, says US report

46,000 people lose over $1.0b in crypto scams since 2021, says US report

-- 2022-06-04 16:33:09

More than 46,000 people reported losing over $1 billion in cryptocurrency scams since the start of 2021, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said in a report on Friday. Nearly half the people who r...

China to launch next crewed mission on Sunday to build space station

China to launch next crewed mission on Sunday to build space station

-- 2022-06-04 10:44:23

China will launch a spacecraft on Sunday carrying three astronauts to the core module of the unfinished Chinese space station, where they will work and live for six months as construction enters advan...

Tech firms say India’s cyber rules may create 'environment of fear'

Tech firms say India’s cyber rules may create 'environment of fear'

-- 2022-06-03 17:41:19

Indian cyber security rules due to come into force later this month will create an "environment of fear rather than trust", a body representing top tech companies has warned the government, calling fo...

'Local is king': Africa's online platforms take on Silicon Valley

'Local is king': Africa's online platforms take on Silicon Valley

-- 2022-06-01 19:13:17

Plan a funeral, call out corruption or start a business - tough jobs all now made easier by a generation of tech-savvy Africans tackling local problems beyond the grasp of Big Tech.It was frustratio...

Join 10 Minute School as a Business Analyst

Join 10 Minute School as a Business Analyst

FE Online 2022-05-29 15:59:48

10 Minute School is the leading Edtech startup of Bangladesh, teaching more than 2m students online every day. It is also the only Bangladeshi startup to be backed by Sequoia Capital. 10MS believes in...

Russia opens cases against Google, other foreign tech over data storage

Russia opens cases against Google, other foreign tech over data storage

-- 2022-05-28 18:05:57

Russia's communications regulator Roskomnadzor said on Friday it had opened administrative cases against Alphabet Inc's (GOOGL.O) Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violatio...