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Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

-- 2021-12-01 18:45:48

Facebook risks missing the point of metaverse - and a coming shift in consumers' behaviour - if it fails to permit digital ownership, according to some of the virtual world's pioneers, reports Reuters...

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-12-01 16:01:33

Indian-born Parag Agrawal was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of popular social media platform Twitter.  Its co-founder and the former CEO Jack Dorsey declared his retirement as C...

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-30 18:30:12

Whenever one feels like they’re unable to do anything productive because of habitual browsing, turning to Pinterest can be a virtual comfort.  From signing up for the platform out of curio...

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

Fardeen Kabir 2021-11-30 17:36:02

The gaming scenario in Bangladesh has massively changed in the past 5-6 years. Gaming is now more popular than ever among the younger generation.  But the global chip shortage, the additional 15...

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

-- 2021-11-27 18:42:23

WhatsApp has won regulatory approval to double the number of users on its payments service in India to 40 million, a source with direct knowledge said on Friday. The company had requested that there...

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

-- 2021-11-27 17:28:51

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp will build a plant that can produce 300,000 vehicles annually in Beijing for its electric vehicle unit, authorities in the capital said on Saturday, reports Reuter...

MOU signed between iDEA Project  and UGC

MOU signed between iDEA Project and UGC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-24 17:53:29

The iDEA project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division has been working since 2016 to provide grants and other benefits to startups for increasing their promotion, skills and kno...

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

-- 2021-11-19 15:03:50

A Chinese institute will publish a new English language journal called Machine Intelligence Research to promote international academic exchanges, reports Xinhua citing China Science Daily on Frid...

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

-- 2021-11-18 19:37:45

Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting underway. Days after Facebook's vice president...

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

-- 2021-11-18 16:41:37

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it will for the first time start selling spare parts and tools to the general public to perform their own repairs on some iPhones and Mac computers. The self-service repai...

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-18 15:29:32

Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Meta, just-renamed company of Facebook, has been asked to take steps to stop abuse and misuse of the social media platform in Bangladesh. Four Bangladeshi...

China, Russia establish space weather centre

China, Russia establish space weather centre

-- 2021-11-17 12:28:35

China and Russia have established a space weather centre in Beijing as part of worldwide efforts to improve global space weather centre systems, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on W...

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Shaeri Nawar 2021-11-15 18:26:59

Although the fear of COVID-19 is fading, there are still concerns regarding its variants and strains. While many of us don't know the differentiations properly, we often step into false information re...

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

-- 2021-11-11 12:04:41

NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions and a German materia...

Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-03 19:03:50

After ten months of fierce battles and different rounds, the names of the winners of ‘Bangladesh ICT Skills Competition 2021’, were announced through a gala event held online on Tuesday....

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

-- 2021-11-03 11:33:32

Facebook announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such...

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

DAVID SHUKMAN 2021-11-02 18:28:39

The people of Gabura in Bangladesh are having everything that's most threatening about climate change thrown at them. Storms keep wrecking their coastal defences, and rising sea levels are pushing sa...

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

-- 2021-11-02 18:06:48

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to pull out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company said in a statement that its services will no lo...

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

-- 2021-11-02 16:24:15

Apple Inc has cut back production of iPad tablets to allocate more components to the iPhone 13, a sign the global chip supply crunch is hitting Apple harder than previously indicated, Nikkei said on T...

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

-- 2021-11-02 12:57:34

In her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook's inner workings, whistleblower Frances Haugen urged her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to step down and allow...

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

-- 2021-10-29 18:49:48

Apple Inc is eating into its rivals' smartphone market share as the iPhone maker navigates through a global chip crunch better than other mobile phone makers, according to data providers. Higher iPho...

Facebook changes company name to Meta

Facebook changes company name to Meta

-- 2021-10-29 08:54:24

Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile...

‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

-- 2021-10-25 20:27:51

Facebook sees introducing safety to the social network as a "cost centre" and regulation could be good for the company, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday. Haugen, a p...

New techs and rules in this World Cup

New techs and rules in this World Cup

Rakimul Huq 2021-10-25 15:29:01

The ICC Men’s WT20 is happening after a gap of more than 5 years. The nature of the game is such that it has gone through several small but noticeable changes.  New technologies have been...

Bangladeshi IoT company secures USD 1 million investment

Bangladeshi IoT company secures USD 1 million investment

Mohammad Saiful Islam 2021-10-23 23:22:48

Bondstein, a Bangladeshi IoT solution provider, has raised USD 1 million in investment to enhance innovation in IoT solutions and expand IoT manufacturing in Bangladesh.  Runner Trading Limited,...

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

SAIF UDDIN 2021-10-23 09:20:12

Despite the expansion of the fourth generation (4G) telecom network, Bangladesh has scored low among digital societies in the Asia Pacific region, according to a global report. It said Bangladesh o...

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

-- 2021-10-22 12:27:17

It is likely to take a decade before self-driving taxis will be deployed on roads, the chief executive of electric car startup Lucid Group, Peter Rawlinson, said on Thursday. "I think we're 10 years...

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

-- 2021-10-21 19:38:53

Facebook said on Thursday it had signed a preliminary copyright agreement with a French news publishers' lobby group, paving the way for it to pay for news content on its platforms in France, reports...

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

-- 2021-10-21 09:26:56

Zuckerverse. Timesuck. Faceplant. They're just a few of the suggestions being bandied around online following reports that Facebook plans to rebrand itself with a new group name. The company refused...

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

-- 2021-10-20 11:51:53

Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Facebook Chief Executive Offic...