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Facebook takes harder stance against misinformation

Facebook takes harder stance against misinformation

-- 2021-05-27 19:13:11

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would take ‘stronger’ action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform. Facebook will reduce the distribution of all posts in it...

Facebook, Instagram will now let users hide 'like' counts on posts

Facebook, Instagram will now let users hide 'like' counts on posts

-- 2021-05-26 20:34:27

If you post a photo to social media and you don't know how many people liked it, did you really post it? Instagram and Facebook users can now find out. Beginning Wednesday, those on both services wil...

WhatsApp sues India govt, says new rules mean end to privacy

WhatsApp sues India govt, says new rules mean end to privacy

Reuters 2021-05-26 10:34:22

WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit...

China says its rover takes first drive on surface of Mars

China says its rover takes first drive on surface of Mars

Reuters 2021-05-22 15:34:46

A remote-controlled Chinese motorised rover drove down the ramp of a landing capsule on Saturday and onto the surface of the Red Planet, making China the first nation to orbit, land and deploy a land...

Amazon faces five new racial, gender bias lawsuits

Amazon faces five new racial, gender bias lawsuits

REUTERS 2021-05-20 18:17:21

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) was hit on Wednesday with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles, and accused the online retailer of gender bias, racial bias or both....

China bans financial institutions, payment cos from cryptocurrency business

China bans financial institutions, payment cos from cryptocurrency business

-- 2021-05-18 21:02:13

China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions, and warned investors against speculative crypto trading, reports Reuters....

3.7b people still lack internet access across globe, says UN Chief

3.7b people still lack internet access across globe, says UN Chief

-- 2021-05-17 11:38:14

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the planet, millions worldwide still lack Internet access, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday, highlighting why inform...

No charger with phone – Curbing e-waste?

No charger with phone – Curbing e-waste?

Sofia Noor   2021-05-15 21:21:53

Tech giant Apple took a much talked about decision of not including chargers in their iPhone-12 boxes. Back in October 2020, the brand declared its phone box with no chargers and labelled it a step to...

How big is Bitcoin's carbon footprint?

How big is Bitcoin's carbon footprint?

Reuters 2021-05-13 17:29:39

Tesla boss Elon Musk's sudden u-turn over accepting bitcoin to buy his electric vehicles has thrust the cryptocurrency's energy usage into the headlights. Some Tesla investors, along with environmen...

Italy's regulator fines Google $123 million

Italy's regulator fines Google $123 million

Reuters 2021-05-13 14:36:09

Italy's competition watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Google 102 million euros ($123 million) for abuse of its dominant position due to its Android mobile operating system and app store Google Pl...

Explainer-Why all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket?

Explainer-Why all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket?

Reuters 2021-05-11 17:05:48

China launched into orbit last month the first piece of a permanent space station using its most powerful rocket, but international focus has fallen instead on the re-entry of debris which critics say...

SpaceX accepts meme-inspired cryptocurrency as payment to launch its lunar mission

SpaceX accepts meme-inspired cryptocurrency as payment to launch its lunar mission

Reuters 2021-05-10 09:46:23

SpaceX will launch the "DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon" in the first quarter of next year, with Elon Musk's commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment. "Spac...

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday: US R&D centre

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday: US R&D centre

-- 2021-05-08 19:23:54

Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, a US federally funded space-focused research and developme...

Bangladeshis on top in BiP calls

Bangladeshis on top in BiP calls

-- 2021-05-08 16:39:05

Turkey’s secure communication platform BiP introduces its new feature, allowing users to convey their group chats easily from other applications and in call traffic, Bangladeshis are the champio...

South Korea, US discuss joint responses to falling Chinese rocket debris

South Korea, US discuss joint responses to falling Chinese rocket debris

BERNAMA 2021-05-07 20:39:45

South Korea and the United States on Friday discussed ways to jointly respond to remnants of a Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend, the Air Force said. According to Yonhap news a...

India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices

India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices

-- 2021-05-07 17:33:52

India has held up approvals for import of wifi modules from China for months, driving companies such as US computer makers Dell and HP  and China's Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Lenovo  to delay pr...

BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

Sheikh Tausif Ahmed 2021-05-05 20:46:42

A team of engineers from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has developed a low-cost oxygen supply instrument called OxyJet, an innovation which may offer lifeline to people se...

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-05 16:05:15

The World Bank on Wednesday awarded the four winning teams of the competition titled ‘Plastic Circularity Innovation Challenge’, which sought innovative solutions to combat plastic polluti...

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-05-04 18:28:29

Citing a recent statistics, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Division (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said cloud-based business in Bangladesh reached currently worth nearly Tk 13 m...

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

TASS 2021-05-02 18:13:43

The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with the Crew-1 mission aboard has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth, NASA is broadcasting live. The undocking of the Resilienc...

EU hits Apple with music streaming charge in boost for Spotify

EU hits Apple with music streaming charge in boost for Spotify

-- 2021-05-02 16:53:44

EU regulators accused Apple on Friday of distorting competition in the music streaming market, siding with Spotify in a case that could lead to a hefty fine and changes in the iPhone maker's lucrative...

Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

Turkey adds crypto firms to money laundering, terror financing rules

-- 2021-05-01 15:43:31

Turkey added cryptocurrency trading platforms to the list of firms covered by anti-money laundering and terrorism financing regulation, it said in a presidential decree published early on Saturday. T...

Alibaba freezes executive pay amid China's curbs on big tech

Alibaba freezes executive pay amid China's curbs on big tech

REUTERS 2021-04-30 16:14:06

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has frozen pay for senior executives in 2021 and is instead giving junior staff bigger salary increases, sources said, in an effort to preserve its workf...

UK first country to green light ‘self-driving’ cars on roads

UK first country to green light ‘self-driving’ cars on roads

-- 2021-04-28 15:16:01

The UK government on Wednesday became the first country to announce it will regulate the use of self-driving vehicles at slow speeds on motorways, with the first such cars possibly appearing on public...

Spotify launches podcast subscription platform to challenge Apple

Spotify launches podcast subscription platform to challenge Apple

-- 2021-04-28 11:03:01

Spotify launched on Tuesday a paid subscription platform for podcasters in the United States and plans to expand in other regions in the coming months, a week after Apple unveiled a similar service....

Musk trolls Bezos after SpaceX wins moon landing contract

Musk trolls Bezos after SpaceX wins moon landing contract

REUTERS 2021-04-27 21:03:27

The space race between the world's two richest men went into hyperdrive on Tuesday after Tesla chief Elon Musk took a swipe at Jeff Bezos' attempt to challenge a major NASA contract. The two billiona...

Bangladeshi IT firm to launch virtual office platform

Bangladeshi IT firm to launch virtual office platform

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2021-04-25 10:02:15

A Bangladeshi leading IT firm, Synesis IT, is introducing a ‘world class’ virtual office platform named Convay to accommodate as many as 1200 people at a time to meet the need of changing...

Facebook starts testing ads in Instagram Reels

Facebook starts testing ads in Instagram Reels

REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:33:57

Facebook Inc on Thursday said it will begin testing ads on its TikTok clone Instagram Reels in India, Brazil, Germany and Australia, as the social media giant aims to make money from its short-form vi...

Musk's SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

Musk's SpaceX rocketship launches 4 astronauts on NASA mission to space station

REUTERS 2021-04-24 11:22:54

NASA and Elon Musk’s commercial rocket company SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station on Friday, the first crew ever propelled into orbit by a r...

NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

NASA extracts breathable oxygen from thin Martian air

-- 2021-04-22 15:44:39

NASA has logged another extraterrestrial first on its latest mission to Mars: converting carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into pure, breathable oxygen, the US space agency said on Wednesday,...