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Facebook to invest $1.0b in news industry

Facebook to invest $1.0b in news industry

Reuters 2021-02-25 10:41:59

Facebook on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years, days after a high-profile stand-off with the Australian government over paying news outlets...

AI, machine learning emphasised in a post-pandemic world

AI, machine learning emphasised in a post-pandemic world

-- 2021-02-24 10:18:44

Thomson Reuters Corp will streamline technology, close offices and rely more on machines to prepare for a post-pandemic world, the news and information group said on Tuesday, as it reported higher sal...

Spotify to launch in Bangladesh, 84 other countries

Spotify to launch in Bangladesh, 84 other countries

Gadgets 360 2021-02-23 18:19:31

Spotify is expanding to 85 new markets including Bangladesh in the “next few days”, co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced at its online-only Stream On event on Monday. Besides Banglades...

Spotify to reach more than a billion listeners

Spotify to reach more than a billion listeners

-- 2021-02-23 10:50:19

Spotify said on Monday it would nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more than a billion people around...

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Reuters 2021-02-22 20:32:30

Showers of jet engine parts over residential areas on both sides of the Atlantic have caught regulators’ attention and prompted the suspension of some older Boeing planes from service. The Satu...

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

SHEIKH TAUSIF AHMED 2021-02-22 17:48:32

Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and other big companies launch multiple smartphones every year with huge potentials and variety of price points. And in their lineup, there’s always that flagship phone wi...

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

-- 2021-02-21 13:29:03

NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface...

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

REUTERS 2021-02-20 13:16:25

Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organisations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on...

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Reuters 2021-02-20 12:10:49

Alphabet’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its Decembe...

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

REUTERS 2021-02-20 10:47:38

US scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the United Sta...

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-19 14:36:34

The South-South Matchmaker, 2019-2020 Best Practices was launched to promote the best practices in the South and encourage innovating and adopting innovative solutions for a better world. The South-S...

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

Reuters 2021-02-19 09:15:04

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the fir...

How to fix common smartphone problems

How to fix common smartphone problems

Maisha Fairooz Khan 2021-02-18 14:06:45

Technology is not infallible. It does not matter how much is spent on smartphones; they are bound to function erratically after a certain period of usage. It is a quite common practice to replace phon...

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

-- 2021-02-17 21:06:46

Facebook Inc is building a smartwatch that will let users send messages and also offer health and fitness features, people with direct knowledge of the device have said. The social media giant plans...

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Reuters 2021-02-17 17:47:38

Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the White House on ways to crack down on Big Tech including making social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation on matters su...

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

-- 2021-02-17 11:27:26

A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon’s surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe - using a device that weighs less than a bag of su...

Goldman Sachs unveils robo-adviser in consumer push

Goldman Sachs unveils robo-adviser in consumer push

-- 2021-02-17 11:08:37

Goldman Sachs Group Inc is launching an automated wealth-management platform to invest customer funds across managed portfolios made up of exchange trade funds for stocks and bonds, the bank has said....

Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay

Australia to amend laws to make Google and Facebook pay

AP 2021-02-16 17:46:27

Australia’s government said on Tuesday it will amend draft laws that would make Google and Facebook pay for news to clarify that publishers would be paid in lump sums rather than per click on ne...

Robots at South African hotel reception

Robots at South African hotel reception

Reuters 2021-02-16 11:04:15

Staff at Hotel Sky in Johannesburg’s wealthy Sandton district adhere to strict Covid-19 protocols, wearing masks and physically distancing from guests as much as possible; all, that is, except L...

Parler back online on 'independent technology'

Parler back online on 'independent technology'

-- 2021-02-16 10:59:32

Parler, a social media service popular with American right-wing users that virtually vanished after the US Capitol riot, re-launched on Monday and said its new platform was built on “sustainable...

NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

NASA's rover faces 'seven minutes of terror' before landing on Mars

REUTERS 2021-02-15 10:26:44

When NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, a robotic astrobiology lab packed inside a space capsule, hits the final stretch of its seven-month journey from Earth this week, it is set to emit a radio a...

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Alphabet, Microsoft, Qualcomm protest against Nvidia's acquisition of Arm

Reuters 2021-02-14 10:52:52

The US Federal Trade Commission has opened an in-depth probe into Nvidia Corp’s agreement to acquire Arm Ltd, Bloomberg reported on Friday, citing a source. The FTC has sent information demands...

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

Facebook building Clubhouse-like audio chat product

-- 2021-02-11 10:41:05

Facebook Inc is building a new audio chat product similar to audio-based social network Clubhouse, the New York Times reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter. Clubhouse, launche...

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

India slams Twitter amid face off over content

Reuters 2021-02-11 10:15:02

India rebuked Twitter on Wednesday for not complying with its orders to take down certain content and warned the social media giant that it needs to obey local laws, even as Indian lawmakers urged the...

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Telesat taps Thales Alenia Space for $3.0b deal to build low earth orbit satellites

Reuters 2021-02-10 14:48:15

Canadian satellite company Telesat on Tuesday tapped Thales Alenia Space to build 300 low earth orbit (LEO) telecommunications satellites in a contract worth about $3 billion, saying the first launch...

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

Facebook to remove posts with false vaccine claims

-- 2021-02-10 13:15:42

Facebook is expanding its efforts to remove more Covid-19 conspiracies that discourage vaccination against coronavirus, according to an announcement by the company. "Since December, we've removed fal...

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

UAE's Hope Probe enters orbit in first Arab Mars mission

-- 2021-02-10 11:16:59

The United Arab Emirates’ first mission to Mars reached the red planet and entered orbit on Tuesday after a seven-month, 494 million-km (307 million-mile) journey, allowing it to start sending d...

Windows 10 to get new look this year

Windows 10 to get new look this year

-- 2021-02-09 16:18:09

Windows 10 has a major design overhaul inbound for later in 2021, at least in theory, and we’ve caught a number of glimpses of what interface changes might be in store – with another one j...

Jeff Bezos will seek to shift space venture Blue Origin into hyperdrive

Jeff Bezos will seek to shift space venture Blue Origin into hyperdrive

REUTERS 2021-02-09 10:53:01

Freed from his daily obligations at Amazon.com Inc, Jeff Bezos is expected to turn up the heat on his space venture, Blue Origin, as it faces a pivotal year and fierce competition from Elon Musk&rsquo...

Facebook will take down 'false' vaccine claims

Facebook will take down 'false' vaccine claims

Reuters 2021-02-09 10:01:30

Facebook said on Monday it will expand a list of false health claims it bans from the platform to include debunked claims about vaccines in general, such as that they are toxic or cause autism. The s...