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Tasmanian Devils set paw on mainland Australia after 3,000 years

Tasmanian Devils set paw on mainland Australia after 3,000 years

-- 2020-10-06 20:03:36

The world’s largest surviving marsupial carnivore, the Tasmanian Devil, has been returned to the wild on Australia’s mainland for the first time in 3,000 years, reports Reuters. Actor co...

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon contract for missile tracking satellites

Musk's SpaceX wins Pentagon contract for missile tracking satellites

Reuters 2020-10-06 12:33:33

Elon Musk’s SpaceX won a $149 million contract to build missile-tracking satellites for the Pentagon, the US Space Development Agency (SDA) said on Monday, in the company’s first governmen...

17 teams from Bangladesh to participate NASA’s global competition

17 teams from Bangladesh to participate NASA’s global competition

-- 2020-10-05 16:55:41

Nine champion teams and eight runners up teams will get opportunity to participate in the global space apps competition to be organised by US space research organisation NASA this year. The names of...

Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content

Thailand takes first legal action against Facebook, Twitter over content

-- 2020-09-24 16:22:34

Thailand’s digital ministry filed legal complaints with cybercrime police after the two social media companies missed 15-day deadlines to comply fully with court-issued takedown orders from Aug....

Facebook removes Chinese accounts active in Philippines and US politics

Facebook removes Chinese accounts active in Philippines and US politics

-- 2020-09-23 16:49:56

Facebook Inc said Tuesday it had removed a network of inauthentic Chinese accounts that were interfering in Asian and American politics, including some that posted material supporting and opposing US...

Bangladesh-South Korea ‘ideaTHON’ contest inaugurated

Bangladesh-South Korea ‘ideaTHON’ contest inaugurated

FE Online Report 2020-09-20 13:39:00

Intending to increase the knowledge and skills of startups in Bangladesh as well as develop a digital startup ecosystem, Bangladesh-South Korea is going to organise the ‘ideaTHON’ contest...

Scientists find SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Bangladesh wastewater

Scientists find SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Bangladesh wastewater

-- 2020-09-19 16:27:40

A team of scientists from Noakhali Science and Technology University (NSTU) and North South University (NSU) has claimed to make the first and successful attempt to detect SARS-CoV-2 viruses' genetic...

Trump to block US downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

Trump to block US downloads of TikTok, WeChat on Sunday

-- 2020-09-18 21:28:51

The US Commerce Department plans to issue an order Friday that will bar people in the United States from downloading Chinese-owned messaging app WeChat and video-sharing app TikTok starting on Septemb...

Twitter places warning label on Trump tweet

Twitter places warning label on Trump tweet

Reuters 2020-09-18 12:21:30

Twitter on Thursday (US standard time) placed a warning label on a tweet by US President Donald Trump, saying his post included potentially misleading information regarding the process of mail-in voti...

Facebook will no longer show health groups in recommendations

Facebook will no longer show health groups in recommendations

Reuters 2020-09-18 11:12:16

Facebook will no longer show health groups in its recommendations to ensure that its users get health information from authoritative sources, the social media giant said on Thursday. The company took...

Apple’s new watch to monitor blood oxygen

Apple’s new watch to monitor blood oxygen

-- 2020-09-16 10:19:55

Apple Inc rolled out a new virtual fitness service and a bundle of all its subscriptions, Apple One, focusing a holiday-season product launch on services that are the backbone of Apple's growth strate...

Govt moves to launch `Safe Drive’ app to avert accident

Govt moves to launch `Safe Drive’ app to avert accident

-- 2020-09-15 16:50:47

The government in collaboration with a private sector automotive maintenance startup, Zantrik, has developed an AI-based app `Safe Drive’ to avert accident on the roads. Leveraging ICT project...

YouTube announces TikTok rival ‘Shorts’, rolls out beta version in India

YouTube announces TikTok rival ‘Shorts’, rolls out beta version in India

-- 2020-09-15 11:13:34

YouTube has announced it will test a beta version of its new TiktTok rival in India. YouTube Shorts will limit videos to 15 seconds, and the platform will feature creator tools that are similar to Ch...

Scientists find sign of alien life on Venus

Scientists find sign of alien life on Venus

REUTERS 2020-09-15 09:35:06

Scientists said on Monday they have detected in the harshly acidic clouds of Venus a gas called phosphine that indicates microbes may inhabit Earth’s inhospitable neighbor, a tantalising sign of...

Google may face lawsuit soon

Google may face lawsuit soon

Reuters 2020-09-12 09:37:56

With expectations of a US government lawsuit against Alphabet’s Google within weeks, two progressive Democrats tweeted support for legal action against tech giants who break the law, in a rare i...

a2i wins WSIS awards for seventh consecutive year

a2i wins WSIS awards for seventh consecutive year

FE Online Report 2020-09-11 15:50:37

The a2i Programme has succeeded at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) awards for the 7th consecutive time as two of its projects were declared champions in two different categories. E-Com...

Battery-powered face mask seeks to fight COVID and foggy glasses

Battery-powered face mask seeks to fight COVID and foggy glasses

-- 2020-09-10 21:28:03

A South Korean company has invented a battery-powered filtered face mask designed to reduce annoying problems associated with conventional designs, such as breathing difficulties and fogged-up glasses...

Climate change has not stopped for COVID-19: UN

Climate change has not stopped for COVID-19: UN

-- 2020-09-09 19:26:34

Climate change is continuing unabated despite the economic slowdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic, said the United Nations, reports aljazeera.com. While daily global carbon dioxide emissions sa...

Beijing achieves full coverage of 5G independent networking

Beijing achieves full coverage of 5G independent networking

Global Times 2020-09-09 16:28:38

Beijing has become the second city in China, after Shenzhen in South China's Guangdong Province, to achieve full coverage of 5G independent networking, according to a statement released by the Ministr...

BD to earn $6.0b from ICT sector by 2025, Palak hopes

BD to earn $6.0b from ICT sector by 2025, Palak hopes

-- 2020-09-08 20:26:32

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak has express his hope that the government is working to earn $6.0 billion from IT sector of the country by 2025. &l...

PUBG Corp says Tencent not to publish mobile game in India

PUBG Corp says Tencent not to publish mobile game in India

-- 2020-09-08 15:59:21

PUBG Corp, the unit of a South Korean company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), will no longer give Tencent Games the rights to publish its popular mobile game in India, it said in a...

BCC receives UN ‘World Summit on Information Society Award-2020’

BCC receives UN ‘World Summit on Information Society Award-2020’

FE Online Report 2020-09-08 11:47:59

The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division has achieved one of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of information technology, the ‘World Summit on Information S...

Facebook appoints public policy manager for Bangladesh

Facebook appoints public policy manager for Bangladesh

-- 2020-09-07 19:54:01

Facebook Inc has employed a Bangla-speaking Bangladeshi to administer Bangladeshi content and swiftly resolve any related issues which may occur on the social media utility, reports bdnews24.com. The...

Facebook removes pages of US right-wing group

Facebook removes pages of US right-wing group

Reuters 2020-09-05 11:24:59

Facebook on Friday removed the pages of US right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters. Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallie...

Widespread Covid-19 vaccines not expected until mid-2021: WHO

Widespread Covid-19 vaccines not expected until mid-2021: WHO

-- 2020-09-04 17:14:43

The World Health Organization does not expect widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their...

India bans 118 Chinese apps, including PUBG

India bans 118 Chinese apps, including PUBG

-- 2020-09-03 12:14:58

India has banned 118 more mobile apps including Tencent Holdings’ popular videogame PUBG, as it stepped up the pressure on Chinese technology companies following a standoff with Beijing at the b...

Twitter confirms account of Modi's personal website hacked

Twitter confirms account of Modi's personal website hacked

Reuters 2020-09-03 11:15:38

Twitter confirmed on Thursday that an account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief fund through...

Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions set for critical test

Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions set for critical test

BBC 2020-09-02 17:08:49

Engineers are preparing to test a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024. Two of these boosters form part of Nasa's massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the bigges...

Pakistan blocks Tinder, four other dating apps

Pakistan blocks Tinder, four other dating apps

Reuters 2020-09-02 11:23:36

Pakistan says it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating “immoral content&rdquo...

Facebook threatens to block news on Australian sites

Facebook threatens to block news on Australian sites

-- 2020-09-01 11:53:39

Facebook Inc on Monday said it would stop allowing news publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram if a proposed regulation on news content...