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Amazon says no TikTok ban for employees

Amazon says no TikTok ban for employees

-- 2020-07-11 16:19:40

Amazon says on Friday that it will not ask employees to remove the social video-sharing app TikTok from their mobile devices, and an earlier email asking workers to do so was sent in error. "This mor...

‘90pc important services to be digital by 2021’

‘90pc important services to be digital by 2021’

-- 2020-07-08 23:00:25

The government plans to provide 90 per cent of important services digitally by 2021. As per the plan, 90 per cent citizens will be brought under internet facilities within next year. State Minister...

Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

Nokia to add open interfaces to its telecom equipment

-- 2020-07-07 13:33:52

Finland’s Nokia on Tuesday became the first major telecom equipment maker to commit to adding open interfaces in its products that will allow mobile operators to build networks that are not tied...

Bangladesh wins two Int’l Blockchain Olympiad awards

Bangladesh wins two Int’l Blockchain Olympiad awards

-- 2020-07-06 21:58:00

Two Bangladeshi teams which participated for the first time in the ‘International Blockchain Olympiad Award (IBCOL) 2020’ competition have won two out of six main awards. President of Hon...

Bill Gates blames social media for misinformation about coronavirus

Bill Gates blames social media for misinformation about coronavirus

-- 2020-07-05 17:20:49

Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has partly laid the blame on social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter, saying they can do better at kerbing the spread of misinformation about coronavirus....

India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps

India bans TikTok, WeChat and dozens more Chinese apps

-- 2020-06-30 10:55:50

India's government has banned TikTok and dozens more Chinese-made apps it says are a danger to the country. In a statement, it said the apps were "prejudicial to sovereignty and integrity of India, d...

Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum

Reddit bans 'The_Donald' forum

Reuters 2020-06-30 10:36:08

Social media site Reddit on Monday shut down r/The_Donald, a forum which long served as a popular online home base for fans of President Donald Trump, saying it violated the site’s hate speech r...

Training on ‘Robotics Technology’ held

Training on ‘Robotics Technology’ held

FE Online Report 2020-06-29 17:25:17

The “Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project” on Monday organised a daylong online training on "Robotics Technology". The training began after the inaugural programm...

Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens

Facebook will label newsworthy posts that break rules as ad boycott widens

-- 2020-06-27 13:27:36

Facebook Inc said on Friday it will start labeling newsworthy content that violates the social media company’s policies, and label all posts and ads about voting with links to authoritative info...

India to allow private firms to build rockets, satellites

India to allow private firms to build rockets, satellites

-- 2020-06-25 16:16:37

Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) chief K. Sivan has said that startups and private firms will be enabled to build rockets and satellites as well as provide launch services. The ISRO chief we...

Singapore’s Grab puts partnership with troubled Wirecard on hold

Singapore’s Grab puts partnership with troubled Wirecard on hold

-- 2020-06-24 13:53:24

Southeast Asian ride-hailing and payments company Grab said it had put a partnership with scandal-hit Wirecard on hold, days after the German payments firm disclosed a $2.1 billion financial hole that...

UN probes reports on record Arctic heat in Siberia

UN probes reports on record Arctic heat in Siberia

-- 2020-06-23 21:09:59

The United Nation weather agency has been investigating media reports suggesting the Arctic Circle has recorded a new record high temperature of over 38 degrees Celsius amid a heat wave and prolonged...

Google faces employee petition to end tech sales to police

Google faces employee petition to end tech sales to police

-- 2020-06-23 10:17:37

More than 1,600 workers at Alphabet Inc are petitioning its Google unit to stop selling email and other services to police departments, a source familiar with the matter said on Monday. The workers i...

Facebook takes down Trump ads over 'organised hate' policy

Facebook takes down Trump ads over 'organised hate' policy

Reuters 2020-06-19 11:20:35

Facebook said on Thursday it took down posts and ads run by the re-election campaign of US President Donald Trump for violating its policy against organised hate. The ads showed a red inverted t...

AI training programme concludes

AI training programme concludes

FE Online Report 2020-06-18 18:21:33

A daylong online training on Artificial Intelligence (AI) was organised by the Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division...

German virus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in 24 hours

German virus tracing app downloaded 6.5 million times in 24 hours

Reuters 2020-06-17 15:42:03

Germany’s smartphone app to help trace coronavirus infections has been downloaded 6.5 million times in the first 24 hours since its launch, the chief executive of software company SAP said on We...

Polish scientists design remote-controlled ventilator for COVID-19 patients

Polish scientists design remote-controlled ventilator for COVID-19 patients

-- 2020-06-10 18:21:37

A team of Polish scientists has designed a remote-controlled ventilator they hope will allow doctors to help critically ill patients breathe, but from a distance, in a bid to make medical personnel sa...

Remdesivir shows promise in Covid-19 study on monkeys

Remdesivir shows promise in Covid-19 study on monkeys

-- 2020-06-09 21:19:32

Gilead Sciences Inc's antiviral drug, remdesivir, prevented lung disease in macaque monkeys infected with the new coronavirus, a study published in medical journal Nature showed on Tuesday, reports Re...

Govt to develop AI-based tools, services to monitor mask use

Govt to develop AI-based tools, services to monitor mask use

-- 2020-06-09 16:13:55

The government has launched a two-month long lab programme to develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) based 10 products including tools to monitor mask wearing and maintain social distance during Covid-1...

DU method to detect coronavirus 'in 40 minutes'

DU method to detect coronavirus 'in 40 minutes'

-- 2020-06-08 09:37:43

The authorities of Dhaka University (DU) have claimed to introduce a new method which can detect coronavirus within around 40 minutes. A team of researchers, led by Professor Dr Z...

Zuckerberg promises a review of Facebook content policies

Zuckerberg promises a review of Facebook content policies

-- 2020-06-07 18:25:26

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday said he would consider changes to the policy that led the company to leave up controversial posts by US President Donald Trump during recent demonstrations prote...

Facebook says it found no foreign interference in Floyd protests

Facebook says it found no foreign interference in Floyd protests

Xinhua 2020-06-06 16:21:06

Facebook said on Friday that it has not seen any foreign interference using its platform to meddle in the demonstrations across the country related to the death of George Floyd. "We have been activel...

'Corona Tracer BD' app to fight Covid-19

'Corona Tracer BD' app to fight Covid-19

FE DESK REPORT 2020-06-06 10:21:59

In order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, the ICT Division, Government of Bangladesh, has released a smartphone app (beta) for the citizens of the country, said a statement. Zunaid Ahm...

Snapchat removes Trump account

Snapchat removes Trump account

-- 2020-06-04 11:16:14

Snap Inc said it would no longer promote US President Donald Trump’s account in Snapchat’s Discover section, saying his incendiary comments last week made the account ineligible for the cu...

Google faces $5b lawsuit in US

Google faces $5b lawsuit in US

-- 2020-06-03 11:00:44

Google was sued on Tuesday in a proposed class action accusing the internet search company of illegally invading the privacy of millions of users by pervasively tracking their internet use through bro...

Huawei unveils smart office product for all-scenario remote collaboration

Huawei unveils smart office product for all-scenario remote collaboration

-- 2020-06-01 20:21:02

Huawei launched its next-generation IdeaHub series intelligent endpoint for all-scenario smart office ecosystem recently aimed at improving efficiency for enterprises, especially remote collaboration...

SpaceX capsule delivers two NASA astronauts to Int'l Space Station

SpaceX capsule delivers two NASA astronauts to Int'l Space Station

Reuters 2020-06-01 12:32:34

Nearly 24 hours after launching from Florida, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule delivered NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station on Sunday, marking the first U...

Huawei obtains world's first CC EAL4+ security certificate for 5G products

Huawei obtains world's first CC EAL4+ security certificate for 5G products

FE Online Desk 2020-05-28 18:18:05

Huawei, the global leading provider of ICT technologies, has won the world’s first Common Criteria (CC) Evaluation Assurance Level(EAL)4+ certificate for 5G products. This certificate indicate...

BD to attend NASA virtual hackathon on May 30-31

BD to attend NASA virtual hackathon on May 30-31

FE Online Report 2020-05-28 17:42:19

The virtual hackathon of the special event styled NASA Space Apps Covid-19 Challenge of the NASA is set to begin from Saturday (May 30, 2020).  Like every time, Bangladesh will participate in th...

Google sees resurgence in state-backed hacking amid pandemic

Google sees resurgence in state-backed hacking amid pandemic

Reuters 2020-05-28 11:39:47

Security experts at Alphabet’s Google sent 1,755 warnings in April to users whose accounts were targets of government-backed attackers, following a resurgence in hacking and phishing attempts re...