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Facebook to remove coronavirus misinformation

Facebook to remove coronavirus misinformation

Reuters 2020-01-31 16:35:31

Facebook will remove misinformation about China’s fast-spreading coronavirus in a rare departure from its approach to health content, after the World Health Organization declared the outbreak a...

Australia scientists claim first re-creation of coronavirus outside China

Australia scientists claim first re-creation of coronavirus outside China

-- 2020-01-29 17:39:42

A team of scientists in Australia said on Wednesday they have successfully developed a lab-grown version of coronavirus, the first to be recreated outside of China, in a breakthrough that could help c...

Facebook asks employees to put off non-essential travel to China

Facebook asks employees to put off non-essential travel to China

Reuters 2020-01-28 11:05:14

Facebook Inc has asked employees to suspend non-essential travel to mainland China to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, a spokesman said on Tuesday. The company also told employees who had trave...

As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum

As Britain decides, Europe grapples with Huawei conundrum

-- 2020-01-28 10:52:58

Britain’s decision on whether to allow Huawei to supply equipment for 5G mobile networks comes at a delicate time, with debate raging in European capitals over the security implications of relia...

Bdstall releases Free PC-Builder 2020

Bdstall releases Free PC-Builder 2020

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-01-23 21:39:50

Bdstall, a popular online marketplace, has released PC Builder as new year's special feature. The PC Builder option at the Bdstall website will allow visitors to build own PC with required components...

SpaceX to simulate rocket failure in final astronaut capsule test

SpaceX to simulate rocket failure in final astronaut capsule test

-- 2020-01-18 13:20:43

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is gearing up to destroy one of its own rockets on Saturday to test a crucial emergency abort system on an unmanned astronaut capsule, the company’s final milestone test...

India launches telecom satellite "GSAT-30"

India launches telecom satellite "GSAT-30"

-- 2020-01-17 13:01:43

India's telecommunication satellite "GSAT-30" was successfully launched into a geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO) on Friday. The satellite was launched from the Kourou launch base, French Guiana, by...

SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

SpaceX sends 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit

-- 2020-01-07 15:17:03

California's SpaceX company has launched another 60 satellites in its Starlink network. It brings to 182 the number of spacecraft the firm has now put in the sky as part of its plan to provide a glob...

Samsung Electronics says will unveil ‘innovative devices’ on Feb 11

Samsung Electronics says will unveil ‘innovative devices’ on Feb 11

-- 2020-01-05 12:00:30

Samsung Electronics said on Sunday that it will introduce new, innovative devices in San Francisco on Feb 11, with the electronics giant widely expected to unveil its new foldable phone and a new vers...

Huawei gets India nod to participate in 5G trials

Huawei gets India nod to participate in 5G trials

REUTERS 2019-12-31 10:54:18

The Indian government has allowed Chinese telecom company Huawei Technologies Co HWT.UL to participate in trials for 5G networks, a company spokesman said on Monday. India’s nod to Huawei comes...

China sentences ‘gene-editing’ scientist to three years in jail

China sentences ‘gene-editing’ scientist to three years in jail

-- 2019-12-30 12:58:29

A Chinese court sentenced the scientist who created the world’s first ‘gene-edited’ babies to three years in prison on Monday, according to the official Xinhua news agency, on charge...

Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020

Spotify to suspend political advertising in 2020

-- 2019-12-28 11:26:50

Spotify Technology SA said on Friday it would pause selling political advertisements on its music streaming platform in early 2020. The world’s most popular paid music streaming service, with n...

Chimpanzees likely to share tools during complex tasks: Study

Chimpanzees likely to share tools during complex tasks: Study

Xinhua 2019-12-25 17:49:55

Chimpanzees that use a multi-step process and complex tools to gather termites are more likely to share tools with novices, according to a study published in this week's Proceedings of the National Ac...

Scientists develop bio-inspired membrane to harvest energy from seawater

Scientists develop bio-inspired membrane to harvest energy from seawater

-- 2019-12-24 18:05:17

Scientists in Australia and the United States have developed a membrane, inspired by bone and cartilage, that can produce electricity from saltwater. The study published this week in the journal Joul...

Active internet users fall half a million in Nov: BTRC

Active internet users fall half a million in Nov: BTRC

FE ONLINE DESK 2019-12-24 14:50:16

The country witnessed its active internet users drop by half a million in November, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) said in a report on Tuesday. There were 99.569 million ac...

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Saudi spying case

Twitter suspends accounts linked to Saudi spying case

-- 2019-12-21 11:11:14

Weeks after US authorities brought a spying case against three Saudi nationals for digging up dissidents’ personal data at Twitter, the company suspended tens of thousands of accounts that appea...

France fines Google $167m for anti-competitive behaviour

France fines Google $167m for anti-competitive behaviour

Reuters 2019-12-20 17:40:29

France’s competition authority fined Google $167 million for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. The fine comes as France and other European co...

Google to pay $500m in tax settlement

Google to pay $500m in tax settlement

-- 2019-12-18 11:58:22

Google has reached a settlement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on Wednesday, agreeing to hand over 481.5 million Australian dollars (329.6 million US dollars) following a decade-long legal...

Qualcomm unveils new 5G platforms

Qualcomm unveils new 5G platforms

Xinhua 2019-12-12 16:44:46

US leading chip manufacturer Qualcomm has unveiled two new 5G mobile platforms and the world's first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform at its annual tech summit. During its Snapdragon Techn...

Facebook sues ILikeAd, alleges ad fraud

Facebook sues ILikeAd, alleges ad fraud

-- 2019-12-12 13:07:20

Facebook Inc on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that it said used malware to bait people into clicking on celebrities’ photos and bogus advertising links, so it could run ads for counterfeit g...

Twitter plans to build ‘decentralised standard’ for social networks

Twitter plans to build ‘decentralised standard’ for social networks

-- 2019-12-12 10:39:04

Twitter Inc plans to set up an independent research group to create an “open and decentralised” system for social networks, CEO Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday, which could relieve pressure...

Russian cargo ship successfully docks with ISS

Russian cargo ship successfully docks with ISS

Xinhua 2019-12-10 16:54:35

The Russian cargo spacecraft Progress MS-13 has successfully docked with the Pirs module of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said Monday. The appro...

Ancient fossils clarify evolution of mammalian hearing

Ancient fossils clarify evolution of mammalian hearing

Xinhua 2019-12-08 19:51:21

Researchers have discovered ancient fossils of a new Cretaceous mammal species in northeast China's Liaoning Province, finding a missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of mammalian hearing evolution. The...

Russia sends cargo ship to International Space Station

Russia sends cargo ship to International Space Station

Xinhua 2019-12-07 16:43:37

Russia successfully launched its Progress MS-13 cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the space...

Facebook bows to Singapore's 'fake news' law

Facebook bows to Singapore's 'fake news' law

BBC 2019-12-01 16:15:23

Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controvers...

China introduces face scans for mobile phone users

China introduces face scans for mobile phone users

BBC 2019-12-01 16:14:18

People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of the country's hundreds of millions of inter...

BUET simulator to study drivers' behaviour

BUET simulator to study drivers' behaviour

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-12-01 10:29:04

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has introduced a lab-based facility to assess behaviours of drivers in order to address growing road accidents in the country. This is part...

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

-- 2019-11-30 11:00:36

Apple says it is taking "a deeper look" at how it handles disputed borders. Ukraine criticised the tech giant for showing Crimea as part of Russia's territory on its Maps and Weather apps. An Apple...

TikTok apologises for taking down video on Muslims in China

TikTok apologises for taking down video on Muslims in China

Reuters 2019-11-28 11:36:46

Social media app TikTok apologised to a user on Thursday for removing a video that criticised China’s treatment of Muslims, blaming a “human moderation error” and saying the images h...

India launches 13 commercial nanosatellites

India launches 13 commercial nanosatellites

-- 2019-11-27 12:46:34

The Indian Space Research Organisation has launched Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun synchronous orbit onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C47), officials said. The satel...