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Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

-- 2019-10-03 16:52:24

After high-profile flops, Microsoft is getting back into smartphones with a dual-screen Android device that won’t be out for another year. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo as part of a new li...

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

-- 2019-10-03 14:24:08

Turkish authorities have fined Facebook Inc 1.6 million lira ($282,000) for violation of data protection laws which affected nearly 300,000 people, the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) said on Th...

Twitter, TweetDeck back up after suffering global outage

Twitter, TweetDeck back up after suffering global outage

Reuters 2019-10-02 16:09:56

Twitter Inc was apparently back up on Wednesday after a worldwide outage hit the micro-blogging platform’s website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck, affecting thousands of users....

Researchers develop computer game to diagnose mental illness

Researchers develop computer game to diagnose mental illness

Xinhua 2019-10-02 12:36:43

Researchers from Australia's peak scientific body developed a computer game capable of helping diagnose mental health disorders. The game, developed by the Data61 team at the Commonwealth Scientific...

China 'in very good direction' in 5G deployment: Qualcomm CEO

China 'in very good direction' in 5G deployment: Qualcomm CEO

Xinhua 2019-09-28 18:05:54

China is "in very good direction" in deploying 5G networks, Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer (CEO) of US technology and chip giant Qualcomm Inc. said. China is very progressive in the speed...

US regulators sue Match.com over fake accounts

US regulators sue Match.com over fake accounts

-- 2019-09-27 15:13:32

The owner of dating app Match.com is being sued by US regulators for allegedly tricking people into subscribing to its service. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) documents detail what it called "decepti...

Humanoid robot made by Cumilla students turns heads

Humanoid robot made by Cumilla students turns heads

-- 2019-09-26 13:22:00

Two students of a private university in Cumilla say they have built, what they call, Bangladesh’s first open source humanoid robot. Named Mia-1, the robot took two-and-a-half months to complete...

China launches new satellite for environment detection

China launches new satellite for environment detection

Xinhua 2019-09-25 17:00:17

China sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Wednesday. The Yunhai-1 02 satellite, launched on a Long March-2D carrier ro...

Google wins in 'right to be forgotten' fight with France

Google wins in 'right to be forgotten' fight with France

Reuters 2019-09-24 17:44:56

Google won its fight against tougher 'right to be forgotten' rules after European Union’s top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecti...

Facebook to open local office, pay taxes

Facebook to open local office, pay taxes

FE REPORT 2019-09-24 10:35:57

Facebook, a popular social media site, agreed to open an office and appoint local representatives in Dhaka to pay taxes on its earnings from advertisements in the country, telecom ministry said on Mon...

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps

BBC 2019-09-23 17:03:28

Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of an investigation it launched in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. The suspended apps were associated with about...

China launches two more BeiDou satellites

China launches two more BeiDou satellites

Xinhua 2019-09-23 14:16:32

China has sent two satellites of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 05:10am on Monday. Launched on a Long March-3B car...

Internet users up 2.0m in August: BTRC

Internet users up 2.0m in August: BTRC

FE Online Desk 2019-09-22 14:33:48

Bangladesh internet users increased by 1.96 million in August - the highest in a single month recorded in recent years. Of them, 1.959 million were from mobile telecoms operators and 0.1 million othe...

Hackers to check security of US satellite

Hackers to check security of US satellite

-- 2019-09-20 19:20:12

Ethical hackers are getting the chance to see if they can crack the security on an orbiting US Defense Department satellite, reports BBC citing Wired. Vetted experts will tackle the satellite and its...

China sets up sea rice breeding station in cold region

China sets up sea rice breeding station in cold region

Xinhua 2019-09-20 16:52:14

Chinese scientists have set up the country's first cold region breeding station for sea rice in the northeast province of Heilongjiang. The breeding station was established in Tieli, a city located a...

Google to invest €3 billion in European data centres

Google to invest €3 billion in European data centres

Reuters 2019-09-20 15:22:00

Google will make an additional investment of €3 billion ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centres, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland. The investment...

French scientists warn more severe global warming by 2100

French scientists warn more severe global warming by 2100

Xinhua 2019-09-18 17:27:27

Global warming would be more severe than expected by 2100 unless governments take concrete moves to cut greenhouse gas emissions, French scientists warned on Tuesday. By 2100, global mercury rise wou...

Astronomers find most massive neutron star to date

Astronomers find most massive neutron star to date

Xinhua 2019-09-17 16:18:18

Astronomers at West Virginia University in the United States have discovered the most massive neutron star to date, which packs 2.17 times the mass of the sun into a sphere only 20 to 30 kilometres....

Newly discovered comet likely "interstellar visitor", says NASA

Newly discovered comet likely "interstellar visitor", says NASA

Xinhua 2019-09-15 16:18:25

A newly discovered comet appears to have originated from outside the solar system, said NASA's Jet Propulsion laboratory (JPL) in a release. The object, designated C/2019 Q4, was discovered on Aug. 3...

Govt to fund ICT entrepreneurs

Govt to fund ICT entrepreneurs

-- 2019-09-13 20:40:12

The government is set to launch a project to fund the ICT entrepreneurs aiming to develop innovative potentials of young people in the sector. “Under the project to be called 'Bangabandhu Innov...

Digital Device and Innovation Expo to begin from October 14

Digital Device and Innovation Expo to begin from October 14

-- 2019-09-13 18:35:26

Digital Device and Innovation Expo-2019, said to be the largest information technology exhibition in country’s history, is set to begin from October 14. ICT Division, Bangladesh Hi-Tech Park au...

Scientists discover oldest ancestor of spider, scorpion

Scientists discover oldest ancestor of spider, scorpion

Xinhua 2019-09-13 18:16:21

An international joint research found a new species called Mollisonia plenovenatrix, which is believed to be the oldest chelicerate. The discovery places the origin of chelicerate, a vast group of ar...

Water found on planet beyond our solar system

Water found on planet beyond our solar system

Reuters 2019-09-12 10:38:16

Scientists for the first time have detected water in the atmosphere of an Earth-like planet orbiting a distant star, evidence that a key ingredient for life exists beyond our solar system, according t...

Xiaomi to launch wireless charging alliance to empower mobile life

Xiaomi to launch wireless charging alliance to empower mobile life

Xinhua 2019-09-11 16:32:32

Chinese tech giant Xiaomi will launch a wireless charging alliance to work with cross-sector partners to promote the technology, the company announced Monday. The alliance aims to promote full covera...

India's moon mission locates landing craft, no communication yet

India's moon mission locates landing craft, no communication yet

-- 2019-09-10 13:29:48

BENGALURU, Sept 10: India has located the spacecraft it was trying to land on the moon but has not been able to establish communication with it yet, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said...

Blockchain smartphones to enter Bangladesh in Oct

Blockchain smartphones to enter Bangladesh in Oct

-- 2019-09-10 10:29:19

Finney a Switzerland based Sirin Lab’s smartphone will be launched in Bangladesh market in October. The approval was already received by Sirin Lab in the month of August from the import authori...

BBC, tech firms join forces to fight fake news

BBC, tech firms join forces to fight fake news

-- 2019-09-08 19:57:21

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and some of the biggest names in journalism and technology have announced plans to help tackle so-called fake news. The new measures include an early warnin...

Facebook faces fresh anti-trust investigation

Facebook faces fresh anti-trust investigation

BBC 2019-09-07 16:39:51

Facebook is under investigation in the US to determine whether it has "stifled competition and put users at risk". The new action was announced by New York state Attorney General Letitia James on beh...

India loses contact with spacecraft on mission to the moon

India loses contact with spacecraft on mission to the moon

-- 2019-09-07 10:06:29

India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon on Saturday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, in a setback to the nation's ambitious plans...

Huawei unveils 'revolutionary' 5G chipset amid US pressure

Huawei unveils 'revolutionary' 5G chipset amid US pressure

Global Times 2019-09-06 18:29:40

Chinese tech giant Huawei unveiled its latest high-end system-on-chip (SoC) 5G chipset, Kirin 990, on Friday in Beijing, which the company calls a new breakthrough amid the ongoing US crackdown. The...