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Google fined $170m for tracking children

Google fined $170m for tracking children

-- 2019-09-05 12:10:58

YouTube has been fined a record $170 million by a US regulator for violating children's privacy laws. Google, which owns YouTube, agreed to pay the sum in a settlement with the Federal Trade Commissi...

BASIS membership made compulsory for software firms

BASIS membership made compulsory for software firms

FE Online Report 2019-09-04 20:18:15

The government has made it mandatory for the country’s software firms to obtain membership of Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS). BASIS received a circular to t...

One-in-three young people victim of online bullying: UN

One-in-three young people victim of online bullying: UN

-- 2019-09-04 13:40:29

Around one-in-three young people across 30 countries, including Bangladesh, India and Myanmar, say they have been bullied online while one-in-five report that they have skipped school because of it....

Huawei accuses US of cyber-attacks

Huawei accuses US of cyber-attacks

-- 2019-09-04 12:07:23

Huawei has accused the US government of "using every tool at its disposal" to disrupt its business. In a press release on Tuesday, the Chinese tech giant said the US had launched cyber-attacks to i...

Int'l IoT conference to begin in China

Int'l IoT conference to begin in China

-- 2019-09-03 16:51:02

The conference on the Internet of Things (IoT) for Industry and Energy will open in the city of Wenzhou, east China's Zhejiang Province on Sept 10. There are 12 exhibition areas including smart new e...

Moon lander separates from India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Moon lander separates from India's Chandrayaan-2 orbiter

Xinhua 2019-09-03 16:47:58

The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Monday said that Vikram Lander has successfully separated from India's second moon mission Chandrayaan-2 Orbiter. ISRO said in a statement that, "The...

Google to pay up to $200m on YouTube probe

Google to pay up to $200m on YouTube probe

Reuters 2019-08-31 17:32:34

Alphabet Inc’s Google will spend up to $200 million to settle a US Federal Trade Commission investigation into YouTube’s alleged violation of a children’s privacy law. Politico repo...

New trends driving China's AI industry

New trends driving China's AI industry

-- 2019-08-31 17:18:29

Approach the categorised dustbins, scan the garbage in front of an image-recognition camera on the bin, and the intelligent system will automatically sort your trash by type. The "smart" trash can, w...

Twitter CEO and co-founder has his own account hacked

Twitter CEO and co-founder has his own account hacked

BBC 2019-08-31 10:23:18

The co-founder and chief executive of Twitter had his own account on the service briefly taken over by hackers. A group referring to itself as the Chuckling Squad said it was behind the breach of Jac...

China to send polar-observing sat into space

China to send polar-observing sat into space

Xinhua 2019-08-30 19:36:06

China will send a remote sensing satellite into orbit for polar climate and environment observation in September, according to its developers.The satellite called "Ice Pathfinder" (Code: BNU-1), which...

Birds have strong ties to climate of habitats: Study

Birds have strong ties to climate of habitats: Study

-- 2019-08-29 19:53:19

A study posted on the website of the University of Chicago (UChicago) on Wednesday showed that birds have strong ties to the climate patterns of their habitats, and the geographical distribution of bi...

Facebook acknowledges flaw in Messenger Kids app

Facebook acknowledges flaw in Messenger Kids app

-- 2019-08-29 10:35:45

Facebook Inc acknowledged a flaw in its Messenger Kids app, weeks after two US senators raised privacy concerns about the application, and said that it spoke to the US Federal Trade Commission about t...

Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?

Instagram influencers: Have we stopped believing?

BBC 2019-08-25 18:19:20

Last month, Nashville Instagrammer Tiffany Mitchell posted photographs of herself lying by the side of the road. She wrote that they were taken following a motorbike accident. But after an initial wa...

Facebook removes dozens of accounts from Myanmar

Facebook removes dozens of accounts from Myanmar

Reuters 2019-08-22 13:09:01

Facebook said on Thursday it had shut 216 social media pages, groups, and accounts in Myanmar, some tied to the army, to stymie efforts to “manipulate or corrupt public debate”. The compa...

World Robot Conference kicks off in Beijing

World Robot Conference kicks off in Beijing

Xinhua 2019-08-21 12:57:07

Cutting-edge robotic technologies and products are being displayed at the 2019 World Robot Conference that kicked off on Tuesday (August 20) in Chian's Beijing. This year's conference features a seri...

Huawei expands global 5G footprint

Huawei expands global 5G footprint

Global Times 2019-08-20 18:38:55

UK mobile operator Three launched its first 5G broadband service on Monday, using Huawei wireless gear, making it the third UK carrier to use the Chinese telecommunications giant's products despite th...

Twitter, Facebook shut Chinese accounts targeting HK protests

Twitter, Facebook shut Chinese accounts targeting HK protests

-- 2019-08-20 11:57:49

Twitter Inc and Facebook Inc said on Monday they had dismantled a state-backed social media campaign originating in mainland China that sought to undermine protests in Hong Kong. Twitter said it susp...

Reliance-Microsoft tie-up poses threat to Amazon, Google in India

Reliance-Microsoft tie-up poses threat to Amazon, Google in India

-- 2019-08-13 11:35:05

India’s Reliance Industries Ltd Monday announced a partnership with Microsoft’s  Azure cloud platform, in a move that deepens the offerings of its Jio telecoms unit while posing a d...

China to push to attract more high-tech manufacturers

China to push to attract more high-tech manufacturers

-- 2019-08-11 13:32:04

China will push to attract more high-tech manufacturers to set up in the world’s No.2 economy, the nation’s commerce ministry said late on Friday, without giving further details, reports R...

Scientists develop nighttime color-changing film

Scientists develop nighttime color-changing film

Xinhua 2019-08-10 19:15:23

Scientists in China and the United States developed a thin film that can shine brightly and change color at night, which could be used to make road signs to benefit drivers and pedestrians. The study...

Huawei launches its own operating system

Huawei launches its own operating system

Global Times 2019-08-09 17:53:13

Chinese tech firm Huawei released its much-anticipated self-developed operating system (OS) HarmonyOS on Friday amid the company's US ban and an escalation of trade tensions. A Huawei executive said t...

Beijing to host World Robot Conference 2019 in August

Beijing to host World Robot Conference 2019 in August

Global Times 2019-08-04 17:54:35

Beijing will host the World Robot Conference 2019 at the end of August, with more than 200 guests from 22 countries and regions expected to attend, the organiser said at the weekend. The fair will f...

Scientists develop shape-changing robot

Scientists develop shape-changing robot

-- 2019-08-04 17:27:39

Scientists in the United States developed a kind of remotely-controlled soft robots that can move to a targeted position and be reconfigured into new shapes, revealing potential applications in biotec...

China builds more powerful ‘eyes’ to observe the sun

China builds more powerful ‘eyes’ to observe the sun

Global Times 2019-08-02 19:06:11

Chinese scientists are building new devices to watch the sun from North China, which will enhance China's capability of detecting and forecasting spatial disasters caused by solar variation. Research...

Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to combat climate change

Ethiopia ‘breaks’ tree-planting record to combat climate change

-- 2019-07-30 16:53:29

Ethiopia has planted more than 350 million trees in a day, officials say, in what they believe is a world record. Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed is leading the project, which aims to counter the effects o...

Internet users in BD near 100m, official data shows

Internet users in BD near 100m, official data shows

FE Online Desk 2019-07-30 13:51:14

Internet users in Bangladesh have reached nearly 100 million at the end of June 2019, the statistics of the country's telecom regulator has showed. Of them, about 5 million new users joined in the fi...

WhatsApp to roll out payments feature this year

WhatsApp to roll out payments feature this year

-- 2019-07-26 15:17:12

WhatsApp will roll out its payments service in India this year following a year-long pilot, its global chief Will Cathcart has said, as the Facebook-owned messaging giant taps an upsurge in digital pa...

BD ICT industry grows 40pc per year: Report

BD ICT industry grows 40pc per year: Report

-- 2019-07-26 14:04:16

The ICT sector in Bangladesh has grown by 40 per cent annually since 2010, thanks to public and private sector initiatives, says a new report. Bangladesh has laid down an exemplary digital foundation...

Facebook removes accounts, pages from Russia

Facebook removes accounts, pages from Russia

-- 2019-07-25 14:03:46

Facebook said on Thursday it had removed accounts from Russia, Ukraine, Thailand, Honduras, in its latest move against “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Facebook said it was taking down...

Samsung Galaxy Fold may launch soon

Samsung Galaxy Fold may launch soon

-- 2019-07-24 16:58:46

Now that South Korean tech giant Samsung's much-awaited foldable smartphone -- the 'Galaxy Fold' -- has passed the final round of tests with "flying colours", the company may soon announce its release...