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S Korea commercially launches 5G services Friday

S Korea commercially launches 5G services Friday

-- 2019-04-03 18:54:02

South Korea will become the first country to commercially launch fifth-generation (5G) services on Friday as it rolls out the latest wireless technology with Samsung Electronics' new 5G-enabled smartp...

Toyota to share secrets of hybrid car tech for free

Toyota to share secrets of hybrid car tech for free

-- 2019-04-03 17:51:59

Car manufacturer Toyota is to offer royalty-free access to its hybrid vehicle technology patents until 2030. It is part of a move to promote hybrid cars as a bridge to fully electric vehicles (EVs)....

WhatsApp launches fake news ‘tipline’ in India ahead of polls

WhatsApp launches fake news ‘tipline’ in India ahead of polls

-- 2019-04-03 13:04:38

WhatsApp has launched a fact-checking service for Indians, where users can send in messages, photos and videos that they want verified. They will then be told if it's true, false, disputed or misleadi...

Facebook takes down hundreds of Indian, Pakistani accounts

Facebook takes down hundreds of Indian, Pakistani accounts

-- 2019-04-02 12:01:35

Facebook has deleted 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan for “inauthentic behavior”, it said on Monday, many linked to India’s opposition Congress party days before a na...

Zuckerberg urges governments to help control internet content

Zuckerberg urges governments to help control internet content

-- 2019-03-31 11:05:00

Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content. In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Facebook's chief says the responsibility...

Facebook to consider live video restrictions

Facebook to consider live video restrictions

-- 2019-03-30 19:54:11

Facebook has promised to explore restrictions on live-streaming, two weeks after it was used during gun attacks on two mosques in New Zealand. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social...

Facebook to ban white nationalism

Facebook to ban white nationalism

-- 2019-03-29 17:35:42

Facebook has said it will block "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram from next week. The social media giant also pledged to improve its a...

Google doodle celebrates sculptor Novera Ahmed’s 80th birth anniv

Google doodle celebrates sculptor Novera Ahmed’s 80th birth anniv

-- 2019-03-29 14:06:14

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage, marking the 80th birth anniversary of renowned Bangladeshi sculptor Novera Ahmed. Doodle is celebrating pioneering artist Novera A...

Facebook blocks 200 pages, groups and accounts in Philippines

Facebook blocks 200 pages, groups and accounts in Philippines

-- 2019-03-29 11:29:16

Facebook Inc said the company removed 200 pages, groups and accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the Philippines, citing “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”. The company on Thursday said...

Call to cull feral cats and dogs to save endangered species

Call to cull feral cats and dogs to save endangered species

-- 2019-03-28 16:30:45

Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon. Their eradication on more than 100 islands could sav...

Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

Reuters 2019-03-28 09:46:45

Facebook on Wednesday (local time) banned praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 peo...

Over one million Asus users attacked through malicious update

Over one million Asus users attacked through malicious update

-- 2019-03-26 13:41:05

Hackers were able to deliver malware to the more one million-plus Asus computer owners last year by hijacking the company’s software update system, security researchers said on Monday. Moscow-b...

Google doodle celebrates Bangladesh’s Independence Day

Google doodle celebrates Bangladesh’s Independence Day

-- 2019-03-26 11:31:16

Search engine giant Google is marking Bangladesh's 49th Independence and National Day by replacing its regular home page graphic with a special doodle. The new doodle features three goods-laden boats...

Melting ice on Mount Everest exposes dead bodies

Melting ice on Mount Everest exposes dead bodies

-- 2019-03-22 17:29:16

Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glacier s melt. Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first as...

Three students devise ‘automated car parking system’

Three students devise ‘automated car parking system’

UNB 2019-03-22 11:28:18

With the high rate of population growth allied to increasing economic activity in Bangladesh's growing urban centres, the number of vehicles on the roads is also growing exponentially. The rise in th...

EU fines Google €1.5b over advertising

EU fines Google €1.5b over advertising

-- 2019-03-21 11:12:48

Google has been hit with a €1.49 billion (£1.28b) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers. It is the third EU fine for the search and advertising giant in two years....

EU regulators fine Google for blocking advertising rivals

EU regulators fine Google for blocking advertising rivals

-- 2019-03-20 19:30:33

EU antitrust regulators handed down a 1.49 billion euro ($1.69 billion) fine to Alphabet unit Google on Wednesday for blocking rival online search advertisers, marking the company’s third penalt...

UAE launches Arab space group

UAE launches Arab space group

-- 2019-03-20 15:35:27

Eleven Arab states, including the UAE, on Tuesday set up the first Arab space organisation, whose first project will be developing a satellite to monitor environmental and climate changes. Sheikh Moh...

'Govt projects to use software from local firms'

'Govt projects to use software from local firms'

-- 2019-03-19 20:38:45

State Minister for ICT Division Zunaid Ahmed Palak has said the government will procure software for its projects from local firms. "No software will be collected from any foreign company," he said....

Facebook provides new details on Christchurch attack video

Facebook provides new details on Christchurch attack video

-- 2019-03-19 13:57:38

Facebook has said a live broadcast of last week's Christchurch attacks was viewed fewer than 200 times, as the firm faces growing criticism for failing to block the footage. On Friday, a gunman live-...

Facebook removes 1.5m videos of NZ mosque attack

Facebook removes 1.5m videos of NZ mosque attack

-- 2019-03-17 12:10:23

Facebook said it removed 1.5 million videos globally of the New Zealand mosque attack in the first 24 hours after the incident. "In the first 24 hours we removed 1.5 million videos of the attack glob...

Google doodle celebrates Children’s Day

Google doodle celebrates Children’s Day

-- 2019-03-17 11:59:18

Search engine giant Google has created a special Doodle, celebrating National Children's Day and the birth anniversary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The Doodle 'Children'...

Tech firms struggle to remove NZ mosque attack video

Tech firms struggle to remove NZ mosque attack video

-- 2019-03-16 14:04:34

Internet companies scrambled Friday to remove graphic video filmed by a gunman in the New Zealand mosque shootings that was widely available on social media for hours after the horrific attack. Faceb...

First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA

First person on Mars likely to be a woman: NASA

-- 2019-03-15 21:01:21

The first person on Mars is 'likely to be a woman', NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine has said. "It's likely to be a woman, the first next person on the Moon. It's also true that the first person on...

Ancient migration completely changed Spaniards’ DNA, study suggests

Ancient migration completely changed Spaniards’ DNA, study suggests

-- 2019-03-15 18:58:21

A migration from Central Europe transformed the genetic make-up of people in Spain during the Bronze Age, a study reveals. DNA evidence shows the migrants streamed over the Pyrenees, replacing existi...

Facebook to use AI to combat 'revenge porn'

Facebook to use AI to combat 'revenge porn'

-- 2019-03-15 18:31:55

Facebook would use artificial intelligence to combat the spread of intimate photos shared without people’s permission, sometimes called “revenge porn,” on its social networks. The n...

Facebook outage hits users across the globe

Facebook outage hits users across the globe

-- 2019-03-14 11:42:06

Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday. The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude wa...

BD 2nd in mobile malware attacks

BD 2nd in mobile malware attacks

FE Report 2019-03-13 11:59:34

Bangladesh had the second highest percentage of mobile malware attacks in the world in 2018, according to a report coming from global cyber security firm Kaspersky. Almost 43 percent of mobile user...

Google doodle celebrates Women’s Day with quotes from achievers

Google doodle celebrates Women’s Day with quotes from achievers

-- 2019-03-08 13:04:46

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage celebrating the International Women's Day on Friday. Bangladesh is also celebrating the International Women's Day with the rest of...

Women constitute only 15pc of ICT workforce: Survey

Women constitute only 15pc of ICT workforce: Survey

-- 2019-03-07 21:11:45

Women comprise only 15 per cent of the total workforce employed in the country’s ICT industry, a survey result has revealed. According to the study, smaller e-commerce companies have higher con...