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Facebook 'shifting its focus' from public posts to private chats

Reuters 2019-03-07 14:56:49

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg says the company would encrypt conversations on more of its messaging services and make them compatible, the latest sign that the world’s biggest social...

Google plans to ban political ads ahead of Canada election

-- 2019-03-05 12:56:59

Alphabet Inc’s Google will ban political advertising on its platform before the Canadian federal election, after the country introduced stringent transparency rules. The Bill C-76, which was pa...

Facebook sues over sales of fake accounts, likes and followers

-- 2019-03-02 18:16:10

Facebook Inc has filed a lawsuit along with Instagram in US federal court against four companies and three people based in the People’s Republic of China for promoting the sale of fake accounts,...

SpaceX rocket with unmanned US capsule blasts off for space station

-- 2019-03-02 17:30:04

A SpaceX rocket with an unmanned crew capsule blasted off on Saturday for the International Space Station, in a key milestone for Elon Musk’s space company and NASA’s long-delayed goal to...

YouTube turns off comments on videos featuring kids

-- 2019-03-01 13:34:33

YouTube has said it will turn off comments on nearly all videos featuring kids — potentially affecting millions of posts on the site — after reports last week that pedophiles were leaving...

Scientists find better way to recycle plastic bottles

-- 2019-02-28 14:09:03

American scientists have developed a more effective and greener way to recycle the single-use plastics made from a common polyester material, which could help protect oceans from plastic waste by jump...

BlackBerry files patent infringement lawsuit against Twitter

-- 2019-02-28 10:37:18

BlackBerry Ltd has filed a patent infringement lawsuit accusing Twitter Inc of illegally using technology in its mobile messaging applications that had been developed by the former smartphone maker....

FB to adopt BD culture in publishing contents

-- 2019-02-27 18:27:44

Facebook authorities have pledged to follow the legal framework and culture of Bangladesh in publishing contents. They came up with the promise during a meeting with Tele Communication and ICT Minist...

Scientists use captured carbon dioxide to help produce rare earth

-- 2019-02-27 13:33:43

Capturing carbon dioxide at power plants is a promising way to reduce carbon emission and fight global warming, but the energy industry has been reluctant to use it due to cost and footprint. The stu...

Declining biodiversity poses great threat to food

-- 2019-02-26 21:23:45

The plants, animals, and micro-organisms that are the bedrock of food production are in decline, reports BBC citing a UN study. If these critical species are lost, the report says, it "places the fut...

Man receives under-skin chip implant live at mobile show

-- 2019-02-26 14:13:36

A man volunteered to have a chip inserted under his skin live on stage at a trade fair in Barcelona on Monday, and another man who had already undergone the procedure showed off how he could make a pa...

England's NHS mulls to ditch 'outdated' pagers

-- 2019-02-24 14:20:49

The National Health Service or NHS in England has been told to stop using pagers for communications by 2021, in order to save money. The health service still uses about 130,000 pagers, which is about...

Branson's Virgin Galactic takes another step toward space tourism

-- 2019-02-23 14:46:17

A Virgin Galactic rocket plane on Friday soared to the edge of space with a test passenger for the first time, nudging British billionaire Richard Branson’s company closer to its goal of suborbi...

Japanese space probe touches down on asteroid

-- 2019-02-22 14:45:01

A Japanese space probe named after a falcon, Hayabusa 2, has touched down on an asteroid more than 300 million km (186 million miles) from Earth on a mission to seek clues about the origins of life, J...

Samsung unveils folding phone with $2,000 price tag

-- 2019-02-21 14:21:12

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd on Wednesday unveiled a nearly $2,000 folding smartphone in a bid to top the technology of Apple Inc and Chinese rivals and reignite consumer interest amid slumping sales....

Oracle accelerates adoption of enterprise blockchain worldwide

FE Online Desk 2019-02-21 12:56:00

Businesses around the world have already reaped the benefits of blockchain applications built on Oracle Blockchain Platform. Companies using Oracle’s business-ready blockchain have been...

Vodafone connects 5G smartphones to its network for first time

-- 2019-02-20 17:18:02

Mobile phone group Vodafone has conducted a successful trial connecting next-generation 5G smartphones to its network for the first time as it prepares to launch 5G in some European cities later this...

Scientists decode cancer-protective mechanism in white sharks

-- 2019-02-20 16:13:03

An international team of scientists have decoded the entire genome of white shark and identified their superior cancer-protective abilities. The study published on Monday in the journal Proceedings o...

German government unlikely to make quick decision on Huawei

-- 2019-02-19 19:49:38

The German government will probably not take a quick decision on whether to allow China’s Huawei to build Germany’s 5G network, a government source said on Tuesday.  “There wil...

Machine learning 'causing science crisis'

-- 2019-02-18 13:39:18

Machine-learning techniques used by thousands of scientists to analyse data are producing results that are misleading and often completely wrong. Dr Genevera Allen from Rice University in Houston sai...

Scientists develop smart windows to clean air pollution

-- 2019-02-17 13:47:08

Scientists in China have developed a large-scale transparent smart window that can change light intensity while effectively capturing the particulate matter in smog, said a study published on Saturday...

Bangladesh World Champion at NASA Space Apps Challenge

FE Online Desk 2019-02-17 13:08:31

For the 1st time Bangladesh has become World Champion at NASA Space Apps Challenge. In Best Use of Data Category ‘Team Olik’ from Sylhet has secured top place by beating 1395 teams arou...

Gene-edited animals expected to reduce poverty in Africa

-- 2019-02-16 16:56:54

A researcher in Edinburgh is leading efforts to develop gene-edited farm animals for poor farmers in Africa. Prof Appolinaire Djikeng is developing cows, pigs and chickens that are resistant to disea...

Scientists create first ant-like walking robot without GPS

-- 2019-02-16 14:40:40

French researchers got inspiration from desert ants and developed a first-of-its-kind walking robot that can move without GPS. The study published on Wednesday in the journal Science Robotics reporte...

Running an LED in reverse could cool future computers: Study

-- 2019-02-16 14:29:10

Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) ran a light emitting diode (LED) with electrodes reversed in order to cool another device mere nanometers away, according to a news release posted on UM'...

Lyft to woo investors with fast US growth

-- 2019-02-15 15:50:17

Lyft Inc will pitch investors on its fast growth in the United States as it seeks to beat out Uber Technologies Inc to become the first publicly listed ride-hailing company, according to people famili...

Apple to investigate Saudi app

-- 2019-02-14 13:43:20

A Saudi Arabian app that can be used to track women and prevent them from travelling will be investigated by Apple, its chief executive has said. In an interview with NPR, Tim Cook said he wasn't awa...

China, India make planet leafier

-- 2019-02-13 17:20:13

China and India, two of the world's biggest polluters, are making it leafier - for now, a report says. The greening effect stems mainly from ambitious tree-planting in China and intensive farming in...

Self-driving cars learning to predict pedestrian movement

-- 2019-02-13 14:42:04

Researchers at the University of Michigan (UM) are teaching self-driving cars to recognise and predict pedestrian movements with greater precision by zeroing in on humans' gait, body symmetry and foot...

Venture capital firm uses AI to seek out start-ups across Europe

-- 2019-02-12 15:04:00

A London-based venture capital firm that uses artificial intelligence to find promising start-ups across Europe said on Tuesday it had raised 53 million euros (£46.6 million) for its biggest fun...