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BD among least cyber-secure countries

BD among least cyber-secure countries

FE Report 2019-02-11 09:37:52

Bangladesh has been found the sixth least cyber-secure among 60 countries covered in a study. Around 35.91 per cent mobile phones and 19.07 per cent computers of the country were attacked by malwar...

Russia aims to land astronauts on moon in 2031

Russia aims to land astronauts on moon in 2031

-- 2019-02-10 13:05:59

Russia plans the country's first manned mission to the moon in 2031, RIA Novosti news agency reported Saturday, citing a document by the Russian Central Research Institute of Machine Building. The cr...

Scientists develop air-conditioning clothes

Scientists develop air-conditioning clothes

-- 2019-02-09 14:43:32

American scientists developed a fabric that can automatically regulate the amount of heat that passes through it, according to a study published recently in the journal Science. The study showed that...

Apple to contribute to US teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

Apple to contribute to US teen's education for spotting FaceTime bug

-- 2019-02-08 16:01:53

Apple Inc on Thursday rolled out software updates to iPhones to fix a privacy issue in its FaceTime video calling service, and said it would contribute toward the education of the Arizona teenager who...

Bees can solve basic maths problems: Study

Bees can solve basic maths problems: Study

-- 2019-02-07 13:24:59

A study released on Thursday has shown that bees, despite their tiny brains, are able to solve basic addition and subtraction problems - a stunning feat considering the level of cognition required for...

Cyber attacks continue to rise in Bangladesh

Cyber attacks continue to rise in Bangladesh

Yasir Wardad 2019-02-06 10:32:32

The incidents of cyber attacks continue to rise at different commercial and service-providing outlets in the country despite taking various preventive measures. As the country achieved a good progres...

Crypto exchange founder's death locks $140m

Crypto exchange founder's death locks $140m

-- 2019-02-05 13:12:29

Canada's largest cryptocurrency exchange is unable to access millions in digital currency following the sudden death of its founder. Quadriga has filed for creditor protection and estimates that abou...

New e-commerce rules jolt Amazon in India

New e-commerce rules jolt Amazon in India

-- 2019-02-02 14:07:38

India’s revised e-commerce rules caused widespread disruption on Amazon’s India website when they kicked in on Friday, forcing the company to take down its key grocery service and remove a...

Smart materials get stronger like muscle-building: Study

Smart materials get stronger like muscle-building: Study

-- 2019-02-01 16:56:49

A study published on Thursday in the journal Science reported a strategy to fabricate materials that become stronger in response to mechanical stress, similar to the process of muscle growth. The fin...

Google disables iPhone app that studied users' digital habits

Google disables iPhone app that studied users' digital habits

-- 2019-01-31 13:24:54

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it disabled an iPhone app that it had paid some users to install to study their digital habits, following a similar move late on Tuesday by social media n...

NASA probe to make closest approach to Sun in April

NASA probe to make closest approach to Sun in April

-- 2019-01-29 21:42:34

Just 161 days after its launch, NASA's Parker Solar Probe has completed its first orbit of the Sun and has now begun the second of 24 planned orbits, which will mark its closest approach to the Sun in...

Apple to patch privacy bug in video-calling feature

Apple to patch privacy bug in video-calling feature

-- 2019-01-29 14:40:47

Apple Inc said on Monday it will issue a software patch later this week for a bug that lets iPhone users hear audio from users who have not yet accepted a video call. The bug, which Reuters news agen...

Instagram is back after partial outage

Instagram is back after partial outage

-- 2019-01-29 11:38:19

Facebook’s photo-sharing social network Instagram said on Monday the service is fully functional now after an issue that caused an outage for some users was resolved. However, Instagram did not...

International Data Protection and Privacy Day observed

International Data Protection and Privacy Day observed

FE Online Report 2019-01-28 18:10:55

The Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation (CCA Foundation) observed ‘International Data Protection and Privacy Day’ on Monday across the country. Hundreds of organisations and individuals also...

France’s Altran Tech says it was hit by cyber attack

France’s Altran Tech says it was hit by cyber attack

-- 2019-01-28 13:51:58

French engineering consulting firm Altran Technologies was the target of a cyber attack last Thursday that hit operations in some European countries, it said. Altran said on Monday it had shut down i...

China tests new generation of faster, bigger maglev

China tests new generation of faster, bigger maglev

-- 2019-01-27 14:20:42

China's major train maker on Saturday tested a new generation of maglev train with a designed speed of 160 km per hour, about 60 per cent faster than the current model, in Changsha, capital of central...

WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger to 'merge'

WhatsApp, Instagram, Messenger to 'merge'

-- 2019-01-26 13:41:04

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg is planning to unify the underlying messaging infrastructure of the WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook Messenger services and incorporate end-to-end encrypti...

Scientists anticipate big rise in atmospheric CO2 this year

Scientists anticipate big rise in atmospheric CO2 this year

-- 2019-01-25 18:06:32

Met Office researchers expect to record one of the biggest rises in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 in 2019. Every year, the Earth's natural carbon sinks such as forests soak up large amounts of CO...

Amazon delivers parcels by robot

Amazon delivers parcels by robot

-- 2019-01-25 14:53:35

Amazon is experimenting with delivery robots, starting with a little truck called Scout which is taking to the pavements in Washington State. Six of the autonomous electric trucks will deliver parcel...

India to launch world’s lightest satellite

India to launch world’s lightest satellite

-- 2019-01-24 18:09:25

India is due to launch what it says is the world's lightest satellite ever to be put into orbit. Weighing only 1.26kg (2.6lb), the Kalamsat-V2 has been made by students belonging to a space education...

China deletes ‘malicious’ mobile apps including a Tencent game

China deletes ‘malicious’ mobile apps including a Tencent game

-- 2019-01-24 14:38:09

China’s cyber watchdog said on Thursday it has deleted close to 8,000 ‘malicious’ mobile apps including a video game distributed by tech giant Tencent Holdings Ltd, as regulators ste...

Microsoft says Bing inaccessible in China

Microsoft says Bing inaccessible in China

-- 2019-01-24 10:05:31

Microsoft Corp’s Bing search engine is currently inaccessible in China and the company is exploring its next steps, a company spokesperson was quoted by Reuters as saying in a statement.

Rush to fix computers in England's courts

Rush to fix computers in England's courts

-- 2019-01-23 13:50:18

The Ministry of Justice is rushing to fix IT issues affecting courts across England. Lawyers say trials have been delayed, jurors are unable to enrol and witness statements are inaccessible. Twitter...

China approves release of third batch of video games

China approves release of third batch of video games

-- 2019-01-22 13:30:26

China’s broadcasting regulator on Tuesday approved the release of a third batch of video games after a freeze for most of last year, with industry-leader Tencent Holdings Ltd still absent from t...

WhatsApp restricts message-sharing

WhatsApp restricts message-sharing

-- 2019-01-21 17:24:32

WhatsApp is limiting all its members to forwarding any single message up to five times in an effort to tackle the spread of false information on the platform. The Facebook-owned business had already...

Scientists say Saturn’s rings are very young

Scientists say Saturn’s rings are very young

-- 2019-01-20 17:01:23

We're looking at Saturn at a very special time in the history of the Solar System, according to scientists. They've confirmed the planet's iconic rings are very young - no more than 100 million years...

Robots more like colleagues, not replacement: Manpower

Robots more like colleagues, not replacement: Manpower

-- 2019-01-19 21:18:14

Fears that robots will eliminate your job are unfounded with a growing number of employers planning to increase or maintain headcount as a result of automation, staffing company ManpowerGroup said in...

Netflix now has nearly 140m subscribers

Netflix now has nearly 140m subscribers

-- 2019-01-18 14:52:48

US- based Netflix ended 2018 with more than 139 million paid subscribers, adding 8.8 million members in the three months to December 31. The streaming giant said the growth reflected the success of i...

RCC civic services to be digitalised

RCC civic services to be digitalised

-- 2019-01-18 11:32:50

Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) intends to make all its civic services digitalised and automated in phases for benefit of the city dwellers. “We are pledged bound to make the services transpare...

60pc of world’s coffee species face extinction

60pc of world’s coffee species face extinction

-- 2019-01-17 16:23:54

The first full assessment of risks to the world's coffee plants shows that 60 per cent of 124 known species are on the edge of extinction. More than 100 types of coffee tree grow naturally in forests...