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New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

New technology moves "solar windows" closer to reality

-- 2018-12-28 15:11:02

Chinese scientists have said they have come up with a more efficient luminescent solar concentrator (LSC), which can be made into "solar windows" that turn sunlight into electricity. Researchers at t...

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

Foxconn to begin assembling high-end iPhones in India

-- 2018-12-27 19:13:56

Apple Inc will begin assembling its top-end iPhones in India through the local unit of Foxconn as early as 2019, the first time the Taiwanese contract manufacturer will have made the product in the co...

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

Bangladesh bags nine int'l awards for digital innovations

-- 2018-12-27 14:14:53

The Access to Information (a2i) Programme of the Prime Minister’s Office (PMO) has won nine international awards in different categories and a national award this year for various digital innova...

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

Govt launches 16 digital services in 2018

-- 2018-12-26 13:52:16

The government has launched 16 digital services and platforms this year in line with its vision of transforming the country into ‘Digital Bangladesh’ to render services to the citizens thr...

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

Intel to get $185m grant for Israel expansion

-- 2018-12-25 17:46:02

Israel will give Intel Corp a $185 million (700 million shekel) grant in return for a planned $5 billion expansion of its production operations in Israel. Intel is one of the biggest employers and ex...

Australia plans drone-identifying system

Australia plans drone-identifying system

-- 2018-12-25 14:33:55

Drone "hot spots" in Australia are getting sensors to automatically identify the aircraft and their pilots. Australia's Civil Aviation Safety Authority (Casa) said it would install the equipment at t...

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

SpaceX launches first US national security space mission

-- 2018-12-24 15:23:24

A SpaceX rocket carrying a US military navigation satellite blasted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral on Sunday (local time), marking the space transportation company’s first national secu...

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

Spacex halts launch of US military satellite due to winds

-- 2018-12-23 11:36:55

Elon Musk’s SpaceX scrapped Saturday’s launch of a long-delayed navigation satellite for the US military due to strong upper level winds. The next launch attempt will be on Sunday at 8:51...

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

Russian spacecraft brings ISS astronauts safely back

-- 2018-12-22 14:20:02

Russian spacecraft Soyuz MS-09 has successfully landed in Kazakhstan, bringing back the three astronauts who have completed their missions on the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian mission...

India empowers agencies to snoop on computers

India empowers agencies to snoop on computers

Reuters 2018-12-22 11:33:58

India has authorised 10 federal government agencies to intercept and monitor information from any computer, a move opposition parties said on Friday risked creating a “surveillance state”....

Pictures reveal 'winter wonderland' on Mars

Pictures reveal 'winter wonderland' on Mars

-- 2018-12-21 20:55:59

Earth's North Pole is famous for its snowy climes - and for hosting Santa's workshop, of course. But as this picture reveal, it's not the only planet with snow scenes this holiday season. The Korole...

Scientists discover 10 new plants in 2018

Scientists discover 10 new plants in 2018

BBC 2018-12-21 17:38:04

Plant collectors have searched for the hidden wonders of the plant world for centuries. Yet plants that are new to science are still being described, at a rate of about 2,000 a year. Scientists at th...

FCC fines Swarm $900,000 for unauthorised satellite launch

FCC fines Swarm $900,000 for unauthorised satellite launch

-- 2018-12-21 13:45:07

A company called Swarm Technologies Inc in US will pay a $900,000 fine for launching and operating four small experimental communications satellites that risked “satellite collisions” and...

Elon Musk unveils LA transport tunnel

Elon Musk unveils LA transport tunnel

-- 2018-12-20 13:10:56

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has unveiled a prototype underground tunnel in Los Angeles which is designed to transport cars at high speed around the city. The tunnel is only a mile (1.6km) long at the mome...

Tea plants can send chemical "Mayday" during pest attacks

Tea plants can send chemical "Mayday" during pest attacks

-- 2018-12-19 14:43:09

Chinese researchers have found that tea plants can send a chemical "Mayday" signal during pest attacks and the signal can be received by neighbouring plants so they can fortify their defences. Previo...

Twitter warns of ‘unusual activity’ from China, Saudi Arabia

Twitter warns of ‘unusual activity’ from China, Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-12-18 11:08:59

Twitter has warned of ‘unusual activity’ from China and Saudi Arabia related to a bug in a help form. The bug - discovered on 15 November and fixed the day after - could have revealed the...

HQ Trivia, Vine app co-founder Colin Kroll found dead

HQ Trivia, Vine app co-founder Colin Kroll found dead

-- 2018-12-17 10:50:41

The co-founder of the popular app HQ Trivia, Colin Kroll, has been found dead in his apartment in New York at the age of 34. The CEO, who also co-founded the video platform Vine, was found by police...

Parker Solar Probe captures closest ever image of Sun's surface

Parker Solar Probe captures closest ever image of Sun's surface

-- 2018-12-16 18:52:14

  WASHINGTON, Dec 16: NASA's Parker Solar Probe recently dove deeper into the sun's atmosphere than any spacecraft before. And it has the photos to prove it. Its approach brought it within 15 m...

Israel's tech sector faces challenge from shortage of workers

Israel's tech sector faces challenge from shortage of workers

-- 2018-12-16 17:52:22

Israel is struggling to recruit enough workers to its technology sector, a report showed on Sunday, creating a challenge for an industry seen as the country’s main potential driver of economic g...

Software bug may have exposed photos from 7.0m Facebook users

Software bug may have exposed photos from 7.0m Facebook users

-- 2018-12-16 17:00:15

  Facebook's privacy controls have broken down yet again, this time through a software flaw affecting nearly 7 million users who had photos exposed to a much wider audience than intended, report...

Nations agree global climate pact rules, set aside political divisions

Nations agree global climate pact rules, set aside political divisions

-- 2018-12-16 11:15:25

Nearly 200 countries overcame political divisions late on Saturday to agree on rules for implementing a landmark global climate deal, but critics say it is not ambitious enough to prevent the dangerou...

Facebook reveals bug exposed millions of photos

Facebook reveals bug exposed millions of photos

-- 2018-12-15 13:55:38

Facebook has revealed that a software bug exposed the photos of up to 6.8 million users, including pictures they had not posted. It made the announcement a day after hosting its pop-up privacy experi...

Amazon deploys dummy parcels to catch thieves

Amazon deploys dummy parcels to catch thieves

-- 2018-12-14 17:01:18

Amazon has teamed up with police in the US in an effort to stop thieves who steal parcels left outside homes. Officers in New Jersey are planting dummy boxes fitted with GPS trackers, coupled with hi...

Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93

Word processor pioneer Evelyn Berezin dies aged 93

-- 2018-12-13 14:33:18

The woman who created and sold what many recognise as the world's first word processor has died aged 93. Evelyn Berezin called the device the Data Secretary when, in 1971, her company Redactron launc...

Arctic posts second warmest year on record in 2018

Arctic posts second warmest year on record in 2018

-- 2018-12-12 20:31:59

The Arctic had its second-hottest year on record in 2018, part of a warming trend that may be dramatically changing earth’s weather patterns, according to a report released on Tuesday by the US...

'No plans' to launch search engine in China: Google CEO

'No plans' to launch search engine in China: Google CEO

-- 2018-12-12 20:08:22

Google has “no plans” to relaunch a search engine in China though it is continuing to study the idea, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai told a US congressional panel on Tuesday amid increased...

‘BD takes the lead in piloting ICT programme’

‘BD takes the lead in piloting ICT programme’

-- 2018-12-12 17:59:27

Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith on Wednesday said Bangladesh is one of the leading countries in the world in piloting digital programme. “We’ve started our journey a bit late in t...

MIT engineers develop effective water distilling device

MIT engineers develop effective water distilling device

-- 2018-12-12 15:02:44

American engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have developed a device with cheap optics that can soak up heat from sun to produce steam hotter than 100 degrees Celsius. The study pu...

East Antarctica's glaciers are stirring

East Antarctica's glaciers are stirring

-- 2018-12-11 15:01:32

Nasa says it has detected the first signs of significant melting in a swathe of glaciers in East Antarctica. The region has long been considered stable and unaffected by some of the more dramatic cha...

China sends probe to explore dark side of moon

China sends probe to explore dark side of moon

-- 2018-12-09 16:56:55

China on Saturday launched a first probe ever to explore the dark side of the Moon, marking another milestone in its ambitious space programme, reports Reuters citing official Xinhua News Agency. Th...