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China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

-- 2018-11-20 14:09:14

China has launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40am Tuesday. The sate...

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

-- 2018-11-20 12:52:04

Alphabet Inc’s Google will invest 4.5 billion Danish crowns ($690 million) in building a new data centre in Fredericia, Denmark, its Danish unit announced on Tuesday. Besides its plot in Freder...

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

-- 2018-11-20 12:22:48

Facebook Inc has announced a donation of 6 million US dollars to support local newspapers in Britain in the next two years. The fund, which will be made available through the National Council for t...

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

-- 2018-11-18 15:38:31

Dinosaur tracks uncovered in South Korea have been identified as belonging to sparrow-sized dinosaur raptors, marking the smallest prints of their kind, according to latest Australian-linked research....

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

-- 2018-11-17 21:13:10

A company doesn't get as big as Amazon as quickly as it has without the CEO thinking a little differently to everyone else, and in the case of Jeff Bezos, that thinking extends to predicting when his...

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

-- 2018-11-17 17:42:23

Scientists have redefined the kilogram and three other standard units of measure at the General Conference on Weights and Measures recently. Dozen nations voted at the conference the Palace of Versai...

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

-- 2018-11-17 14:22:05

Plants can offer protection against terrorist attacks in cities, a study published on Friday by the Bundeswehr University Munich, a higher education institution of the German Armed Forces, found. Acc...

Google gives up on rescue robots

Google gives up on rescue robots

-- 2018-11-16 13:57:39

Google-owner Alphabet is giving up the development of bipedal robots after five years. The company had been developing large industrial robots since it bought two start-ups - Schaft and Boston Dynami...

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

-- 2018-11-15 17:57:00

What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island's bedrock. Inve...

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

-- 2018-11-15 15:04:07

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in banking industry could bring benefits and challenges to consumers, bankers and regulators, US Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lael Brainard said...

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

-- 2018-11-14 17:16:43

EE, a British mobile network operator, has announced that six UK cities will be the first to get faster 5G mobile networks. Building on existing trials, EE will turn on 5G in London, Cardiff, Edinbur...

ACM-ICPC programming contest begins at DIU

ACM-ICPC programming contest begins at DIU

-- 2018-11-10 18:17:39

A daylong programming contest began at the Shawadhinata Milonayoton of Daffodil International University campus at Ashulia on Saturday. As part of the selection of two teams for the ACM International...

Scientists develop single device to collect heat, coldness

Scientists develop single device to collect heat, coldness

-- 2018-11-10 13:31:07

American and Chinese scientists developed a single device that can collect heat from the sun and coldness from the outer space simultaneously. The study published on Thursday in the journal Joule des...

Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X, MacBook models

Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X, MacBook models

-- 2018-11-10 13:28:16

Apple Inc said it had found some issues affecting some of its iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook pro products and said the company would fix them free of charge. The repair offers are the latest in a strin...

China unveils AI news presenter

China unveils AI news presenter

-- 2018-11-09 18:24:38

China's state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice. Xinhua News claims the presenter "can read texts as naturally as a professional news an...

Samsung unveils folding smartphone

Samsung unveils folding smartphone

-- 2018-11-08 16:59:52

Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco. It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production...

Facebook launches ‘Ad Breaks’ in Bangladesh

Facebook launches ‘Ad Breaks’ in Bangladesh

-- 2018-11-07 17:15:39

Facebook on Wednesday launched its ‘Ad Breaks’ facility in Bangladesh. Through the facility, eligible publishers and creators can now join ‘Ad Breaks’ and monetise their longe...

University of Oxford to develop AI healthcare applications

University of Oxford to develop AI healthcare applications

-- 2018-11-07 14:33:19

The University of Oxford announced said that it will step up its efforts to develop artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications with funding support from public and private sectors, so as to...

Facebook blocks 115 accounts on eve of US midterms

Facebook blocks 115 accounts on eve of US midterms

-- 2018-11-06 13:37:18

Facebook blocked about 115 user accounts after US authorities tipped it off to suspicious behavior that may be linked to a foreign entity, the company said in a blog post on Monday, hours before US vo...

Pets can tell time: Study

Pets can tell time: Study

-- 2018-11-05 20:51:58

A study from Northwestern University (NU) in United States has found some of the clearest evidence that animals can judge time. By examining the brain's medial entorhinal cortex, the researchers d...

Discovery of gene may lead to disease-resistant crops

Discovery of gene may lead to disease-resistant crops

-- 2018-11-04 14:16:07

Researchers have found a gene that can help control plants' response to disease, which may pave the way for developing infection-resistant crops, according to a study released recently by the Universi...

Web needs more love, says its creator

Web needs more love, says its creator

-- 2018-11-03 13:36:46

Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is "disappointed" with the current state of his invention and how it allows hate to prosper. In a recent interview, Sir Tim said some sites' software skewed interactio...

Govt backs off from setting up free Wi-Fi zones, finally

Govt backs off from setting up free Wi-Fi zones, finally

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-11-03 10:16:25

The government has finally backtracked on a plan to set up a thousand free Wi-Fi zones across the country, when it came to the question of financial viability of such a scheme. At the same time, it a...

Hacked Facebook private messages up for sale

Hacked Facebook private messages up for sale

-- 2018-11-02 15:35:50

Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 12...

Oceans heating up more rapidly than previously thought

Oceans heating up more rapidly than previously thought

-- 2018-11-01 16:24:58

The world has seriously underestimated the amount of heat soaked up by our oceans over the past 25 years, researchers say. Their study suggests that the seas have absorbed 60 per cent more than previ...

Earth's wilderness areas rapidly vanishing: Report

Earth's wilderness areas rapidly vanishing: Report

-- 2018-11-01 14:45:54

The untouched wildness areas on earth are rapidly disappearing, and urgent international action is needed to protect them, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. "A century a...

Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook

Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook

-- 2018-10-31 21:23:45

A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook. The ad, now removed but still visible in Facebook's new ad transparency portal, uses the...

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach $1 million at NY auction

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach $1 million at NY auction

-- 2018-10-31 14:19:19

Wealthy space buffs will have the chance to own three small particles of lunar matter when what Sotheby’s describes as the only known documented “moon rocks” to be legally available...

Origin of chocolate pushed back in time

Origin of chocolate pushed back in time

-- 2018-10-30 18:43:18

Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the plant from which chocolate is made was first grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon...

Facebook launches digital literacy library in Bangla, five other languages

Facebook launches digital literacy library in Bangla, five other languages

-- 2018-10-30 15:02:09

Facebook has launched the Digital Literacy Library, a collection of lessons in six languages—Bangla, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, to train 3,00,000 people in India by end of 2018...