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Japan launches greenhouse gas satellite

Japan launches greenhouse gas satellite

-- 2018-10-29 14:53:00

Japan has launched a greenhouse gas observation satellite into its planned orbit where it will collect data on carbon dioxide and other gases thought to be linked to global warming as it orbits the ea...

China’s privately developed rocket fails after launch

China’s privately developed rocket fails after launch

-- 2018-10-28 15:58:48

A privately developed Chinese carrier rocket failed to reach orbit after lifting off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Saturday, in a blow to the country’s nascent attempts by private comp...

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

-- 2018-10-28 12:39:07

Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s...

Engineers invent natural cooling system

Engineers invent natural cooling system

-- 2018-10-27 13:53:35

Engineers from two American universities developed a kind of natural air conditioner with almost no consumption of electricity. The study published on Friday in the journal Joule described the innova...

Ai-created artwork sells for $432,000

Ai-created artwork sells for $432,000

-- 2018-10-26 16:36:21

An artwork created by an artificially intelligent program has been sold at auction for $432,000 (£337,000). The final price is far higher than the $7,000-$10,000 estimate put on it by Christie'...

Google fires 48 over sexual harassment

Google fires 48 over sexual harassment

-- 2018-10-26 13:01:25

Google Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company had fired 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. Pichai sent an email to Google employees in response to a N...

Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal

-- 2018-10-25 16:08:09

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK's data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said Facebook had let a "...

Facebook removes 8.7m child nudity images

Facebook removes 8.7m child nudity images

-- 2018-10-25 13:21:52

Facebook has pulled 8.7 million pieces of child nudity content from its platform in the past three months to fight child exploitation, it said on Wednesday. The US top social media network said it...

Nasa 'fixes' Hubble telescope

Nasa 'fixes' Hubble telescope

-- 2018-10-24 17:03:58

Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance. Earlier this month, one of Hubble's gyros - needed to point the sp...

Scientists discover ‘oldest’ intact shipwreck

Scientists discover ‘oldest’ intact shipwreck

-- 2018-10-23 16:42:39

A team of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors has discovered what it believes to be the world's oldest intact shipwreck — a Greek trading vessel whose design had previously been se...

Facebook shuts fake, spamming accounts ahead of Brazil runoff

Facebook shuts fake, spamming accounts ahead of Brazil runoff

-- 2018-10-23 10:28:52

Facebook Inc said it had removed 68 pages and 43 accounts associated with a Brazilian marketing group, Raposo Fernandes Associados (RFA), for violating the social media network’s misrepresentati...

Japan tells Facebook to improve data protection

Japan tells Facebook to improve data protection

-- 2018-10-22 15:02:57

The Japanese government is set to tell Facebook to better protect its users’ personal data after a leak involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected 87 million users globally, Kyodo...

Eight BD groups to take part in NASA Space Apps Challenge

Eight BD groups to take part in NASA Space Apps Challenge

FE Report 2018-10-22 10:54:28

Eight Bangladeshi youth groups will take part in the international phase of NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018. These eight groups were selected through a competition organised by the Bangladesh Associat...

Scientists discover deep sea cucumber in ocean

Scientists discover deep sea cucumber in ocean

-- 2018-10-21 14:44:59

Australian scientists studying the Antarctic have filmed what they said is a highly unusual sea cucumber, marking first time the organism has been spotted deep in the Southern Ocean, local media repor...

Online sellers 'pay for positive reviews'

Online sellers 'pay for positive reviews'

-- 2018-10-20 14:03:58

Some online sellers are offering people free goods in return for positive product reviews, an investigation by consumer group Which? has found. Its investigator joined several "rewards for reviews" g...

Scientists discover fossil of earliest piranha

Scientists discover fossil of earliest piranha

-- 2018-10-19 16:23:18

Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a piranha-like species that they say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish. This bony creature, found in South Germany, lived about...

Europe, Japan spacecraft soon to begin seven-year journey to Mercury

Europe, Japan spacecraft soon to begin seven-year journey to Mercury

-- 2018-10-19 16:21:17

Final preparations are underway for the launch of a joint-European and Japanese mission to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to lift the BepiColombo spacecraft i...

Advertisers now sue Facebook

Advertisers now sue Facebook

-- 2018-10-19 15:24:37

Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted, court documents have claimed. Newly released pape...

Facebook shareholders want Zuckerberg out

Facebook shareholders want Zuckerberg out

-- 2018-10-18 13:55:45

Several Facebook shareholders want Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg removed as chairman amid numerous privacy scandals faced by the social media company. State treasurers from Illinois, Rhode...

Twitter releasing 2016 US election meddling data

Twitter releasing 2016 US election meddling data

-- 2018-10-18 10:44:44

Twitter is releasing all known accounts and posts related to "information operations" dating back to 2016, when it was first learned that foreign operators were using social media to meddle in US elec...

Google lifts ban on alternative versions of Android

Google lifts ban on alternative versions of Android

-- 2018-10-17 20:19:42

Google is dropping restrictions it imposed on Android-device-makers, following a clash with the EU. It is ending a ban on manufacturers having a line-up that includes tablets and phones powered by al...

Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat

Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat

-- 2018-10-17 16:48:24

A YouTube gamer who posted videos of himself cheating at Fortnite is being sued by its developer Epic Games. Brandon Lucas has attracted 1.7 million subscribers to his Golden Modz channel, where he p...

Longway AI, General Vision team up on Cognitive SSD

Longway AI, General Vision team up on Cognitive SSD

FE Online Desk 2018-10-17 15:22:32

Longway AI Technologies (Singapore) and General Vision - one of the top 10 Artificial Intelligence companies in the world - have signed a research collaboration agreement to develop a Cognitive S...

B’desh scientists come up with foot-and-mouth livestock vaccine

B’desh scientists come up with foot-and-mouth livestock vaccine

FE Report 2018-10-17 13:23:57

Bangladeshi scientists have recently developed a new vaccine for livestock to prevent foot-and-mouth disease. The vaccine is expected to help boost the country's livestock sector as it incurs a loss...

Google latest to withdraw from Saudi confce

Google latest to withdraw from Saudi confce

-- 2018-10-16 13:42:55

Alphabet’s Google has become the latest company to drop out of a business conference in Saudi Arabia. Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a...

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

-- 2018-10-16 13:26:24

Facebook Inc will ban false information about voting requirements and fact-check fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations ahead of next month’s US midterm elections, company ex...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

-- 2018-10-16 11:06:56

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in...

Jack Ma to open tech institute in Indonesia

Jack Ma to open tech institute in Indonesia

-- 2018-10-14 13:39:44

Jack Ma, executive chairman of China’s Alibaba Group Holding, said he plans to open an institute to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia, where he is already an adviser to the gove...

29m Facebook users victims of data breach, says company

29m Facebook users victims of data breach, says company

-- 2018-10-13 14:05:49

Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its l...

Rice 'safely conserved' in gene bank

Rice 'safely conserved' in gene bank

-- 2018-10-12 15:18:45

Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future. Samples in the world's largest rice gene bank in the Philippines are being used to help farmers deve...