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Global internet shutdown likely in 48 hours

Global internet shutdown likely in 48 hours

-- 2018-10-12 13:00:15

Internet users across the world may experience widespread network failures as the key domain servers are slated to undergo routine maintenance over the next 48 hours, according to an ANI report run by...

Malfunctioned rocket lands safely in Kazakhstan

Malfunctioned rocket lands safely in Kazakhstan

-- 2018-10-11 17:02:26

A capsule carrying the two crew members of a Russian Soyuz rocket that malfunctioned on lift-off has landed safely in Kazakhstan. Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are rep...

Jack Ma hails prospect of technology in Asia

Jack Ma hails prospect of technology in Asia

-- 2018-10-11 14:43:28

Jack Ma, founder of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, hailed the prospect of technology and internet in Asia, saying China and companies like Alibaba will take up the responsibility and opportunities...

Google+ shutting down after data breach

Google+ shutting down after data breach

-- 2018-10-09 11:15:20

Alphabet’s Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing that private profile data of at least 0.5 millio...

Bangladesh 5th largest internet using country in Asia

Bangladesh 5th largest internet using country in Asia

-- 2018-10-07 17:22:45

Bangladesh has been ranked fifth largest internet using country in Asia, according to recent data released by the Internet World Stats.  There were 0.1 million internet users in Bangladesh in 20...

Voyager 2 expected to enter interstellar space

Voyager 2 expected to enter interstellar space

-- 2018-10-07 16:54:16

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched way back in 1977 when bell bottoms and disco were in style. All these decades later, the probe appears to be nearing a massive milestone: an entry into interstella...

The indoor leafy veg farm that runs itself

The indoor leafy veg farm that runs itself

-- 2018-10-06 15:50:17

A farm in Silicon Valley which is capable of autonomously growing and picking leafy greens is about to be operational, reports BBC. For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perf...

French researcher develops touch-sensitive robotic finger for smartphones

French researcher develops touch-sensitive robotic finger for smartphones

-- 2018-10-05 18:22:52

A touch-sensitive robotic finger that can be attached to smartphones has been developed by a researcher in France. The MobiLimb finger can crawl across the desk, waggle for attention when messages ar...

Cadillac tops in semi-automated driving test

Cadillac tops in semi-automated driving test

-- 2018-10-05 15:23:40

General Motors Co’s Cadillac outscored industry rivals in a new ranking of partially automated driving systems tested by Consumer Reports and released on Thursday. The highly influential non-pr...

Netflix eats up 15pc of world’s internet traffic

Netflix eats up 15pc of world’s internet traffic

-- 2018-10-04 19:47:49

Video streaming service Netflix is the world's most data-hungry application, consuming 15 per cent of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine. Video in ge...

Toyota, SoftBank merge to develop self-driving car services

Toyota, SoftBank merge to develop self-driving car services

-- 2018-10-04 14:28:00

Toyota Motor Corp and SoftBank Group Corp said they will team up to develop car services that rely on self-driving technology, such as hospital shuttles, as they envision a future in which fewer peopl...

Instagram suffers global outage

Instagram suffers global outage

-- 2018-10-03 14:14:53

Facebook Inc’s Instagram app was down on Wednesday for some users across several cities around the world, including London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Facebook and Instagram were not immedia...

Regulator fines Tesco Bank £16.4m over cyber-attack

Regulator fines Tesco Bank £16.4m over cyber-attack

-- 2018-10-02 17:20:42

Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4 million by the UK financial regulator for failings surrounding a cyber-attack on its customers in November 2016. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the b...

BASIS to celebrate 20 years of journey

BASIS to celebrate 20 years of journey

FE Report 2018-10-01 18:05:40

The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is going to celebrate 20 years of its journey. The grand celebration events will kick off through ‘Youth Fest Amphitheatr...

CCA Foundation to launch cyber security awareness campaign tomorrow

CCA Foundation to launch cyber security awareness campaign tomorrow

FE Online Report 2018-09-30 13:31:33

Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation is set to launch a month-long cyber security awareness campaign across the country on Monday. To mark October as the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCS...

'Staggering flaws' in US voting machines

'Staggering flaws' in US voting machines

-- 2018-09-30 13:00:45

Voting machines pose "serious risks" to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US stat...

Honk Kong researcher diagnoses first case of rat disease in human

Honk Kong researcher diagnoses first case of rat disease in human

-- 2018-09-29 18:17:09

For the first time, a case of rat hepatitis E has been discovered in a human in Hong Kong. A 56-year-old man has been diagnosed with the disease, researchers from the University of Hong Kong said. I...

Facebook security breach hits 50 million users

Facebook security breach hits 50 million users

-- 2018-09-29 11:57:34

Facebook Inc said on Friday that hackers stole digital login codes allowing them to take over nearly 50 million user accounts in its worst security breach ever given the unprecedented level of potenti...

Google launches app for BD job seekers

Google launches app for BD job seekers

FE Report 2018-09-28 11:15:10

Google has introduced a new app called kormo aiming to help people find jobs and generate economic opportunities for everyone in the country. Kormo is an experimental job marketplace from Google's...

Scientists find how brain encodes speech

Scientists find how brain encodes speech

-- 2018-09-27 15:13:26

American researchers have unlocked new information about how the brain encoded speech, moving closer to developing speech-brain machine interface that can decode the commands the brain is sending to...

Google turns 20

Google turns 20

-- 2018-09-27 14:15:36

The tech giant is celebrating its 20th birthday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion on Thursday. Founded 20 years ago, the company is marking the occasion with a Google Doodle aroun...

Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its secrets to help Intel

Qualcomm accuses Apple of stealing its secrets to help Intel

-- 2018-09-26 14:11:41

Qualcomm Inc accused Apple Inc of stealing its chip-making secrets and giving them to rival Intel Corp, paving the way for Apple to switch to Intel’s improved semiconductors, which may have cost...

Snapchat ties up with Amazon for point-and-buy

Snapchat ties up with Amazon for point-and-buy

-- 2018-09-25 13:12:31

Snap Inc - a multimedia messaging app used globally said it is testing a new way to search for products on Amazon.com through its Snapchat app’s camera, allowing users to shop directly using the...

Japanese explorer robot lands on asteroid

Japanese explorer robot lands on asteroid

-- 2018-09-23 13:11:41

Two small robotic rovers that had been released from Japan's space probe Hayabusa2 successfully landed on the asteroid Ryugu, Japan's space agency said Saturday. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agenc...

Scientists find 558m years old fossil

Scientists find 558m years old fossil

-- 2018-09-22 13:01:37

A study published recently in the journal Science revealed the earliest confirmed animal in the geological record that lived 558 million years ago. Scientists have discovered molecules of fat in an a...

NASA telescope discovers two new planets

NASA telescope discovers two new planets

-- 2018-09-21 20:54:34

  ORLANDO, Sept 21: A planet-hunting orbital telescope designed to detect worlds beyond our solar system discovered two distant planets this week five months after its launch from Cape Canaveral...

Japan hopes for historic asteroid landing

Japan hopes for historic asteroid landing

-- 2018-09-21 19:08:00

Japan's space agency (JAXA) believes it has successfully landed two robotic explorers on the surface of an asteroid, making history. "We don't have confirmation yet, but we are very, very hopeful," p...

Facebook stops sending staff to help political campaigns

Facebook stops sending staff to help political campaigns

-- 2018-09-21 18:41:04

Facebook will no longer send employees to work at the offices of political campaigns during elections, the company has announced, reports BBC. The social network used to offer dedicated staff to poli...

Google defends Gmail data sharing

Google defends Gmail data sharing

-- 2018-09-21 15:43:45

American multinational technology company Google gave details about its policies for third-party Gmail add-ons but stopped short of fully addressing questions from US senators about developers who bre...

Amazon adds Echo devices for home, car

Amazon adds Echo devices for home, car

-- 2018-09-21 13:54:15

Amazon.com Inc introduced a dozen new Echo speakers and related gadgets in a bid to stay ahead of rivals Apple Inc and Alphabet Inc’s Google in the nascent category for voice-controlled devices...