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Uber stops developing self-driving trucks

Uber stops developing self-driving trucks

-- 2018-07-31 11:36:50

Uber has stopped developing self-driving trucks as the programme is no longer competitive in the freight shipping industry, the ridesharing company announced Monday. The company said it wants to re...

China's Xiangying-200 unmanned helicopter completes test flights

China's Xiangying-200 unmanned helicopter completes test flights

-- 2018-07-29 15:26:57

China's large unmanned helicopter, the Xiangying-200, has completed its test flights, according to its developer. Developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Scienc...

'Tech firms should be made liable for fake news'

'Tech firms should be made liable for fake news'

-- 2018-07-28 16:53:23

British lawmakers said tech firms like Facebook should be made liable for harmful and misleading material on their websites. Describing the misuse of personal data as crisis in democracy, the lawmake...

YouTube plans original programming in India

YouTube plans original programming in India

-- 2018-07-28 11:23:31

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is creating scripted series and other original programming for international markets including France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and India to try to draw new customers to its...

Google warns of bias in facial recognition

Google warns of bias in facial recognition

-- 2018-07-27 13:08:24

Facial recognition technology does not yet have "the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned. The remarks, from the firm’s director of...

'Blood moon' to appear today

'Blood moon' to appear today

-- 2018-07-27 13:04:56

A blood moon will appear in the night sky around much of the world on Friday night (today) as the moon moves into the shadow of the earth for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century. The total...

Country opens centre to test software quality

Country opens centre to test software quality

-- 2018-07-27 12:56:46

The government has set up a centre to test software quality, a move hailed as ‘another step forward by Digital Bangladesh’ initiative. Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wa...

Appier gets first chief artificial intelligence scientist

Appier gets first chief artificial intelligence scientist

FE Desk 2018-07-26 13:09:05

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has appointed Dr. Min Sun as its first chief artificial intelligence scientist. It made the announcement in a Media OutReach-forwarded statemen...

Scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars

Scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars

-- 2018-07-25 21:13:56

Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars, reports BBC. What they believe to be a lake sits beneath the Red Planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km across....

Facebook using AI to counter fake news

Facebook using AI to counter fake news

-- 2018-07-25 14:04:13

Facebook officials has said the company is using a range of techniques including artificial intelligence to counter Russian operatives or others who use deceptive tactics and false information to mani...

UK plans to spend billions on full-fiber network broadband

UK plans to spend billions on full-fiber network broadband

-- 2018-07-24 14:39:30

Britain could pay for the roll out of full-fiber broadband to its most remote regions with up to $6.6 billion of public money to tackle its position at the bottom of the European league for “gol...

Internet of people making a difference  for decentralisation and censorship   

Internet of people making a difference for decentralisation and censorship  

FE Online Desk 2018-07-24 14:10:23

The Internet of People (IoP) says it is creating a new internet allowing for decentralisation and censorship around the world. Thus it is helping everyone connect and do business free from censorship...

Scientists develop flexible micro-batteries for super performance

Scientists develop flexible micro-batteries for super performance

-- 2018-07-22 15:01:38

Chinese scientists have developed flexible micro-batteries with high energy density and steady performance under extraordinary high-temperature, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced recentl...

Facebook to launch own internet satellite in 2019

Facebook to launch own internet satellite in 2019

-- 2018-07-21 20:59:30

Facebook wants to launch its own Internet satellite, Athena, early in 2019 as part of its plan to connect billions of people who are still offline. The social media giant appears to have filed an app...

First-ever baby snake fossil gives insight into lost world

First-ever baby snake fossil gives insight into lost world

-- 2018-07-21 19:01:00

The fossil of a baby snake has been discovered entombed inside amber. The creature has been frozen in time for 99 million years. The snake lived in what is now Myanmar, during the age of the dinosau...

NASA probe to fly closest to Sun

NASA probe to fly closest to Sun

-- 2018-07-21 17:31:13

NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmo...

Notorious hackers steal $1m in Russian bank raid

Notorious hackers steal $1m in Russian bank raid

-- 2018-07-21 13:53:25

A notorious hacking gang has struck again, stealing almost £700,000 ($910,000) from a Russian bank, reports a cyber-security company. Group-IB was called in to help Russia's PIR Bank after it n...

WhatsApp to limit message forwarding

WhatsApp to limit message forwarding

-- 2018-07-20 12:21:31

Facebook’s WhatsApp is launching a test to limit forwarding messages that will apply to all users, the messaging app said on Thursday, after Indian authorities sought curbs on spread of rumors t...

Alphabet to deploy balloon Internet in Kenya

Alphabet to deploy balloon Internet in Kenya

-- 2018-07-19 15:33:41

Alphabet’s Loon says it would deploy its system of balloons to beam high-speed Internet access with Telkom Kenya from next year to cover rural and suburban populations, marking its first commerc...

Western Digital shuts down hard drive factory as SSD demand spikes

Western Digital shuts down hard drive factory as SSD demand spikes

-- 2018-07-18 20:15:08

With the SSD and NAND flash memory markets booming, Western Digital has made the tough decision to shut down its HDD (hard disk drive) manufacturing factory in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia by the end of 20...

Ruckus unveils LTE-ready, 802.11ax AP

Ruckus unveils LTE-ready, 802.11ax AP

FE Online Desk 2018-07-18 16:19:37

Ruckus Networks has announced the Ruckus R730, the industry's first IoT- and LTE-ready, 802.11ax wireless access point (AP) for public places such as stadiums, train stations and schools. The hi...

Google launches game on Tencent's Wechat

Google launches game on Tencent's Wechat

-- 2018-07-18 15:27:29

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it has launched an artificial intelligence (AI) game on Tencent Holdings Ltd social media app WeChat, as the company continues to show tentative signs of...

Jeff Bezos beats Bill Gates to become world’s richest man

Jeff Bezos beats Bill Gates to become world’s richest man

-- 2018-07-17 19:38:42

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos is now worth $150 billion, according to the Bloomberg Billionaire index. Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by over $60 billion in the last 12 months, which makes him the...

Walmart takes aim at Amazon with Microsoft cloud deal

Walmart takes aim at Amazon with Microsoft cloud deal

-- 2018-07-17 13:34:16

US retail giant Walmart said on Tuesday it has entered into a strategic partnership with Microsoft for wider use of cloud and artificial intelligence technology, in a sign of major rivals of Amazon.co...

Ex-Apple employee pleads not  guilty in trade secret case

Ex-Apple employee pleads not guilty in trade secret case

-- 2018-07-17 10:18:24

A former Apple Inc employee pleaded not guilty on Monday after federal prosecutors filed an indictment accusing him of stealing trade secrets. Federal officials on July 12 indicted Xiaolang Zhang on...

CLOUDSEC to hold its annual  event in Hong Kong on August 14

CLOUDSEC to hold its annual event in Hong Kong on August 14

FE Online Desk 2018-07-16 14:20:30

CLOUDSEC, the leading internet security conference in Asia Pacific and Europe, is going to hold its eighth annual event in Hong Kong on August 14, 2018. Renowned experts, industry thought leaders, b...

Rolls-Royce joins flying taxi race

Rolls-Royce joins flying taxi race

-- 2018-07-16 14:00:37

British jet engine maker Rolls-Royce has designed a propulsion system for a flying taxi and is starting a search for partners to help develop a project it hopes could take to the skies as soon as earl...

Students develop cheaper obstacle detector for the blind

Students develop cheaper obstacle detector for the blind

-- 2018-07-15 14:49:13

Students from China's Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics have developed an obstacle detector for the blind with much lower cost, Friday's Science and Technology Daily reported. The in...

Facebook will not remove fake news

Facebook will not remove fake news

-- 2018-07-14 21:14:29

Facebook says it will not remove fake news from its platform because it does not violate its community standards. The social network is currently running an advertising campaign in the UK that declar...

World's largest robot delivers first consignment of iron ore

World's largest robot delivers first consignment of iron ore

-- 2018-07-14 16:04:20

An autonomous train carrying 28,000 tonnes of iron ore has completed its maidan delivery in the Pilbara region of Western Australia, travelling over 280 kilometres from a mine in Tom Price to the Port...