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YouTube fans to fund favourite film-makers

-- 2018-06-23 12:49:05

YouTube is adding more ways for video-makers to make money, following criticism from bloggers and increased competition from rival platforms. Many video-makers have complained that changes to YouTube...

Air over India, neighbouring countries looks different from space

-- 2018-06-22 19:08:12

There is something very distinct about the air over India and the surrounding countries in South Asia. It is the presence of formaldehyde - a colourless gas that is naturally released by vegetation b...

Tesla to close a dozen solar facilities

-- 2018-06-22 14:35:38

Electric car maker Tesla's move last week to cut 9 per cent of its workforce will sharply downsize the residential solar business it bought two years ago in a controversial $2.6 billion deal, accordin...

Toyota captures data goldmine, invests $1b in Grab

-- 2018-06-20 15:59:14

By pumping $1 billion into ride-hailing firm Grab, Toyota Motor Corp stands to gain a passenger-side view of tens of thousands of cars across Southeast Asia, tracking how fast they drive, how far they...

Mars approaching closest to Earth in 15 years

-- 2018-06-19 14:23:31

Mars will look bigger and brighter in the coming weeks than it has appeared in the last 15 years, according to NASA. On July 31, Mars will travel to the closest point in its orbit to Earth, about 57....

Global survey finds 37pc software unlicensed

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-06-19 11:05:54

Around 37 per cent of software installed on personal computers across the world is still unlicensed, according to a new survey. The BSA Global Software Survey, which came out earlier this month, foun...

The bigger Cryptocurrencies get, the worse they perform: BIS

-- 2018-06-18 12:25:32

Cryptocurrencies are not scalable and are more likely to suffer a breakdown in trust and efficiency the greater the number of people using them, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS) said on Sun...

Antarctica melting rate tripled since 2007

-- 2018-06-16 22:12:01

Antarctica is melting at an alarming rate -- and that rate continues to speed up. The rate at which Antarctica is losing ice has tripled since 2007, according to a new report published this week in t...

Large Hadron Collider getting an upgrade

-- 2018-06-16 20:29:59

Smashing together a billion protons a second wasn’t enough for the Large Hadron Collider. The particle accelerator, located at CERN in Geneva, is getting spiffed up to allow it to carry out c...

Social media changes nature of Eid greetings

-- 2018-06-16 14:53:16

The nature of Eid greetings has drastically changed now as most people turn to social media platforms for reaching out to each other instead of sharing it with cards. Apart from exchanging greetings,...

Ice melting in Antarctica speeds up

-- 2018-06-14 18:14:10

Antarctica is shedding ice at an accelerating rate. Satellites monitoring the state of the White Continent indicate some 200 billion tonnes a year are now being lost to the ocean as a result of melti...

Apple closing iPhone security hole used by cops, criminals

-- 2018-06-14 14:30:01

Apple says it is to change the default settings of its iPhone to stop hackers and others unlocking devices without proper legal authorisation. The move will also make it more difficult for police to...

Govt targets 5G trial-run in July

Nashir Uddin 2018-06-14 10:19:29

The government has chalked out an ambitious plan to roll out a test-run of fifth generation wireless systems, abbreviated as 5G network services, in the country. As per the plan, the 5G trial-run wil...

Uber applies for patent to detect drunk passengers

-- 2018-06-13 12:35:10

Taxi app company Uber has applied for a patent to use artificial intelligence to determine how drunk potential passengers might be. The app used to summon rides could also feed other information to t...

US builds world's fastest supercomputer

-- 2018-06-12 21:11:21

Summit, the US's new supercomputer, is more than twice as powerful as the current world leader. The machine can process 200,000 trillion calculations per second - or 200 petaflops. China's Sunway T...

Tesla's Autopilot 'full self-driving feature' coming in August

-- 2018-06-12 13:23:29

Tesla promises to install ‘full self-driving feature’ for autopilot in its cars in August Shares of Tesla Inc rose as much as 5 per cent on Monday after Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk...

Will robots run future cities?

-- 2018-06-10 13:44:59

It is a terrifying vision of the future - a robot police officer with dark eyes and no discernible mouth that can identify criminals and collect evidence. The robocop, complete with police hat to giv...

Larry Ellison debuts automated Oracle offering

FE Online Desk 2018-06-10 13:36:57

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) CTO and Chairman, Larry Ellison, recently unveiled the world’s first automated enterprise cloud application upgrade product that will enable Oracle customers to reduce the ti...

EU Copyright law could put end to net memes

-- 2018-06-09 14:54:14

Memes, remixes and other user-generated content could disappear online if the EU's proposed rules on copyright become law, warn experts. Digital rights groups are campaigning against the Copyright Di...

Is there life on Mars?

Reuters 2018-06-08 12:10:34

A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evid...

Google stops political ads in Washington State

-- 2018-06-08 11:03:37

Google stopped accepting political ads in Washington state of America Thursday, the same day changes to the state's campaign-finance reporting requirements and enforcement procedures took effect. The...

Muhith proposes Tk 122b for Science and Technology

-- 2018-06-07 17:15:50

With the government's huge focus on building a science-savvy nation, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday set aside Tk 122 billion for the Science and Technology Ministry in the proposed budget for...

City left in dismay after cyber attack

-- 2018-06-07 15:22:29

The Atlanta cyber attack has had a more serious impact on the city’s ability to deliver basic services than previously understood, a city official said at a public meeting on Wednesday, as she p...

Facebook admits data sharing with Chinese companies

Reuters 2018-06-06 12:00:19

Facebook says it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from US intelligen...

50 nations 'curbing plastic pollution'

-- 2018-06-05 18:41:45

Fifty nations are now taking action to reduce plastic pollution, according to the biggest report so far from the UN. It reveals that the Galapagos will ban single-use plastics, Sri Lanka will ban sty...

Apple focuses on speed, upgrades

-- 2018-06-05 14:25:25

Tech giant Apple Inc on Monday unveiled software upgrades that would let older iPhones run faster, help parents limit their children’s screen time and make its Siri voice assistant work more lik...

'If the ocean dies, so do we'

-- 2018-06-04 11:40:44

The celebrated author Margaret Atwood has told a conference that humanity's future is linked to the survival of ocean ecosystems. Commenting on ocean plastic pollution, she said: "Something has to be...

Software and stealth go hand-in-hand for carmakers

-- 2018-06-03 16:55:02

Carmakers including Renault, Jaguar Land Rover and Peugeot have boosted revenues by over $1 billion in the past decade by using sophisticated pricing software, according to sales presentations prepare...

Barcelona shutting up neighbours via sensors

-- 2018-06-03 14:13:45

Spain’s Barcelona is hushing their neighbourhoods with state of the art easy to use sensors that can detect air pollution, noise levels, humidity and temperature. In the heart of the bustling...

Google 'not to renew' Pentagon AI project contract

-- 2018-06-02 15:52:32

Technology leader Google will not renew a contract to do artificial intelligence work for the US Pentagon, company sources say. The decision follows strong opposition in the technology giant's workfo...