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Heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover cracks during test

Heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover cracks during test

-- 2018-04-30 12:39:41

The heat shield for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s upcoming Mars rover suffered a fracture during testing recently, but the situation will not affect the mission's launc...

EU digital tax on corporate turnover faces uphill road

EU digital tax on corporate turnover faces uphill road

-- 2018-04-29 13:55:25

A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism on Saturday from the global rule-setting body on tax matters and some EU states, which called instead for an i...

Grameenphone signs MoU with DataSoft to foster IoT

Grameenphone signs MoU with DataSoft to foster IoT

FE Online Desk 2018-04-28 12:59:41

Grameenphone and DataSoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop comprehensive IoT solutions for businesses that will leverage both DataSoft’sIoT application development capa...

China launches Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites

China launches Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites

-- 2018-04-28 11:25:23

China on Thursday sent five Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites into space on a single carrier rocket. The Long March-11 carrier rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest Chi...

Britain looks to ancient mines for electric future

Britain looks to ancient mines for electric future

-- 2018-04-27 16:47:38

Britain is banking on a series of ancient mines on its southwestern tip to secure a slice of the global electric car revolution. The English county of Cornwall and the surrounding area boast one of t...

US, Europe joint mission on cards to bring rocks from Mars

US, Europe joint mission on cards to bring rocks from Mars

-- 2018-04-26 20:30:37

The US and European space agencies are edging towards a joint mission to bring back rock and soil samples from Mars. Nasa and Esa have signed a letter of intent that could lead to the first "round tr...

Tesla's head of Autopilot leaves

Tesla's head of Autopilot leaves

-- 2018-04-26 14:56:30

Tesla Inc said on Thursday Jim Keller, the head of its low-voltage hardware, Autopilot software and infotainment, is leaving the automaker to focus on microprocessor engineering with another company....

Gmail adds self-destruct option

Gmail adds self-destruct option

-- 2018-04-25 21:01:58

Google's email service is adding the option to allow messages to become inaccessible after a set time as it prepares for tougher data privacy laws. A new "confidential mode" can also be used to stop...

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to launch May 7: Jabbar

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to launch May 7: Jabbar

FE Report 2018-04-25 14:06:31

Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said the country’s first space satellite Bangabandhu-1 will launch on May 7. “The latest rescheduled date of launching the Bangabandhu Satelli...

China cops seize 600 computers used for bitcoin mining

China cops seize 600 computers used for bitcoin mining

-- 2018-04-25 13:55:10

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesd...

Spotify tests filter to skip explicit songs

Spotify tests filter to skip explicit songs

-- 2018-04-24 14:08:03

Spotify, the UK's biggest music streaming service, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics. The feature has been introduced on its iPhone and iPad apps - six years...

YouTube publishes deleted videos report

YouTube publishes deleted videos report

-- 2018-04-24 13:09:07

YouTube's first three-monthly "enforcement report" reveals the website deleted 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines. The figure does not include...

Facebook introduces mobile recharge service in India

Facebook introduces mobile recharge service in India

-- 2018-04-23 18:11:18

Facebook has introduced a new feature in India that allows users to recharge prepaid mobile connections. The feature is currently available on Facebook’s Android application. The latest featur...

Apple offers battery replacement for faulty MacBooks

Apple offers battery replacement for faulty MacBooks

Reuters 2018-04-22 12:37:55

Apple said component failure in a limited number of MacBook Pros has caused built-in battery to expand, adding, it will offer worldwide free replacement for such batteries. The flaw, reported in some...

A free app that offers thousands of pounds

A free app that offers thousands of pounds

-- 2018-04-21 12:41:37

How do you win thousands of pounds straight from your phone for free? For many, the answer is the popular quiz show app HQ Trivia. The game came to the UK in early 2018 after being released in the US...

Japanese companies betting on small-scale industrial robots

Japanese companies betting on small-scale industrial robots

-- 2018-04-20 14:19:56

A two-armed robot in a Japanese factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. At another food-packaging plant, a robot shakes pepper and...

China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket

China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket

-- 2018-04-19 14:51:48

China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the State Administration of Science,...

NASA's planet-hunter satellite on its way to orbit

NASA's planet-hunter satellite on its way to orbit

BBC 2018-04-19 14:37:33

The US space agency's TESS satellite has been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to find thousands of new worlds beyond our Solar System. The mission will survey a great swathe of s...

Airlines back creation of global drone registry: IATA

Airlines back creation of global drone registry: IATA

-- 2018-04-18 15:59:57

The world’s airlines are backing the development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, as a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets fuels safety concerns,...

Microsoft, Facebook vow not to aid govt cyber attacks

Microsoft, Facebook vow not to aid govt cyber attacks

-- 2018-04-18 13:08:04

Microsoft, Facebook and more than 30 other global technology companies on Tuesday announced a joint pledge not to assist any government in offensive cyber attacks. The Cybersecurity Tech Accord, whic...

Bangladesh among countries which breathe dangerous air

Bangladesh among countries which breathe dangerous air

-- 2018-04-17 13:30:26

A report published by the Health Effects Institute, says that 95 per cent of the world’s population breathes dangerous air. According to the study, China’s air pollution exposures have st...

Facebook facial recognition faces lawsuit

Facebook facial recognition faces lawsuit

-- 2018-04-17 11:52:24

Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users'...

Asia-Pacific strengthens its cloud capabilities

Asia-Pacific strengthens its cloud capabilities

FE Online Desk 2018-04-16 12:24:45

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 16 April 2018 - Mature Asia-Pacific (APAC) economies continue to top the Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2018 rankings. Developed by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACC...

First Bangladeshi cartoonists' sticker on Facebook

First Bangladeshi cartoonists' sticker on Facebook

-- 2018-04-15 14:24:04

On the eve of Bangla New Year 1425, Facebook has released the first Bangladeshi cartoonists' special stickers made of a character 'Drogo', a little creature. The cartoonist twin - Manik and Ratan - h...

World shipping industry to halve carbon emissions by 2050

World shipping industry to halve carbon emissions by 2050

-- 2018-04-14 14:59:47

LONDON: Members of the UN International Maritime Organisation on Friday (Apr 13) struck a deal to halve carbon dioxide emissions from shipping by 2050 in a deal that will force the industry to redesig...

Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform

Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform

-- 2018-04-14 11:46:56

China’s Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday’s anno...

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts

-- 2018-04-13 15:00:13

In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state. The plan to...

UK carries out cyber-attack on IS

UK carries out cyber-attack on IS

-- 2018-04-12 16:21:26

The UK has conducted a "major offensive cyber-campaign" against the Islamic State group, the director of the intelligence agency GCHQ has revealed. The operation hindered the group's ability to co-or...

'Bangabandhu-1' launches on May 4

'Bangabandhu-1' launches on May 4

agencies 2018-04-11 13:35:01

After a couple of rescheduling, Bangladesh's first commercial satellite Bangabandhu-1 will be flying to space on May 4. The satellite will be launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, BTRC Chairm...

Government websites hacked

Government websites hacked

-- 2018-04-11 11:46:55

Hackers have attacked several government websites, including those of the prime minister's office, the home ministry and the president's office, purportedly in support of the reforms in the government...