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Nvidia responds to gamers’ woes, de-prioritises cryptominers

Nvidia responds to gamers’ woes, de-prioritises cryptominers

-- 2018-02-11 19:06:18

Nvidia’s most loyal customers, — pc gamers — are feeling the pressure as cryptominers buy up every graphics card they can find, driving card prices through the roof. That’s no...

NASA giving finishing touch on atomic clock

NASA giving finishing touch on atomic clock

-- 2018-02-11 12:11:55

For 20 years, the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been perfecting the Deep Space Atomic Clock (DSAC), an instrument perfect for deep space...

India fines Google $21.1m

India fines Google $21.1m

-- 2018-02-10 13:03:19

Google has been fined 1.36 billion rupees (£15.2 million; $21.2 million) by India's competition regulator for abusing its dominance in the country. Users searching flight details were directed...

Uber, Waymo reach settlement on self-driving

Uber, Waymo reach settlement on self-driving

-- 2018-02-10 11:24:00

Uber and Waymo have reached a settlement over claims Uber stole trade secrets from the self-driving company. As part of the agreement, Uber is giving a 0.34 per cent Uber stake to Waymo, worth approx...

Facebook launches 'downvote' button on pilot basis

Facebook launches 'downvote' button on pilot basis

-- 2018-02-10 11:15:19

Facebook is testing a new "downvote" button that will let people hide comments and provide feedback about them. However, the social network denied that the new feature was a "dislike" button, which m...

Hackers steal mobile data on 0.8m Swiss users

Hackers steal mobile data on 0.8m Swiss users

-- 2018-02-08 12:12:44

A Swiss mobile phone operator says its data systems were breached late last year and the contact details of about 800,000 customers were compromised. Swisscom said Wednesday that the names, addresses...

Huawei opens campaign to express love

Huawei opens campaign to express love

-- 2018-02-07 16:42:56

Huawei has launched a campaign named 'Express Your Love' for the upcoming Valentine's Day. The campaign is decorated on the idea of expressing the love with dear ones. Lucky winners will get the chan...

Apple sees 'strong demand' for iPhone battery replacement

Apple sees 'strong demand' for iPhone battery replacement

-- 2018-02-07 12:40:46

Apple Inc has seen “strong demand” for replacement iPhone batteries and may offer rebates for consumers who paid full price for new batteries, the company said in a letter to US lawmakers...

Elon Musk's rocket launches successfully

Elon Musk's rocket launches successfully

-- 2018-02-07 10:20:38

US entrepreneur Elon Musk has launched his new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mammoth vehicle - the most powerful since the shuttle system - lifted clear of i...

World's most powerful rocket set for launch

World's most powerful rocket set for launch

-- 2018-02-06 14:37:53

US entrepreneur Elon Musk will attempt to fly the world's most powerful rocket later from the Kennedy Space Center. His Falcon Heavy vehicle is designed to have more than twice the lifting capacity o...

Intel to become Apple’s chip supplier

Intel to become Apple’s chip supplier

-- 2018-02-06 11:20:13

As legal action between Apple and Qualcomm intensifies with billions of dollars at stake, a report on Monday claimed that the iPhone maker will use Intel baseband chips for its devices in 2018. Accor...

Facebook introduces Friends Awards, personalised video

Facebook introduces Friends Awards, personalised video

-- 2018-02-05 11:53:10

Facebook is celebrating ‘Friends’ Day’ with a set of new features for its users on the social networking platform. The social networking giant has introduced Friends Awards which wi...

Scientists spot planets beyond Milky Way

Scientists spot planets beyond Milky Way

-- 2018-02-04 12:02:32

A University of Oklahoma astrophysics team has discovered a population of planets beyond the Milky Way galaxy. Using microlensing -- an astronomical phenomenon and the only known method capable of di...

WhatsApp hits 1.5 billion monthly active users

WhatsApp hits 1.5 billion monthly active users

-- 2018-02-03 10:49:19

WhatsApp now has 1.5 billion monthly active users (MAUs) who are exchanging nearly 60 billion messages in a single day, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday. In an earnings call after a...

Apple removes messaging app Telegram from store

Apple removes messaging app Telegram from store

-- 2018-02-02 15:25:35

Telegram's official app has been removed from Apple's App Store. It had been removed because it had made "inappropriate content" available to users, founder Pavel Durov said. "Once we have protectio...

Google Search to provide 'diverse' answers

Google Search to provide 'diverse' answers

-- 2018-02-01 11:07:40

Google will put more of a premium on “diverse perspectives” in its search results that answers highlighted at the top of result pages would soon display multiple viewpoints on topics for t...

Facebook to ban all cryptocurrency ads

Facebook to ban all cryptocurrency ads

-- 2018-01-31 11:15:35

Facebook has said it will block any advertising promoting cryptocurrency products and services. The company said it was open to emerging technologies but many companies were not acting in "good faith...

Facebook to promote 'trusted' local news

Facebook to promote 'trusted' local news

-- 2018-01-30 10:44:55

Facebook says it is changing the way its news delivery service works by focusing on local news sources in its drive for "high quality" content. "Local news helps us understand the issues that matter...

Mobile phone subscribers now 145.11m

Mobile phone subscribers now 145.11m

-- 2018-01-29 21:32:20

A total of 145.11 million people are currently active mobile phone subscribers and 80.48 million people are internet users in the country. The number of active mobile phone subscribers in the country...

US considers 5G network as option to counter spying

US considers 5G network as option to counter spying

-- 2018-01-29 11:35:16

President Donald Trump’s national security team is looking at options to counter the threat of China spying on US phone calls that include the government building a super-fast 5G wireless networ...

Computers to function like human brain!

Computers to function like human brain!

-- 2018-01-29 11:17:49

Researchers at the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Colorado have developed a superconducting switch that "learns" like its biological counterpart. The switch, called a syna...

Dell considers going public

Dell considers going public

-- 2018-01-27 12:56:24

US computer maker Dell Technologies Inc is exploring a range of options that could see the world’s largest privately held technology company grow further through acquisitions or go public, peopl...

Google to allow ‘muting’ pestering ads

Google to allow ‘muting’ pestering ads

-- 2018-01-27 12:00:00

Google will now let people "mute" advertisements that encourage them to buy products from websites they have previously visited. So-called reminder ads track which products people have looked at onli...

iPhone SE 2 with wireless charging in June likely : Report

iPhone SE 2 with wireless charging in June likely : Report

-- 2018-01-27 03:04:28

Apple is reportedly working on a new iPhone, which will be similar to the iPhone SE, and will support wireless charging. According to Digitimes Research analyst Luke Lin, the company is preparing a n...

Apple moves to fix after slowdown row

Apple moves to fix after slowdown row

-- 2018-01-25 11:25:54

Apple Inc announced changes on Wednesday that make good on its promise to allow users to turn off a controversial feature that slows down iPhones when batteries are running low, although it signaled i...

Scientists term Ring of Fire's volcanic activity as normal

Scientists term Ring of Fire's volcanic activity as normal

FE Online Desk 2018-01-25 08:06:27

Tens of thousands of people have had their lives disrupted in the past week by seismic and volcanic activity along the Ring of Fire. An earthquake off Alaska, an avalanche and volcanic eruption in ce...

Facebook invents new unit of time!

Facebook invents new unit of time!

BBC 2018-01-24 12:00:00

A Facebook engineer has invented a new unit of time called a flick. The flick has been designed to help developers keep video effects in sync, according to a description on the code-sharing site GitH...

BCSIR fair for promoting local inventions begins Thursday

BCSIR fair for promoting local inventions begins Thursday

FE Report 2018-01-24 12:00:00

A three-day science and industrial technology fair will begin in the capital tomorrow (Thursday). The purpose of the event is to promote inventions by Bangladeshi scientists. Bangladesh Council of S...

Experts offer online degree in 'flying cars'

Experts offer online degree in 'flying cars'

-- 2018-01-24 03:17:26

Self-driving car pioneer Sebastian Thrun has shifted his gaze to the skies, as his Silicon Valley online school Udacity launches what it calls the first “nanodegree” in flying car engineer...

Stop installing security patches: Intel to users

Stop installing security patches: Intel to users

-- 2018-01-23 12:00:00

Intel Corp (INTC.O) said on Monday that patches it released to address two high-profile security vulnerabilities in its chips are faulty, advising customers, computer makers and cloud providers to sto...