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Legendary astronaut John Young dies

Legendary astronaut John Young dies

Reuters 2018-01-07 10:58:28

US astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon in 1972 and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during a career that made him the only person to fly with three NASA space programmes, has d...

White noise video on YouTube hit by copyright claims

White noise video on YouTube hit by copyright claims

BBC 2018-01-06 12:00:00

A musician who made a 10-hour long video of continuous white noise - indistinct electronic hissing - has said five copyright infringement claims have been made against him. Sebastian Tomczak, who is...

All Mac devices hit by chip bugs, Apple says

All Mac devices hit by chip bugs, Apple says

-- 2018-01-05 12:00:00

Apple has said that all iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips. It emerged this week that tech companies have been racing to fix the Meltdown and Spectre...

Global warming likely to dry quarter of the world

Global warming likely to dry quarter of the world

FE Online Desk 2018-01-05 05:16:03

Up to 30 per cent of the planet’s land surface would become arid if global temperatures rise 2C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new study. Widespread drying out of planet's sur...

Tech giants rush to fix chip design flaws

Tech giants rush to fix chip design flaws

BBC 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Tech firms are working to fix bugs that could allow hackers to steal personal data from computer systems. Google researchers said the "serious security flaws" affected chips made by Intel, AMD, and A...

Spotify faces $1.6b copyright lawsuit

Spotify faces $1.6b copyright lawsuit

Reuters 2018-01-03 12:25:53

Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors, without a license and c...

China to build $2b AI research park

China to build $2b AI research park

Reuters 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Beijing is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development park in the city’s west, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as China pushes ahead to f...

NASA’s robotic satellites to reduce space pollution

NASA’s robotic satellites to reduce space pollution

-- 2018-01-02 12:53:05

US government body Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) and NASA have teamed up to build robotic technology that can refuel and repair friendly satellites. “Service stations in orb...

WhatsApp returns after hour-long global outage

WhatsApp returns after hour-long global outage

-- 2018-01-01 11:16:20

WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. “WhatsApp users around the world experienced a br...

Tecno Mobile to bring smartphones optimised for selfie

Tecno Mobile to bring smartphones optimised for selfie

FE Online Desk 2018-01-01 10:56:23

TECNO Mobile is set to launch a new series of cellular phones for Bangladeshi consumers very soon. The new smarphones will have special features such as infinity display and low light selfie camera,...

Tech giants may face UK tax penalty

Tech giants may face UK tax penalty

BBC 2017-12-31 02:45:09

Internet companies should face a tax punishment for failing to deal with the threat of terrorism in the UK, security minister Ben Wallace has said. Wallace said firms such as Facebook, Google and You...

Telecom, ICT sector see off an eventful year

Telecom, ICT sector see off an eventful year

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-30 12:00:00

From launching the country's first nano-satellite to the celebrated visit of the world's first 'robot citizen', the outgoing year 2017 has been a year of buzz, hope and surprise for Bangladesh's telec...

Apple apologises over slowed iPhones

Apple apologises over slowed iPhones

-- 2017-12-29 04:46:48

Facing lawsuits and consumer outrage slow older iPhones with flagging batteries, Apple Inc has apologised over the issue. The company also announced to make a number of changes for customers “t...

Leaders must use care on social media: Obama

Leaders must use care on social media: Obama

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending too much ti...

437,000 Vietnamese email accounts leaked

437,000 Vietnamese email accounts leaked

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 07:12:43

Nearly 437,700 email accounts with addresses ending with ".vn" (Vietnam) have been leaked with personal information and passwords. The mass exposed happened through foreign social networks and online...

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

-- 2017-12-28 02:56:59

Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for...

Slowed iPhones: Apple faces multiple lawsuits in US, Israel

Slowed iPhones: Apple faces multiple lawsuits in US, Israel

-- 2017-12-27 11:03:18

Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the compan...

China proclaims remote sensing satellites launching

China proclaims remote sensing satellites launching

-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00

China launched remote sensing satellites  on Tuesday on a Long March-2C carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The satellites have entered its...

New sensors to make self-driving cars more practical

New sensors to make self-driving cars more practical

-- 2017-12-25 12:00:00

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing new depth sensors that could be sensitive enough to make self-driving vehicles practical. The Camera Culture gro...

Snowden unveils phone app to spy on spies

Snowden unveils phone app to spy on spies

AP 2017-12-24 12:00:00

The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed US government surveillance programmes by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer. Edward Snowden in a video mess...

China closes 13,000 sites, suspends 10m accounts

China closes 13,000 sites, suspends 10m accounts

Agencies 2017-12-24 12:00:00

China has shut down or revoked the licenses of more than 13,000 illegal websites since 2015. Wang Shengjun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress disclosed the i...

Scientists develop fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery

Scientists develop fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery

-- 2017-12-24 05:34:04

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a safe, flexible, fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery that can be charged in seconds, instead of hours. The team, led by professor Gao...

Astronaut who made first untethered flight dies

Astronaut who made first untethered flight dies

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

Bruce McCandless, who was captured in a stunning photograph in 1984 as he made the first untethered flight in space, has died aged 80, Nasa said. With a jetpack, McCandless travelled 100m (328ft) fro...

Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones

Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones

BBC 2017-12-23 10:50:33

Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age. Apple has said that it did this to...

China shuts down website streaming live from schools

China shuts down website streaming live from schools

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Technology has shut down a website that was streaming live video from its cameras in schools, gyms and restaurants. Qihoo shut down the site, called Water Drop, f...

Google Chrome to start blocking annoying ads

Google Chrome to start blocking annoying ads

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Get ready to see fewer annoying and intrusive online ads when surfing the web using Google’s Chrome browser. The search giant said that starting on February 15, its Chrome browser would no long...

Apple admits it slows down old iPhones!

Apple admits it slows down old iPhones!

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

Apple has finally responded to reports claiming that the company is throttling the performance on older models of iPhones. The company confirmed that it was altering the performance of selected iPhon...

NASA reveals finalists for upcoming space missions

NASA reveals finalists for upcoming space missions

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced Wednesday that it has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020 to explore t...

Driverless cars, facial recognition 'to be reality'

Driverless cars, facial recognition 'to be reality'

FE Report 2017-12-21 09:47:28

The upcoming year of 2018 will be the year when Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning will hit the market, a global technology giant predicted recently. At the same time, the forthcoming year wou...

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

FE Desk 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Universal Robots, the leading manufacturers of advanced, light weight collaborative robotic arms (headquartered in Odense, Denmark), will be expanding their operations in Bangladesh, after successfull...