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IBBL honoured for sponsoring Digital World

IBBL honoured for sponsoring Digital World

FE Online Desk 2017-12-11 12:00:00

Islami Bank was honoured for being the Platinum Sponsor of the Digital World-2017 held at Bangabandhu International Conference Center recently. Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith handed over a...

Scientists gauge Mt Hope as 'UK's highest peak'

Scientists gauge Mt Hope as 'UK's highest peak'

-- 2017-12-11 06:25:44

Mt Hope, which is sited in the part of the Antarctic claimed by the UK, was recently re-measured and found to tower above the previous title holder, Mt Jackson, by a good 50m (160ft). The map-makers...

Google Doodle honours physicist Max Born

Google Doodle honours physicist Max Born

-- 2017-12-11 05:54:00

Google’s Doodle is honouring German physicist and mathematician Max Born who discovered one of the most important rules in quantum mechanics, on his 135th birthday on Monday. He is famous for t...

Melbourne introduces new security warning system

Melbourne introduces new security warning system

BBC 2017-12-11 02:57:12

Authorities in Melbourne, Australia, have installed loudspeakers that are designed to warn the public in the event of an emergency. The speakers are part of a security upgrade after six people died i...

NASA deploys new satellite for astronomy

NASA deploys new satellite for astronomy

Xinhua 2017-12-10 12:29:28

U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) recently deployed a tiny satellite called CubeSat from the International Space Station for astronomy. For t...

Scientists discover ‘excitonium’

Scientists discover ‘excitonium’

-- 2017-12-10 12:00:00

Scientists have proven the existence of new form of matter called excitonium - which was first theorised almost 50 years ago. Researchers from University of California Berkeley and University of Illi...

Uber to settle Delhi rape victim's lawsuit

Uber to settle Delhi rape victim's lawsuit

-- 2017-12-10 03:15:25

Uber Technologies Inc and a woman who accused top executives of improperly obtaining her medical records after a company driver raped her in India have agreed to settle a civil lawsuit the woman filed...

Digital World draws huge crowd

Digital World draws huge crowd

FE Report 2017-12-09 12:36:55

Digital World 2017, an exposition promoting the country's information technology sector, drew huge crowd on Friday, a weekly holiday. Tech-lovers, especially youths, along with their close ones sta...

Apple repairs HomeKit security flaw

Apple repairs HomeKit security flaw

BBC 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Apple has fixed a security flaw in its HomeKit system that could have let unauthorised people control smart home gadgets such as door locks and lights. The bug appeared in the latest version of Apple...

Dhaka hosts SIGGRAPH event

Dhaka hosts SIGGRAPH event

FE Online Desk 2017-12-09 12:00:00

Dhaka has hosted a SIGGRAPH event, a global conference which showcases the best and the latest additions to computer graphics and interactive techniques, at the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro, recently. The...

US state puts the brakes on delivery robots

US state puts the brakes on delivery robots

-- 2017-12-08 12:00:00

San Francisco officials have voted to restrict where delivery robots can go in the city, in a blow for the burgeoning industry. Start-ups will have to get permits to use such bots, which will be rest...

Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park opens Sunday

Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park opens Sunday

-- 2017-12-08 09:11:05

Sheikh Hasina Software Technology Park in Jessore  is set to start its journey on Sunday aiming to generate employment opportunities for around 12,000 youths. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will i...

Bangladesh needs separate cyber police: Experts

Bangladesh needs separate cyber police: Experts

-- 2017-12-08 07:22:28

Bangladesh needs to have separate cyber police to deal with cybercrimes and propaganda. Experts made the suggestion at a discussion at the Digital World 2017 venue, Bangabandhu International Conferen...

Uber paid hacker to destroy stolen data

Uber paid hacker to destroy stolen data

-- 2017-12-07 12:00:00

A 20-year-old Florida man was responsible for the large data breach at Uber Technologies Inc last year and was paid by Uber to destroy the data through a so-called “bug bounty” programme n...

Govt declares December 12 as National ICT Day

Govt declares December 12 as National ICT Day

-- 2017-12-07 06:39:48

The government has declared December 12 as the National Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Day, according to an official release issued  today. With a view to observing the day as th...

Amazon launches Amazon Prime in Singapore

Amazon launches Amazon Prime in Singapore

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 12:46:36

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - December 6, 2017 - Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Prime in Singapore. Prime is Amazon's popular membership program that provides exclusive access to benefi...

Bangladeshis can build robots, Sophia's creator hopes

Bangladeshis can build robots, Sophia's creator hopes

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Creator of humanoid robot Sophia Dr David Hanson has said Bangladeshi innovators can build their own robots to help society. He also appreciated the people of Bangladesh for taking interest in robot...

Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Devices

Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Devices

-- 2017-12-06 11:52:20

A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two Amazon.com Inc devices. It also criticized the onli...

Nissan's robo-taxis to hit the road soon

Nissan's robo-taxis to hit the road soon

-- 2017-12-06 11:51:46

Carmaker Nissan plans to test self-driving taxis on Japanese roads from March next year. The company is partnering with Japanese software company DeNA, which operates online services for the gaming,...

UCB inks deal with CMP on E-traffic prosecution

UCB inks deal with CMP on E-traffic prosecution

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 11:44:45

United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) signed an agreement with Chittagong Metropolitan Police recently on “E-traffic Prosecution and Fine Payment System”. As per the agreement, payment o...

Scientists aspire to decode deep space secrets

Scientists aspire to decode deep space secrets

-- 2017-12-06 06:33:52

Scientists are now working day and night at a major observatory in western California, the United States, in search for new secrets including possible life beyond planet Earth, Elinor Gates, an astron...

Need to stop ocean plastic waste: UN

Need to stop ocean plastic waste: UN

-- 2017-12-06 06:27:27

Nations across the globe have agreed that ocean plastic waste is a crisis and that they need to work together to stop plastic waste from entering oceans. The UN resolution, which is set to be sealed...

Apple Mac security issue may reoccur

Apple Mac security issue may reoccur

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines. The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get adm...

World's first robot citizen Sophia arrives

World's first robot citizen Sophia arrives

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

World's first robot citizen with artificial intelligence, Sophia, has arrived in Dhaka to attend the Digital World 2017. A Dragon Airlines flight carrying Sophia from Hong Kong landed at Hazrat Sha...

Pigeons can discriminate space, time: Study

Pigeons can discriminate space, time: Study

-- 2017-12-05 04:43:19

Just like human being, pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of both space and time, a new study said Monday. But they seem to use a different region of the brain than humans to do so, accor...

YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content

YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content

-- 2017-12-05 01:26:08

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Monday it plans to add more people next year to identify inappropriate content as the company responds to criticism over extremist, violent and disturbing videos a...

Facebook’s kids’ app will need parent’s approval

Facebook’s kids’ app will need parent’s approval

-- 2017-12-04 11:51:01

Facebook is launching a new version of its chat app targeting children under 13 with strict parental controls including contact approvals. The free app, called Messenger Kids, is expected to attract...

Facebook, Google face probe in Australia

Facebook, Google face probe in Australia

-- 2017-12-04 10:27:00

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether US online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of pu...

Samsung demos 5G on high-speed train

Samsung demos 5G on high-speed train

-- 2017-12-03 12:18:19

Samsung Electronics on Friday said that it demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train travelling over 100 kmph under a joint project with Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI...

iPhone X to hit BD market Dec 7

iPhone X to hit BD market Dec 7

-- 2017-12-03 06:11:38

Apple’s latest generation iPhone, ‘iPhone X’, will be available in the Bangladesh market for purchase from Thursday (December 7).  Apple rolled out the first ever all-screen iP...