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YouTube restricts 'creepy' kids' videos

YouTube restricts 'creepy' kids' videos

BBC 2017-11-11 11:41:13

YouTube is to restrict the availability of videos showing children's characters in violent or sexual scenes if they are reported by viewers. Last week, a blog post by writer James Bridle highlighted...

World Science Forum 2017 ends in Jordan

World Science Forum 2017 ends in Jordan

-- 2017-11-11 05:30:50

The World Science Forum 2017 concluded at the Dead Sea shores on Friday in Jordan with the issuance of a declaration by the participants, reports xinhuanet.com. They said that science and the ethical...

Facebook messing up human brain: platform's ex-president

Facebook messing up human brain: platform's ex-president

-- 2017-11-10 12:00:00

God only knows what it’s doing to our children’s brains.” A view on social media shared not by some uninformed luddite, but by one of the people responsible for building Facebook in...

‘App errors expose data on 180m phones’

‘App errors expose data on 180m phones’

Reuters 2017-11-10 11:42:54

A simple coding error in at least 685 apps put millions of smartphone users at risk of having some of their calls and text messages intercepted by hackers, cyber-security firm Appthority warned on Thu...

Uber, NASA team up on flying taxis

Uber, NASA team up on flying taxis

-- 2017-11-09 12:00:00

Uber has struck a deal with the US National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA) as part of its plans to roll out flying cars in cities around the world. It would work with the space agency t...

Self-driving bus crashes in Las Vegas

Self-driving bus crashes in Las Vegas

BBC 2017-11-09 10:36:02

A self-driving shuttle bus in Las Vegas was involved in a crash on its first day of service. The vehicle - carrying “several” passengers - collided with a lorry driving at slow speed. N...

Appier strengthens team to prop up AI-based solutions

Appier strengthens team to prop up AI-based solutions

FE Online Desk 2017-11-08 12:00:00

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced Wednesday the appointment of two new senior executives to prop up the company's ability to scale towards its goal of creating more AI-...

Twitter expands character limit to 280

Twitter expands character limit to 280

AP 2017-11-08 10:55:58

Twitter says it’s ending its iconic 140-character limit and giving nearly everyone 280 characters. Users tweeting in Chinese, Japanese and Korean will still have the original limit. That’...

Google opens merchant account in Bangladesh

Google opens merchant account in Bangladesh

-- 2017-11-07 12:00:00

The Google Play has finally opened merchant account for app developers in Bangladesh. Previously, Google would not allow app develoeprs to open a merchant account on Google Play from Bangladesh and s...

‘Fake WhatsApp’ fools one million Android users

‘Fake WhatsApp’ fools one million Android users

BBC 2017-11-07 11:16:35

A fake version of the WhatsApp messenger app was downloaded more than a million times from the Google Play Store before it was removed. The app, "Update WhatsApp Messenger", appeared to have been dev...

DU holds workshop on ‘Energy and Power’

DU holds workshop on ‘Energy and Power’

-- 2017-11-07 06:05:52

A day-long workshop on ‘Applied Research on Energy and Power’ was held at an auditorium at Dhaka University (DU) today (Tuesday), said a press release. The Institute of Energy (IE) of DU...

Bridge Alliance again wins best-placed enterprise mobility recognition

Bridge Alliance again wins best-placed enterprise mobility recognition

FE Online Desk 2017-11-06 11:11:53

For the second year running, Bridge Alliance emerged top as one of the best-placed enterprise mobility and IoT solutions providers in Asia-Pacific. This is on the back of Bridge Alliance's strong memb...

Sprint, T-Mobile call off merger after months of talks

Sprint, T-Mobile call off merger after months of talks

Reuters 2017-11-05 12:00:00

Sprint Corp (S.N) and T-Mobile US Inc (TMUS.O) said on Saturday they have called off merger talks to create a stronger US wireless company to rival market leaders, leaving No. 4 provider Sprint to eng...

Facebook Developer Circle organises Hack Day

Facebook Developer Circle organises Hack Day

-- 2017-11-05 07:54:50

Facebook Developer Circle: Dhaka organised Hack Day at the Independent University in the city yesterday (Saturday), said a press release.  As with other countries in the world, the Hack Day was...

Chinese archaeologists discover cave-dwelling agrarian society

Chinese archaeologists discover cave-dwelling agrarian society

-- 2017-11-05 04:59:14

Chinese archaeologists have found a large amount of carbonised rice grains in caves dating from the New Stone Age, challenging the conventional view that cave dwellers were solely hunter gathers and d...

Afghanistan moves to block WhatsApp

Afghanistan moves to block WhatsApp

-- 2017-11-05 01:02:39

Journalists, media groups, and users of social media in Afghanistan have accused the government of censorship after it moved to block the WhatsApp and Telegram messaging services. The editor of one o...

Apple's iPhone X hits Asia

Apple's iPhone X hits Asia

-- 2017-11-04 12:23:01

SYDNEY/BEIJING:  Long, snaking lines formed outside Apple Inc stores in Asia early on Friday as fans flocked to buy the new iPhone X, a turnout that contrasts with the more lackluster launches fo...

Twitter's rewritten rules published

Twitter's rewritten rules published

BBC 2017-11-04 12:00:00

Twitter has published a new version of its rules, which it says will clarify its policies and how it enforces them. It is part of a series of changes as the social network tries to address complaints...

Twitter employee shuts down Trump account

Twitter employee shuts down Trump account

-- 2017-11-03 12:00:00

US President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was “inadvertently deactivated” due to human error by a Twitter Inc employee on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes befo...

Trending apps to increase efficiency of your startup

Trending apps to increase efficiency of your startup

FE Online Desk 2017-11-03 08:04:52

According to the different metrics found on internet, globally the following startups are using these apps to increase efficiency- Slack The best example of new sort of communication system comes fr...

Facebook ad revenue tops $10 billion

Facebook ad revenue tops $10 billion

BBC 2017-11-02 11:20:20

Facebook profits soared in the third quarter as it brought in more than $10 billion from advertising. The firm said profits were $4.7 billion (£3.5 billion) in the three months to the end of Se...

Social media sites under scrutiny for 'Russian meddling’

Social media sites under scrutiny for 'Russian meddling’

BBC 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Facebook, Twitter and Google lawyers on Tuesday defended themselves to US lawmakers probing whether Russia used social media to influence the 2016 election. The three firms faced hard questions at a...

Malaysia probes alleged leak of 46m mobile users data

Malaysia probes alleged leak of 46m mobile users data

-- 2017-11-01 09:57:05

Malaysia is investigating an alleged attempt to sell the data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online after a major data breach, Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keru...

Team Bonsai wins Digital Khichuri Challenge

Team Bonsai wins Digital Khichuri Challenge

FE Online Desk 2017-11-01 02:43:49

Being inspired by the success of the first ‘Digital Khichuri Challenge’ in 2016, the innovative competition returned this year with an aim to promote peace, tolerance and cultural diversit...

Russia-backed Facebook posts 'reached' 126m US users

Russia-backed Facebook posts 'reached' 126m US users

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

Facebook on Monday said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts wer...

Bangladeshi-born scientist wins NASA's innovator award

Bangladeshi-born scientist wins NASA's innovator award

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

NASA research engineer Mahmooda Sultana has been named the 2017 “IRAD Innovator of the Year,” an award bestowed annually on those who achieve significant results creating technologies unde...

WEF asks tech firms to do more on extremism

WEF asks tech firms to do more on extremism

Reuters 2017-10-30 12:00:00

US tech firms such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc should be more aggressive in tackling extremism and political misinformation if they want to avoid government action, a report from the World Economi...

Ex-employee sues Facebook for misclassifying workers

Ex-employee sues Facebook for misclassifying workers

-- 2017-10-30 09:35:38

A former Facebook employee is suing the social media giant for allegedly misclassifying employees to exempt them from overtime pay. According to a report in arstechnica.com on Monday, Susie Bigger, a...

Google to localise searches by default

Google to localise searches by default

FE Online Desk 2017-10-30 02:55:31

With an aim to provide most relevant search results to the users, Google has finally said goodbye to its age-old practice of manually entering country code domain for receiving country-specific servic...

New AI system can predict earthquakes: Study

New AI system can predict earthquakes: Study

-- 2017-10-29 12:00:00

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to successfully predict earthquakes, an advance that may help prepare for natural disasters and potentially save lives. The study, pub...