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Facebook to disclose more on political ads

BBC 2017-10-28 10:00:03

Facebook has announced measures to make political advertising on the social media platform more transparent. Political advertisers will have to verify their identity and location and their posts will...

Twitter bans Russia Today and Sputnik ads

-- 2017-10-27 10:51:42

Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election. The ban on advertising from Russia Today (RT) and Sp...

TAITRONICS 2017 ends in Taipei

-- 2017-10-26 11:58:32

This year’s Taipei International Electronics Industry Exhibition TAITRONICS successfully ended in Taipei, Taiwan The exhibition was organised to create a platform for great set of innovations a...

1,000mph supersonic car set for first public runs

BBC 2017-10-26 01:31:30

The British car designed to go 1,000mph (1,610km/h) is set to make its first public runs in Cornwall soon. Bloodhound SSC is conducting initial "slow-speed" trials and should get up to about 200mph (...

Twitter promises more ad transparency

BBC 2017-10-25 12:55:22

Twitter has pledged to make advertising more transparent as it attempts to fend off proposed new regulations. It said it would be clearer about who funded ads and to what end, especially those pushin...

Toyota 'not moving away' from hydrogen cars

Reuters 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Toyota Motor Corp said its solid-state battery technology under development could be a “game changer” for electric vehicles, but that does not mean it is moving away from hydrogen-powered...

Bumpy start for Google Pixel

Reuters 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The launch of Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) second-generation Google Pixel smartphones has been hampered by display screen problems and pricing and shipping issues, prompting the company to open an i...

US says hackers target its energy, industrial firms

Reuters 2017-10-22 12:24:18

The US government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power indust...

Internet to remain slow for three days

-- 2017-10-22 04:43:09

Internet speed in Bangladesh may remain slow for three days starting from October 24 to 26 due to renovation work on the first submarine cable. State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana...

Radisson Technology wins 7 ICT awards

FE Online Desk 2017-10-21 12:26:04

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Tech master Scoble apologises over harassment allegations

BBC 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Renowned tech consultant and commentator Robert Scoble has apologised after multiple accusations of inappropriate behaviour towards women. In a post on Medium, journalist Quinn Norton accused Mr Scob...

Apple hit with trademark lawsuit

Reuters 2017-10-21 10:36:59

A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on a feature of its iPh...

Facebook plans to launch news subscription feature

-- 2017-10-20 08:42:18

Facebook Inc started a trial that gives its mobile app users access to a limited number of articles a month and then the option to subscribe via the publishers’ own websites. The social media s...

Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

BBC 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. The AlphaGo program, devised b...

Lower-income kids give more time to TV: Study

AP 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Children in lower-income families spend more time watching TV and using electronic devices than kids in more affluent homes, according to a survey released Thursday. The report by the US-based nonpro...

Twitter vows new crackdown on abusive tweets

AP 2017-10-18 12:47:35

Twitter vowed to crack down further on hate speech and sexual harassment, days after CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweet-storm that the company was “still” not doing enough to protect its user...

Three-day ICT expo begins

-- 2017-10-18 12:00:00

Bangladesh ICT Expo 2017 started from Wednesday at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) to inform the people about remarkable successes achieved so far in ICT sector. Bangladesh Hi-tech...

Wi-Fi networks 'vulnerable to hacking'

Reuters 2017-10-17 09:57:36

The US Department of Homeland Security on Monday warned of cyber risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after Belgian researchers discovered a flaw that could all...

Scientist says Chinese space station will hurtle toward Earth

-- 2017-10-17 08:39:09

A Chinese space station will crash into Earth in a matter of months - and it could kill anyone who is standing beneath. The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1, or ‘Heavenly Palace’, satellite is now out...

Moving to IaaS key to remaining competitive: Study

FE Online Desk 2017-10-16 12:00:00

The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, according to a global survey of 1,610 IT pr...

Einstein’s waves detected in star smash

-- 2017-10-16 09:36:17

Scientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars, reports BBC. They have confirmed that such mergers lead to the production of the gold and...

Wi-fi security flaw puts millions of devices at risk of hacks

-- 2017-10-16 07:17:16

The wi-fi connections of businesses and homes around the world are at risk, according to researchers who have revealed a major flaw dubbed Krack, reports BBC. It concerns an authentication system whi...

Nasa carbon space observatory 'watches Earth breathe'

-- 2017-10-15 04:43:53

A Nasa satellite has provided remarkable new insights on how CO2 is moved through the Earth's atmosphere. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) tracked the behaviour of the gas in 2015/2016 - a perio...

Hackers still targeting SWIFT

Reuters 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Hackers continue to target the SWIFT bank messaging system, though security controls instituted after last year’s $81 million heist at Bangladesh’s central bank have helped thwart many of...

Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

-- 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) fired about 400 employees this week, including associates, team leaders and supervisors, a former employee told Reuters on Friday. The dismissals were...

Planet Nine could be our solar system's missing 'Super Earth'

-- 2017-10-14 06:22:28

Planet Nine is out there, and astronomers are determined to find it, according to a new statement from NASA. In fact, mounting evidence suggests it's hard to imagine our solar system without the unsee...

WeChat translates 'black foreigner' into racial slur

-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00

Chinese messaging app WeChat has apologised after its software used the N-word as an English translation for the Chinese for "black foreigner". The company blamed its algorithms for producing the err...

Uber starts legal battle to retain London licence

-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00

Uber lodged a court appeal on Friday to overturn a decision by London’s transport regulator that stripped the taxi app of its operating licence in its most important European market, the first s...

Facebook to launch portable virtual reality headset

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

Facebook Inc is launching a new virtual reality headset that does not require a separate computer to operate, allowing more mobile uses than the company’s existing Oculus Rift product, Chief Exe...

Latest evidence shows how birds learnt to fly

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

New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey...