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Musk seeks documents from Jack Dorsey in fight over Twitter deal

Musk seeks documents from Jack Dorsey in fight over Twitter deal

REUTERS 2022-08-23 11:06:40

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is seeking documents from Twitter Inc co-founder Jack Dorsey as the CEO of Tesla and SpaceX pursues his legal fight to walk away from his $44 billion deal for the so...

Govt alerts IT infrastructures, key offices over DDoS cyber-attack

Govt alerts IT infrastructures, key offices over DDoS cyber-attack

-- 2022-08-20 20:38:29

All important organisations, including information technology (IT) infrastructures, were asked to take proper measures as the government’s computer incident response team in its regular surveill...

NVIDIA graduate fellowship for PhD students

NVIDIA graduate fellowship for PhD students

FE Online 2022-08-20 15:42:19

NVIDIA is a world-renowned American billion-dollar tech company specializing in producing GPUs and APIs. Benefits: The NVIDIA Graduate Fellowship Program provides funding of up to $50,000 per awar...

Russia takes punitive measures against TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Discord, Pinterest

Russia takes punitive measures against TikTok, Telegram, Zoom, Discord, Pinterest

-- 2022-08-19 21:27:22

Russia's state communications regulator has announced taking punitive measures against five foreign IT companies for violating online content laws, which could require search engines to include a disc...

Apple warns of security flaw for iPhones, iPads and Macs

Apple warns of security flaw for iPhones, iPads and Macs

-- 2022-08-19 20:37:47

Apple disclosed serious security vulnerabilities for iPhones, iPads and Macs that could potentially allow attackers to take complete control of these devices. Apple released two security reports abou...

Samsung Elec breaks ground on new chip R&D centre, plans $15b investment by 2028

Samsung Elec breaks ground on new chip R&D centre, plans $15b investment by 2028

-- 2022-08-19 18:46:04

Samsung Electronics said on Friday it broke ground at a new semiconductor research and development (R&D) complex in South Korea, where it plans to invest about 20 trillion won ($15 billion...

Musk targets ad tech firms in Twitter suit over takeover deal

Musk targets ad tech firms in Twitter suit over takeover deal

-- 2022-08-19 13:13:05

Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who is attempting to walk away from his deal to acquire Twitter, is seeking documents from advertising technology firms as part of his quest to gain more informatio...

NASA’s giant US moon rocket emerges for debut launch

NASA’s giant US moon rocket emerges for debut launch

-- 2022-08-17 17:54:43

NASA’s gigantic Space Launch System moon rocket, topped with an uncrewed astronaut capsule, began an hours-long crawl to its launchpad Tuesday night ahead of the behemoth's debut test flight thi...

Apple Watch, MacBook to be made in Vietnam for first time

Apple Watch, MacBook to be made in Vietnam for first time

-- 2022-08-17 17:16:08

Apple Inc's suppliers are in talks to produce Apple Watch and MacBook in Vietnam for the first time, Nikkei Asia reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter, according to Reuters....

Apple Entrepreneur Club to enhance your business app

Apple Entrepreneur Club to enhance your business app

FE Online 2022-08-17 16:19:59

Apple Entrepreneur Club is a tech-intensive training lab where the Apple company provides mentorship and one-year free membership in the Apple Developer Community to underrepresented minority groups (...

Bionic hand can be updated with new gestures, anytime, anywhere

Bionic hand can be updated with new gestures, anytime, anywhere

-- 2022-08-16 17:49:33

Australian swimmer Jessica Smith has had an uneasy relationship with prosthetics since a childhood accident, but her convictions are being challenged by a British bionic hand that can be updated remot...

Bangladesh telcos alerted to cyberattacks

Bangladesh telcos alerted to cyberattacks

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2022-08-16 08:53:19

Telecoms carriers in Bangladesh come under coordinated cyberattacks every month, indicating their diluted network communications and showing their utter vulnerabilities to such malware infections. Bu...

23.79pc users fall prey to social media account hacking

23.79pc users fall prey to social media account hacking

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-08-13 19:23:03

About 23.79 per cent users fell prey to social media account hacking during the period from February 15, 2021 to March 2, 2022, according to a latest survey report. Apart from this, nearly 50.27 per...

Hacker offers to sell 48.5m users’ data of Covid-19 app for $4,000

Hacker offers to sell 48.5m users’ data of Covid-19 app for $4,000

-- 2022-08-12 16:26:15

A hacker has claimed to have obtained the personal information of 48.5 million users of a Covid-19 health code mobile app run by the city of Shanghai, the second claim of a breach of the Chinese finan...

Google in Australia fined $43 million for misleading users

Google in Australia fined $43 million for misleading users

-- 2022-08-12 14:56:01

Australia's competition watchdog said on Friday that Alphabet's Google unit was ordered by the country's Federal Court to pay A$60 million ($42.7 million) in penalties for misleading users on collecti...

Your smartphone screen can be black and white

Your smartphone screen can be black and white

Abrar Fahim 2022-08-10 18:36:17

If you’re addicted to your smartphone, and probably have no idea about this hidden setting that lets you use your phone in grayscale (B&W) mode, this article is for you. The process is fairl...

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub launched in Bangladesh

Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub launched in Bangladesh

FE Online 2022-08-10 15:15:49

Microsoft launched its Microsoft for Startups Founders Hub in Bangladesh, continuing its mission to fuel innovation amongst ambitious startups in Asia who are eager to make their mark on the global st...

Google services back to normal after brief outage

Google services back to normal after brief outage

-- 2022-08-09 14:56:06

Alphabet Inc's Google services appeared to be back up after facing a brief global disruption on late Monday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com. Reports of the outage dropped to l...

Facebook to shut down its live shopping feature on October 1

Facebook to shut down its live shopping feature on October 1

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-08-08 16:04:17

Facebook users will no longer be able to host any new or scheduled live shopping events from October 1 as the parent company of the social media giant has decided to shut down its live shopping featur...

Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots

Musk challenges Twitter CEO to public debate on bots

-- 2022-08-06 23:08:45

Elon Musk on Saturday challenged Twitter Inc Chief Executive Officer Parag Agrawal to a public debate about the percentage of bots on the social media platform. "Let him prove to the public that Twit...

China successfully launches a pilot reusable spacecraft

China successfully launches a pilot reusable spacecraft

-- 2022-08-06 20:30:24

China successfully launched a pilot reusable spacecraft with its Long March-2F carrier rocket on Friday, reports Reuters citing Chinese state media CCTV. The unidentified spacecraft, which was launch...

South Korea launches first lunar orbiter as space bid gathers pace

South Korea launches first lunar orbiter as space bid gathers pace

-- 2022-08-06 19:10:51

South Korea launched its first lunar orbiter on Friday as it doubles down on its space programmes, aiming to land a probe on the moon by 2030. The Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, nicknamed Danuri, me...

Musk says Twitter deal should go ahead if it provides proof of real accounts

Musk says Twitter deal should go ahead if it provides proof of real accounts

-- 2022-08-06 18:44:15

Elon Musk said that if Twitter Inc could provide its method of sampling 100 accounts and how it confirmed that the accounts are real, his $44 billion deal to buy the company should proceed on its orig...

MidJourney AI: A revolution in the field of AI generated images

MidJourney AI: A revolution in the field of AI generated images

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2022-08-06 16:23:00

MidJourney, a research lab, has created an artificial intelligence program that has caught the world by storm.  It generates images from simple textual descriptions, which many artificial intell...

Thai central bank to test retail digital currency this year

Thai central bank to test retail digital currency this year

-- 2022-08-05 19:06:49

Thailand's central bank said on Friday it expected to test its retail digital currency from late this year to the middle of 2023, as an alternative payment option. During the testing, the retail cent...

Twitter rejects Musk's claims that he was hoodwinked

Twitter rejects Musk's claims that he was hoodwinked

-- 2022-08-05 10:48:21

Twitter on Thursday dismissed Elon Musk's claims in a Delaware court filing that he was hoodwinked into signing the deal to buy the social media company, saying that it was "implausible and contrary t...

Teletalk plans to launch 5G services in key Dhaka areas by 2024

Teletalk plans to launch 5G services in key Dhaka areas by 2024

-- 2022-08-01 15:47:07

State-owned telecom operator Teletalk is planning to introduce 5G network services in Dhaka’s key residential areas and government offices in 2024. The project, titled 'Commercial Launch of 5G...

Indonesia opens temporary access to PayPal after blocking sparks backlash

Indonesia opens temporary access to PayPal after blocking sparks backlash

REUTERS 2022-07-31 11:46:11

Indonesia temporarily opened access to online payment firm PayPal to allow users to access their money, a senior official said on Sunday, after the country's blocking of some online services and games...

Chinese rocket falls to Earth, NASA says Beijing did not share information

Chinese rocket falls to Earth, NASA says Beijing did not share information

-- 2022-07-31 09:30:25

A Chinese rocket fell back to Earth on Saturday over the Indian Ocean but NASA said Beijing had not shared the "specific trajectory information" needed to know where possible debris might fall, Reuter...

Indonesia blocks Yahoo, Paypal, gaming websites over licence breaches

Indonesia blocks Yahoo, Paypal, gaming websites over licence breaches

-- 2022-07-30 19:05:14

Indonesia has blocked search engine website Yahoo, payments firm Paypal and several gaming websites due to failure to comply with licensing rules, an official said on Saturday, sparking a backlash in...