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Amazon's cloud service outage hits major websites, streaming apps

Amazon's cloud service outage hits major websites, streaming apps

-- 2021-12-08 09:17:07

A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services on Tuesday, temporarily knocking out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, a wide range of apps and Amazon.com Inc's e-commerce website a...

Toyota turns to Chinese tech to make low-cost electric vehicle

Toyota turns to Chinese tech to make low-cost electric vehicle

-- 2021-12-03 16:59:03

Toyota Motor Corp will launch an all-electric small sedan in China late next year, having turned to local partner BYD for key technology to finally make an affordable yet roomy runaround, four sources...

International Space Station turns aside to dodge space junk

International Space Station turns aside to dodge space junk

-- 2021-12-03 15:43:49

The International Space Station performed a manoeuvre on Friday to temporarily swerve away from a fragment of a US launch vehicle, the head of Russia's space agency said. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Ro...

Sajeeb Wazed Joy to inaugurate 5G services on December 12

Sajeeb Wazed Joy to inaugurate 5G services on December 12

-- 2021-12-01 20:57:09

The Prime Minister’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy will inaugurate the 5G technology services in the country on December 12. “Prime...

Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

-- 2021-12-01 18:45:48

Facebook risks missing the point of metaverse - and a coming shift in consumers' behaviour - if it fails to permit digital ownership, according to some of the virtual world's pioneers, reports Reuters...

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-12-01 16:01:33

Indian-born Parag Agrawal was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of popular social media platform Twitter.  Its co-founder and the former CEO Jack Dorsey declared his retirement as C...

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-30 18:30:12

Whenever one feels like they’re unable to do anything productive because of habitual browsing, turning to Pinterest can be a virtual comfort.  From signing up for the platform out of curio...

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

Fardeen Kabir 2021-11-30 17:36:02

The gaming scenario in Bangladesh has massively changed in the past 5-6 years. Gaming is now more popular than ever among the younger generation.  But the global chip shortage, the additional 15...

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

-- 2021-11-27 18:42:23

WhatsApp has won regulatory approval to double the number of users on its payments service in India to 40 million, a source with direct knowledge said on Friday. The company had requested that there...

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

-- 2021-11-27 17:28:51

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp will build a plant that can produce 300,000 vehicles annually in Beijing for its electric vehicle unit, authorities in the capital said on Saturday, reports Reuter...

MOU signed between iDEA Project  and UGC

MOU signed between iDEA Project and UGC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-24 17:53:29

The iDEA project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division has been working since 2016 to provide grants and other benefits to startups for increasing their promotion, skills and kno...

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

-- 2021-11-19 15:03:50

A Chinese institute will publish a new English language journal called Machine Intelligence Research to promote international academic exchanges, reports Xinhua citing China Science Daily on Frid...

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

-- 2021-11-18 19:37:45

Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting underway. Days after Facebook's vice president...

Sunscreen during the winter is necessary

Sunscreen during the winter is necessary

A R TAHSEEN JAHAN 2021-11-18 18:48:19

Winter is here. A mild south breeze and dry atmosphere with bright shining sunlight during the day are common phenomena before the arrival of December.  Those who have to go out every single day...

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

-- 2021-11-18 16:41:37

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it will for the first time start selling spare parts and tools to the general public to perform their own repairs on some iPhones and Mac computers. The self-service repai...

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-18 15:29:32

Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Meta, just-renamed company of Facebook, has been asked to take steps to stop abuse and misuse of the social media platform in Bangladesh. Four Bangladeshi...

China, Russia establish space weather centre

China, Russia establish space weather centre

-- 2021-11-17 12:28:35

China and Russia have established a space weather centre in Beijing as part of worldwide efforts to improve global space weather centre systems, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on W...

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Shaeri Nawar 2021-11-15 18:26:59

Although the fear of COVID-19 is fading, there are still concerns regarding its variants and strains. While many of us don't know the differentiations properly, we often step into false information re...

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

-- 2021-11-11 12:04:41

NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions and a German materia...

Winds of change or BCB hiding behind the scapegoats?

Winds of change or BCB hiding behind the scapegoats?

Mashfiq Mizan 2021-11-09 15:59:19

Rumours are running wild regarding the complete overhaul of the Bangladesh National Cricket team set up after their horrendous performance in the ongoing T20 World Cup. Media reports suggest that Sou...

Scotland Cricket team: Brave-heart, cursed fate

Scotland Cricket team: Brave-heart, cursed fate

Ahnaf Wazed Khan 2021-11-08 18:37:52

Scotland has a cricket history that goes a long way back. But somehow they were not an ICC member till 1992 and did not feature in a World Cup till 1999.  Their journey to the World Cup and thro...

Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-03 19:03:50

After ten months of fierce battles and different rounds, the names of the winners of ‘Bangladesh ICT Skills Competition 2021’, were announced through a gala event held online on Tuesday....

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

-- 2021-11-03 11:33:32

Facebook announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such...

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

DAVID SHUKMAN 2021-11-02 18:28:39

The people of Gabura in Bangladesh are having everything that's most threatening about climate change thrown at them. Storms keep wrecking their coastal defences, and rising sea levels are pushing sa...

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

-- 2021-11-02 18:06:48

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to pull out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company said in a statement that its services will no lo...

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

-- 2021-11-02 16:24:15

Apple Inc has cut back production of iPad tablets to allocate more components to the iPhone 13, a sign the global chip supply crunch is hitting Apple harder than previously indicated, Nikkei said on T...

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

-- 2021-11-02 12:57:34

In her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook's inner workings, whistleblower Frances Haugen urged her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to step down and allow...

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

-- 2021-10-29 18:49:48

Apple Inc is eating into its rivals' smartphone market share as the iPhone maker navigates through a global chip crunch better than other mobile phone makers, according to data providers. Higher iPho...

Facebook changes company name to Meta

Facebook changes company name to Meta

-- 2021-10-29 08:54:24

Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile...

Rick and Morty: The timeless classic

Rick and Morty: The timeless classic

Rassiq Aziz Kabir 2021-10-27 17:29:23

“Listen, Morty, I hate to break it to you but what people call ‘love’ is just a chemical reaction that compels animals to breed. It hits hard, Morty. Then it slowly fades, leaving yo...