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‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

-- 2021-10-25 20:27:51

Facebook sees introducing safety to the social network as a "cost centre" and regulation could be good for the company, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday. Haugen, a p...

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

SAIF UDDIN 2021-10-23 09:20:12

Despite the expansion of the fourth generation (4G) telecom network, Bangladesh has scored low among digital societies in the Asia Pacific region, according to a global report. It said Bangladesh o...

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

-- 2021-10-22 12:27:17

It is likely to take a decade before self-driving taxis will be deployed on roads, the chief executive of electric car startup Lucid Group, Peter Rawlinson, said on Thursday. "I think we're 10 years...

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

-- 2021-10-21 19:38:53

Facebook said on Thursday it had signed a preliminary copyright agreement with a French news publishers' lobby group, paving the way for it to pay for news content on its platforms in France, reports...

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

-- 2021-10-21 09:26:56

Zuckerverse. Timesuck. Faceplant. They're just a few of the suggestions being bandied around online following reports that Facebook plans to rebrand itself with a new group name. The company refused...

12-year-old girl designs World Cup jersey for her country

12-year-old girl designs World Cup jersey for her country

Ahnaf Zarif Rahman 2021-10-20 22:29:28

The life of an average twelve year old usually does not involve designing the World Cup kit of her country’s cricket team which precisely happened in the life of Haddington local Rebecca Downie....

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

-- 2021-10-20 11:51:53

Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Facebook Chief Executive Offic...

Skills mismatch exacerbating youth unemployment

Skills mismatch exacerbating youth unemployment

FE Youth Desk 2021-10-19 15:32:26

Experts and students came together to discuss the impacts of COVID-19 on aggravating the country’s youth unemployment, and assess its impacts and possible solutions in an online dialogue organis...

Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

-- 2021-10-18 20:14:03

Analysts expect Apple Inc to unveil new Mac laptop computers with more powerful processor chips at an event that will be streamed later Monday. According to global media reports, Apple plans to relea...

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

-- 2021-10-18 10:21:32

Facebook Inc plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where peopl...

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

-- 2021-10-17 17:48:10

World soccer's governing body FIFA said on Friday that it will widen its gaming and e-sports portfolio to ensure that controlling rights don't lie in the hands of one party. This comes after a report...

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

-- 2021-10-16 17:17:43

NASA launched the first-of-its-kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of the primordial material that form...

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

-- 2021-10-16 14:15:17

China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and one woman - to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit for...

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

-- 2021-10-14 10:19:24

Having made a career out of playing an explorer of the cosmos, William Shatner - Captain James Kirk of "Star Trek" fame - did it for real on Wednesday, becoming at age 90 the oldest person in space ab...

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-14 09:22:47

Facebook Inc (FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chi...

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

-- 2021-10-13 19:42:22

The United States has overtaken China to account for the largest share of the world's bitcoin mining, data published on Wednesday by Britain's Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance showed. The fig...

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

-- 2021-10-13 18:18:01

An assistant professor of Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) has developed an oral vaccine for fish, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, which can protect different species of fish from bacterial di...

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

-- 2021-10-13 16:06:58

Russia was not invited to attend a 30-country virtual meeting led by the United States that is aimed at combating the growing threat of ransomware and other cybercrime, a senior administration officia...

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

-- 2021-10-13 10:28:44

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell on Tuesday called on Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to preserve all documents related to testimony last week from company whistleblower Fr...

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

-- 2021-10-12 20:36:32

Nvidia's $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM is expected to face an extended EU antitrust investigation after concessions offered last week failed to address competition concerns, three peop...

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

-- 2021-10-11 13:28:34

China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Fin...

What’s new in Windows 11

What’s new in Windows 11

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-10-11 12:43:14

It's been five years since the last Windows upgrade and Microsoft has come up with the latest one- Windows 11. The new features have been the subject of speculation. As Windows is constantly notifying...

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

-- 2021-10-11 10:39:00

Chinese state media said loopholes allowing minors to bypass new rules aimed at curbing gaming playtime to three hours per week should be removed to "prevent addiction." China introduced new rules in...

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

-- 2021-10-11 09:44:56

A Facebook Inc executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as US lawmakers scrutinise how Facebook and subsidiaries...

How to avoid getting scammed while shopping online

How to avoid getting scammed while shopping online

Abriti Ahmed Duity 2021-10-07 18:12:51

Shopping online can be effortless, convenient, and time-saving. Yet, frauds, scams or even hijacks have become frequent occurrences nowadays.  Especially, after the scam of several big e-commerc...

Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

-- 2021-10-06 11:16:17

Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday's Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearl...

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

-- 2021-10-05 12:07:24

Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as Wha...

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

-- 2021-10-05 08:56:21

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp lit up again late on Monday afternoon Eastern time after a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from ac...

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

-- 2021-10-04 22:15:55

Facebook Inc's suite of apps –including popular photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp– have gone down in a major outage in several parts of the world. The apps compl...

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

-- 2021-10-03 16:00:12

Dr Tommy Korn, MD, an ophthalmologist working at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego, USA, recently went viral for demonstrating how he uses the new iPhone 13 Pro macro camera to photograph h...