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Google, Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?

Google, Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?

REUTERS 2021-06-10 18:15:17

Facing regulatory and political pressure, Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google in recent years committed a combined $600 million to support news outlets globally - many of them local or regional e...

Bangabandhu Innovation Grant champion to get $100,000

Bangabandhu Innovation Grant champion to get $100,000

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-09 21:21:13

The prize-giving ceremony of the Bangabandhu Innovation Grant (BIG 2021) competition is expected to take place next September and the winner of the first prize will get a grant of $100,000. Prime Min...

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

REUTERS 2021-06-08 18:48:06

Government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after being hit by a widespread outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly Inc. High traffic sites incl...

Social media, news websites hit by major internet outage

Social media, news websites hit by major internet outage

-- 2021-06-08 17:09:35

Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Fastl...

Facebook says Trump to remain banned for at least two years

Facebook says Trump to remain banned for at least two years

REUTERS 2021-06-05 09:30:17

Facebook on Friday extended the suspension on former US President Donald Trump until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat world leaders who break the rules on its site. Fa...

Twitter introduces subscription service to undo tweets, customise app

Twitter introduces subscription service to undo tweets, customise app

-- 2021-06-04 18:23:44

Twitter Inc is going to roll out a new subscription product, initially in Australia and Canada, called Twitter Blue to let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the color theme of t...

Facebook plans to end rule exemptions for politicians

Facebook plans to end rule exemptions for politicians

-- 2021-06-04 11:31:09

Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports. The company’...

Venus: Nasa announces two new missions

Venus: Nasa announces two new missions

BBC 2021-06-03 17:45:41

Nasa has announced that it is sending two new missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features. The missions, which have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in...

Huawei launches new operating system for smartphones

Huawei launches new operating system for smartphones

-- 2021-06-02 18:54:02

China's Huawei Technologies announced the launch of its proprietary Harmony operating system (HarmonyOS) for smartphones on Wednesday, as the embattled company looks to recover from US sanctions that...

Intel says chip supply shortages could last several years

Intel says chip supply shortages could last several years

Reuters 2021-05-31 10:39:11

Intel Corp's CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved, a problem that has shuttered some auto production lines and is also being felt in ot...

Facebook takes harder stance against misinformation

Facebook takes harder stance against misinformation

-- 2021-05-27 19:13:11

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would take ‘stronger’ action against people who repeatedly share misinformation on the platform. Facebook will reduce the distribution of all posts in it...

Facebook, Instagram will now let users hide 'like' counts on posts

Facebook, Instagram will now let users hide 'like' counts on posts

-- 2021-05-26 20:34:27

If you post a photo to social media and you don't know how many people liked it, did you really post it? Instagram and Facebook users can now find out. Beginning Wednesday, those on both services wil...

WhatsApp sues India govt, says new rules mean end to privacy

WhatsApp sues India govt, says new rules mean end to privacy

Reuters 2021-05-26 10:34:22

WhatsApp has filed a legal complaint in Delhi against the Indian government seeking to block regulations coming into force on Wednesday that experts say would compel the California-based Facebook unit...

China says its rover takes first drive on surface of Mars

China says its rover takes first drive on surface of Mars

Reuters 2021-05-22 15:34:46

A remote-controlled Chinese motorised rover drove down the ramp of a landing capsule on Saturday and onto the surface of the Red Planet, making China the first nation to orbit, land and deploy a land...

Amazon faces five new racial, gender bias lawsuits

Amazon faces five new racial, gender bias lawsuits

REUTERS 2021-05-20 18:17:21

Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) was hit on Wednesday with five new lawsuits by women who worked in corporate or warehouse management roles, and accused the online retailer of gender bias, racial bias or both....

China bans financial institutions, payment cos from cryptocurrency business

China bans financial institutions, payment cos from cryptocurrency business

-- 2021-05-18 21:02:13

China has banned financial institutions and payment companies from providing services related to cryptocurrency transactions, and warned investors against speculative crypto trading, reports Reuters....

3.7b people still lack internet access across globe, says UN Chief

3.7b people still lack internet access across globe, says UN Chief

-- 2021-05-17 11:38:14

Although the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated digital transformation across the planet, millions worldwide still lack Internet access, the UN Secretary-General said on Monday, highlighting why inform...

No charger with phone – Curbing e-waste?

No charger with phone – Curbing e-waste?

Sofia Noor   2021-05-15 21:21:53

Tech giant Apple took a much talked about decision of not including chargers in their iPhone-12 boxes. Back in October 2020, the brand declared its phone box with no chargers and labelled it a step to...

How big is Bitcoin's carbon footprint?

How big is Bitcoin's carbon footprint?

Reuters 2021-05-13 17:29:39

Tesla boss Elon Musk's sudden u-turn over accepting bitcoin to buy his electric vehicles has thrust the cryptocurrency's energy usage into the headlights. Some Tesla investors, along with environmen...

Italy's regulator fines Google $123 million

Italy's regulator fines Google $123 million

Reuters 2021-05-13 14:36:09

Italy's competition watchdog said on Thursday it had fined Google 102 million euros ($123 million) for abuse of its dominant position due to its Android mobile operating system and app store Google Pl...

Explainer-Why all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket?

Explainer-Why all the fuss over falling debris from China's most powerful rocket?

Reuters 2021-05-11 17:05:48

China launched into orbit last month the first piece of a permanent space station using its most powerful rocket, but international focus has fallen instead on the re-entry of debris which critics say...

SpaceX accepts meme-inspired cryptocurrency as payment to launch its lunar mission

SpaceX accepts meme-inspired cryptocurrency as payment to launch its lunar mission

Reuters 2021-05-10 09:46:23

SpaceX will launch the "DOGE-1 Mission to the Moon" in the first quarter of next year, with Elon Musk's commercial rocket company accepting the meme-inspired cryptocurrency dogecoin as payment. "Spac...

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday: US R&D centre

Chinese rocket debris set for re-entry by early Sunday: US R&D centre

-- 2021-05-08 19:23:54

Remnants of China’s largest rocket launched last week are expected to plunge back through the atmosphere late Saturday or early Sunday, a US federally funded space-focused research and developme...

Bangladeshis on top in BiP calls

Bangladeshis on top in BiP calls

-- 2021-05-08 16:39:05

Turkey’s secure communication platform BiP introduces its new feature, allowing users to convey their group chats easily from other applications and in call traffic, Bangladeshis are the champio...

South Korea, US discuss joint responses to falling Chinese rocket debris

South Korea, US discuss joint responses to falling Chinese rocket debris

BERNAMA 2021-05-07 20:39:45

South Korea and the United States on Friday discussed ways to jointly respond to remnants of a Chinese rocket expected to crash into Earth this weekend, the Air Force said. According to Yonhap news a...

India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices

India holds up wireless approvals for China-made devices

-- 2021-05-07 17:33:52

India has held up approvals for import of wifi modules from China for months, driving companies such as US computer makers Dell and HP  and China's Xiaomi, Oppo, Vivo and Lenovo  to delay pr...

BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

BUET engineers develop low-cost ventilator

Sheikh Tausif Ahmed 2021-05-05 20:46:42

A team of engineers from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has developed a low-cost oxygen supply instrument called OxyJet, an innovation which may offer lifeline to people se...

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

WB contest brings creative solutions to combat plastic pollution in Bangladesh

-- 2021-05-05 16:05:15

The World Bank on Wednesday awarded the four winning teams of the competition titled ‘Plastic Circularity Innovation Challenge’, which sought innovative solutions to combat plastic polluti...

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

BHTPA to impart training on Microsoft Cloud Skill among 5000 youths, professionals

FE ONLINE REPORT   2021-05-04 18:28:29

Citing a recent statistics, State Minister for Information and Communication Technology Division (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak said cloud-based business in Bangladesh reached currently worth nearly Tk 13 m...

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

Crew Dragon undocks from the ISS to return to Earth

TASS 2021-05-02 18:13:43

The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with the Crew-1 mission aboard has undocked from the International Space Station (ISS), returning to Earth, NASA is broadcasting live. The undocking of the Resilienc...