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Meta’s Oversight Board tells company to allow ‘death to Khamenei’ slogan

-- 2023-01-09 17:20:01

Meta's Oversight Board on Monday overturned the company's decision to remove a Facebook post that used the slogan "death to Khamenei" to criticise the Iranian leader, saying it did not violate a rule...

Doctoral Stipend available for students at the University of Kent

FE Online 2023-01-09 16:08:46

Well-regarded for its research, the University of Kent is one of the Top 50 UK universities. Host Country: Kent, United Kingdom Host University: University of Kent Name of the scholarship: Economic...

University of Nottingham Full or Half Tuition Fee Waivers for Master’s students

FE Online 2023-01-08 15:22:17

Founded in 1881, the University of Nottingham is a member of the prestigious Russell Group of universities. Nationally, it’s in the Top 100 UK universities.  Host Country: Nottingham, UK...

Twitter further cuts staff overseeing global content moderation

FE ONLINE DESK 2023-01-08 10:27:07

Twitter Inc made further staff cuts in the trust and safety team handling global content moderation and in the unit related to hate speech and harass...

US government struggles to keep americans away from TikTok

REUTERS 2023-01-07 11:53:51

The United States has a new kind of Trojan horse. The Federal Bureau of Investigations and Central Intelligence Agency have warned that social media firm TikTok, owned by Chinese giant ByteDance, pose...

Twitter hacked, 200 million user email addresses leaked

-- 2023-01-06 09:58:28

Hackers stole the email addresses of more than 200 million Twitter users and posted them on an online hacking forum, a security researcher said Wednesday. The breach “will unfortunately lead to...

Digital Twin technology: What and how?

Shuvro Saif 2023-01-05 17:04:11

'Digital twin' is one of the most frequently used technological terms nowadays -- a virtual model of a physical object or system that simulates its characteristics and behaviours. It is created by int...

Twitter to expand permitted political advertising

-- 2023-01-04 17:41:22

Twitter Inc on Tuesday said it would expand the types of political ads allowed on the social media platform, an apparent reversal of its 2019 global ban on political ads, as the Elon Musk-owned compan...

Startups spring from ashes of Big Tech purge

REUTERS 2023-01-03 12:44:04

Nic Szerman lost his job at Meta Platforms in November, just two months after joining full-time, falling victim to a sweeping 13 per cent reduction of its workforce as the advertising market cratered....

BCC to organise job fair for persons with disabilities on January 7

FE ONLINE REPORT 2023-01-02 16:39:42

The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division of Bangladesh is set to organise a fob fair for creating employment opportunities for specially-abled persons or persons with disabilities. M...

Meghna Cloud to save huge forex spent to buy, use cloud tech

FE REPORT 2022-12-31 09:07:06

Bangladesh is going to have its first-ever domestic cloud data centre which, once set up, is expected to save a large amount of forex the country spends annually for purchasing and using the cloud tec...

ICT Division, Gennext ink deal to set up data centre

-- 2022-12-30 18:10:14

The Bangladesh Data Center Company of the ICT Division and Gennext Technology have signed an agreement to set up a "Made in Bangladesh Cloud" data centre. Bangladesh Data Center Company Managing Dire...

Partial Scholarship for Law Students at Queen Mary University of London

FE Online 2022-12-29 16:07:14

Queen Mary University of London is a Russell Group university - a well-renowned group of UK universities renowned for their research work. It is also in the Top 100 UK universities.   Host...

FTX customers file class action to lay claim to dwindling assets

-- 2022-12-28 17:04:02

FTX customers filed a class action lawsuit against the failed crypto exchange and its former top executives including Sam Bankman-Fried on Tuesday, seeking a declaration that the company's holdings of...

Fully Funded PhD Scholarship opportunity at Bournemouth University

FE Online 2022-12-28 15:55:06

Bournemouth University is a Top 100 university in the UK. Host Country: Bournemouth, England Host University: Bournemouth University Name of the scholarship: PhD Studentship - Automated Risk Manage...

Elon Musk says around 100 Starlinks now active in Iran

REUTERS 2022-12-27 12:03:10

SpaceX Chief Executive Elon Musk said on Monday that the company is now close to having 100 active Starlinks, the firm's satellite internet service, in Iran, three months after he tweeted he would act...

ChatGPT: A revolution in AI chatbots

FE Online 2022-12-26 14:20:06

Artificial intelligence is slowly but surely making its way into almost all aspects of our everyday lives, and ChatGPT is the latest addition to chatbots backed by artificial intelligence.  And...

Twitter restores suicide prevention feature after Reuters report

-- 2022-12-25 11:13:53

Twitter Inc has restored a feature that promotes suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, after coming under pressure from some users and consumer sa...

Twitter removes suicide prevention feature, says it's under revamp

REUTERS 2022-12-24 09:14:07

Twitter Inc removed a feature in the past few days that promoted suicide prevention hotlines and other safety resources to users looking up certain content, according to two people familiar with the m...

Meta to settle Cambridge Analytica scandal case for $725m

-- 2022-12-23 16:51:50

Facebook owner Meta Platforms Inc has agreed to pay $725 million to resolve a class-action lawsuit accusing the social media giant of allowing third parties, including Cambridge Analytica, to access u...

Google to appeal India antitrust ruling on Android

-- 2022-12-23 16:38:58

Alphabet's Google (GOOGL.O) said on Friday it will appeal the Indian antitrust watchdog's ruling that ordered the tech giant to change its approach to its Android platform and imposed a fine of $162 m...

Using Lensa AI? Here's how it may breach your privacy

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2022-12-22 17:28:08

If you are active on popular social media networks, you probably have come across portraits shared by people that look animated but, at the same time, beautiful caricatures of themselves. These portra...

Musk says he'll step down as Twitter CEO after finding a replacement

REUTERS 2022-12-21 09:15:43

Elon Musk said on Tuesday he will step down as chief executive of Twitter after finding a replacement. "I will resign as CEO as soon as I find someone foolish enough to take the job! After that, I wi...

Videoconferencing platform ‘Boithok’ now accessible to public

FE ONLINE REPORT 2022-12-19 18:08:36

Boithok, a web-based videoconferencing platform developed by the government of Bangladesh, is now accessible to the public. Anyone can use it multiple times in one day with a nominal cost of Tk 50....

Elon Musk poll shows 57.5pc want him to step down as Twitter chief

-- 2022-12-19 17:47:38

A poll by Elon Musk on whether he should quit as Twitter CEO showed the majority of users of the social media platform who took part voted in favour of the move after the poll ended on Monday. About...

Taiwan investigates TikTok for suspected illegal operations

REUTERS 2022-12-19 14:07:02

Taiwan's government has opened a probe into Chinese-owned social media platform TikTok on suspicion of illegally operating a subsidiary on the island, though the company's owner denied the accusation....

Elon Musk launches poll asking if he should quit as Twitter CEO

REUTERS 2022-12-19 12:41:49

Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform on Sunday asking users whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll results. As of 055...

PhD Scholarship opportunity at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology

FE Online 2022-12-18 16:53:20

Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) is a Top 20 university in Australia. Host Country: Melbourne, Australia Host University: Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) Name of the sc...

Elon Musk's Twitter suspension of journalists draws global backlash

REUTERS 2022-12-17 08:57:13

Twitter's unprecedented suspension of at least five journalists over claims they revealed the real-time location of owner Elon Musk drew swift backlash from government officials, advocacy groups and j...

NASA launches satellite to map the world’s oceans, lakes, rivers

-- 2022-12-16 21:02:33

A US-French satellite that will map almost all of the world’s oceans, lakes and rivers rocketed into orbit Friday. The predawn launch aboard a SpaceX rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in...