-- 2021-01-02 13:21:38
Tencent’s online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei’s app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding compa...
REUTERS 2021-01-01 13:34:04
The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal a...
-- 2020-12-29 20:28:33
A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop the world's first satellites made out of wood by 2023. Sumitomo Forestry said it has started research on tree growth and the use...
-- 2020-12-29 10:51:07
The US government on Monday appealed a federal judge’s order that blocked the Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok that would have effec...
Reuters 2020-12-24 12:37:37
Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors ref...
REUTERS 2020-12-23 10:39:45
Apple is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matte...
-- 2020-12-23 09:12:47
Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would start allowing users to set up physical security keys as a way to verify their identity before logging into the social network’s mobile app, beginning next...
-- 2020-12-22 12:29:51
The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banne...
REUTERS 2020-12-19 10:59:45
Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona as part of a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign disclosed this week, according to an analysi...
-- 2020-12-19 09:37:48
Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp will introduce voice and video calling feature to the messaging app’s desktop version next year, a company spokesperson told Reuters news agency. The move to facil...
-- 2020-12-19 09:16:20
Friends and families kept apart by Covid this Christmas and New Year will not find their virtual gatherings over Zoom cut short by the usual 40-minute limit for free subscribers. Zoom Video Communica...
-- 2020-12-18 16:44:35
Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list o...
REUTERS 2020-12-17 16:17:12
China plans to share data and samples that the Chang’e 5 probe obtained during its recent mission to the moon, based on international cooperation conventions, said the deputy head of the country...
Hindustan Times 2020-12-17 16:05:38
WhatsApp ends support for older devices every year. This includes smartphones running dated versions of Android and iOS. This time too, WhatsApp will reportedly end support for iPhones and Android...
-- 2020-12-17 15:24:23
China’s Chang’e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the fir...
Reuters 2020-12-17 15:17:31
Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a r...
-- 2020-12-17 11:34:48
Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising busine...
Reuters 2020-12-16 14:30:00
Some of the world’s biggest private equity firms, including Blackstone Group Inc, Silver Lake Partners LP and Thoma Bravo LP, own major stakes in the software firms whose shares dived on news th...
-- 2020-12-16 09:31:08
Several technology companies including Snap Inc, Pinterest, Dropbox and eBay announced a coalition on Tuesday that would advocate the benefits of Section 230, a decades-old law protecting internet fir...
Reuters 2020-12-14 19:59:12
Google services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that affected thousands. Google's website that logs outages said the serv...
-- 2020-12-14 18:37:03
Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google search, were down for millions of users across the world. Downdetector confirmed the outage saying that the issues started at around 11:56 GMT,...
-- 2020-12-14 11:28:38
A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its journey back to Earth, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, putting China on course to become the first country...
AP 2020-12-13 16:06:19
A Chinese space capsule, bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades, started its three-day return to Earth on Sunday. The Chang’e 5 lunar probe, which had been orbiting the mo...
-- 2020-12-11 16:34:53
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has expressed his optimism that Bangladesh will be the key leader of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We believe Bangladesh is goin...
SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-12-11 15:22:01
A total of 234 registered teams are set to take part in the country’s first-ever National Cyber Drill (NCD 2020) on Saturday. The teams have already registered from the different financial and...
Reuters 2020-12-10 18:41:31
Facebook Inc said on Thursday some users were facing issues while sending messages on Messenger, Instagram and its office collaboration service Workplace. “We’re working to get things bac...
-- 2020-12-10 15:47:52
France’s data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros ($121 million) to Alphabet’s Google for breaching the country’s rules on online advertising t...
-- 2020-12-10 11:27:29
US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Eur...
-- 2020-12-10 10:57:15
Facebook could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state filed lawsuits against the social media company, saying it use...
Reuters 2020-12-09 19:25:37
Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3.0 degrees Celsius, a UN report showed on Wednesday. The report by the United Nat...
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