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Vivo V20 review

Vivo V20 review

FE Online Desk 2020-12-08 18:07:15

  vivo V20: a camera-centric showstopper with industry-leading features and sleek design Are you fond of taking photos and enjoy taking selfies? Do you have a shutterbug inside of you? If yes,...

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

AP 2020-12-03 23:19:44

Facebook said Thursday it will start removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, in its latest move to counter a tide of coronavirus-related online misinformation. In the coming weeks, the socia...

Twitter expands hate speech policy to include race, ethnicity

Twitter expands hate speech policy to include race, ethnicity

Reuters 2020-12-03 11:41:23

Twitter has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement on Wednesda...

2020 on track to become world’s second hottest, UN says

2020 on track to become world’s second hottest, UN says

Reuters 2020-12-02 20:59:46

This year is underway to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised by heat...

China successfully lands spacecraft on moon’s surface to retrieve lunar materials

China successfully lands spacecraft on moon’s surface to retrieve lunar materials

-- 2020-12-02 14:02:09

China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported. China launched its Chang’e-5...

Two thirds of school-age children without internet access: UN

Two thirds of school-age children without internet access: UN

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-01 21:51:39

Two thirds of the world’s school-age children – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old – do not have internet connection in their homes, according to a report. The UNICEF an...

Australian telescope maps 3.0m galaxies in just 300 hours

Australian telescope maps 3.0m galaxies in just 300 hours

Aljazeera 2020-12-01 16:29:27

A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country’...

Supreme Court cause-list app now available on App Store

Supreme Court cause-list app now available on App Store

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-01 13:16:39

The Supreme Court (SC) cause-list app has been made available on the Apple App Store, according to a top court statement issued on Tuesday. The app provides a user-friendly interface for the judges,...

China's first Hualong One nuclear reactor starts operations

China's first Hualong One nuclear reactor starts operations

-- 2020-11-29 18:51:45

China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said on Friday its first Hualong One, a third-generation pressurised water nuclear reactor, has started operations and is connected to the grid. The design, seen as...

IOM launches app to provide information on safe migration

IOM launches app to provide information on safe migration

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-26 18:14:39

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a mobile application on Wednesday to provide information on safe migration. IOM developed the app and information platform, BdeshJaatra (ht...

India bans 43 more Chinese mobile apps including Aliexpress

India bans 43 more Chinese mobile apps including Aliexpress

-- 2020-11-25 13:28:39

India banned 43 mobile apps on Tuesday, including Alibaba Group Holding Ltd’s e-commerce app Aliexpress, in a new wave of web sanctions targeted at China after the neighbours’ months-long...

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle launch Africa Vaccine Management in the Cloud

Tony Blair Institute and Oracle launch Africa Vaccine Management in the Cloud

FE Online Desk 2020-11-24 19:21:38

November 24, 2020, Dhaka: The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) and Oracle have brought cloud technology to Africa to manage public health programs. Initially, Ghana, Rwanda, and Sierra Leone will use t...

iDEA project receives WITSA award in Public-Private Partnership category

iDEA project receives WITSA award in Public-Private Partnership category

FE Online Report 2020-11-21 10:34:17

‘Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project’ of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under ICT Division has received international honour in the Public-Private Partnership...

Twitter apologises to India over China geo-tagging error

Twitter apologises to India over China geo-tagging error

REUTERS 2020-11-19 11:24:53

Social media giant Twitter has apologised to an Indian parliamentary panel for showing a northern Himalayan region as part of China, promising to make corrections by month-end, the panel’s chief...

Digital rights group files complaints against Apple's online tracking tool

Digital rights group files complaints against Apple's online tracking tool

REUTERS 2020-11-16 15:23:50

A group led by privacy activist Max Schrems on Monday filed complaints with German and Spanish data protection authorities over Apple’s online tracking tool, alleging that it allows iPhones to s...

Spacex launches four astronauts into space for first private mission

Spacex launches four astronauts into space for first private mission

-- 2020-11-16 12:16:44

Elon Musk’s rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts on a flight to the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA’s first full-fledged mission sending a crew into orbit aboard a pr...

iDEA of ICT Division, Startup Cumilla organise day-long mentoring programme

iDEA of ICT Division, Startup Cumilla organise day-long mentoring programme

FE Online Report 2020-11-15 11:07:25

An event titled ‘Road to Startup Entrepreneurship and Innovation’ for technology entrepreneurs and innovators was held on Saturday at the popular Cumilla Club in Cumilla. Minister of the...

Canada to help set up ‘Bangabandhu Pierre Trudeau Agricultural Research Center’

Canada to help set up ‘Bangabandhu Pierre Trudeau Agricultural Research Center’

-- 2020-11-14 17:36:56

The ‘Bangabandhu Pierre Trudeau Agricultural Research Center’ is going to be set up in Bangladesh to conduct research in the field of agriculture for ensuring food security system tolerant...

How the deadly Nipah virus jumps from bats to humans found

How the deadly Nipah virus jumps from bats to humans found

-- 2020-11-07 16:30:21

The deadly Nipah virus kills nearly 75 per cent of the people it infects, but the circumstances under which the bat species, known as the Indian flying fox, transmits the virus to humans has remained...

China sends 13 satellites into orbit with single rocket

China sends 13 satellites into orbit with single rocket

-- 2020-11-06 17:18:41

China successfully sent 13 satellites into orbit from the Taiyuan Satellite Launch Centre in north China's Shanxi Province on Friday. The satellites, including 10 commercial remote sensing satellites...

India-made Covid vaccine could be available as early as Feb

India-made Covid vaccine could be available as early as Feb

Reuters 2020-11-05 15:00:46

An Indian government-backed COVID-19 vaccine could be launched as early as February - months earlier than expected - as last-stage trials begin this month and studies have so far shown it is safe and...

Twitter, Facebook suspend several accounts over US election misinformation

Twitter, Facebook suspend several accounts over US election misinformation

Reuters 2020-11-04 11:03:35

Twitter and Facebook on Tuesday suspended several recently created and mostly right-leaning news accounts posting information about voting in the hotly contested US election for violating th...

Facebook suspends political recommendations ahead of US election

Facebook suspends political recommendations ahead of US election

-- 2020-10-31 09:50:25

Facebook Inc confirmed on Friday it was temporarily halting recommendations for all political groups and any new groups in the run-up to Tuesday’s US presidential election. Facebook’s Chi...

AstraZeneca resumes vaccine trial in US

AstraZeneca resumes vaccine trial in US

Reuters 2020-10-24 10:49:22

AstraZeneca has resumed the US trial of its experimental Covid-19 vaccine after approval by regulators, and Johnson & Johnson is also preparing to resume its trial on Monday or Tuesday, the compan...

Research shows masks do block coronavirus, but not perfectly

Research shows masks do block coronavirus, but not perfectly

Reuters 2020-10-22 13:30:28

Japanese researchers showed that masks can offer protection from airborne coronavirus particles, but even professional-grade coverings can’t eliminate contagion risk entirely. Scientists at the...

Facebook dating service is now available in Europe

Facebook dating service is now available in Europe

Reuters 2020-10-22 12:00:05

Facebook said on Wednesday it is launching its dating service in 32 European countries after the rollout was delayed earlier this year due to regulatory concerns. The social media company had po...

Facebook says spammers, scammers using US election

Facebook says spammers, scammers using US election

REUTERS 2020-10-22 09:46:08

Fraudsters from Albania to Vietnam are posting about US politics and the upcoming presidential election to build fake audiences, maximise clicks and make money online, Facebook Inc said on Wednesday....

Google faces biggest antitrust lawsuit in two decades

Google faces biggest antitrust lawsuit in two decades

-- 2020-10-20 20:49:31

The US Justice Department and 11 states filed an antitrust lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google on Tuesday for allegedly breaking the law in using its market power to fend off rivals, reports R...

Nokia to build cellular network on the moon by 2022

Nokia to build cellular network on the moon by 2022

-- 2020-10-19 20:57:30

NASA has selected Nokia to build the first cellular network on the moon within 2022, as the US space agency plans for a future where humans return there and establish lunar settlements. The US agency...

Study finds remdesivir ineffective in treating Covid patients

Study finds remdesivir ineffective in treating Covid patients

Reuters 2020-10-16 11:22:49

Gilead Sciences remdesivir had little or no effect on Covid-19 patients' length of hospital stay or chances of survival, a clinical trial by the World Health Organization (WHO) has found. The antivi...