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PUBG Corp says Tencent not to publish mobile game in India

PUBG Corp says Tencent not to publish mobile game in India

-- 2020-09-08 15:59:21

PUBG Corp, the unit of a South Korean company behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG), will no longer give Tencent Games the rights to publish its popular mobile game in India, it said in a...

BCC receives UN ‘World Summit on Information Society Award-2020’

BCC receives UN ‘World Summit on Information Society Award-2020’

FE Online Report 2020-09-08 11:47:59

The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division has achieved one of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of information technology, the ‘World Summit on Information S...

Facebook appoints public policy manager for Bangladesh

Facebook appoints public policy manager for Bangladesh

-- 2020-09-07 19:54:01

Facebook Inc has employed a Bangla-speaking Bangladeshi to administer Bangladeshi content and swiftly resolve any related issues which may occur on the social media utility, reports bdnews24.com. The...

Facebook removes pages of US right-wing group

Facebook removes pages of US right-wing group

Reuters 2020-09-05 11:24:59

Facebook on Friday removed the pages of US right-wing group Patriot Prayer and its founder Joey Gibson, a company spokesman told Reuters. Patriot Prayer has hosted dozens of pro-gun, pro-Trump rallie...

Widespread Covid-19 vaccines not expected until mid-2021: WHO

Widespread Covid-19 vaccines not expected until mid-2021: WHO

-- 2020-09-04 17:14:43

The World Health Organization does not expect widespread vaccinations against Covid-19 until the middle of next year, a spokeswoman said on Friday, stressing the importance of rigorous checks on their...

India bans 118 Chinese apps, including PUBG

India bans 118 Chinese apps, including PUBG

-- 2020-09-03 12:14:58

India has banned 118 more mobile apps including Tencent Holdings’ popular videogame PUBG, as it stepped up the pressure on Chinese technology companies following a standoff with Beijing at the b...

Twitter confirms account of Modi's personal website hacked

Twitter confirms account of Modi's personal website hacked

Reuters 2020-09-03 11:15:38

Twitter confirmed on Thursday that an account of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s personal website was hacked with a series of tweets asking its followers to donate to a relief fund through...

Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions set for critical test

Booster rocket for Nasa Moon missions set for critical test

BBC 2020-09-02 17:08:49

Engineers are preparing to test a booster rocket that will help send Americans back to the Moon in 2024. Two of these boosters form part of Nasa's massive Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, the bigges...

Pakistan blocks Tinder, four other dating apps

Pakistan blocks Tinder, four other dating apps

Reuters 2020-09-02 11:23:36

Pakistan says it has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps for not adhering to local laws, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating “immoral content&rdquo...

Facebook threatens to block news on Australian sites

Facebook threatens to block news on Australian sites

-- 2020-09-01 11:53:39

Facebook Inc on Monday said it would stop allowing news publishers and people in Australia from sharing local and international news on Facebook and Instagram if a proposed regulation on news content...

Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday: NASA

Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday: NASA

-- 2020-08-30 19:41:24

An asteroid with diameters between 22 and 49 metres will shoot pass Earth in a distance closer than Earth from the Moon on Tuesday, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N...

China's Mars probe travels around 100m kilometres

China's Mars probe travels around 100m kilometres

Xinhua 2020-08-28 16:55:56

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has travelled around 100 million km as of 10:08am Friday, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The Mars probe is in stable condition and its multi...

Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy

Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy

REUTERS 2020-08-20 14:52:37

Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, are facing questions internally from employees over how political content is regulated in its biggest market, according to sources with dir...

Gmail is down globally as users face issues with log-in, attachments

Gmail is down globally as users face issues with log-in, attachments

-- 2020-08-20 14:32:44

Gmail users across the world have been left crippled thanks to an outage on the email service that is not allowing users to send attachments via mail. Gmail users took to social media to complain abo...

Facebook poses 'danger to public health': Report

Facebook poses 'danger to public health': Report

-- 2020-08-19 18:59:54

Health misinformation on Facebook was viewed 3.8 billion times in the past year, peaking during the Covid-19 crisis, said a report of activist group Avaaz. Avaaz which conducted the research, said Fa...

PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020 schedule announced

PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020 schedule announced

FE Online Desk 2020-08-17 22:00:09

After its outstanding run last year, Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. are all set to bring PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020, the second edition of their biggest, open-to-all flagship tournament back....

Indian scientists make space bricks for building structures on moon

Indian scientists make space bricks for building structures on moon

Xinhua 2020-08-16 16:15:35

A team of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru have developed a sustainable process to make space bricks on the lunar surf...

Huawei 49th on 2020 Fortune Global 500 ranking

Huawei 49th on 2020 Fortune Global 500 ranking

-- 2020-08-15 16:52:30

Huawei has ranked 49th on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2020. This is the first time that the telecommunications giant breaks into the top 50, continuing a multi-year track record of acceleration, s...

US ban on TikTok could cut it off from app stores, advertisers

US ban on TikTok could cut it off from app stores, advertisers

Reuters 2020-08-12 10:36:36

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning China’s TikTok could prevent US app stores from offering the popular short-video app and make advertising on the platform illegal, accordin...

Russia fines Google for not blocking banned content - Ifax

Russia fines Google for not blocking banned content - Ifax

-- 2020-08-10 15:44:20

A Russian court on Monday fined Google 1.5 million roubles ($20,350) after finding it guilty of failing to block content banned in Russia, Reuters reported citing the Interfax news agency.

Zoom beats peers as people retreat to living rooms

Zoom beats peers as people retreat to living rooms

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and SAIF UDDIN 2020-08-09 09:23:14

Dewan Ali Ahmed, a sexagenarian businessman, starts his workday through an online meeting platform named Zoom during the ongoing pandemic situation. In April, frustration gripped him as many employ...

Exhausted of Zoom calls? Company offers at-home hologram machines

Exhausted of Zoom calls? Company offers at-home hologram machines

-- 2020-08-08 18:55:32

Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? A Los Angeles company has created phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room, reports Reuters. The device made b...

BD among global hotspots of series of floods: Study

BD among global hotspots of series of floods: Study

UNB 2020-08-07 16:15:51

Bangladesh is one of the hotspots of series of floods in the world, a latest study says, noting that 250 million coastal dwellers will face rising floods globally. The study identifies a series of fl...

Facebook removes Trump post over 'false' virus claims

Facebook removes Trump post over 'false' virus claims

-- 2020-08-06 11:17:03

Facebook has deleted a post from US President Donald Trump’s page for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. Facebook said on Wednesday that the “vid...

Singapore scientists develop artificial skin able to feel

Singapore scientists develop artificial skin able to feel

-- 2020-08-04 17:06:38

Singapore researchers have developed ‘electronic skin’ capable of recreating a sense of touch, an innovation they hope will allow people with prosthetic limbs to detect objects, as well as...

NASA astronauts make historic return to Earth

NASA astronauts make historic return to Earth

Reuters 2020-08-03 10:38:52

US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that wa...

NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

REUTERS 2020-08-02 15:34:07

The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space...

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

-- 2020-07-30 20:39:04

NASA has launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a six-month journey to the Red Planet as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be ana...

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Reuters 2020-07-30 16:45:16

Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed schools four month...

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Reuters 2020-07-23 15:16:06

Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands. In twe...