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SpaceX suffers capsule anomaly during engine tests

SpaceX suffers capsule anomaly during engine tests

-- 2019-04-21 12:05:33

Elon Musk’s SpaceX suffered an anomaly in one of its Crew Dragon capsules while conducting engine tests at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Saturday, the company said. “...

China issues new rules on for publishing online games

China issues new rules on for publishing online games

-- 2019-04-20 19:42:15

China’s press and publication regulator has issued new rules on applications for publishing online games in China, signalling a possible acceleration in the handing out of formal approvals. Chi...

Scientists use rice straw to desalinate seawater

Scientists use rice straw to desalinate seawater

-- 2019-04-18 13:19:39

Scientists have developed an innovative desalination technology that uses rice straw and sunlight for clean water production. Solar steam generation is considered to be a promising strategy for purif...

Facebook 'unintentionally' uploads email contacts of 1.5m users

Facebook 'unintentionally' uploads email contacts of 1.5m users

-- 2019-04-18 12:57:12

Facebook said on Wednesday (local time) it may have “unintentionally uploaded” email contacts of 1.5 million new users since May 2016, in what seems to be the latest privacy-related issue...

Huawei holds Global Analyst Summit-2019

Huawei holds Global Analyst Summit-2019

-- 2019-04-16 18:54:14

Huawei held its 16th annual Global Analyst Summit in Shenzhen, China titled "Building a Fully Connected, Intelligent World". More than 680 industry and financial analysts, key opinion leaders, and me...

UK proposes banning social media ‘likes’ for children

UK proposes banning social media ‘likes’ for children

-- 2019-04-15 19:53:23

Britain’s privacy regulator wants to stop kids from being able to “like” posts on Facebook and other social media sites as part of tough new rules it’s proposing to protect chi...

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp restore services after outage

Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp restore services after outage

-- 2019-04-15 11:46:38

Facebook Inc said it restored services on Sunday after some users could not access its social networking site, photo-sharing network Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp. However, Facebook did not sp...

Microsoft issues security alert over cyber attack

Microsoft issues security alert over cyber attack

-- 2019-04-14 21:56:47

Microsoft has alerted some of its webmail users of possible hacker attacks that could access their email accounts illegally, according to media reports. The technology company said it became aware of...

Major social media outage hits popular services

Major social media outage hits popular services

-- 2019-04-14 18:25:24

Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram users appear to be unable to access social network sites and apps as the sites are experiencing offline server issues. Twitter is also packed full of complaints with...

Israeli spacecraft crashes on moon

Israeli spacecraft crashes on moon

-- 2019-04-12 11:20:28

The first privately funded mission to the Moon has crashed on the lunar surface after the apparent failure of its main engine. The Israeli spacecraft - called Beresheet - attempted a soft landing, bu...

Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole

Scientists reveal first image ever made of a black hole

-- 2019-04-10 19:51:42

Scientists on Wednesday revealed the first image ever made of a black hole, depicting its hot, shadowy edges where light bends around itself in a cosmic funhouse effect. Assembling data gathered by e...

UK plans to implement 'online safety laws'

UK plans to implement 'online safety laws'

-- 2019-04-08 13:47:57

Britain proposed new online safety laws on Monday that would slap penalties on social media companies and technology firms if they fail to protect their users from harmful content. Easy access to dam...

Google dissolves AI ethics council after controversy

Google dissolves AI ethics council after controversy

Reuters 2019-04-05 14:32:00

Alphabet's Google said on Thursday (local time) it was dissolving a council it had formed a week earlier to consider ethical issues around artificial intelligence and other emerging technologies. T...

Bayer says has detected, contained cyber attack

Bayer says has detected, contained cyber attack

-- 2019-04-04 15:05:25

Germany’s largest drugmaker, Bayer, said it had detected and contained a cyber attack on its computer networks, highlighting the risk of data theft from industrial data systems. Bayer found inf...

S Korea commercially launches 5G services Friday

S Korea commercially launches 5G services Friday

-- 2019-04-03 18:54:02

South Korea will become the first country to commercially launch fifth-generation (5G) services on Friday as it rolls out the latest wireless technology with Samsung Electronics' new 5G-enabled smartp...

Toyota to share secrets of hybrid car tech for free

Toyota to share secrets of hybrid car tech for free

-- 2019-04-03 17:51:59

Car manufacturer Toyota is to offer royalty-free access to its hybrid vehicle technology patents until 2030. It is part of a move to promote hybrid cars as a bridge to fully electric vehicles (EVs)....

WhatsApp launches fake news ‘tipline’ in India ahead of polls

WhatsApp launches fake news ‘tipline’ in India ahead of polls

-- 2019-04-03 13:04:38

WhatsApp has launched a fact-checking service for Indians, where users can send in messages, photos and videos that they want verified. They will then be told if it's true, false, disputed or misleadi...

Facebook takes down hundreds of Indian, Pakistani accounts

Facebook takes down hundreds of Indian, Pakistani accounts

-- 2019-04-02 12:01:35

Facebook has deleted 712 accounts and 390 pages in India and Pakistan for “inauthentic behavior”, it said on Monday, many linked to India’s opposition Congress party days before a na...

Zuckerberg urges governments to help control internet content

Zuckerberg urges governments to help control internet content

-- 2019-03-31 11:05:00

Mark Zuckerberg says regulators and governments should play a more active role in controlling internet content. In an op-ed published in the Washington Post, Facebook's chief says the responsibility...

Facebook to consider live video restrictions

Facebook to consider live video restrictions

-- 2019-03-30 19:54:11

Facebook has promised to explore restrictions on live-streaming, two weeks after it was used during gun attacks on two mosques in New Zealand. Chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg said the social...

Facebook to ban white nationalism

Facebook to ban white nationalism

-- 2019-03-29 17:35:42

Facebook has said it will block "praise, support and representation of white nationalism and separatism" on Facebook and Instagram from next week. The social media giant also pledged to improve its a...

Google doodle celebrates sculptor Novera Ahmed’s 80th birth anniv

Google doodle celebrates sculptor Novera Ahmed’s 80th birth anniv

-- 2019-03-29 14:06:14

Search engine giant Google has created a new Doodle on its homepage, marking the 80th birth anniversary of renowned Bangladeshi sculptor Novera Ahmed. Doodle is celebrating pioneering artist Novera A...

Facebook blocks 200 pages, groups and accounts in Philippines

Facebook blocks 200 pages, groups and accounts in Philippines

-- 2019-03-29 11:29:16

Facebook Inc said the company removed 200 pages, groups and accounts on Facebook and Instagram in the Philippines, citing “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”. The company on Thursday said...

Call to cull feral cats and dogs to save endangered species

Call to cull feral cats and dogs to save endangered species

-- 2019-03-28 16:30:45

Scientists are calling for a widespread cull of feral cats and dogs, pigs, goats, and rats and mice to save the endangered species they prey upon. Their eradication on more than 100 islands could sav...

Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

Facebook bans white nationalism on its platforms

Reuters 2019-03-28 09:46:45

Facebook on Wednesday (local time) banned praise, support, and representation of white nationalism and white separatism, a move that drew qualified approval from New Zealand where a massacre of 50 peo...

Over one million Asus users attacked through malicious update

Over one million Asus users attacked through malicious update

-- 2019-03-26 13:41:05

Hackers were able to deliver malware to the more one million-plus Asus computer owners last year by hijacking the company’s software update system, security researchers said on Monday. Moscow-b...

Google doodle celebrates Bangladesh’s Independence Day

Google doodle celebrates Bangladesh’s Independence Day

-- 2019-03-26 11:31:16

Search engine giant Google is marking Bangladesh's 49th Independence and National Day by replacing its regular home page graphic with a special doodle. The new doodle features three goods-laden boats...

Melting ice on Mount Everest exposes dead bodies

Melting ice on Mount Everest exposes dead bodies

-- 2019-03-22 17:29:16

Expedition operators are concerned at the number of climbers' bodies that are becoming exposed on Mount Everest as its glacier s melt. Nearly 300 mountaineers have died on the peak since the first as...

Three students devise ‘automated car parking system’

Three students devise ‘automated car parking system’

UNB 2019-03-22 11:28:18

With the high rate of population growth allied to increasing economic activity in Bangladesh's growing urban centres, the number of vehicles on the roads is also growing exponentially. The rise in th...

EU fines Google €1.5b over advertising

EU fines Google €1.5b over advertising

-- 2019-03-21 11:12:48

Google has been hit with a €1.49 billion (£1.28b) fine from the EU for blocking rival online search advertisers. It is the third EU fine for the search and advertising giant in two years....