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US charges Iranian ‘SamSam’ hackers

US charges Iranian ‘SamSam’ hackers

-- 2018-11-29 15:23:17

The hacking attack was said to have lasted for 34 months, holding schools, hospitals, universities in several countries to ransom - earning the perpetrators millions of dollars in the process. Now US...

Amazon unveils cloud-based robotics testing platform

Amazon unveils cloud-based robotics testing platform

-- 2018-11-28 14:33:50

US e-commerce leader Amazon's subsidiary Amazon Web Services, Inc. on Monday launched the cloud-based service, AWS RoboMaker, that will facilitate developers to develop, deploy and test robotics appli...

NASA's latest Mars craft lands safely

NASA's latest Mars craft lands safely

-- 2018-11-27 13:03:05

NASA's Mars lander InSight touched down safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Monday to begin its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of another world....

Russia plans new flight to check authenticity of moon landing

Russia plans new flight to check authenticity of moon landing

-- 2018-11-25 17:23:30

Russia’s space agency plans to send a mission to the moon to check whether the American moon landings were real. In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General...

Scientists test out baleen whales’ teeth

Scientists test out baleen whales’ teeth

-- 2018-11-25 17:12:03

Chinese and American researchers have for the first time uncovered how baleen whales' "teeth" withstood a lifetime of forces generated by water flow and prey without fracturing. The finding published...

Deforestation in Amazon reaches decade high

Deforestation in Amazon reaches decade high

-- 2018-11-24 19:16:29

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has hit its highest rate in a decade, according to official data. About 7,900 sq km (3,050 sq miles) of the world's largest rainforest was destroyed b...

Scientists propose new way to tackle climate change

Scientists propose new way to tackle climate change

-- 2018-11-24 14:08:16

Scientists have proposed a new way to tackle climate change by spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere, according to a study published Friday. Scientists at Harvard and Yale univer...

Robot taxis set to hit London, Edinburgh roads

Robot taxis set to hit London, Edinburgh roads

-- 2018-11-23 14:32:56

Robot taxis that take to the road without drivers are set to appear on the streets of two major British cities, according to a Thursday announcement. The trial schemes will see robot taxis without dr...

Nokia reorganises itself ahead of 5G race

Nokia reorganises itself ahead of 5G race

-- 2018-11-22 14:28:32

Nokia will merge its mobile networks and fixed networks business groups into a new unit called Access Networks as it takes aim at 5G opportunities, the Finnish firm announced on Thursday. “By c...

European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google

European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google

AP 2018-11-21 19:10:58

In the battle for online privacy, U.S. search giant Google is a Goliath facing a handful of European Davids. The backlash over Big Tech's collection of personal data offers new hope to a number of...

China develops 'artificial Sun'

China develops 'artificial Sun'

-- 2018-11-21 17:53:42

From its plans to harness and enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its vision of a solar highway planned into the not-too-distant future, China is strongly demonstrating its positi...

50pc ATMs in India may shut down by March Next Year

50pc ATMs in India may shut down by March Next Year

-- 2018-11-21 17:24:36

Mumbai:  Nearly 50 per cent of the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) may be shut down by March 2019 due to unviability of operations, hitting hard both urban and rural population, the Confederatio...

Musk renames BFR spacecraft Starship

Musk renames BFR spacecraft Starship

-- 2018-11-21 13:45:26

Elon Musk has changed the name of his forthcoming passenger spaceship from Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) to Starship. The entrepreneur would not reveal why he had renamed the craft, which has not yet been...

India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

-- 2018-11-20 16:22:00

The scientists, for the first time in India, are going to induce artificial rain over Delhi this week to wash away toxic pollutants from the air and provide residents respite from the poor air quality...

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

China sends five satellites into orbit via single rocket

-- 2018-11-20 14:09:14

China has launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40am Tuesday. The sate...

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

Google to invest $690m in Danish data centre

-- 2018-11-20 12:52:04

Alphabet Inc’s Google will invest 4.5 billion Danish crowns ($690 million) in building a new data centre in Fredericia, Denmark, its Danish unit announced on Tuesday. Besides its plot in Freder...

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

Facebook donates $6m to fund local newspapers in UK

-- 2018-11-20 12:22:48

Facebook Inc has announced a donation of 6 million US dollars to support local newspapers in Britain in the next two years. The fund, which will be made available through the National Council for t...

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

Researchers find world’s smallest dinosaur tracks in S Korea

-- 2018-11-18 15:38:31

Dinosaur tracks uncovered in South Korea have been identified as belonging to sparrow-sized dinosaur raptors, marking the smallest prints of their kind, according to latest Australian-linked research....

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

Amazon will fail, predicts Bezos

-- 2018-11-17 21:13:10

A company doesn't get as big as Amazon as quickly as it has without the CEO thinking a little differently to everyone else, and in the case of Jeff Bezos, that thinking extends to predicting when his...

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

Scientists vote to redefine kilogram, other standard units

-- 2018-11-17 17:42:23

Scientists have redefined the kilogram and three other standard units of measure at the General Conference on Weights and Measures recently. Dozen nations voted at the conference the Palace of Versai...

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

Plants can offer protection against terror attacks: Study

-- 2018-11-17 14:22:05

Plants can offer protection against terrorist attacks in cities, a study published on Friday by the Bundeswehr University Munich, a higher education institution of the German Armed Forces, found. Acc...

Google gives up on rescue robots

Google gives up on rescue robots

-- 2018-11-16 13:57:39

Google-owner Alphabet is giving up the development of bipedal robots after five years. The company had been developing large industrial robots since it bought two start-ups - Schaft and Boston Dynami...

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

Greenland ice sheet hides giant 'impact crater'

-- 2018-11-15 17:57:00

What looks to be a large impact crater has been identified beneath the Greenland ice sheet. The 31km-wide depression came to light when scientists examined radar images of the island's bedrock. Inve...

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

‘AI brings both benefits and challenges to banking’

-- 2018-11-15 15:04:07

The application of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in banking industry could bring benefits and challenges to consumers, bankers and regulators, US Federal Reserve (Fed) Governor Lael Brainard said...

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

EE names six UK cities pioneer in 5G

-- 2018-11-14 17:16:43

EE, a British mobile network operator, has announced that six UK cities will be the first to get faster 5G mobile networks. Building on existing trials, EE will turn on 5G in London, Cardiff, Edinbur...

ACM-ICPC programming contest begins at DIU

ACM-ICPC programming contest begins at DIU

-- 2018-11-10 18:17:39

A daylong programming contest began at the Shawadhinata Milonayoton of Daffodil International University campus at Ashulia on Saturday. As part of the selection of two teams for the ACM International...

Scientists develop single device to collect heat, coldness

Scientists develop single device to collect heat, coldness

-- 2018-11-10 13:31:07

American and Chinese scientists developed a single device that can collect heat from the sun and coldness from the outer space simultaneously. The study published on Thursday in the journal Joule des...

Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X, MacBook models

Apple finds quality problems in some iPhone X, MacBook models

-- 2018-11-10 13:28:16

Apple Inc said it had found some issues affecting some of its iPhone X and 13-inch MacBook pro products and said the company would fix them free of charge. The repair offers are the latest in a strin...

China unveils AI news presenter

China unveils AI news presenter

-- 2018-11-09 18:24:38

China's state news agency has unveiled a virtual newsreader sporting a sharp suit and a somewhat robotic voice. Xinhua News claims the presenter "can read texts as naturally as a professional news an...

Samsung unveils folding smartphone

Samsung unveils folding smartphone

-- 2018-11-08 16:59:52

Samsung has unveiled a folding handset at an event in San Francisco. It described its Infinity Flex Display as "the foundation of the smartphone of tomorrow" and said it intended to start production...