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Facebook launches ‘Ad Breaks’ in Bangladesh

Facebook launches ‘Ad Breaks’ in Bangladesh

-- 2018-11-07 17:15:39

Facebook on Wednesday launched its ‘Ad Breaks’ facility in Bangladesh. Through the facility, eligible publishers and creators can now join ‘Ad Breaks’ and monetise their longe...

University of Oxford to develop AI healthcare applications

University of Oxford to develop AI healthcare applications

-- 2018-11-07 14:33:19

The University of Oxford announced said that it will step up its efforts to develop artificial intelligence (AI) healthcare applications with funding support from public and private sectors, so as to...

Facebook blocks 115 accounts on eve of US midterms

Facebook blocks 115 accounts on eve of US midterms

-- 2018-11-06 13:37:18

Facebook blocked about 115 user accounts after US authorities tipped it off to suspicious behavior that may be linked to a foreign entity, the company said in a blog post on Monday, hours before US vo...

Pets can tell time: Study

Pets can tell time: Study

-- 2018-11-05 20:51:58

A study from Northwestern University (NU) in United States has found some of the clearest evidence that animals can judge time. By examining the brain's medial entorhinal cortex, the researchers d...

Discovery of gene may lead to disease-resistant crops

Discovery of gene may lead to disease-resistant crops

-- 2018-11-04 14:16:07

Researchers have found a gene that can help control plants' response to disease, which may pave the way for developing infection-resistant crops, according to a study released recently by the Universi...

Web needs more love, says its creator

Web needs more love, says its creator

-- 2018-11-03 13:36:46

Web creator Sir Tim Berners-Lee is "disappointed" with the current state of his invention and how it allows hate to prosper. In a recent interview, Sir Tim said some sites' software skewed interactio...

Govt backs off from setting up free Wi-Fi zones, finally

Govt backs off from setting up free Wi-Fi zones, finally

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-11-03 10:16:25

The government has finally backtracked on a plan to set up a thousand free Wi-Fi zones across the country, when it came to the question of financial viability of such a scheme. At the same time, it a...

Hacked Facebook private messages up for sale

Hacked Facebook private messages up for sale

-- 2018-11-02 15:35:50

Hackers appear to have compromised and published private messages from at least 81,000 Facebook users' accounts. The perpetrators told the BBC Russian Service that they had details from a total of 12...

Oceans heating up more rapidly than previously thought

Oceans heating up more rapidly than previously thought

-- 2018-11-01 16:24:58

The world has seriously underestimated the amount of heat soaked up by our oceans over the past 25 years, researchers say. Their study suggests that the seas have absorbed 60 per cent more than previ...

Earth's wilderness areas rapidly vanishing: Report

Earth's wilderness areas rapidly vanishing: Report

-- 2018-11-01 14:45:54

The untouched wildness areas on earth are rapidly disappearing, and urgent international action is needed to protect them, according to a study published Wednesday in the journal Nature. "A century a...

Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook

Fake Cambridge Analytica ad hits Facebook

-- 2018-10-31 21:23:45

A fake advert purporting to have been paid for by scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica has been posted to Facebook. The ad, now removed but still visible in Facebook's new ad transparency portal, uses the...

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach $1 million at NY auction

Soviet-era moon fragments could reach $1 million at NY auction

-- 2018-10-31 14:19:19

Wealthy space buffs will have the chance to own three small particles of lunar matter when what Sotheby’s describes as the only known documented “moon rocks” to be legally available...

Origin of chocolate pushed back in time

Origin of chocolate pushed back in time

-- 2018-10-30 18:43:18

Chocolate has been a delicacy for much longer than previously thought. Botanical evidence shows the plant from which chocolate is made was first grown for food more than 5,000 years ago in the Amazon...

Facebook launches digital literacy library in Bangla, five other languages

Facebook launches digital literacy library in Bangla, five other languages

-- 2018-10-30 15:02:09

Facebook has launched the Digital Literacy Library, a collection of lessons in six languages—Bangla, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam, to train 3,00,000 people in India by end of 2018...

Japan launches greenhouse gas satellite

Japan launches greenhouse gas satellite

-- 2018-10-29 14:53:00

Japan has launched a greenhouse gas observation satellite into its planned orbit where it will collect data on carbon dioxide and other gases thought to be linked to global warming as it orbits the ea...

China’s privately developed rocket fails after launch

China’s privately developed rocket fails after launch

-- 2018-10-28 15:58:48

A privately developed Chinese carrier rocket failed to reach orbit after lifting off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on Saturday, in a blow to the country’s nascent attempts by private comp...

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

Robots to make robots at ABB's new $150 million factory in China

-- 2018-10-28 12:39:07

Robots will make robots at a new ABB factory in China, which the Swiss engineering group said on Saturday it plans to build for $150 million in Shanghai as it defends its place as the country’s...

Engineers invent natural cooling system

Engineers invent natural cooling system

-- 2018-10-27 13:53:35

Engineers from two American universities developed a kind of natural air conditioner with almost no consumption of electricity. The study published on Friday in the journal Joule described the innova...

Ai-created artwork sells for $432,000

Ai-created artwork sells for $432,000

-- 2018-10-26 16:36:21

An artwork created by an artificially intelligent program has been sold at auction for $432,000 (£337,000). The final price is far higher than the $7,000-$10,000 estimate put on it by Christie'...

Google fires 48 over sexual harassment

Google fires 48 over sexual harassment

-- 2018-10-26 13:01:25

Google Inc Chief Executive Sundar Pichai on Thursday said the company had fired 48 employees for sexual harassment over the past two years. Pichai sent an email to Google employees in response to a N...

Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook fined £500,000 for Cambridge Analytica scandal

-- 2018-10-25 16:08:09

Facebook has been fined £500,000 by the UK's data protection watchdog for its role in the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. The Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) said Facebook had let a "...

Facebook removes 8.7m child nudity images

Facebook removes 8.7m child nudity images

-- 2018-10-25 13:21:52

Facebook has pulled 8.7 million pieces of child nudity content from its platform in the past three months to fight child exploitation, it said on Wednesday. The US top social media network said it...

Nasa 'fixes' Hubble telescope

Nasa 'fixes' Hubble telescope

-- 2018-10-24 17:03:58

Nasa believes it has fixed a malfunction with the Hubble telescope which threatened to limit the orbiting observatory's performance. Earlier this month, one of Hubble's gyros - needed to point the sp...

Scientists discover ‘oldest’ intact shipwreck

Scientists discover ‘oldest’ intact shipwreck

-- 2018-10-23 16:42:39

A team of maritime archaeologists, scientists and surveyors has discovered what it believes to be the world's oldest intact shipwreck — a Greek trading vessel whose design had previously been se...

Facebook shuts fake, spamming accounts ahead of Brazil runoff

Facebook shuts fake, spamming accounts ahead of Brazil runoff

-- 2018-10-23 10:28:52

Facebook Inc said it had removed 68 pages and 43 accounts associated with a Brazilian marketing group, Raposo Fernandes Associados (RFA), for violating the social media network’s misrepresentati...

Japan tells Facebook to improve data protection

Japan tells Facebook to improve data protection

-- 2018-10-22 15:02:57

The Japanese government is set to tell Facebook to better protect its users’ personal data after a leak involving British firm Cambridge Analytica that affected 87 million users globally, Kyodo...

Eight BD groups to take part in NASA Space Apps Challenge

Eight BD groups to take part in NASA Space Apps Challenge

FE Report 2018-10-22 10:54:28

Eight Bangladeshi youth groups will take part in the international phase of NASA Space Apps Challenge 2018. These eight groups were selected through a competition organised by the Bangladesh Associat...

Scientists discover deep sea cucumber in ocean

Scientists discover deep sea cucumber in ocean

-- 2018-10-21 14:44:59

Australian scientists studying the Antarctic have filmed what they said is a highly unusual sea cucumber, marking first time the organism has been spotted deep in the Southern Ocean, local media repor...

Online sellers 'pay for positive reviews'

Online sellers 'pay for positive reviews'

-- 2018-10-20 14:03:58

Some online sellers are offering people free goods in return for positive product reviews, an investigation by consumer group Which? has found. Its investigator joined several "rewards for reviews" g...

Scientists discover fossil of earliest piranha

Scientists discover fossil of earliest piranha

-- 2018-10-19 16:23:18

Scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a piranha-like species that they say is the earliest known example of a flesh-eating fish. This bony creature, found in South Germany, lived about...