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Europe, Japan spacecraft soon to begin seven-year journey to Mercury

Europe, Japan spacecraft soon to begin seven-year journey to Mercury

-- 2018-10-19 16:21:17

Final preparations are underway for the launch of a joint-European and Japanese mission to Mercury, the closest planet to the Sun. An Ariane 5 rocket is scheduled to lift the BepiColombo spacecraft i...

Advertisers now sue Facebook

Advertisers now sue Facebook

-- 2018-10-19 15:24:37

Facebook was aware of inaccuracies in the way it measured how many people viewed video on its site for a year longer than it has previously admitted, court documents have claimed. Newly released pape...

Facebook shareholders want Zuckerberg out

Facebook shareholders want Zuckerberg out

-- 2018-10-18 13:55:45

Several Facebook shareholders want Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg removed as chairman amid numerous privacy scandals faced by the social media company. State treasurers from Illinois, Rhode...

Twitter releasing 2016 US election meddling data

Twitter releasing 2016 US election meddling data

-- 2018-10-18 10:44:44

Twitter is releasing all known accounts and posts related to "information operations" dating back to 2016, when it was first learned that foreign operators were using social media to meddle in US elec...

Google lifts ban on alternative versions of Android

Google lifts ban on alternative versions of Android

-- 2018-10-17 20:19:42

Google is dropping restrictions it imposed on Android-device-makers, following a clash with the EU. It is ending a ban on manufacturers having a line-up that includes tablets and phones powered by al...

Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat

Epic Games sues Fortnite cheat

-- 2018-10-17 16:48:24

A YouTube gamer who posted videos of himself cheating at Fortnite is being sued by its developer Epic Games. Brandon Lucas has attracted 1.7 million subscribers to his Golden Modz channel, where he p...

Longway AI, General Vision team up on Cognitive SSD

Longway AI, General Vision team up on Cognitive SSD

FE Online Desk 2018-10-17 15:22:32

Longway AI Technologies (Singapore) and General Vision - one of the top 10 Artificial Intelligence companies in the world - have signed a research collaboration agreement to develop a Cognitive S...

B’desh scientists come up with foot-and-mouth livestock vaccine

B’desh scientists come up with foot-and-mouth livestock vaccine

FE Report 2018-10-17 13:23:57

Bangladeshi scientists have recently developed a new vaccine for livestock to prevent foot-and-mouth disease. The vaccine is expected to help boost the country's livestock sector as it incurs a loss...

Google latest to withdraw from Saudi confce

Google latest to withdraw from Saudi confce

-- 2018-10-16 13:42:55

Alphabet’s Google has become the latest company to drop out of a business conference in Saudi Arabia. Pressure has mounted on Saudi Arabia since prominent Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a...

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

Facebook to ban misinformation on voting in upcoming US elections

-- 2018-10-16 13:26:24

Facebook Inc will ban false information about voting requirements and fact-check fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations ahead of next month’s US midterm elections, company ex...

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen dies at 65

-- 2018-10-16 11:06:56

Paul Allen, who co-founded Microsoft, has died aged 65 from complications of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. He had revealed the disease's return only two weeks ago, after previously being treated for it in...

Jack Ma to open tech institute in Indonesia

Jack Ma to open tech institute in Indonesia

-- 2018-10-14 13:39:44

Jack Ma, executive chairman of China’s Alibaba Group Holding, said he plans to open an institute to train thousands of tech entrepreneurs in Indonesia, where he is already an adviser to the gove...

29m Facebook users victims of data breach, says company

29m Facebook users victims of data breach, says company

-- 2018-10-13 14:05:49

Cyber attackers stole data from 29 million Facebook accounts using an automated program that moved from one friend to the next, Facebook Inc announced on Friday, as the social media company said its l...

Rice 'safely conserved' in gene bank

Rice 'safely conserved' in gene bank

-- 2018-10-12 15:18:45

Scientists say that more than 100 thousand varieties of rice have been safeguarded for the future. Samples in the world's largest rice gene bank in the Philippines are being used to help farmers deve...

Global internet shutdown likely in 48 hours

Global internet shutdown likely in 48 hours

-- 2018-10-12 13:00:15

Internet users across the world may experience widespread network failures as the key domain servers are slated to undergo routine maintenance over the next 48 hours, according to an ANI report run by...

Malfunctioned rocket lands safely in Kazakhstan

Malfunctioned rocket lands safely in Kazakhstan

-- 2018-10-11 17:02:26

A capsule carrying the two crew members of a Russian Soyuz rocket that malfunctioned on lift-off has landed safely in Kazakhstan. Russian Cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin and US astronaut Nick Hague are rep...

Jack Ma hails prospect of technology in Asia

Jack Ma hails prospect of technology in Asia

-- 2018-10-11 14:43:28

Jack Ma, founder of China's e-commerce giant Alibaba, hailed the prospect of technology and internet in Asia, saying China and companies like Alibaba will take up the responsibility and opportunities...

Google+ shutting down after data breach

Google+ shutting down after data breach

-- 2018-10-09 11:15:20

Alphabet’s Google will shut down the consumer version of its failed social network Google+ and tighten its data sharing policies after announcing that private profile data of at least 0.5 millio...

Bangladesh 5th largest internet using country in Asia

Bangladesh 5th largest internet using country in Asia

-- 2018-10-07 17:22:45

Bangladesh has been ranked fifth largest internet using country in Asia, according to recent data released by the Internet World Stats.  There were 0.1 million internet users in Bangladesh in 20...

Voyager 2 expected to enter interstellar space

Voyager 2 expected to enter interstellar space

-- 2018-10-07 16:54:16

NASA's Voyager 2 spacecraft launched way back in 1977 when bell bottoms and disco were in style. All these decades later, the probe appears to be nearing a massive milestone: an entry into interstella...

The indoor leafy veg farm that runs itself

The indoor leafy veg farm that runs itself

-- 2018-10-06 15:50:17

A farm in Silicon Valley which is capable of autonomously growing and picking leafy greens is about to be operational, reports BBC. For the last two and a half years, Iron Ox has been working on perf...

French researcher develops touch-sensitive robotic finger for smartphones

French researcher develops touch-sensitive robotic finger for smartphones

-- 2018-10-05 18:22:52

A touch-sensitive robotic finger that can be attached to smartphones has been developed by a researcher in France. The MobiLimb finger can crawl across the desk, waggle for attention when messages ar...

Cadillac tops in semi-automated driving test

Cadillac tops in semi-automated driving test

-- 2018-10-05 15:23:40

General Motors Co’s Cadillac outscored industry rivals in a new ranking of partially automated driving systems tested by Consumer Reports and released on Thursday. The highly influential non-pr...

Netflix eats up 15pc of world’s internet traffic

Netflix eats up 15pc of world’s internet traffic

-- 2018-10-04 19:47:49

Video streaming service Netflix is the world's most data-hungry application, consuming 15 per cent of global net traffic, according to research from bandwidth management company Sandvine. Video in ge...

Toyota, SoftBank merge to develop self-driving car services

Toyota, SoftBank merge to develop self-driving car services

-- 2018-10-04 14:28:00

Toyota Motor Corp and SoftBank Group Corp said they will team up to develop car services that rely on self-driving technology, such as hospital shuttles, as they envision a future in which fewer peopl...

Instagram suffers global outage

Instagram suffers global outage

-- 2018-10-03 14:14:53

Facebook Inc’s Instagram app was down on Wednesday for some users across several cities around the world, including London, San Francisco, and Singapore. Facebook and Instagram were not immedia...

Regulator fines Tesco Bank £16.4m over cyber-attack

Regulator fines Tesco Bank £16.4m over cyber-attack

-- 2018-10-02 17:20:42

Tesco Bank has been fined £16.4 million by the UK financial regulator for failings surrounding a cyber-attack on its customers in November 2016. The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) said the b...

BASIS to celebrate 20 years of journey

BASIS to celebrate 20 years of journey

FE Report 2018-10-01 18:05:40

The Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) is going to celebrate 20 years of its journey. The grand celebration events will kick off through ‘Youth Fest Amphitheatr...

CCA Foundation to launch cyber security awareness campaign tomorrow

CCA Foundation to launch cyber security awareness campaign tomorrow

FE Online Report 2018-09-30 13:31:33

Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation is set to launch a month-long cyber security awareness campaign across the country on Monday. To mark October as the National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCS...

'Staggering flaws' in US voting machines

'Staggering flaws' in US voting machines

-- 2018-09-30 13:00:45

Voting machines pose "serious risks" to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US stat...