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Tencent shuts poker platform amid widening gaming crackdown

Tencent shuts poker platform amid widening gaming crackdown

-- 2018-09-10 18:03:34

Tencent Holdings will shut a popular Texas Hold’Em poker video game, the Chinese tech giant said to its users on Monday, in a further step to comply with intensifying government scrutiny hitting...

Google removes Russian opposition leader's YouTube ad

Google removes Russian opposition leader's YouTube ad

-- 2018-09-09 13:42:48

Google removed a YouTube advert by Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny after authorities complained that the videos would violate an election silence law before Sunday’s vote for regional g...

Argos launches 'voice shopping' with Google Home

Argos launches 'voice shopping' with Google Home

-- 2018-09-08 17:53:14

Catalogue retailer Argos has launched a "voice shopping" service to let people reserve products in a local store using a Google Home smart speaker. It is the first retailer in the UK to offer a shopp...

Wind and solar power could sprout vegetation in Sahara

Wind and solar power could sprout vegetation in Sahara

-- 2018-09-07 16:57:06

Installing huge numbers of solar panels and wind turbines in the Sahara desert would have a major impact on rainfall, vegetation and temperatures, researchers say. They found that the actions of wind...

British Airways website suffers data breach

British Airways website suffers data breach

-- 2018-09-07 13:53:31

Financial and personal data has been stolen from potentially hundreds of thousands of British Airways customers who booked online in recent weeks, extending a run of embarrassing technological mishaps...

Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour

Twitter bans Alex Jones and Infowars for abusive behaviour

-- 2018-09-07 11:59:54

Twitter says it has permanently suspended the accounts of Alex Jones and his Infowars website. It made the move after a number of tweets that violated Twitter's abusive behaviour policy, the company...

Facebook removes Burmese translation feature

Facebook removes Burmese translation feature

Reuters 2018-09-07 11:46:09

Facebook has removed a feature that allowed users to translate Burmese posts and comments after a Reuters report showed the tool was producing bizarre results. A Reuters investigation published on Au...

76 get BASIS ICT Awards

76 get BASIS ICT Awards

FE Report 2018-09-07 10:01:30

Some 76 students and organisations have got BASIS National ICT Awards 2018 in 35 categories for their outstanding contributions to advancement of the digital Bangladesh process. Bangladesh Associatio...

DHL drives India's journey in logistics innovation

DHL drives India's journey in logistics innovation

FE Online Desk 2018-09-06 15:44:13

DHL, the leading global brand in the logistics industry, has driven India’s journey in logistics innovation, with the DHL India Innovation Day held in Mumbai this year. More than 20 disruptive...

Facebook to invest $1 billion in first Asian data centre in Singapore

Facebook to invest $1 billion in first Asian data centre in Singapore

-- 2018-09-06 12:38:27

Facebook (FB.O) said on Thursday it will invest more than $1.0 billion to build its first data centre in Asia in Singapore, slated to open in 2022. Facebook’s facility will be located in the we...

Twitter admits ‘unfairly’ reducing visibility of 0.6m accounts

Twitter admits ‘unfairly’ reducing visibility of 0.6m accounts

-- 2018-09-06 12:36:15

Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey has told US lawmakers the company’s algorithms have not always been ‘impartial’. He said the platform ‘unfairly’ reduced the visibili...

Bendable smartphone on the way, Samsung alludes

Bendable smartphone on the way, Samsung alludes

-- 2018-09-05 19:49:26

Samsung's head of mobile has said it is "time to deliver" foldable smartphones, fuelling speculation the company is about to reveal a bendable device, reports BBC. In an interview with CNBC, DJ Koh s...

Right technologies unlock potential of digital workplace

Right technologies unlock potential of digital workplace

-- 2018-09-05 19:33:30

HONG KONG, CHINA: Employees who work in digital workplaces are more productive and motivated. They have higher job satisfaction, and report an overall better sense of wellbeing, according to a new glo...

Indonesia leads pack in AI adoption: Survey

Indonesia leads pack in AI adoption: Survey

-- 2018-09-05 17:28:37

Indonesia has been ranked first in terms of Artificial Intelligence (AI) implementation with 65 per cent respondent, followed by China (63 per cent) and India (62 per cent). Appier, a leading artific...

Google launches new search experience for job seekers in BD

Google launches new search experience for job seekers in BD

-- 2018-09-05 16:26:37

Google has unveiled a new search experience making it easier for job seekers in three countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh, to find employment opportunities from popular job listing websites,...

Urban wind turbine wins engineering prize

Urban wind turbine wins engineering prize

-- 2018-09-05 15:58:46

A turbine that can capture wind from any direction has won the UK's 2018 James Dyson Award. The O-Wind Turbine aims to capture inner-city wind and turn it into electricity in cities struggling to pro...

In first, UN takes steps to protect high seas from over exploitation

In first, UN takes steps to protect high seas from over exploitation

-- 2018-09-04 17:38:34

The first significant steps towards legally protecting the high seas are to take place at the UN in New York, reports BBC. These waters, defined as the open ocean far from coastlines, are threatened...

PlayStation 2 reaches 'end of life'

PlayStation 2 reaches 'end of life'

-- 2018-09-04 16:45:14

Sony has ended its repair service for the PlayStation 2, more than 18 years after it first went on sale. The console was first released in Japan in March 2000 and remains the best-selling games conso...

Ruckus Networks joins Facebook's certified ecosystem

Ruckus Networks joins Facebook's certified ecosystem

FE Online Desk 2018-09-04 14:20:59

Ruckus Networks is joining Facebook's Express Wi-Fi Certified ecosystem, a programme that allows access point manufacturers to build Wi-Fi hardware compatible with Express Wi-Fi. The company announ...

Caitong goes live with Horizon for options trading on SSE

Caitong goes live with Horizon for options trading on SSE

FE Online Desk 2018-09-04 14:05:51

Horizon Software (Horizon) said on Tuesday the China-based securities firm Caitong Securities has gone live with its Options Trading platform to trade SSE 50 ETF options on the Shanghai Stock Exchange...

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to start maiden transmission Tuesday

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to start maiden transmission Tuesday

-- 2018-09-03 17:07:16

Bangladesh’s first geostationary communication satellite Bangabandhu-I is set to start its maiden transmission on Tuesday through broadcasting of South Asian Football Federation (SAFF) Champions...

NASA's effort to get Mars rover back online

NASA's effort to get Mars rover back online

-- 2018-09-03 14:25:25

US space agency NASA is planning to start its effort to restore communication with the Mars rover 'Opportunity'. In a recent statement, NASA said it would begin a 45-day campaign of active efforts to...

China to inspect ride-hailing services vigorously

China to inspect ride-hailing services vigorously

-- 2018-09-02 14:50:39

China will conduct comprehensive inspections on all ride-hailing service companies, the transport ministry said on Friday, after a driver from dominant firm Didi Chuxing murdered a 20-year-old passeng...

Apple’s self-driving car meets first accident during road testing

Apple’s self-driving car meets first accident during road testing

-- 2018-09-01 13:20:11

An Apple Inc (AAPL.O) self-driving car was rear-ended while merging onto an expressway near the company’s Silicon Valley headquarters in the US this month, the company said in an accident report...

Pests to eat more crops in warmer world

Pests to eat more crops in warmer world

-- 2018-08-31 17:29:05

Insects will be at the heart of worldwide crop losses as the climate warms up, predicts a US study. Scientists estimate the pests will be eating 10-25 per cent more wheat, rice and maize across the g...

California looks to adopt Obama-style net neutrality rules

California looks to adopt Obama-style net neutrality rules

-- 2018-08-31 14:16:25

California lawmakers moved on Thursday toward imposing the nation’s strictest net neutrality laws on internet providers, flying in the face of sweeping new Federal Communications Commission (FCC...

Air Canada suffers over data breach

Air Canada suffers over data breach

-- 2018-08-30 16:43:18

Air Canada's app has suffered a data breach resulting in the suspected loss of thousands of its customers' personal details. The airline has warned that users who had entered their passport details i...

Jolly expressions attract goats

Jolly expressions attract goats

-- 2018-08-29 17:00:08

Scientists have found that goats are drawn to humans with happy facial expressions. The result suggests a wider range of animals can read people's moods than was previously thought. The team showed...

Facebook rolls out YouTube-like service

Facebook rolls out YouTube-like service

-- 2018-08-29 16:53:12

Facebook's Watch video-streaming service is rolling out worldwide, just over a year after its US launch. Users will be able to choose from a range of shows - from both established brands and new play...

Berkshire Hathaway buys stake in India's Paytm

Berkshire Hathaway buys stake in India's Paytm

-- 2018-08-29 16:28:13

Berkshire Hathaway Inc has acquired a 25 billion rupees ($356 million) stake in the parent of digital payments company Paytm, a source said, its first investment in an Indian startup as it moves into...