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Egyptian students design car that runs on air

Egyptian students design car that runs on air

-- 2018-08-09 11:40:29

A group of Egyptian students has designed a vehicle they say will battle rising energy prices and promote clean energy by running on nothing but air. The undergraduate students, who built the vehicle...

Samsung Galaxy S7 vulnerable to hacking, researchers say

Samsung Galaxy S7 vulnerable to hacking, researchers say

-- 2018-08-08 14:00:02

Samsung’s Galaxy S7 smartphones contain a microchip security flaw, uncovered earlier this year, that put tens of millions of devices at risk to hackers looking to spy on their users, researche...

Appier launches AI-driven AIQUA

Appier launches AI-driven AIQUA

FE Online Desk 2018-08-07 16:06:57

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has launched AIQUA, a proactive marketing automation platform. It launched the platform, now available throughout the Asia-Pacific, on Tuesday,...

Singapore tests eye scans at immigration checkpoints

Singapore tests eye scans at immigration checkpoints

-- 2018-08-07 13:15:05

Singapore has started scanning travellers’ eyes at some of its border checkpoints, its immigration authority said on Monday, in a trial of expensive technology that could one day replace fingerp...

Astronomers discover "rogue planet" outside solar system

Astronomers discover "rogue planet" outside solar system

-- 2018-08-06 17:39:09

Scientists have made the first radio-telescope detection of a huge free-floating planet beyond our solar system, a new study said. The planetary-mass object, called SIMP J01365663+0933473, is about a...

Italian professor wins Fields Medal

Italian professor wins Fields Medal

-- 2018-08-05 17:07:55

Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli has won the Fields Medal, which is awarded every four years to the most accomplished mathematicians in the world under the age of 40, the International Mathematic...

Five big things that have made Apple

Five big things that have made Apple

-- 2018-08-04 13:40:49

It has been called the most successful company in history. And it's just become the world's first public company to be worth $1 trillion (£767bn). So how has it done it? Here's a quick look a...

Lemurs on the verge of extinction

Lemurs on the verge of extinction

-- 2018-08-03 17:29:54

Almost every species of lemur, wide-eyed primates unique to Madagascar, is under threat of extinction. That is the conclusion of an international group of conservationists, who carried out an assessm...

Bezos throws cash, engineers into space race

Bezos throws cash, engineers into space race

-- 2018-08-03 17:15:38

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos is racing to pull his private space company out of start-up mode and move into production amid signals that his firm’s heavy rocket set for lift-off in 2020 may sli...

Ex-Obama official to lead Britain’s tech economy team

Ex-Obama official to lead Britain’s tech economy team

-- 2018-08-02 20:16:27

Britain has hired Jason Furman, chief economist in former US President Barack Obama’s administration, to chair a new panel that will steer its approach to digital technology, the UK government s...

Google ‘plans censored China search engine’

Google ‘plans censored China search engine’

-- 2018-08-02 14:54:59

Google is developing a version of its search engine that will conform to China's censorship laws, reports say. The company shut down the engine in 2010, complaining that free speech was being limited...

Facebook, Instagram introduce time limit tool

Facebook, Instagram introduce time limit tool

-- 2018-08-01 18:28:27

Facebook and Instagram are releasing a new tool to limit how much time people spend on their apps. The announcement follows concerns that excessive social media usage can have a negative impact on me...

Facebook uncovers meddling ahead of US midterm poll

Facebook uncovers meddling ahead of US midterm poll

-- 2018-08-01 11:15:11

Facebook has identified a new coordinated political influence campaign to mislead users and organise rallies ahead of November’s US congressional elections, taking down dozens of fake accounts...

Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs

Thousands download 3D-printed gun designs

-- 2018-07-31 19:43:15

Blueprints for 3D-printed guns, published online four days early amid last-minute attempts to ban them, have been downloaded thousands of times. The designs were not due to be made public until Wedne...

Uber stops developing self-driving trucks

Uber stops developing self-driving trucks

-- 2018-07-31 11:36:50

Uber has stopped developing self-driving trucks as the programme is no longer competitive in the freight shipping industry, the ridesharing company announced Monday. The company said it wants to re...

China's Xiangying-200 unmanned helicopter completes test flights

China's Xiangying-200 unmanned helicopter completes test flights

-- 2018-07-29 15:26:57

China's large unmanned helicopter, the Xiangying-200, has completed its test flights, according to its developer. Developed by the Shenyang Institute of Automation under the Chinese Academy of Scienc...

'Tech firms should be made liable for fake news'

'Tech firms should be made liable for fake news'

-- 2018-07-28 16:53:23

British lawmakers said tech firms like Facebook should be made liable for harmful and misleading material on their websites. Describing the misuse of personal data as crisis in democracy, the lawmake...

YouTube plans original programming in India

YouTube plans original programming in India

-- 2018-07-28 11:23:31

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube is creating scripted series and other original programming for international markets including France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and India to try to draw new customers to its...

Google warns of bias in facial recognition

Google warns of bias in facial recognition

-- 2018-07-27 13:08:24

Facial recognition technology does not yet have "the diversity it needs” and has “inherent biases”, a top Google executive has warned. The remarks, from the firm’s director of...

'Blood moon' to appear today

'Blood moon' to appear today

-- 2018-07-27 13:04:56

A blood moon will appear in the night sky around much of the world on Friday night (today) as the moon moves into the shadow of the earth for the longest lunar eclipse of the 21st Century. The total...

Country opens centre to test software quality

Country opens centre to test software quality

-- 2018-07-27 12:56:46

The government has set up a centre to test software quality, a move hailed as ‘another step forward by Digital Bangladesh’ initiative. Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wa...

Appier gets first chief artificial intelligence scientist

Appier gets first chief artificial intelligence scientist

FE Desk 2018-07-26 13:09:05

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, has appointed Dr. Min Sun as its first chief artificial intelligence scientist. It made the announcement in a Media OutReach-forwarded statemen...

Scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars

Scientists find evidence of liquid water on Mars

-- 2018-07-25 21:13:56

Researchers have found evidence of an existing body of liquid water on Mars, reports BBC. What they believe to be a lake sits beneath the Red Planet's south polar ice cap, and is about 20km across....

Facebook using AI to counter fake news

Facebook using AI to counter fake news

-- 2018-07-25 14:04:13

Facebook officials has said the company is using a range of techniques including artificial intelligence to counter Russian operatives or others who use deceptive tactics and false information to mani...

UK plans to spend billions on full-fiber network broadband

UK plans to spend billions on full-fiber network broadband

-- 2018-07-24 14:39:30

Britain could pay for the roll out of full-fiber broadband to its most remote regions with up to $6.6 billion of public money to tackle its position at the bottom of the European league for “gol...

Internet of people making a difference  for decentralisation and censorship   

Internet of people making a difference for decentralisation and censorship  

FE Online Desk 2018-07-24 14:10:23

The Internet of People (IoP) says it is creating a new internet allowing for decentralisation and censorship around the world. Thus it is helping everyone connect and do business free from censorship...

Scientists develop flexible micro-batteries for super performance

Scientists develop flexible micro-batteries for super performance

-- 2018-07-22 15:01:38

Chinese scientists have developed flexible micro-batteries with high energy density and steady performance under extraordinary high-temperature, the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced recentl...

Facebook to launch own internet satellite in 2019

Facebook to launch own internet satellite in 2019

-- 2018-07-21 20:59:30

Facebook wants to launch its own Internet satellite, Athena, early in 2019 as part of its plan to connect billions of people who are still offline. The social media giant appears to have filed an app...

First-ever baby snake fossil gives insight into lost world

First-ever baby snake fossil gives insight into lost world

-- 2018-07-21 19:01:00

The fossil of a baby snake has been discovered entombed inside amber. The creature has been frozen in time for 99 million years. The snake lived in what is now Myanmar, during the age of the dinosau...

NASA probe to fly closest to Sun

NASA probe to fly closest to Sun

-- 2018-07-21 17:31:13

NASA is preparing to send a probe closer to the Sun than any other spacecraft has ventured, enduring wicked heat while zooming through the solar corona to study this outermost part of the stellar atmo...