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Will robots run future cities?

Will robots run future cities?

-- 2018-06-10 13:44:59

It is a terrifying vision of the future - a robot police officer with dark eyes and no discernible mouth that can identify criminals and collect evidence. The robocop, complete with police hat to giv...

Larry Ellison debuts automated Oracle offering

Larry Ellison debuts automated Oracle offering

FE Online Desk 2018-06-10 13:36:57

Oracle (NYSE: ORCL) CTO and Chairman, Larry Ellison, recently unveiled the world’s first automated enterprise cloud application upgrade product that will enable Oracle customers to reduce the ti...

EU Copyright law could put end to net memes

EU Copyright law could put end to net memes

-- 2018-06-09 14:54:14

Memes, remixes and other user-generated content could disappear online if the EU's proposed rules on copyright become law, warn experts. Digital rights groups are campaigning against the Copyright Di...

Is there life on Mars?

Is there life on Mars?

Reuters 2018-06-08 12:10:34

A NASA rover has detected a bonanza of organic compounds on the surface of Mars and seasonal fluctuations of atmospheric methane in findings released on Thursday that mark some of the strongest evid...

Google stops political ads in Washington State

Google stops political ads in Washington State

-- 2018-06-08 11:03:37

Google stopped accepting political ads in Washington state of America Thursday, the same day changes to the state's campaign-finance reporting requirements and enforcement procedures took effect. The...

Muhith proposes Tk 122b for Science and Technology

Muhith proposes Tk 122b for Science and Technology

-- 2018-06-07 17:15:50

With the government's huge focus on building a science-savvy nation, Finance Minister AMA Muhith on Thursday set aside Tk 122 billion for the Science and Technology Ministry in the proposed budget for...

City left in dismay after cyber attack

City left in dismay after cyber attack

-- 2018-06-07 15:22:29

The Atlanta cyber attack has had a more serious impact on the city’s ability to deliver basic services than previously understood, a city official said at a public meeting on Wednesday, as she p...

Facebook admits data sharing with Chinese companies

Facebook admits data sharing with Chinese companies

Reuters 2018-06-06 12:00:19

Facebook says it has data sharing partnerships with at least four Chinese companies including Huawei, the world’s third largest smartphone maker, which has come under scrutiny from US intelligen...

50 nations 'curbing plastic pollution'

50 nations 'curbing plastic pollution'

-- 2018-06-05 18:41:45

Fifty nations are now taking action to reduce plastic pollution, according to the biggest report so far from the UN. It reveals that the Galapagos will ban single-use plastics, Sri Lanka will ban sty...

Apple focuses on speed, upgrades

Apple focuses on speed, upgrades

-- 2018-06-05 14:25:25

Tech giant Apple Inc on Monday unveiled software upgrades that would let older iPhones run faster, help parents limit their children’s screen time and make its Siri voice assistant work more lik...

'If the ocean dies, so do we'

'If the ocean dies, so do we'

-- 2018-06-04 11:40:44

The celebrated author Margaret Atwood has told a conference that humanity's future is linked to the survival of ocean ecosystems. Commenting on ocean plastic pollution, she said: "Something has to be...

Software and stealth go hand-in-hand for carmakers

Software and stealth go hand-in-hand for carmakers

-- 2018-06-03 16:55:02

Carmakers including Renault, Jaguar Land Rover and Peugeot have boosted revenues by over $1 billion in the past decade by using sophisticated pricing software, according to sales presentations prepare...

Barcelona shutting up neighbours via sensors

Barcelona shutting up neighbours via sensors

-- 2018-06-03 14:13:45

Spain’s Barcelona is hushing their neighbourhoods with state of the art easy to use sensors that can detect air pollution, noise levels, humidity and temperature. In the heart of the bustling...

Google 'not to renew' Pentagon AI project contract

Google 'not to renew' Pentagon AI project contract

-- 2018-06-02 15:52:32

Technology leader Google will not renew a contract to do artificial intelligence work for the US Pentagon, company sources say. The decision follows strong opposition in the technology giant's workfo...

Apple to launch phone-to-phone augmented reality: Sources

Apple to launch phone-to-phone augmented reality: Sources

-- 2018-06-02 12:33:12

Tech giant Apple Inc next week will debut tools to let two iPhone users share augmented reality while limiting the personal data sent to its servers, two people familiar with the matter said this week...

Throwback Atari fetches $2.0m in pre-orders

Throwback Atari fetches $2.0m in pre-orders

-- 2018-06-01 10:58:16

It's the latest attempt to cash in on gamers' nostalgia - a throwback console that promises "100+" classic games built in, with new online play. Pre-orders for the Atari VCS went into overdrive on We...

Scientists find ice dunes on Pluto

Scientists find ice dunes on Pluto

-- 2018-06-01 10:28:20

Scientists say they have found evidence of dunes of frozen methane on Pluto. The research, which is published in the journal Science, suggests that the distant world is more dynamic than previously t...

Uber, Waymo in talks over driverless-car partnership: Uber CEO

Uber, Waymo in talks over driverless-car partnership: Uber CEO

-- 2018-05-31 13:09:24

Uber Technologies Inc is talking with Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit Waymo about using its technology on Uber’s ride-hailing app, Uber Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said on Wed...

Tesla car crashes again

Tesla car crashes again

-- 2018-05-30 13:54:47

The driver of a Tesla Inc Model S crashed into an unoccupied, parked police vehicle in Laguna Beach, California, on Tuesday and the driver told investigators the Tesla was in “autopilot” m...

Scientists measure dolphin ‘happiness’

Scientists measure dolphin ‘happiness’

-- 2018-05-29 20:36:24

Scientists working with dolphins at a marine park near Paris have attempted to measure how the animals feel about aspects of their lives in captivity. In what researchers say is the first project to...

India Uber president to head Asia Pacific operations

India Uber president to head Asia Pacific operations

-- 2018-05-29 16:22:36

Uber’s India President Amit Jain has been promoted to head of the global ride-hailing firm’s Asia Pacific operations, which includes Australia, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong and India, the...

Nat’l Australia Bank tech outage puts lives in misery

Nat’l Australia Bank tech outage puts lives in misery

-- 2018-05-27 12:52:14

National Australia Bank on Saturday suffered what it described as a “nationwide outage” to some of its technology systems, leaving customers unable to access banking services or withdraw m...

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

Russia hacked hundreds of thousands of routers: FBI

-- 2018-05-26 11:41:48

The FBI warned that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic. The US law enforcement a...

Scientists discover vast canyons in Antarctica

Scientists discover vast canyons in Antarctica

-- 2018-05-25 19:37:38

  Scientists have discovered three giant canyons in one of the last places to be explored on Earth - under the ice at the South Pole. The deep troughs run for hundreds of kilometres, cutting th...

Tesla's Musk declares war on media

Tesla's Musk declares war on media

-- 2018-05-25 15:12:40

Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk gained the support on Thursday of more than half a million people on Twitter for plans to create a website evaluating journalists’ credibility, spurred by his fru...

EU privacy law heralds new era in online data protection

EU privacy law heralds new era in online data protection

-- 2018-05-25 13:14:49

New European privacy regulations that go into effect on Friday will force companies to be more attentive to how they handle customer data, while bringing consumers both new ways to control their data...

Italy to auction 5G frequencies

Italy to auction 5G frequencies

-- 2018-05-24 17:14:59

Italy’s communications regulator AGCOM said on Wednesday the government would auction frequencies for fifth-generation mobile services in September, in a move it expects to raise at least 2.5 bi...

Ride-hailing firm Go-Jek plans to expand abroad

Ride-hailing firm Go-Jek plans to expand abroad

-- 2018-05-24 15:11:42

Indonesian ride-hailing and online payment firm Go-Jek on Thursday said it would enter Vietnam, Thailand, Singapore and the Philippines in the next few months, investing $500 million in its internatio...

Satellites in orbit to weigh Earth’s water

Satellites in orbit to weigh Earth’s water

-- 2018-05-23 17:10:28

A joint US-German mission has gone into orbit to weigh the water on Earth. The Grace satellites are replacing a pair of highly successful spacecraft that stopped working last year. Like their predec...

Amazon defends giving police face ID tech

Amazon defends giving police face ID tech

-- 2018-05-23 17:09:05

Amazon has defended working with US police forces to provide facial recognition technology, amid concern from civil rights groups. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and others, said the reta...