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NASA launches spacecraft to Mars to dig the red planet

NASA launches spacecraft to Mars to dig the red planet

-- 2018-05-05 20:45:02

A robotic geologist armed with a hammer and quake monitor rocketed toward Mars on Saturday, aiming to land on the red planet and explore its mysterious insides. In a twist, NASA launched the Mars InS...

Annan tells Facebook to act faster on hate speech

Annan tells Facebook to act faster on hate speech

-- 2018-05-05 16:25:41

Former UN chief Kofi Annan has urged Facebook Inc to consider establishing a special team to respond more quickly to threats of sectarian violence in countries such as Myanmar that are at high risk....

‘APSTAR-6C’ communication satellite hits orbit

‘APSTAR-6C’ communication satellite hits orbit

-- 2018-05-05 13:20:31

China launched a new communication satellite "APSTAR-6C" at 12:06 am Friday at the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Centre. The satellite was sent into orbit by the Long March-3B carrier rocket....

Twitter urges all users to change passwords after bug

Twitter urges all users to change passwords after bug

-- 2018-05-04 10:19:24

Twitter has urged its more than 330 million users to change their passwords after a glitch caused some to be stored in readable text on its internal computer system rather than disguised by a proces...

Google introduces 360-degree doodle

Google introduces 360-degree doodle

-- 2018-05-03 12:27:59

Google has created a Virtual Reality (VR) - 360 degree interactive Doodle to celebrate the life and artistry of French illusionist and film director Georges Melies. This is the first-ever VR doodle b...

Cambridge Analytica shutting down

Cambridge Analytica shutting down

-- 2018-05-03 09:39:49

Cambridge Analytica, the firm embroiled in a controversy over its handling of Facebook Inc user data, and its British parent SCL Elections Ltd, are shutting down immediately after suffering a sharp dr...

Hawking's final paper puts forward multiverse theory

Hawking's final paper puts forward multiverse theory

-- 2018-05-02 20:01:25

Prof Stephen Hawking's final research paper suggests that our Universe may be one of many similar to our own. The theory resolves a cosmic paradox of the late physicist's own making. It also points...

Facebook to play matchmaker in first dating service

Facebook to play matchmaker in first dating service

Reuters 2018-05-02 09:37:39

Facebook Inc will offer its first dating service, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg said on Tuesday, signalling the entry of the world's largest social network into a growing market that sent shares of...

Facial recognition tech at Singapore airport likely to locate lost passengers

Facial recognition tech at Singapore airport likely to locate lost passengers

-- 2018-05-01 20:43:48

Ever been delayed on a flight because of straggling fellow passengers? That might be an annoyance of the past at Singapore’s Changi airport which is testing facial recognition systems that cou...

Scientists reveal genetic secrets of rose

Scientists reveal genetic secrets of rose

-- 2018-05-01 20:17:38

Take time to smell the roses, the saying goes, and, according to scientists, the fragrant flowers could smell even sweeter in the future. For the first time researchers have deciphered the full genet...

Rising ‘frustration’ likely to delay UN climate negotiations

Rising ‘frustration’ likely to delay UN climate negotiations

-- 2018-05-01 18:29:28

Old divisions between rich and poor over money and ambition are again threatening to limit progress in UN climate negotiations. Discussions between negotiators from nearly 200 countries have resumed...

Drones being used to save lives

Drones being used to save lives

-- 2018-05-01 16:10:23

Drones may be best known for taking impressive aerial videos and inspecting buildings, infrastructure and crops, but they also promise to improve mobile and internet connectivity for emergency service...

WhatsApp co-founder leaving Facebook

WhatsApp co-founder leaving Facebook

-- 2018-05-01 09:54:51

WhatsApp co-founder Jan Koum on Monday put out word that he is leaving Facebook, which bought the smartphone messaging service four years ago for $19 billion. “It is time for me to move on . ....

S'pore, Hong Kong top cloud computing countries in Asia Pacific

S'pore, Hong Kong top cloud computing countries in Asia Pacific

FE Online Desk 2018-04-30 14:31:15

Singapore and Hong Kong have come up on top across the Asia Pacific (APAC) region as having the most favourable policies for cloud adoption, according to a report from the Asia Cloud Computing Associa...

Heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover cracks during test

Heat shield for NASA's Mars 2020 rover cracks during test

-- 2018-04-30 12:39:41

The heat shield for the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s upcoming Mars rover suffered a fracture during testing recently, but the situation will not affect the mission's launc...

EU digital tax on corporate turnover faces uphill road

EU digital tax on corporate turnover faces uphill road

-- 2018-04-29 13:55:25

A European Commission plan to tax the digital turnover of large companies drew scepticism on Saturday from the global rule-setting body on tax matters and some EU states, which called instead for an i...

Grameenphone signs MoU with DataSoft to foster IoT

Grameenphone signs MoU with DataSoft to foster IoT

FE Online Desk 2018-04-28 12:59:41

Grameenphone and DataSoft have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop comprehensive IoT solutions for businesses that will leverage both DataSoft’sIoT application development capa...

China launches Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites

China launches Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites

-- 2018-04-28 11:25:23

China on Thursday sent five Zhuhai-1 remote sensing satellites into space on a single carrier rocket. The Long March-11 carrier rocket lifted off from Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest Chi...

Britain looks to ancient mines for electric future

Britain looks to ancient mines for electric future

-- 2018-04-27 16:47:38

Britain is banking on a series of ancient mines on its southwestern tip to secure a slice of the global electric car revolution. The English county of Cornwall and the surrounding area boast one of t...

US, Europe joint mission on cards to bring rocks from Mars

US, Europe joint mission on cards to bring rocks from Mars

-- 2018-04-26 20:30:37

The US and European space agencies are edging towards a joint mission to bring back rock and soil samples from Mars. Nasa and Esa have signed a letter of intent that could lead to the first "round tr...

Tesla's head of Autopilot leaves

Tesla's head of Autopilot leaves

-- 2018-04-26 14:56:30

Tesla Inc said on Thursday Jim Keller, the head of its low-voltage hardware, Autopilot software and infotainment, is leaving the automaker to focus on microprocessor engineering with another company....

Gmail adds self-destruct option

Gmail adds self-destruct option

-- 2018-04-25 21:01:58

Google's email service is adding the option to allow messages to become inaccessible after a set time as it prepares for tougher data privacy laws. A new "confidential mode" can also be used to stop...

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to launch May 7: Jabbar

Bangabandhu-1 satellite to launch May 7: Jabbar

FE Report 2018-04-25 14:06:31

Telecom and ICT Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said the country’s first space satellite Bangabandhu-1 will launch on May 7. “The latest rescheduled date of launching the Bangabandhu Satelli...

China cops seize 600 computers used for bitcoin mining

China cops seize 600 computers used for bitcoin mining

-- 2018-04-25 13:55:10

Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesd...

Spotify tests filter to skip explicit songs

Spotify tests filter to skip explicit songs

-- 2018-04-24 14:08:03

Spotify, the UK's biggest music streaming service, has started testing a way of filtering out songs which have explicit lyrics. The feature has been introduced on its iPhone and iPad apps - six years...

YouTube publishes deleted videos report

YouTube publishes deleted videos report

-- 2018-04-24 13:09:07

YouTube's first three-monthly "enforcement report" reveals the website deleted 8.3 million videos between October and December 2017 for breaching its community guidelines. The figure does not include...

Facebook introduces mobile recharge service in India

Facebook introduces mobile recharge service in India

-- 2018-04-23 18:11:18

Facebook has introduced a new feature in India that allows users to recharge prepaid mobile connections. The feature is currently available on Facebook’s Android application. The latest featur...

Apple offers battery replacement for faulty MacBooks

Apple offers battery replacement for faulty MacBooks

Reuters 2018-04-22 12:37:55

Apple said component failure in a limited number of MacBook Pros has caused built-in battery to expand, adding, it will offer worldwide free replacement for such batteries. The flaw, reported in some...

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

5.2 quake shakes Myanmar

-- 2018-04-21 14:20:05

An earthquake of magnitude 5.2 has shaken Myanmar’s Bago region on early Saturday. The quake, with an epicentre of 40 km southwest of Phyu city, struck at 04:58:42 local time, said the Meteorol...

A free app that offers thousands of pounds

A free app that offers thousands of pounds

-- 2018-04-21 12:41:37

How do you win thousands of pounds straight from your phone for free? For many, the answer is the popular quiz show app HQ Trivia. The game came to the UK in early 2018 after being released in the US...