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Japanese companies betting on small-scale industrial robots

Japanese companies betting on small-scale industrial robots

-- 2018-04-20 14:19:56

A two-armed robot in a Japanese factory carefully stacks rice balls in a box, which a worker carries off for shipment to convenience stores. At another food-packaging plant, a robot shakes pepper and...

China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket

China to launch Long March-5 Y3 rocket

-- 2018-04-19 14:51:48

China plans to launch its heavy-lift carrier rocket, the Long March-5 Y3, in late 2018, after finding the cause of the failure of the Long March-5 Y2, according to the State Administration of Science,...

NASA's planet-hunter satellite on its way to orbit

NASA's planet-hunter satellite on its way to orbit

BBC 2018-04-19 14:37:33

The US space agency's TESS satellite has been launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a mission to find thousands of new worlds beyond our Solar System. The mission will survey a great swathe of s...

Airlines back creation of global drone registry: IATA

Airlines back creation of global drone registry: IATA

-- 2018-04-18 15:59:57

The world’s airlines are backing the development of a United Nations-led global registry for drones, as a rise in near collisions by unmanned aircraft and commercial jets fuels safety concerns,...

Microsoft, Facebook vow not to aid govt cyber attacks

Microsoft, Facebook vow not to aid govt cyber attacks

-- 2018-04-18 13:08:04

Microsoft, Facebook and more than 30 other global technology companies on Tuesday announced a joint pledge not to assist any government in offensive cyber attacks. The Cybersecurity Tech Accord, whic...

Bangladesh among countries which breathe dangerous air

Bangladesh among countries which breathe dangerous air

-- 2018-04-17 13:30:26

A report published by the Health Effects Institute, says that 95 per cent of the world’s population breathes dangerous air. According to the study, China’s air pollution exposures have st...

Facebook facial recognition faces lawsuit

Facebook facial recognition faces lawsuit

-- 2018-04-17 11:52:24

Facebook must face a class action lawsuit over its use of facial recognition technology, a California judge has ruled. The lawsuit alleges that Facebook gathered biometric information without users'...

Asia-Pacific strengthens its cloud capabilities

Asia-Pacific strengthens its cloud capabilities

FE Online Desk 2018-04-16 12:24:45

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - 16 April 2018 - Mature Asia-Pacific (APAC) economies continue to top the Cloud Readiness Index (CRI) 2018 rankings. Developed by the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACC...

First Bangladeshi cartoonists' sticker on Facebook

First Bangladeshi cartoonists' sticker on Facebook

-- 2018-04-15 14:24:04

On the eve of Bangla New Year 1425, Facebook has released the first Bangladeshi cartoonists' special stickers made of a character 'Drogo', a little creature. The cartoonist twin - Manik and Ratan - h...

World shipping industry to halve carbon emissions by 2050

World shipping industry to halve carbon emissions by 2050

-- 2018-04-14 14:59:47

LONDON: Members of the UN International Maritime Organisation on Friday (Apr 13) struck a deal to halve carbon dioxide emissions from shipping by 2050 in a deal that will force the industry to redesig...

Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform

Weibo to ban gay, violent content from platform

-- 2018-04-14 11:46:56

China’s Sina Weibo will remove gay and violent content, including pictures, cartoons and text posts, during a three-month clean-up campaign, the microblogging platform said. Friday’s anno...

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts

Singapore to test facial recognition on lampposts

-- 2018-04-13 15:00:13

In the not too distant future, surveillance cameras sitting atop over 100,000 lampposts in Singapore could help authorities pick out and recognise faces in crowds across the island-state. The plan to...

UK carries out cyber-attack on IS

UK carries out cyber-attack on IS

-- 2018-04-12 16:21:26

The UK has conducted a "major offensive cyber-campaign" against the Islamic State group, the director of the intelligence agency GCHQ has revealed. The operation hindered the group's ability to co-or...

'Bangabandhu-1' launches on May 4

'Bangabandhu-1' launches on May 4

agencies 2018-04-11 13:35:01

After a couple of rescheduling, Bangladesh's first commercial satellite Bangabandhu-1 will be flying to space on May 4. The satellite will be launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral, BTRC Chairm...

Government websites hacked

Government websites hacked

-- 2018-04-11 11:46:55

Hackers have attacked several government websites, including those of the prime minister's office, the home ministry and the president's office, purportedly in support of the reforms in the government...

Zuckerberg resists commitment to regulation

Zuckerberg resists commitment to regulation

-- 2018-04-11 09:42:18

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday navigated through the first of two US congressional hearings without making any further promises to support new legislation or change how the so...

All facilities now powered by clean energy, says Apple

All facilities now powered by clean energy, says Apple

-- 2018-04-10 14:16:19

Technology giant Apple Inc on Monday said it had achieved its goal of powering all of the company’s facilities with renewable energy, a milestone that includes all of its data centres, offices a...

Zuckerberg prepares for Senate hearing

Zuckerberg prepares for Senate hearing

-- 2018-04-10 13:44:06

Facebook founder and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Mark Zuckerberg’s No. 1 mission during his appearance before US lawmakers on Tuesday and Wednesday will be to defend against calls to regulate...

Security app ‘Self Protect’ launched in Meherpur

Security app ‘Self Protect’ launched in Meherpur

-- 2018-04-09 15:58:35

A Smartphone-based security app ‘Self Protect’, developed with an aim to reduce crimes in the society, has been launched in Meherpur. Saddam Hossien, a local youth developed the app that...

ESCAP launches online toolbox on social protection

ESCAP launches online toolbox on social protection

-- 2018-04-09 14:32:40

The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) has launched an innovative online platform in Bangkok aiming to support countries building inclusive social protection systems th...

Zuckerberg to meet with US lawmakers Monday

Zuckerberg to meet with US lawmakers Monday

-- 2018-04-09 12:44:12

Facebook Inc Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg will hold meetings with some US lawmakers on Monday, a day before he is due to appear at Congressional hearings over a political consultancy’...

Developing nations to study ways to dim sunshine, slow warming

Developing nations to study ways to dim sunshine, slow warming

-- 2018-04-08 10:05:39

Scientists in developing nations plan to step up research into dimming sunshine to curb climate change, hoping to judge if a man-made chemical sunshade would be less risky than a harmful rise in globa...

Facebook to introduce 'unsend' option in Messenger

Facebook to introduce 'unsend' option in Messenger

-- 2018-04-07 17:28:28

Facebook will introduce an unsend button in Messenger, which would let a user erase an unwanted message from their recipient’s inbox, as well as their own. The development immediately follows b...

Facebook backs political ad bill, sets limits on 'issue ads'

Facebook backs political ad bill, sets limits on 'issue ads'

-- 2018-04-07 12:56:27

Facebook Inc backed for the first time on Friday proposed legislation requiring social media sites to disclose the identities of buyers of online political campaign ads and introduced a new verificati...

Black holes huddling at the centre of our galaxy

Black holes huddling at the centre of our galaxy

-- 2018-04-06 20:28:52

Black holes are hanging out at the centre of our galaxy by the thousands, according to scientists who have detected a bunch of them in the neighbourhood of a supermassive black hole already known to r...

Japan's cryptocurrency exchanges face shortage of engineers

Japan's cryptocurrency exchanges face shortage of engineers

-- 2018-04-06 13:47:09

When cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck Inc explained how hackers made off with $530 million in digital money, it said part of the problem was beyond its control: Japan’s lack of software enginee...

I'm still the man to run Facebook, says Zuckerberg

I'm still the man to run Facebook, says Zuckerberg

-- 2018-04-05 16:26:15

Despite the turmoil that continues to surround his company, Mark Zuckerberg has insisted he is still the best person to lead Facebook. "When you're building something like Facebook which is unprecede...

HP launches special printer for educational sector

HP launches special printer for educational sector

FE Online Desk 2018-04-05 12:36:24

Unique Business System Limited has launched HP DesignJet printer in Bangladesh consisting of special features to simplify the educational curriculum operations in the country’s institutes. T...

Facebook data leak hits 87 million users

Facebook data leak hits 87 million users

-- 2018-04-05 11:33:03

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday the personal information of up to 87 million users, mostly in the United States, may have been improperly shared with political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, up from...

Remote places to get high-speed internet soon: Jabbar

Remote places to get high-speed internet soon: Jabbar

-- 2018-04-04 22:32:05

Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology Minister Mustafa Jabbar has said that the government will provide high-speed internet in all remote places of the country by this year.  "Thro...