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Zipline blood delivery drone applies for US trial

Zipline blood delivery drone applies for US trial

-- 2018-04-04 14:46:04

Drone delivery firm Zipline has revealed a new aircraft that it says will let it make up to 500 deliveries every day. Zipline operates a commercial service delivering blood supplies in Rwanda. The n...

Zuckerberg aware of anti-Rohingya propaganda spread through Facebook

Zuckerberg aware of anti-Rohingya propaganda spread through Facebook

-- 2018-04-03 16:54:30

Facebook's chief executive and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg on Monday said the social media company is aware that its tools have been used to spread anti-Rohingya propaganda and "incite real harm" in My...

Facebook's Zuckerberg fires back at Apple's Tim Cook

Facebook's Zuckerberg fires back at Apple's Tim Cook

-- 2018-04-03 13:50:00

Facebook's chief executive has defended his leadership following criticism from his counterpart at Apple. Mark Zuckerberg said it was "extremely glib" to suggest that because the public did not pay t...

US safety agency slams Tesla crash data release

US safety agency slams Tesla crash data release

-- 2018-04-02 14:56:27

The US National Transportation Safety Board said on Sunday it was “unhappy” that electric car maker Tesla Inc made public information about the crash of its Model X vehicle on Autopilot th...

Chinese space station burns up over South Pacific

Chinese space station burns up over South Pacific

-- 2018-04-02 09:40:22

China’s Tiangong-1 space station re-entered the earth’s atmosphere and burnt up over the middle of the South Pacific on Monday, the Chinese space authority said. The “vast majority&...

China space lab plunges to Earth on Monday

China space lab plunges to Earth on Monday

-- 2018-04-01 18:37:12

Debris from a defunct Chinese space station is seen crashing to Earth on Monday, scientists monitoring it say. China's space agency said the station will re-enter the atmosphere in the next 24 hours...

Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing

Microsoft gambles on a quantum leap in computing

-- 2018-04-01 13:11:02

In a laboratory in Copenhagen, scientists believe they are on the verge of a breakthrough that could transform computing. A team combining Microsoft researchers and Niels Bohr Institute academics is...

Bangabandhu-1 reaches launch site in Florida

Bangabandhu-1 reaches launch site in Florida

-- 2018-03-31 21:49:19

Bangladesh's first satellite to be launched into outer space, Bangabandhu-1, has been safely transported to its launch site. Thales Alenia Space, the French firm that built the 3.5-metric tonne commu...

Google employees organise to fight cyber bullying at work

Google employees organise to fight cyber bullying at work

-- 2018-03-31 13:06:32

About 100 Google US employees concerned about cyber bullying inside the company have organised into a group proposing new policies for conduct at the unit of Alphabet Inc, five people involved in the...

Call to promote safe internet for children

Call to promote safe internet for children

FE Online Report 2018-03-30 20:49:30

Eleven per cent children under 18 fall victim to cyber crimes in Bangladesh that pose a major threat to their lives, according to UNICEF. The Cyber Crime Awareness Foundation, a voluntary organisatio...

Scientists find galaxy without dark matter

Scientists find galaxy without dark matter

-- 2018-03-30 18:16:30

In a recent discovery, researchers uncovered a galaxy, that lacks the enigmatic substance known as the dark matter, which is generally considered as an essential ingredient in the birth of galaxies....

US regulator approves SpaceX plan for broadband satellite services

US regulator approves SpaceX plan for broadband satellite services

-- 2018-03-30 12:57:44

The top US telecommunications regulator on Thursday gave formal approval to a plan by Elon Musk’s SpaceX to build a global broadband network using satellites. “This is the first approval...

India sends notice to Facebook over ‘data leakage’

India sends notice to Facebook over ‘data leakage’

-- 2018-03-29 14:00:27

India’s government has sent a notice to Facebook asking whether the personal data of Indian voters and users has been compromised by UK-based Cambridge Analytica or any other downstream entity....

Robots for elder care

Robots for elder care

-- 2018-03-29 10:54:52

Paro the furry seal cries softly while an elderly woman pets it. Pepper, a humanoid, waves while leading a group of senior citizens in exercises. The upright Tree guides a disabled man taking shaky st...

Facebook tweaks privacy tools

Facebook tweaks privacy tools

-- 2018-03-29 10:35:48

Facebook Inc said on Wednesday it would end its partnerships with several large data brokers who help advertisers target people on the social network, a step that follows a scandal over how Facebook h...

Facebook data row gets bigger

Facebook data row gets bigger

-- 2018-03-28 10:37:40

A scandal engulfing Facebook over the use of its data by political consultants widened on Tuesday when a whistleblower said Canadian company AggregateIQ had developed a programme to target Republican...

Arizona suspends Uber's self-driving cars

Arizona suspends Uber's self-driving cars

-- 2018-03-27 14:32:37

The governor of Arizona on Monday suspended Uber’s ability to test self-driving cars on public roads in the state following a fatal crash last week that killed a 49-year-old pedestrian. The dec...

Smartphones with longer battery life on cards

Smartphones with longer battery life on cards

-- 2018-03-26 22:30:09

Scientists have developed a high-powered, environmentally-safe lithium-sulphur battery with a significantly longer life. “Common lithium-ion batteries only have a certain capacity,” said...

Facebook faces US privacy probe

Facebook faces US privacy probe

-- 2018-03-26 22:18:56

The US Federal Trade Commission is to investigate Facebook over how data on millions of users was grabbed by Cambridge Analytca. The social network has been criticised for letting the data analysis f...

European Space Agency partners with Finnish company over satellites exploit

European Space Agency partners with Finnish company over satellites exploit

-- 2018-03-26 21:05:45

The European Space Agency is to work with Finnish start-up ICEYE on ways to exploit its novel radar satellites. ICEYE-X1 was launched in January - the first of multiple spacecraft that will go up in...

Cyber-crime mastermind held over ‘theft’ of 1.0b euros

Cyber-crime mastermind held over ‘theft’ of 1.0b euros

-- 2018-03-26 20:45:51

A cyber-crime mastermind suspected of stealing about £870m (€1bn) has been arrested in Spain. The individual is alleged to be the head of the organised crime gang that ran the Carbanak and...

Private browser, add-on step in as privacy proves hard to protect

Private browser, add-on step in as privacy proves hard to protect

-- 2018-03-26 17:31:13

Anyone tempted to #DeleteFacebook after the personal data of millions of users fell into the hands of a political consultancy is still likely to be monitored by the social network which tracks nearly...

Facebook losing public trust amid data breach

Facebook losing public trust amid data breach

-- 2018-03-26 13:37:38

Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and US newspapers...

Americans less likely to trust Facebook on personal data

Americans less likely to trust Facebook on personal data

-- 2018-03-26 13:08:47

Opinion polls published on Sunday in the United States and Germany cast doubt over the level of trust people have in Facebook over privacy, as the firm ran advertisements in British and US newspapers...

‘Waymo tech would have prevented Uber self-driving incident’

‘Waymo tech would have prevented Uber self-driving incident’

-- 2018-03-25 13:13:05

The head of Alphabet Inc’s autonomous driving unit, Waymo, said on Saturday that the company’s technology would have safely handled the situation confronting an Uber self-driving vehicle l...

Elon Musk pulls Tesla, SpaceX from Facebook

Elon Musk pulls Tesla, SpaceX from Facebook

-- 2018-03-24 13:40:13

Entrepreneur Elon Musk has had the official Facebook pages for his Tesla and SpaceX companies deleted. The #deletefacebook movement has grown after data firm Cambridge Analytica was accused of obtain...

Uber self-driving death puts sensor firm ‘baffled’

Uber self-driving death puts sensor firm ‘baffled’

-- 2018-03-24 13:28:26

The firm that designed the sensors on the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman this week has said its technology was not to blame. San Jose-based Velodyne told the BBC it was "baffled" by the in...

Cambridge Analytica faces legal challenge

Cambridge Analytica faces legal challenge

-- 2018-03-23 16:04:13

A US citizen is taking Cambridge Analytica to court to get access to data he says it holds on him. Prof David Carroll filed his legal challenge on the same day Facebook announced it had banned the co...

Social media users 30 million in Bangladesh: Report

Social media users 30 million in Bangladesh: Report

FE Online Report 2018-03-23 15:36:17

At least 30 million people in Bangladesh are using social media, according to the Digital in 2018 report jointly prepared by We Are Social and Hootsuite. It also showed that around 18 per cent of the...

India suspends Cambridge Analytica website

India suspends Cambridge Analytica website

FE Online Desk 2018-03-22 11:53:22

India has taken down the local website of Cambridge Analytica following allegations the company used personal data of 50 million Facebook members to influence the US presidential election. The accoun...