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Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

-- 2017-12-28 02:56:59

Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for...

Slowed iPhones: Apple faces multiple lawsuits in US, Israel

Slowed iPhones: Apple faces multiple lawsuits in US, Israel

-- 2017-12-27 11:03:18

Apple Inc defrauded iPhone users by slowing devices without warning to compensate for poor battery performance, according to eight lawsuits filed in various federal courts in the week since the compan...

China proclaims remote sensing satellites launching

China proclaims remote sensing satellites launching

-- 2017-12-26 12:00:00

China launched remote sensing satellites  on Tuesday on a Long March-2C carrier rocket from Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The satellites have entered its...

New sensors to make self-driving cars more practical

New sensors to make self-driving cars more practical

-- 2017-12-25 12:00:00

A team of researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is developing new depth sensors that could be sensitive enough to make self-driving vehicles practical. The Camera Culture gro...

Snowden unveils phone app to spy on spies

Snowden unveils phone app to spy on spies

AP 2017-12-24 12:00:00

The former National Security Agency contractor who exposed US government surveillance programmes by disclosing classified material in 2013 has a new job: app developer. Edward Snowden in a video mess...

China closes 13,000 sites, suspends 10m accounts

China closes 13,000 sites, suspends 10m accounts

Agencies 2017-12-24 12:00:00

China has shut down or revoked the licenses of more than 13,000 illegal websites since 2015. Wang Shengjun, vice chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress disclosed the i...

Scientists develop fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery

Scientists develop fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery

-- 2017-12-24 05:34:04

Researchers from Zhejiang University in China have developed a safe, flexible, fast-charging aluminum-graphene battery that can be charged in seconds, instead of hours. The team, led by professor Gao...

Astronaut who made first untethered flight dies

Astronaut who made first untethered flight dies

-- 2017-12-23 12:00:00

Bruce McCandless, who was captured in a stunning photograph in 1984 as he made the first untethered flight in space, has died aged 80, Nasa said. With a jetpack, McCandless travelled 100m (328ft) fro...

Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones

Apple faces lawsuits over slowed iPhones

BBC 2017-12-23 10:50:33

Two class action lawsuits have been launched against Apple in the US following the tech giant's admission that it slows down older models of the iPhone as they age. Apple has said that it did this to...

China shuts down website streaming live from schools

China shuts down website streaming live from schools

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Chinese cybersecurity firm Qihoo 360 Technology has shut down a website that was streaming live video from its cameras in schools, gyms and restaurants. Qihoo shut down the site, called Water Drop, f...

Google Chrome to start blocking annoying ads

Google Chrome to start blocking annoying ads

-- 2017-12-22 12:00:00

Get ready to see fewer annoying and intrusive online ads when surfing the web using Google’s Chrome browser. The search giant said that starting on February 15, its Chrome browser would no long...

Apple admits it slows down old iPhones!

Apple admits it slows down old iPhones!

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

Apple has finally responded to reports claiming that the company is throttling the performance on older models of iPhones. The company confirmed that it was altering the performance of selected iPhon...

NASA reveals finalists for upcoming space missions

NASA reveals finalists for upcoming space missions

-- 2017-12-21 12:00:00

US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) announced Wednesday that it has selected two finalist concepts for a robotic mission planned to launch in the mid-2020 to explore t...

Driverless cars, facial recognition 'to be reality'

Driverless cars, facial recognition 'to be reality'

FE Report 2017-12-21 09:47:28

The upcoming year of 2018 will be the year when Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning will hit the market, a global technology giant predicted recently. At the same time, the forthcoming year wou...

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

BD gets affordable automation with 'Cobots'

FE Desk 2017-12-20 12:00:00

Universal Robots, the leading manufacturers of advanced, light weight collaborative robotic arms (headquartered in Odense, Denmark), will be expanding their operations in Bangladesh, after successfull...

Facebook to notify users when their photos are uploaded

Facebook to notify users when their photos are uploaded

Reuters 2017-12-20 03:10:33

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial t...

Facebook removes 3m posts over copyright violation

Facebook removes 3m posts over copyright violation

Reuters 2017-12-19 12:36:31

Facebook Inc announced Monday that it removed nearly 3 million posts, including videos, ads and other forms of content, from its services during the first half of 2017 following complaints of counterf...

Bongo clinches Merit Award at APICTA

Bongo clinches Merit Award at APICTA

FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 11:10:38

Bongo, a project of Stellar Digital Limited, has won the First Merit Award at APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) Ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka. Bongo picked up th...

Social media bad for mental health, admits Facebook

Social media bad for mental health, admits Facebook

-- 2017-12-19 08:00:52

Facebook has acknowledged that social media use can have negative impacts on user’s mental health. The social media is feeling pressure from a growing chorus of critics raising alarms about the...

Scientists create plants that glow

Scientists create plants that glow

FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 07:56:22

MIT researchers have created plants that glow hoping it can be used in the future to replace things like street lamps or bed side lamps. In a paper recently published in the journal Nano Letters, res...

China begins first AI lab for broadcasting

China begins first AI lab for broadcasting

-- 2017-12-19 07:23:30

China's first artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory for broadcasting has opened on Monday. The lab, in Changsha, capital of the central province of Hunan, is a project between the provincial broadc...

How bus app can ease your life on Dhaka roads

How bus app can ease your life on Dhaka roads

Md. Ziaur Rahman with SM Najmus Sakib 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Have you ever imagined when you will get a relief from the nuisance of waiting for a bus in Dhaka—beset with hectic traffic? Hardly could you say you did it, or you would say you never did it o...

Scientists unveil ‘smallest micro-greetings Christmas card’

Scientists unveil ‘smallest micro-greetings Christmas card’

Reuters 2017-12-18 04:12:27

British scientists have created what they believe is the world’s smallest Christmas card, a seasonal greeting so tiny that over 200 million of them could fit into a standard postage stamp. The...

EU, a false haven of net neutrality?

EU, a false haven of net neutrality?

Reuters 2017-12-17 12:00:00

America’s decision to scrap rules designed to ensure a free and open internet leaves the European Union as the biggest market where Net neutrality still prevails -- but critics say the EU is not...

Disney-Fox deal may create new nerdy nirvana

Disney-Fox deal may create new nerdy nirvana

AP 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The coming union of the Disney and Fox media empires is set to create a new nirvana for fanboys and -girls, one that reunites superheroes and sci-fi characters long separated by an energy barrier of c...

Camera to detect human emotion

Camera to detect human emotion

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

A Chinese firm announced it had developed technology to efficiently detect human emotion, even through using cameras on mobile phones. The technology, the first of its kind in China, can detect and a...

Second C919 jet makes maiden test flight

Second C919 jet makes maiden test flight

-- 2017-12-17 06:21:05

A second prototype of China's large passenger jet C919 completed its maiden flight in Shanghai Sunday, which was marked as a step closer to China becoming a global aviation powerhouse. The domestic j...

US, Russian, Japanese crew lifts off for space station

US, Russian, Japanese crew lifts off for space station

-- 2017-12-17 03:02:50

A trio of US and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton S...

US admits running secret UFO programme

US admits running secret UFO programme

-- 2017-12-17 01:17:25

The Pentagon has been running a secret multi-million dollar programme to investigate Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), US media report. Only a small number of officials were aware of the programme,...

Vodafone offers thousands early contract exit

Vodafone offers thousands early contract exit

BBC 2017-12-16 12:50:02

Thousands of Vodafone customers will be able to end their contracts early after the UK's communications regulator raised concerns over new charges. In April, Vodafone introduced new international roa...