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Amazon launches Amazon Prime in Singapore

Amazon launches Amazon Prime in Singapore

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 12:46:36

SINGAPORE - Media OutReach - December 6, 2017 - Amazon today announced the launch of Amazon Prime in Singapore. Prime is Amazon's popular membership program that provides exclusive access to benefi...

Bangladeshis can build robots, Sophia's creator hopes

Bangladeshis can build robots, Sophia's creator hopes

-- 2017-12-06 12:00:00

Creator of humanoid robot Sophia Dr David Hanson has said Bangladeshi innovators can build their own robots to help society. He also appreciated the people of Bangladesh for taking interest in robot...

Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Devices

Google Pulls YouTube From Amazon Devices

-- 2017-12-06 11:52:20

A rare public spat in the technology industry escalated on Tuesday when Google said it would block its video streaming application YouTube from two Amazon.com Inc devices. It also criticized the onli...

Nissan's robo-taxis to hit the road soon

Nissan's robo-taxis to hit the road soon

-- 2017-12-06 11:51:46

Carmaker Nissan plans to test self-driving taxis on Japanese roads from March next year. The company is partnering with Japanese software company DeNA, which operates online services for the gaming,...

UCB inks deal with CMP on E-traffic prosecution

UCB inks deal with CMP on E-traffic prosecution

FE Online Desk 2017-12-06 11:44:45

United Commercial Bank Limited (UCB) signed an agreement with Chittagong Metropolitan Police recently on “E-traffic Prosecution and Fine Payment System”. As per the agreement, payment o...

Scientists aspire to decode deep space secrets

Scientists aspire to decode deep space secrets

-- 2017-12-06 06:33:52

Scientists are now working day and night at a major observatory in western California, the United States, in search for new secrets including possible life beyond planet Earth, Elinor Gates, an astron...

Need to stop ocean plastic waste: UN

Need to stop ocean plastic waste: UN

-- 2017-12-06 06:27:27

Nations across the globe have agreed that ocean plastic waste is a crisis and that they need to work together to stop plastic waste from entering oceans. The UN resolution, which is set to be sealed...

Apple Mac security issue may reoccur

Apple Mac security issue may reoccur

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

A software fix Apple released to close a serious Mac security bug may not have fixed the problem on some machines. The bug meant anyone with physical access to a Mac running High Sierra could get adm...

World's first robot citizen Sophia arrives

World's first robot citizen Sophia arrives

-- 2017-12-05 12:00:00

World's first robot citizen with artificial intelligence, Sophia, has arrived in Dhaka to attend the Digital World 2017. A Dragon Airlines flight carrying Sophia from Hong Kong landed at Hazrat Sha...

Pigeons can discriminate space, time: Study

Pigeons can discriminate space, time: Study

-- 2017-12-05 04:43:19

Just like human being, pigeons can discriminate the abstract concepts of both space and time, a new study said Monday. But they seem to use a different region of the brain than humans to do so, accor...

YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content

YouTube to expand teams reviewing extremist content

-- 2017-12-05 01:26:08

Alphabet Inc’s YouTube said on Monday it plans to add more people next year to identify inappropriate content as the company responds to criticism over extremist, violent and disturbing videos a...

Facebook’s kids’ app will need parent’s approval

Facebook’s kids’ app will need parent’s approval

-- 2017-12-04 11:51:01

Facebook is launching a new version of its chat app targeting children under 13 with strict parental controls including contact approvals. The free app, called Messenger Kids, is expected to attract...

Facebook, Google face probe in Australia

Facebook, Google face probe in Australia

-- 2017-12-04 10:27:00

Australia’s competition regulator said on Monday it would investigate whether US online giants Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google has disrupted the news media market to the detriment of pu...

Samsung demos 5G on high-speed train

Samsung demos 5G on high-speed train

-- 2017-12-03 12:18:19

Samsung Electronics on Friday said that it demonstrated the fifth-generation network on a high-speed train travelling over 100 kmph under a joint project with Japanese telecommunications operator KDDI...

iPhone X to hit BD market Dec 7

iPhone X to hit BD market Dec 7

-- 2017-12-03 06:11:38

Apple’s latest generation iPhone, ‘iPhone X’, will be available in the Bangladesh market for purchase from Thursday (December 7).  Apple rolled out the first ever all-screen iP...

Tiny graphene ‘tweezers’ can grab molecules: Scientists

Tiny graphene ‘tweezers’ can grab molecules: Scientists

-- 2017-12-03 05:18:53

Scientists have developed tiny electronic ‘tweezers’ using graphene that can efficiently grab biomolecules floating in water, an advance that may lead to a handheld disease detecting syste...

China will not close door to global internet: Xi

China will not close door to global internet: Xi

Reuters 2017-12-03 03:04:13

China's President Xi Jinping speaks at the opening ceremony of the "CPC in dialogue with world political parties" high-level meeting, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China December 1, 2017...

Apple app to identify irregular heart beats

Apple app to identify irregular heart beats

-- 2017-12-03 02:18:22

Apple on Friday launched a new application that uses data from Apple Watch to detect and notify users when they experience irregular heart rhythms, like atrial fibrillation (AFib)– one of the le...

New app to rate Saudi govt services

New app to rate Saudi govt services

-- 2017-12-02 12:27:27

A new smartphone application for citizens to provide feedback on government services will be launched in early 2018, according to arab news. Hussam Al-Madani, acting director general of the National...

UK warning of Russian anti-virus software

UK warning of Russian anti-virus software

BBC 2017-12-02 12:00:00

The British government has issued a fresh warning about the security risks of using Russian anti-virus software. The National Cyber Security Centre is to write to all government departments warning a...

Amazon steps up pace in artificial intelligence race

Amazon steps up pace in artificial intelligence race

Reuters 2017-12-01 11:47:06

Amazon.com Inc this week announced a flurry of new machine learning features for its Amazon Web Services cloud computing business, raising its challenge to Silicon Valley’s biggest tech firms fo...

Tesla switches on world's biggest battery

Tesla switches on world's biggest battery

-- 2017-12-01 09:39:09

The world's largest lithium ion battery has begun dispensing power into an electricity grid in South Australia. The 100-megawatt battery, built by Tesla, was officially activated on Friday. It had in...

New technology to disrupt Blockchain

New technology to disrupt Blockchain

-- 2017-12-01 05:35:12

To begin with, one first needs to understand what blockchain technology is. The Blockchain is the main technological innovation of the cryptocurrency, Bitcoin. In short, it is a digitised, decentralis...

NASA’s playlist for aliens now available for purchase

NASA’s playlist for aliens now available for purchase

-- 2017-12-01 05:10:27

In 1977, NASA launched the Voyager spacecraft to explore interstellar space. The Voyager 1 and 2 contained the Golden Record which is a collection of sounds and images to explain Earth to alien beings...

US scientists take step toward creating artificial life

US scientists take step toward creating artificial life

Reuters 2017-11-30 12:00:00

In a major step toward creating artificial life, US researchers have developed a living organism that incorporates both natural and artificial DNA and is capable of creating entirely new, synthetic pr...

Kaspersky brings relief for parents

Kaspersky brings relief for parents

Md Ziaur Rahman 2017-11-30 12:00:00

In a country where digital transformation is embedding itself fast, parents have enough to worry about their children left to fend for themselves for lack of any tool to monitor them on the virtual wo...

Google UK faces mass legal action

Google UK faces mass legal action

BBC 2017-11-30 10:52:41

Google is being taken to court, accused of collecting the personal data of millions of users, in the first mass legal action of its kind in the UK. It focuses on allegations that Google unlawfully ha...

Robot 'will wipe out' 800m jobs by 2030

Robot 'will wipe out' 800m jobs by 2030

-- 2017-11-30 10:32:41

Up to 800 million global workers will lose their jobs by 2030 and be replaced by robotic automation, a new report from a consultancy has found. The study of 46 countries and 800 occupations by the Mc...

Apple rushes to fix password bug

Apple rushes to fix password bug

BBC 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Apple has said it is working to fix a serious bug within its Mac operating system. The flaw in MacOS High Sierra - the most recent version - makes it possible to gain entry to the machine without a p...

Would leave Russia if asked to spy: Kaspersky

Would leave Russia if asked to spy: Kaspersky

Reuters 2017-11-29 12:00:00

Moscow-based Kaspersky Lab has never been asked by Russian intelligence services to spy on targets in the West and the company's founder and the chief executive said he would move his company out of t...