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Wi-Fi networks 'vulnerable to hacking'

Wi-Fi networks 'vulnerable to hacking'

Reuters 2017-10-17 09:57:36

The US Department of Homeland Security on Monday warned of cyber risks associated with a widely used system for securing Wi-Fi communications after Belgian researchers discovered a flaw that could all...

Scientist says Chinese space station will hurtle toward Earth

Scientist says Chinese space station will hurtle toward Earth

-- 2017-10-17 08:39:09

A Chinese space station will crash into Earth in a matter of months - and it could kill anyone who is standing beneath. The 8.5-ton Tiangong-1, or ‘Heavenly Palace’, satellite is now out...

Chi-Med, AstraZeneca lung cancer drug shrinks resistant tumors

Chi-Med, AstraZeneca lung cancer drug shrinks resistant tumors

Reuters 2017-10-17 02:42:12

An experimental cancer drug discovered by Hutchison China MediTech has demonstrated promising activity in shrinking tumors in lung cancer patients whose disease had worsened following treatment with a...

Moving to IaaS key to remaining competitive: Study

Moving to IaaS key to remaining competitive: Study

FE Online Desk 2017-10-16 12:00:00

The proportion of businesses in Asia Pacific reaping the rewards of embracing cloud infrastructure services has increased significantly in the last quarter, according to a global survey of 1,610 IT pr...

Einstein’s waves detected in star smash

Einstein’s waves detected in star smash

-- 2017-10-16 09:36:17

Scientists have detected the warping of space generated by the collision of two dead stars, or neutron stars, reports BBC. They have confirmed that such mergers lead to the production of the gold and...

Wi-fi security flaw puts millions of devices at risk of hacks

Wi-fi security flaw puts millions of devices at risk of hacks

-- 2017-10-16 07:17:16

The wi-fi connections of businesses and homes around the world are at risk, according to researchers who have revealed a major flaw dubbed Krack, reports BBC. It concerns an authentication system whi...

Miscreants hack security guard to death in Chandpur

Miscreants hack security guard to death in Chandpur

-- 2017-10-16 02:17:48

Some unidentified miscreants hacked a security guard to death and snatched four motorcycles from the garage of a house in Truck Road of Chandpur town in the wee hours of Monday. The deceased was iden...

Nasa carbon space observatory 'watches Earth breathe'

Nasa carbon space observatory 'watches Earth breathe'

-- 2017-10-15 04:43:53

A Nasa satellite has provided remarkable new insights on how CO2 is moved through the Earth's atmosphere. The Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO) tracked the behaviour of the gas in 2015/2016 - a perio...

Dhaka roads need urgent repair

Dhaka roads need urgent repair

Kamrun Nahar 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Heavy downpour, prolonged monsoon and poor drainage system have damaged more city roads this year compared to the previous years, city corporation officials said. About 30 per cent roads of the 1350-...

Hackers still targeting SWIFT

Hackers still targeting SWIFT

Reuters 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Hackers continue to target the SWIFT bank messaging system, though security controls instituted after last year’s $81 million heist at Bangladesh’s central bank have helped thwart many of...

Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

Tesla fired hundreds of employees in past week

-- 2017-10-14 12:00:00

Luxury electric vehicle maker Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) fired about 400 employees this week, including associates, team leaders and supervisors, a former employee told Reuters on Friday. The dismissals were...

Switch to underground power substation halts for high cost

Switch to underground power substation halts for high cost

FHM Humayan Kabir 2017-10-14 10:15:49

A switch to rich-country practice of having underground power-transmission system received a blow with the rejection of two substation projects for the capital for their bloated costs. Officials sai...

Planet Nine could be our solar system's missing 'Super Earth'

Planet Nine could be our solar system's missing 'Super Earth'

-- 2017-10-14 06:22:28

Planet Nine is out there, and astronomers are determined to find it, according to a new statement from NASA. In fact, mounting evidence suggests it's hard to imagine our solar system without the unsee...

WeChat translates 'black foreigner' into racial slur

WeChat translates 'black foreigner' into racial slur

-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00

Chinese messaging app WeChat has apologised after its software used the N-word as an English translation for the Chinese for "black foreigner". The company blamed its algorithms for producing the err...

Uber starts legal battle to retain London licence

Uber starts legal battle to retain London licence

-- 2017-10-13 12:00:00

Uber lodged a court appeal on Friday to overturn a decision by London’s transport regulator that stripped the taxi app of its operating licence in its most important European market, the first s...

Facebook to launch portable virtual reality headset

Facebook to launch portable virtual reality headset

-- 2017-10-12 12:00:00

Facebook Inc is launching a new virtual reality headset that does not require a separate computer to operate, allowing more mobile uses than the company’s existing Oculus Rift product, Chief Exe...

Miscreants hack flexi-load trader to death

Miscreants hack flexi-load trader to death

-- 2017-10-11 01:47:23

A local flexi-load trader was hacked and slaughtered to death by some unidentified miscreants at Nandina Madhu village in Kamarkhanda upazila of Sirajganj on Tuesday night. The deceased was identifie...

Mobile courts can operate for three weeks more

Mobile courts can operate for three weeks more

-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00

The Supreme Court (SC) has extended for three more weeks the stay on the High Court (HC) order that declared illegal running mobile courts by executive magistrates. A five-member bench of the Appella...

Latest evidence shows how birds learnt to fly

Latest evidence shows how birds learnt to fly

-- 2017-10-10 12:00:00

New fossil evidence has pushed back a key step in the evolution of bird flight by millions of years. Skeletal changes that helped birds take to the air happened 120 million years ago, during the hey...

Google uncovers ‘Russian propaganda’ on US election

Google uncovers ‘Russian propaganda’ on US election

BBC 2017-10-10 11:48:15

Google has found evidence that Russian agents spent tens of thousands of dollars on adverts in a bid to sway the 2016 US election, media reports say. Sources quoted by the Washington Post say the adv...

Facebook to train 10,000 Bangladeshi youths

Facebook to train 10,000 Bangladeshi youths

-- 2017-10-09 07:07:52

Facebook will train 10,000 Bangladeshi youths on digital marketing under a 'BoostYourBusiness' programme over the next six months. The Facebook authorities will provide the training to 10,000 IT-trai...

Global warming behind rising airplane turbulence

Global warming behind rising airplane turbulence

-- 2017-10-06 05:14:21

Nervous fliers may have more bumpy rides to worry about in the years to come. A new study published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, found climate change could cause up to three times as m...

Yahoo 2013 data breach hit all accounts

Yahoo 2013 data breach hit all accounts

Reuters 2017-10-04 09:52:44

Yahoo has said that all of its three billion user accounts were affected in a hacking attack dating back to 2013. The company, which was taken over by Verizon earlier this year, said an investigation...

All three billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2013

All three billion Yahoo accounts were hacked in 2013

-- 2017-10-04 04:25:53

Yahoo revealed Tuesday that every single one of its three billion accounts got hacked in a 2013 breach, reports CNET. Late last year, it had said that the attack compromised one billion accounts -- w...

10m US users saw Russia-sponsored ads: Facebook

10m US users saw Russia-sponsored ads: Facebook

Reuters 2017-10-03 12:00:00

Some 10 million people in the United States saw politically divisive ads on Facebook that the company said were purchased in Russia in the months before and after last year’s US presidential ele...

Tesla: World's biggest battery half-built

Tesla: World's biggest battery half-built

BBC 2017-10-03 12:00:00

Tesla has reached the half-way point in its plan to build the world's biggest battery, in South Australia. The plan to build the 100MW (129MWh) lithium battery grew out of a Twitter bet between Tesla...

Facebook to turn over Russia-linked ads

Facebook to turn over Russia-linked ads

AP 2017-10-02 12:00:00

Social media giant Facebook is expected to provide Congress on Monday with more than 3,000 ads that ran around the time of the 2016 presidential election and are linked to a Russian ad agency. Compan...

Google eases rules on free news stories

Google eases rules on free news stories

Reuters 2017-10-02 02:47:28

Google announced on Sunday that subscription news websites would no longer have to provide users three free articles per day or face less prominence in search results, relaxing its rules following com...

Solar storm hits Mars, causing massive global aurora: NASA

Solar storm hits Mars, causing massive global aurora: NASA

-- 2017-10-01 12:54:59

  A strong solar blast hit Mars earlier this month, leading to a global aurora on Mars that was 25 times brighter than any that had been previously recorded, NASA reported this week.   Th...

Google to upgrade two-factor authentication tool

Google to upgrade two-factor authentication tool

-- 2017-10-01 12:27:48

Google plans on upgrading its two-factor authentication tool with an improved, physical security measure aimed at protecting high-profile users from politically motivated cyberattacks, according to a...