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Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

Nine win at ICT Skills Competition-2021

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-11-03 19:03:50

After ten months of fierce battles and different rounds, the names of the winners of ‘Bangladesh ICT Skills Competition 2021’, were announced through a gala event held online on Tuesday....

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

Facebook to shut down facial recognition system amid concerns over misuse

-- 2021-11-03 11:33:32

Facebook announced on Tuesday it is shutting down its facial recognition system, which automatically identifies users in photos and videos, citing growing societal concerns about the use of such...

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

COP26: What climate summit means for one woman in Bangladesh

DAVID SHUKMAN 2021-11-02 18:28:39

The people of Gabura in Bangladesh are having everything that's most threatening about climate change thrown at them. Storms keep wrecking their coastal defences, and rising sea levels are pushing sa...

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

Yahoo to pull out of China amid 'challenging' environment

-- 2021-11-02 18:06:48

Yahoo Inc. on Tuesday said it plans to pull out of China, citing an “increasingly challenging business and legal environment.” The company said in a statement that its services will no lo...

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

Apple cuts iPad production to install chips in iPhone 13

-- 2021-11-02 16:24:15

Apple Inc has cut back production of iPad tablets to allocate more components to the iPhone 13, a sign the global chip supply crunch is hitting Apple harder than previously indicated, Nikkei said on T...

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

Facebook whistleblower urges Zuckerberg to step down

-- 2021-11-02 12:57:34

In her first public address since she leaked a trove of damaging documents about Facebook's inner workings, whistleblower Frances Haugen urged her former boss, Mark Zuckerberg, to step down and allow...

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

How Apple is gaining smartphone customers during a chip shortage

-- 2021-10-29 18:49:48

Apple Inc is eating into its rivals' smartphone market share as the iPhone maker navigates through a global chip crunch better than other mobile phone makers, according to data providers. Higher iPho...

Facebook changes company name to Meta

Facebook changes company name to Meta

-- 2021-10-29 08:54:24

Facebook Inc is now called Meta, the company said on Thursday, in a rebrand that focuses on building the "metaverse," a shared virtual environment that it bets will be the successor to the mobile...

‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

‘Facebook sees introducing safety as a cost centre’

-- 2021-10-25 20:27:51

Facebook sees introducing safety to the social network as a "cost centre" and regulation could be good for the company, whistleblower Frances Haugen told the British parliament on Monday. Haugen, a p...

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

Bangladesh scores low among Asia Pacific digital societies

SAIF UDDIN 2021-10-23 09:20:12

Despite the expansion of the fourth generation (4G) telecom network, Bangladesh has scored low among digital societies in the Asia Pacific region, according to a global report. It said Bangladesh o...

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

'Robotaxi fleets on roads likely 10 years away'

-- 2021-10-22 12:27:17

It is likely to take a decade before self-driving taxis will be deployed on roads, the chief executive of electric car startup Lucid Group, Peter Rawlinson, said on Thursday. "I think we're 10 years...

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

Facebook signs copyright agreement with some French publishers

-- 2021-10-21 19:38:53

Facebook said on Thursday it had signed a preliminary copyright agreement with a French news publishers' lobby group, paving the way for it to pay for news content on its platforms in France, reports...

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

Social media churns with new names for Facebook

-- 2021-10-21 09:26:56

Zuckerverse. Timesuck. Faceplant. They're just a few of the suggestions being bandied around online following reports that Facebook plans to rebrand itself with a new group name. The company refused...

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

Facebook plans to change its name: Report

-- 2021-10-20 11:51:53

Social media giant Facebook is planning to rebrand itself with a new name next week, the Verge reported on Tuesday, citing a source with direct knowledge of the matter. Facebook Chief Executive Offic...

Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

-- 2021-10-18 20:14:03

Analysts expect Apple Inc to unveil new Mac laptop computers with more powerful processor chips at an event that will be streamed later Monday. According to global media reports, Apple plans to relea...

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

-- 2021-10-18 10:21:32

Facebook Inc plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where peopl...

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

-- 2021-10-17 17:48:10

World soccer's governing body FIFA said on Friday that it will widen its gaming and e-sports portfolio to ensure that controlling rights don't lie in the hands of one party. This comes after a report...

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

-- 2021-10-16 17:17:43

NASA launched the first-of-its-kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of the primordial material that form...

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

-- 2021-10-16 14:15:17

China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and one woman - to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit for...

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

-- 2021-10-14 10:19:24

Having made a career out of playing an explorer of the cosmos, William Shatner - Captain James Kirk of "Star Trek" fame - did it for real on Wednesday, becoming at age 90 the oldest person in space ab...

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-14 09:22:47

Facebook Inc (FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chi...

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

-- 2021-10-13 19:42:22

The United States has overtaken China to account for the largest share of the world's bitcoin mining, data published on Wednesday by Britain's Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance showed. The fig...

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

-- 2021-10-13 18:18:01

An assistant professor of Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) has developed an oral vaccine for fish, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, which can protect different species of fish from bacterial di...

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

-- 2021-10-13 16:06:58

Russia was not invited to attend a 30-country virtual meeting led by the United States that is aimed at combating the growing threat of ransomware and other cybercrime, a senior administration officia...

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

-- 2021-10-13 10:28:44

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell on Tuesday called on Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to preserve all documents related to testimony last week from company whistleblower Fr...

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

-- 2021-10-12 20:36:32

Nvidia's $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM is expected to face an extended EU antitrust investigation after concessions offered last week failed to address competition concerns, three peop...

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

-- 2021-10-11 13:28:34

China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Fin...

What’s new in Windows 11

What’s new in Windows 11

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-10-11 12:43:14

It's been five years since the last Windows upgrade and Microsoft has come up with the latest one- Windows 11. The new features have been the subject of speculation. As Windows is constantly notifying...

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

-- 2021-10-11 10:39:00

Chinese state media said loopholes allowing minors to bypass new rules aimed at curbing gaming playtime to three hours per week should be removed to "prevent addiction." China introduced new rules in...

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

-- 2021-10-11 09:44:56

A Facebook Inc executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as US lawmakers scrutinise how Facebook and subsidiaries...