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SpaceX Starship rocket prototype blows up

SpaceX Starship rocket prototype blows up

-- 2021-03-06 10:40:00

The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk’s Starship rocket - until it wasn’t. The latest heavy-duty launch vehicle prototype from SpaceX soared flawlessly into the sky in a h...

Microsoft email software hack spreads, experts brace for more impact

Microsoft email software hack spreads, experts brace for more impact

-- 2021-03-06 10:31:16

More than 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the US government&rsqu...

Twitter explores 'undo send' feature for paying users

Twitter explores 'undo send' feature for paying users

-- 2021-03-06 10:07:46

Twitter Inc is testing an “undo send” function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday. App researcher Jane Manchun Won...

Alien 'super-Earth' may offer clues about atmospheres on distant worlds

Alien 'super-Earth' may offer clues about atmospheres on distant worlds

-- 2021-03-05 14:32:48

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world - the type of research th...

Global reduction to increase 10-fold to meet Paris Agreement goals, study says

Global reduction to increase 10-fold to meet Paris Agreement goals, study says

-- 2021-03-04 17:13:18

Sixty-four countries reduced their fossil carbon-dioxide emissions during the period between 2016 and 2019, but the rate of global reduction needs to increase tenfold to meet the Paris Agreement goals...

Google won't use other web tracking tools

Google won't use other web tracking tools

-- 2021-03-04 14:17:22

Alphabet Inc’s Google will not build or use alternate tools to track web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post...

Facebook removes Thai military-linked information influencing accounts

Facebook removes Thai military-linked information influencing accounts

-- 2021-03-04 12:38:09

Facebook Inc has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in an information-influencing operation in Thailand run by the military, the company said on Wednesday, the first time it has removed Thai a...

Zoom down for more than a thousand users

Zoom down for more than a thousand users

Reuters 2021-03-03 23:11:23

Zoom Video Communications Inc’s video-conferencing platform was down for more than a thousand users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downtector.com. Downdetector showed there...

US panel recommends export 'choke points' to prevent Chinese dominance in semiconductors

US panel recommends export 'choke points' to prevent Chinese dominance in semiconductors

-- 2021-03-02 10:28:15

A US national security commission has recommended Congress tighten up “choke points” on chipmaking technology to prevent China from overtaking the United States in semiconductors in the co...

eGeneration implements ‘Dhowni’ for ICT Division

eGeneration implements ‘Dhowni’ for ICT Division

-- 2021-02-28 18:36:44

eGeneration has successfully implemented “Dhowni” for ICT Division on Saturday. Dhowni enables the conversion of Bangla to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using cutting-edge technol...

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences elects Muhammad Morshed as expatriate fellow

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences elects Muhammad Morshed as expatriate fellow

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-02-28 16:20:49

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences has elected Muhammad Morshed, a Bangladeshi native Canadian clinical microbiologist, as an expatriate fellow in December last year. The academy elected him in recogniti...

Huawei not banned as Brazil approves 5G spectrum auction rules

Huawei not banned as Brazil approves 5G spectrum auction rules

REUTERS 2021-02-27 10:29:10

Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel has approved rules for a spectrum auction for fifth-generation networks this year without any curbs on China’s Huawei Technologies Co as an equipment sup...

The child, who once beat bone cancer, is now headed into space

The child, who once beat bone cancer, is now headed into space

Reuters 2021-02-27 10:21:18

Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux is thrilled to be going into space. As a crew member on SpaceX’s Inspiration4, the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to Earth’s or...

Toyota develops fuel cell system module to cut carbon footprint

Toyota develops fuel cell system module to cut carbon footprint

Reuters 2021-02-26 13:13:52

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it has developed a packaged fuel cell system module, as it hopes to expand its usage and accessibility of the zero-emission technology amid the industry’s shift...

Facebook to invest $1.0b in news industry

Facebook to invest $1.0b in news industry

Reuters 2021-02-25 10:41:59

Facebook on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years, days after a high-profile stand-off with the Australian government over paying news outlets...

AI, machine learning emphasised in a post-pandemic world

AI, machine learning emphasised in a post-pandemic world

-- 2021-02-24 10:18:44

Thomson Reuters Corp will streamline technology, close offices and rely more on machines to prepare for a post-pandemic world, the news and information group said on Tuesday, as it reported higher sal...

Spotify to launch in Bangladesh, 84 other countries

Spotify to launch in Bangladesh, 84 other countries

Gadgets 360 2021-02-23 18:19:31

Spotify is expanding to 85 new markets including Bangladesh in the “next few days”, co-founder and CEO Daniel Ek announced at its online-only Stream On event on Monday. Besides Banglades...

Spotify to reach more than a billion listeners

Spotify to reach more than a billion listeners

-- 2021-02-23 10:50:19

Spotify said on Monday it would nearly double its market presence by launching in 85 new markets in the next few days, making the music streaming service available to more than a billion people around...

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Regulators probe engine blow-outs as older Boeing 777s suspended

Reuters 2021-02-22 20:32:30

Showers of jet engine parts over residential areas on both sides of the Atlantic have caught regulators’ attention and prompted the suspension of some older Boeing planes from service. The Satu...

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

Should you replace Samsung Galaxy S20 Ultra with S21 Ultra?

SHEIKH TAUSIF AHMED 2021-02-22 17:48:32

Apple, Samsung, Xiaomi and other big companies launch multiple smartphones every year with huge potentials and variety of price points. And in their lineup, there’s always that flagship phone wi...

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

Mars rover beams back selfie from moment before landing

-- 2021-02-21 13:29:03

NASA scientists on Friday presented striking early images from the picture-perfect landing of the Mars rover Perseverance, including a selfie of the six-wheeled vehicle dangling just above the surface...

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

Facebook, Google could lose bargaining power under upcoming US bill to help news outlets

REUTERS 2021-02-20 13:16:25

Bipartisan members of Congress plan to introduce a bill in coming weeks to make it easier for smaller news organisations to negotiate with Big Tech platforms, said Rep. Ken Buck, the top Republican on...

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Google fires another AI ethics leader amid dispute over research, diversity

Reuters 2021-02-20 12:10:49

Alphabet’s Google fired staff scientist Margaret Mitchell on Friday, they both said, a move that fanned company divisions on academic freedom and diversity that were on display since its Decembe...

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

The first cloned ferret spurs hope for endangered US species

REUTERS 2021-02-20 10:47:38

US scientists have successfully cloned an endangered black-footed ferret using frozen cells from a long-dead wild animal, the first time any native endangered species has been cloned in the United Sta...

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

The South-South Matchmaker 2019-2020 Best Practices launched

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-02-19 14:36:34

The South-South Matchmaker, 2019-2020 Best Practices was launched to promote the best practices in the South and encourage innovating and adopting innovative solutions for a better world. The South-S...

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

NASA's Perseverance makes historic Mars landing

Reuters 2021-02-19 09:15:04

NASA’s Mars rover Perseverance, the most advanced astrobiology lab ever sent to another world, streaked through the Martian atmosphere on Thursday and landed safely inside a vast crater, the fir...

How to fix common smartphone problems

How to fix common smartphone problems

Maisha Fairooz Khan 2021-02-18 14:06:45

Technology is not infallible. It does not matter how much is spent on smartphones; they are bound to function erratically after a certain period of usage. It is a quite common practice to replace phon...

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

Facebook developing smartwatch with cellular connection, health features

-- 2021-02-17 21:06:46

Facebook Inc is building a smartwatch that will let users send messages and also offer health and fitness features, people with direct knowledge of the device have said. The social media giant plans...

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Big Tech's Democratic critics discuss ways to strike back with White House

Reuters 2021-02-17 17:47:38

Congressional Democrats have begun discussions with the White House on ways to crack down on Big Tech including making social media companies accountable for the spread of disinformation on matters su...

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

Tiny Hungarian water-tracker aims to rove the Moon

-- 2021-02-17 11:27:26

A miniature rover being developed to explore the Moon’s surface is on track to join the search for water there, its Hungarian inventors believe - using a device that weighs less than a bag of su...