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France fines Google $167m for anti-competitive behaviour

France fines Google $167m for anti-competitive behaviour

Reuters 2019-12-20 17:40:29

France’s competition authority fined Google $167 million for anti-competitive behaviour and for having unclear advertising on the Google Ads page. The fine comes as France and other European co...

Google to pay $500m in tax settlement

Google to pay $500m in tax settlement

-- 2019-12-18 11:58:22

Google has reached a settlement with the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) on Wednesday, agreeing to hand over 481.5 million Australian dollars (329.6 million US dollars) following a decade-long legal...

Qualcomm unveils new 5G platforms

Qualcomm unveils new 5G platforms

Xinhua 2019-12-12 16:44:46

US leading chip manufacturer Qualcomm has unveiled two new 5G mobile platforms and the world's first 5G-supported extended reality (XR) platform at its annual tech summit. During its Snapdragon Techn...

Facebook sues ILikeAd, alleges ad fraud

Facebook sues ILikeAd, alleges ad fraud

-- 2019-12-12 13:07:20

Facebook Inc on Thursday sued a Hong Kong company that it said used malware to bait people into clicking on celebrities’ photos and bogus advertising links, so it could run ads for counterfeit g...

Twitter plans to build ‘decentralised standard’ for social networks

Twitter plans to build ‘decentralised standard’ for social networks

-- 2019-12-12 10:39:04

Twitter Inc plans to set up an independent research group to create an “open and decentralised” system for social networks, CEO Jack Dorsey said on Wednesday, which could relieve pressure...

Russian cargo ship successfully docks with ISS

Russian cargo ship successfully docks with ISS

Xinhua 2019-12-10 16:54:35

The Russian cargo spacecraft Progress MS-13 has successfully docked with the Pirs module of the International Space Station (ISS), the Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said Monday. The appro...

Ancient fossils clarify evolution of mammalian hearing

Ancient fossils clarify evolution of mammalian hearing

Xinhua 2019-12-08 19:51:21

Researchers have discovered ancient fossils of a new Cretaceous mammal species in northeast China's Liaoning Province, finding a missing piece of the jigsaw puzzle of mammalian hearing evolution. The...

Russia sends cargo ship to International Space Station

Russia sends cargo ship to International Space Station

Xinhua 2019-12-07 16:43:37

Russia successfully launched its Progress MS-13 cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, Russian state space corporation Roscosmos said. The Soyuz-2.1a rocket carrying the space...

Facebook bows to Singapore's 'fake news' law

Facebook bows to Singapore's 'fake news' law

BBC 2019-12-01 16:15:23

Facebook has added a correction notice to a post that Singapore's government said contained false information. It is the first time Facebook has issued such a notice under the city-state's controvers...

China introduces face scans for mobile phone users

China introduces face scans for mobile phone users

BBC 2019-12-01 16:14:18

People in China are now required to have their faces scanned when registering new mobile phone services, as the authorities seek to verify the identities of the country's hundreds of millions of inter...

BUET simulator to study drivers' behaviour

BUET simulator to study drivers' behaviour

MUNIMA SULTANA 2019-12-01 10:29:04

Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has introduced a lab-based facility to assess behaviours of drivers in order to address growing road accidents in the country. This is part...

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

Apple to take ‘deeper look’ at disputed borders

-- 2019-11-30 11:00:36

Apple says it is taking "a deeper look" at how it handles disputed borders. Ukraine criticised the tech giant for showing Crimea as part of Russia's territory on its Maps and Weather apps. An Apple...

TikTok apologises for taking down video on Muslims in China

TikTok apologises for taking down video on Muslims in China

Reuters 2019-11-28 11:36:46

Social media app TikTok apologised to a user on Thursday for removing a video that criticised China’s treatment of Muslims, blaming a “human moderation error” and saying the images h...

India launches 13 commercial nanosatellites

India launches 13 commercial nanosatellites

-- 2019-11-27 12:46:34

The Indian Space Research Organisation has launched Cartosat-3 and 13 commercial nanosatellites into sun synchronous orbit onboard Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV C47), officials said. The satel...

Cyber threat detection body seeks access to cache servers

Cyber threat detection body seeks access to cache servers

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2019-11-26 10:07:01

The government now wants to establish control over cache servers of internet service providers, international gateways and mobile phone operators in a bid to monitor internet contents. Cyber Threat D...

Fear of math can outweigh promise of higher rewards: Study

Fear of math can outweigh promise of higher rewards: Study

Xinhua 2019-11-23 18:29:41

A study from the University of Chicago (UChicago) offers evidence for the link between math anxiety and avoidance, as well as possible paths toward breaking that connection. Studying nearly 500 adult...

Putin vows to perfect mystery rocket after engine blast

Putin vows to perfect mystery rocket after engine blast

BBC 2019-11-22 16:55:12

Russian President Vladimir Putin has promised to press on with the development of a nuclear-powered rocket believed to have been at the centre of a deadly accident. Five engineers and two others died...

China reduces greenhouse gas emissions in rice production

China reduces greenhouse gas emissions in rice production

Xinhua 2019-11-21 16:35:32

The greenhouse gas emissions from China's rice fields have been reduced by 70 per cent over the past five decades, according to a recent Chinese study. China's rice agriculture, a primary source of g...

Google to restrict political ads

Google to restrict political ads

-- 2019-11-21 10:45:22

Alphabet Inc’s Google will stop giving advertisers the ability to target election ads using data such as public voter records and general political affiliations, the company said in a blog post...

NASA searches for life under ice in Antarctica

NASA searches for life under ice in Antarctica

Xinhua 2019-11-20 17:39:26

NASA is testing an underwater robotic explorer in Antarctica this month to look for life under the ice, according to a release of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on Monday. Developed by engine...

'Facebook rival' has now more than 160,000 members

'Facebook rival' has now more than 160,000 members

BBC 2019-11-19 19:57:36

The founder of Wikipedia, Jimmy Wales, says his new social network, WT:Social, now has more than 160,000 members. The platform says it will never sell user data and relies on "the generosity of indiv...

Scientists discover giant karst sinkhole cluster in China

Scientists discover giant karst sinkhole cluster in China

Xinhua 2019-11-19 16:50:50

A team of multinational scientists said they have discovered a giant cluster of karst sinkholes in south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The sinkhole cluster, which consists of 19 karst sin...

Water vapour detected on Jupiter's moon

Water vapour detected on Jupiter's moon

-- 2019-11-19 16:44:36

NASA scientists have confirmed, for the first time, the existence of water above the surface of Europa, one of Jupiter's 79 moons. The study published on Monday in the journal Nature Astronomy show...

India’s cheap data to get more expensive

India’s cheap data to get more expensive

-- 2019-11-19 14:04:16

Indian consumers, who enjoy the cheapest mobile data rates in the world, will now have to pay more, as two telecoms companies announced that they would increase tariffs. This comes after the two - Vo...

NASA's rover to hunt for microscopic fossils on Mars

NASA's rover to hunt for microscopic fossils on Mars

Xinhua 2019-11-16 17:15:02

NASA scientists have discovered a potential place for its Mars 2020 rover to look for signs of ancient life in Jezero Crater where the rover will land in February of 2021. The study published Tuesday...

China unveils experiment for landing on Mars

China unveils experiment for landing on Mars

Xinhua 2019-11-14 16:29:13

China on Thursday unveiled an experiment simulating the process of a probe hovering, avoiding obstacles and descending to land on Mars. The experiment was held on a trial ground, the largest one in A...

Facebook removes 3.2b fake accounts

Facebook removes 3.2b fake accounts

-- 2019-11-14 11:36:44

Facebook Inc removed 3.2 billion fake accounts between April and September this year, along with millions of posts depicting child abuse and suicide, according to its latest content moderation report...

Apple slammed for riot ‘support’

Apple slammed for riot ‘support’

Global Times 2019-11-13 17:07:52

Chinese netisens and analysts slammed and urged Apple to stop facilitating rioters in Hong Kong as the company has allegedly been providing videos and songs in support of the Hong Kong riots, which an...

Women's Internet use falls behind despite growing uptake globally: UN

Women's Internet use falls behind despite growing uptake globally: UN

Xinhua 2019-11-13 16:31:47

A new study from the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) on Tuesday showed that some 4.1 billion people worldwide are now online, but in most countries, developing ones particularly, women's u...

Startup Bangladesh-Idea set to achieve ASOCIO award

Startup Bangladesh-Idea set to achieve ASOCIO award

FE Online Report 2019-11-12 16:38:47

Innovation Design and Entrepreneurship Academy (iDEA) project of Bangladesh Computer Council under the ICT Division is set to achieve international recognition through ASOCIO Award in the category of...