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Zuckerberg defends Facebook's approach to free speech

Zuckerberg defends Facebook's approach to free speech

Reuters 2019-10-18 13:25:03

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday (US local time) defended the social media company’s light regulation of speech and lack of fact checking on political advertising, while citi...

'5G mobile network service to be available by 2023'

'5G mobile network service to be available by 2023'

-- 2019-10-16 18:59:23

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Md Jahurul Haque has said the fifth generation (5G) mobile network service will be available in the country by 2021 to 2023. Jahurul...

Germany will not bar Huawei from its 5G networks

Germany will not bar Huawei from its 5G networks

BBC 2019-10-16 17:50:45

Germany will not exclude Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G mobile networks, saying it wants to create "a level playing field" for vendors. The US has banned Huawei from selling 5G equipment to it...

NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing

NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing

Xinhua 2019-10-16 17:26:43

The US space agency NASA unveiled on Tuesday the next-generation spacesuits to be used in its Artemis programme that will send the first woman and next man to the Lunar South Pole by 2024. NASA Admin...

Google unveils Pixel 4 with unique features

Google unveils Pixel 4 with unique features

-- 2019-10-16 15:32:57

Google unveiled its latest family of hardware ranging from smartphones, ear buds to laptops at a major product launch event in New York on Tuesday (local time), with its new Pixel 4 phone featuring fa...

Google to show off new phone, devices at NY event

Google to show off new phone, devices at NY event

-- 2019-10-15 17:11:02

Google is expected to unveil a new Pixel phone with an updated camera and an emphasis on artificial intelligence features. Google has already announced many details of the Pixel 4, including motion-s...

Two NASA astronauts complete nearly seven-hour spacewalk

Two NASA astronauts complete nearly seven-hour spacewalk

Xinhua 2019-10-12 18:14:28

Two US astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station...

Major payment companies leave Facebook's Libra project

Major payment companies leave Facebook's Libra project

Reuters 2019-10-12 16:20:23

Facebook Inc’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency, called Libra, suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc quit the g...

NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

-- 2019-10-11 17:24:59

SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut capsule will be ready for its first manned flight into orbit in the first quarter of next year provided "everything goes according to plan" in upcoming tests, NASA c...

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

-- 2019-10-11 16:45:49

An international team of researchers found prehistoric humans some 400,000 years ago were able to store bone marrow for later consumption, which is believed to be the earliest evidence of such an inno...

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

-- 2019-10-08 17:49:11

Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social media giant denied a...

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

Xinhua 2019-10-07 13:47:05

Two US astronauts completed a spacewalk out of the International Space Station on Sunday, the first in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station's port...

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

BBC 2019-10-06 17:21:25

Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of China". For questions of fact...

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

Xinhua 2019-10-03 19:45:25

Nearly 11 million people have participated in a NASA public event, through which they can send their names, stenciled on chips, to Mars along with NASA's Mars 2020 rover. The event started in late Ma...

Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

Microsoft returns with smartphone after high-profile flops

-- 2019-10-03 16:52:24

After high-profile flops, Microsoft is getting back into smartphones with a dual-screen Android device that won’t be out for another year. Microsoft unveiled the Surface Duo as part of a new li...

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

Facebook fined $282,000 over privacy breach

-- 2019-10-03 14:24:08

Turkish authorities have fined Facebook Inc 1.6 million lira ($282,000) for violation of data protection laws which affected nearly 300,000 people, the Personal Data Protection Board (KVKK) said on Th...

Twitter, TweetDeck back up after suffering global outage

Twitter, TweetDeck back up after suffering global outage

Reuters 2019-10-02 16:09:56

Twitter Inc was apparently back up on Wednesday after a worldwide outage hit the micro-blogging platform’s website and its dashboard management platform TweetDeck, affecting thousands of users....

Researchers develop computer game to diagnose mental illness

Researchers develop computer game to diagnose mental illness

Xinhua 2019-10-02 12:36:43

Researchers from Australia's peak scientific body developed a computer game capable of helping diagnose mental health disorders. The game, developed by the Data61 team at the Commonwealth Scientific...

China 'in very good direction' in 5G deployment: Qualcomm CEO

China 'in very good direction' in 5G deployment: Qualcomm CEO

Xinhua 2019-09-28 18:05:54

China is "in very good direction" in deploying 5G networks, Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer (CEO) of US technology and chip giant Qualcomm Inc. said. China is very progressive in the speed...

US regulators sue Match.com over fake accounts

US regulators sue Match.com over fake accounts

-- 2019-09-27 15:13:32

The owner of dating app Match.com is being sued by US regulators for allegedly tricking people into subscribing to its service. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) documents detail what it called "decepti...

Humanoid robot made by Cumilla students turns heads

Humanoid robot made by Cumilla students turns heads

-- 2019-09-26 13:22:00

Two students of a private university in Cumilla say they have built, what they call, Bangladesh’s first open source humanoid robot. Named Mia-1, the robot took two-and-a-half months to complete...

China launches new satellite for environment detection

China launches new satellite for environment detection

Xinhua 2019-09-25 17:00:17

China sent a new satellite into planned orbit from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China's Gobi Desert on Wednesday. The Yunhai-1 02 satellite, launched on a Long March-2D carrier ro...

Google wins in 'right to be forgotten' fight with France

Google wins in 'right to be forgotten' fight with France

Reuters 2019-09-24 17:44:56

Google won its fight against tougher 'right to be forgotten' rules after European Union’s top court said on Tuesday it does not have to remove links to sensitive personal data worldwide, rejecti...

Facebook to open local office, pay taxes

Facebook to open local office, pay taxes

FE REPORT 2019-09-24 10:35:57

Facebook, a popular social media site, agreed to open an office and appoint local representatives in Dhaka to pay taxes on its earnings from advertisements in the country, telecom ministry said on Mon...

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps

Facebook suspends tens of thousands of apps

BBC 2019-09-23 17:03:28

Facebook has suspended tens of thousands of apps as part of an investigation it launched in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal. The suspended apps were associated with about...

China launches two more BeiDou satellites

China launches two more BeiDou satellites

Xinhua 2019-09-23 14:16:32

China has sent two satellites of BeiDou Navigation Satellite System (BDS) into space from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in Sichuan Province at 05:10am on Monday. Launched on a Long March-3B car...

Internet users up 2.0m in August: BTRC

Internet users up 2.0m in August: BTRC

FE Online Desk 2019-09-22 14:33:48

Bangladesh internet users increased by 1.96 million in August - the highest in a single month recorded in recent years. Of them, 1.959 million were from mobile telecoms operators and 0.1 million othe...

Hackers to check security of US satellite

Hackers to check security of US satellite

-- 2019-09-20 19:20:12

Ethical hackers are getting the chance to see if they can crack the security on an orbiting US Defense Department satellite, reports BBC citing Wired. Vetted experts will tackle the satellite and its...

China sets up sea rice breeding station in cold region

China sets up sea rice breeding station in cold region

Xinhua 2019-09-20 16:52:14

Chinese scientists have set up the country's first cold region breeding station for sea rice in the northeast province of Heilongjiang. The breeding station was established in Tieli, a city located a...

Google to invest €3 billion in European data centres

Google to invest €3 billion in European data centres

Reuters 2019-09-20 15:22:00

Google will make an additional investment of €3 billion ($3.3 billion) over the next two years to expand its European data centres, Chief Executive Sundar Pichai said in Finland. The investment...