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‘Doubts’ on Uber spying on rivals

‘Doubts’ on Uber spying on rivals

Reuters 2018-01-13 11:33:15

The former security chief of Uber Technologies Inc swore in a closed legal proceeding that he knew of no attempts to steal trade secrets from anyone, including Alphabet Inc’s self-driving unit W...

Almas Kabir takes the helm of BASIS

Almas Kabir takes the helm of BASIS

-- 2018-01-13 10:18:07

Syed Almas Kabir, Chief Executive Officer of MetroNet Bangladesh Limited, has taken over the charge of president of the Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS), the nationa...

Facebook shares fall after News Feed overhaul

Facebook shares fall after News Feed overhaul

Reuters 2018-01-13 02:36:06

Shares of Facebook Inc (FB.O) fell more than 4 per cent on Friday and were on track for their worst session in more than three months after Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg announced changes that he sa...

Facebook plans major changes to news feed

Facebook plans major changes to news feed

BBC 2018-01-12 12:00:00

Facebook is to change how its news feed works, making posts from businesses, brands and media less prominent. Instead, content that sparks conversations among family and friends who use the site will...

Satellite to capture hi-def video of earth’s surface

Satellite to capture hi-def video of earth’s surface

-- 2018-01-12 12:00:00

A British satellite has gone into orbit on an Indian rocket to acquire full-colour, high-definition video of the surface of the Earth. The demonstrator is expected to pave the way for a series of at...

China chides tech firms over privacy safeguards

China chides tech firms over privacy safeguards

Reuters 2018-01-12 02:22:50

China reprimanded three top tech firms on Friday over poor privacy protections, as tech companies face an increasing backlash from consumers and authorities over excessive data collection practices....

Has Ecuador granted Assange citizenship?

Has Ecuador granted Assange citizenship?

Reuters 2018-01-11 12:00:00

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s name has appeared in an Ecuadorean government database of citizen identification numbers, fuelling speculation that he may have received citizenship from the A...

YouTube cuts ties with US vlogger

YouTube cuts ties with US vlogger

BBC 2018-01-11 10:29:40

YouTube has cut business ties with Logan Paul, the hugely popular vlogger who posted a video showing the body of an apparent suicide victim in Japan. Paul's channels were removed from YouTube's Googl...

Intel to make flawed chips 'safe' in a week

Intel to make flawed chips 'safe' in a week

-- 2018-01-10 12:00:00

Intel's chief executive has said software fixes to address the recently discovered Meltdown and Spectre bugs in microchips would be released in the next few days. Brian Krzanich was speaking at the b...

eGeneration pioneers in blockchain revolution in Bangladesh

eGeneration pioneers in blockchain revolution in Bangladesh

FE Online Desk 2018-01-10 07:16:11

By providing blockchain solutions in Dubai, Bangladeshi company eGeneration showed the world that Bangladesh is capable of providing cutting edge technologies. Posts, Telecommunication and Informatio...

Leading brands coming together to show latest smartphones, tabs

Leading brands coming together to show latest smartphones, tabs

FE Online Desk 2018-01-10 05:37:51

The Techshohor Smartphone and Tab Expo-2018 is set to begin on Thursday with the opportunity of getting latest editions of smartphones and tablets. Organised by Expo Maker, the event is the largest i...

Samsung unveils components for autonomous car

Samsung unveils components for autonomous car

-- 2018-01-09 11:46:03

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its first set of components for autonomous driving and infotainment solutions developed with Harman International, which it bought about a year ago in a major push...

BlackBerry KEYone Edition Black launched in BD

BlackBerry KEYone Edition Black launched in BD

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:57:42

Optiemus Infracom Limited (BSE: 530135), a leading Indian telecom enterprise, recently announced its entry in the Bangladesh market with the launch of BlackBerry KEYone LIMITED EDITION BLACK, said a s...

YouTube rewards Sohag360 with Silver Play Button

YouTube rewards Sohag360 with Silver Play Button

FE Online Desk 2018-01-08 12:00:00

YouTube has rewarded Sohag360, a popular technology channel, with Silver Play Button, a creator recognition solely given on the 100k-suscriber count. Sohag Mia, owner of the channel, uncovered the re...

Legendary astronaut John Young dies

Legendary astronaut John Young dies

Reuters 2018-01-07 10:58:28

US astronaut John Young, who walked on the moon in 1972 and even smuggled a corned beef sandwich into orbit during a career that made him the only person to fly with three NASA space programmes, has d...

White noise video on YouTube hit by copyright claims

White noise video on YouTube hit by copyright claims

BBC 2018-01-06 12:00:00

A musician who made a 10-hour long video of continuous white noise - indistinct electronic hissing - has said five copyright infringement claims have been made against him. Sebastian Tomczak, who is...

All Mac devices hit by chip bugs, Apple says

All Mac devices hit by chip bugs, Apple says

-- 2018-01-05 12:00:00

Apple has said that all iPhones, iPads, and Mac computers are affected by two major flaws in computer chips. It emerged this week that tech companies have been racing to fix the Meltdown and Spectre...

Global warming likely to dry quarter of the world

Global warming likely to dry quarter of the world

FE Online Desk 2018-01-05 05:16:03

Up to 30 per cent of the planet’s land surface would become arid if global temperatures rise 2C above pre-industrial levels, according to a new study. Widespread drying out of planet's sur...

Tech giants rush to fix chip design flaws

Tech giants rush to fix chip design flaws

BBC 2018-01-04 12:00:00

Tech firms are working to fix bugs that could allow hackers to steal personal data from computer systems. Google researchers said the "serious security flaws" affected chips made by Intel, AMD, and A...

Spotify faces $1.6b copyright lawsuit

Spotify faces $1.6b copyright lawsuit

Reuters 2018-01-03 12:25:53

Music streaming company Spotify was sued by Wixen Music Publishing Inc last week for allegedly using thousands of songs, including those of Tom Petty, Neil Young and the Doors, without a license and c...

China to build $2b AI research park

China to build $2b AI research park

Reuters 2018-01-03 12:00:00

Beijing is planning to build a 13.8 billion yuan ($2.12 billion) artificial intelligence development park in the city’s west, the official Xinhua news agency reported, as China pushes ahead to f...

NASA’s robotic satellites to reduce space pollution

NASA’s robotic satellites to reduce space pollution

-- 2018-01-02 12:53:05

US government body Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa) and NASA have teamed up to build robotic technology that can refuel and repair friendly satellites. “Service stations in orb...

WhatsApp returns after hour-long global outage

WhatsApp returns after hour-long global outage

-- 2018-01-01 11:16:20

WhatsApp, a popular messaging service owned by Facebook Inc, suffered a global outage for about an hour on Sunday before the problem was fixed. “WhatsApp users around the world experienced a br...

Tecno Mobile to bring smartphones optimised for selfie

Tecno Mobile to bring smartphones optimised for selfie

FE Online Desk 2018-01-01 10:56:23

TECNO Mobile is set to launch a new series of cellular phones for Bangladeshi consumers very soon. The new smarphones will have special features such as infinity display and low light selfie camera,...

Tech giants may face UK tax penalty

Tech giants may face UK tax penalty

BBC 2017-12-31 02:45:09

Internet companies should face a tax punishment for failing to deal with the threat of terrorism in the UK, security minister Ben Wallace has said. Wallace said firms such as Facebook, Google and You...

Telecom, ICT sector see off an eventful year

Telecom, ICT sector see off an eventful year

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2017-12-30 12:00:00

From launching the country's first nano-satellite to the celebrated visit of the world's first 'robot citizen', the outgoing year 2017 has been a year of buzz, hope and surprise for Bangladesh's telec...

Apple apologises over slowed iPhones

Apple apologises over slowed iPhones

-- 2017-12-29 04:46:48

Facing lawsuits and consumer outrage slow older iPhones with flagging batteries, Apple Inc has apologised over the issue. The company also announced to make a number of changes for customers “t...

Leaders must use care on social media: Obama

Leaders must use care on social media: Obama

-- 2017-12-28 12:00:00

Former President Barack Obama told Prince Harry in an interview broadcast Wednesday that people in leadership roles must be careful in their use of social media and warned against spending too much ti...

437,000 Vietnamese email accounts leaked

437,000 Vietnamese email accounts leaked

FE Online Desk 2017-12-28 07:12:43

Nearly 437,700 email accounts with addresses ending with ".vn" (Vietnam) have been leaked with personal information and passwords. The mass exposed happened through foreign social networks and online...

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

Google’s digital voice assistant to sound more like humans

-- 2017-12-28 02:56:59

Google is making its voice assistant sound more like humans than robots. The company is working on a new text-to-speech system called Tacotron 2 which is essentially a neural network architecture for...