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Satellite connectivity in smartphones - connect to satellite when there is no network

Satellite connectivity in smartphones - connect to satellite when there is no network

Sofia Noor Rafa 2022-10-11 16:34:45

What if your smartphone could fetch you help even when you cannot communicate through any mobile network or the internet? Satellite messengers are already available in the market that serves someone...

Scientists reduce cow burps to save the world

Scientists reduce cow burps to save the world

-- 2022-10-11 16:23:55

More than a dozen calves wait at a research farm in New Zealand to be fed Kowbucha, a punnily named probiotic that studies show reduces burps -- or methane emissions.  The Kowbucha powder...

Chinese firm tests electric flying taxi in Dubai

Chinese firm tests electric flying taxi in Dubai

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-10-11 12:40:24

A Chinese firm tested out an electric flying taxi in Dubai on Monday, offering a glimpse of futuristic technology that could one day whisk people through cities high above any traffic. The XPeng X2,...

Apple's wireless earphones will be manufactured in India

Apple's wireless earphones will be manufactured in India

-- 2022-10-10 16:09:29

India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has said Apple Inc's wireless earphones AirPods will be manufactured in India. Reuters gave the information in a report on Monday quot...

‘Few political parties spreading confusion over Critical Information Infrastructure’

‘Few political parties spreading confusion over Critical Information Infrastructure’

-- 2022-10-09 20:50:42

ICT Division of the government of Bangladesh has said a few political parties and organisations are out to spread confusion making fabricated comments over Critical Information Infrastructure (CII)....

Taiwan signals its chip firms will follow new US rules on China

Taiwan signals its chip firms will follow new US rules on China

-- 2022-10-09 17:38:09

Taiwanese semiconductor companies attach "great importance" to complying with the law, the island's government said on Saturday, signalling they would comply with new US export controls that aim to ho...

Twitter lawsuit halted so Elon Musk can close deal by Oct. 28

Twitter lawsuit halted so Elon Musk can close deal by Oct. 28

REUTERS 2022-10-07 09:45:04

A Delaware judge on Thursday ordered a halt to Twitter Inc's lawsuit against Elon Musk on the eve of trial, giving the billionaire time to finance his $44 billion takeover of the social media platform...

Apple asks suppliers to shift some AirPods production to India

Apple asks suppliers to shift some AirPods production to India

-- 2022-10-05 17:35:26

Apple Inc is asking its suppliers to move some AirPods and Beats headphone production to India for the first time, reports Reuters on Wednesday citing Nikkei, in what could be an another win for...

Musk reverses course, again: he's ready to buy Twitter, build 'X' app

Musk reverses course, again: he's ready to buy Twitter, build 'X' app

REUTERS 2022-10-05 10:07:51

Billionaire Elon Musk is proposing to proceed with his original $44 billion bid to take Twitter Inc private, security filings showed on Tuesday, calling for an end to a lawsuit by the social media com...

Apple forced to change charger in Europe as EU approves overhaul

Apple forced to change charger in Europe as EU approves overhaul

-- 2022-10-04 21:58:49

Apple will have to change the charger for its iPhones in the European Union from autumn 2024 to comply with new rules introducing a single charging port for most electronic devices.The reform passed b...

PlayStation eyes new investment for PC, mobile push

PlayStation eyes new investment for PC, mobile push

REUTERS 2022-10-04 13:59:30

Sony Group Corp's gaming business is looking at fresh investment to bolster its push into PC and mobile, a senior executive said, as the PlayStation 5 maker competes for talent with deep-pocketed riva...

India's Reliance Jio to launch 4G enabled low-cost laptop at $184

India's Reliance Jio to launch 4G enabled low-cost laptop at $184

REUTERS 2022-10-03 11:13:19

Reliance Jio will launch a budget laptop priced at $184 (15,000 Indian rupees) with an embedded 4G sim card, aiming to replicate the success of its low-cost JioPhone in India's highly price-sensitive...

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showcases humanoid robot at event

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showcases humanoid robot at event

-- 2022-10-01 14:39:29

Tesla CEO Elon Musk showcased his much-touted humanoid robot 'Optimus' at the electric vehicle maker's "AI Day" event on Friday, Reuters reports. The billionaire has said a robot business will...

NASA, SpaceX to study ways to boost orbit of Hubble telescope

NASA, SpaceX to study ways to boost orbit of Hubble telescope

-- 2022-09-30 16:27:34

Elon Musk's SpaceX plans to fund a study with NASA to examine ways to use the space company's Dragon capsule to raise the Hubble Space Telescope's orbital altitude, which would extend its useful life,...

Vietnam preparing rules to limit news posts on social media accounts

Vietnam preparing rules to limit news posts on social media accounts

-- 2022-09-28 18:35:22

Vietnam is preparing new rules to limit which social media accounts can post news-related content, three people familiar with the matter said, as authorities tighten their control over news and inform...

Apple drops plan to boost iPhone production as demand falters

Apple drops plan to boost iPhone production as demand falters

-- 2022-09-28 15:25:56

Apple Inc is dropping plans to increase production of its new iPhones this year after an anticipated surge in demand failed to materialise, Reuters reported citing Bloomberg News on Tuesday. Th...

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test

NASA's DART spacecraft hits target asteroid in first planetary defence test

-- 2022-09-27 09:10:58

NASA's DART spacecraft successfully slammed into a distant asteroid at hypersonic speed on Monday in a test of the world's first planetary defence system, designed to prevent a potential doomsda...

Awareness, digital literacy linked to optimum ICT use

Awareness, digital literacy linked to optimum ICT use

FE REPORT 2022-09-25 10:30:58

Digital literacy and awareness among the people are essential to ensure the optimum use of information and communications technology (ICT) like social media, speakers told a policy dialogue on Saturda...

Musk says activating Starlink, in response to Blinken on internet freedom in Iran

Musk says activating Starlink, in response to Blinken on internet freedom in Iran

REUTERS 2022-09-24 11:14:17

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Friday that he would activate the firm's satellite internet service, Starlink, in response to US Secretary of State Antony Blinken's tweet that the United States took acti...

Saudi mission on SpaceX capsule to include first female Arab astronaut

Saudi mission on SpaceX capsule to include first female Arab astronaut

-- 2022-09-23 19:41:59

Saudi Arabia's mission to the International Space Station next year aboard a SpaceX capsule will include a woman who would become the world's first female Arab astronaut, according to Axiom Space, the...

Australia's Optus says up to 10m customers caught in cyber attack

Australia's Optus says up to 10m customers caught in cyber attack

-- 2022-09-23 13:51:15

Australian No. 2 telco Optus, owned by Singapore Telecommunications Ltd, said it will contact up to 10 million customers whose personal details were taken in a "sophisticated" hack, but added no corpo...

Automated era of technology is here - the AI scene in Bangladesh

Automated era of technology is here - the AI scene in Bangladesh

Zakia Zaman 2022-09-22 17:03:41

Artificial Intelligence, upon hearing these two words, our mind creates imagination of a highly advanced civilisation, only seen in sci-fi movies. With the world advancing towards the Fourth Industria...

Apple may move a quarter of iPhone production to India by 2025

Apple may move a quarter of iPhone production to India by 2025

-- 2022-09-21 17:21:51

Apple Inc may make one out of four iPhones in India by 2025, J.P.Morgan analysts said on Wednesday, as the tech giant moves some production away from China, amid mounting geopolitical tensions and str...

Safe and efficient production, storage and use of Hydrogen Peroxide

Safe and efficient production, storage and use of Hydrogen Peroxide

ABDULLAH AL MUHAIMEN and MD TAUHIDUL ISLAM TAUHID 2022-09-21 17:14:00

Hydrogen Peroxide is an unstable, colorless, or pale blue chemical compound which is generally used as an oxidizing and bleaching agent, a propellant, or antiseptic. It is about 1.5 times denser than...

'Rocket mission': Five young men pursue a sky-high dream

'Rocket mission': Five young men pursue a sky-high dream

FE REPORT 2022-09-20 12:26:20

They may have not gone to the same school or grown up in the same neighbourhood, but these five young men have one thing in common -- an insatiable passion for satellite technology, reports bdnews24.c...

New iPhones have Qualcomm satellite modem, new Apple radio chips

New iPhones have Qualcomm satellite modem, new Apple radio chips

REUTERS 2022-09-18 11:55:12

Apple Inc's iPhone 14 models contain a Qualcomm Inc chip that can talk to satellites, but have additional custom-designed Apple components used in the phone's biggest new feature, according to an anal...

Indonesia launches probe on Google Play Store payment services

Indonesia launches probe on Google Play Store payment services

-- 2022-09-16 19:35:57

Indonesia's anti-trust agency (KPPU) said on Thursday it is investigating potential unfair business practices by Google over the use of proprietary payment services for its software distribution platf...

YouTube, Meta will expand policies, research to fight online extremism

YouTube, Meta will expand policies, research to fight online extremism

REUTERS 2022-09-16 12:24:30

Major tech companies on Thursday committed to taking fresh steps to combat online extremism by removing more violent content and promoting media literacy with young users, as part of a White House sum...

Elon Musk accuses Twitter of security lapses in court filing

Elon Musk accuses Twitter of security lapses in court filing

-- 2022-09-16 12:11:11

Billionaire Elon Musk accused Twitter of fraud by concealing serious flaws in the social media company's data security, which the entrepreneur said should allow him to end his $44 billion deal for the...

Apple's A17 processor  to use latest chip tech by Taiwan's TSMC

Apple's A17 processor to use latest chip tech by Taiwan's TSMC

-- 2022-09-14 17:18:07

Apple Inc is planning to use an updated version of Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's latest chip producing technology in iPhones and Macbooks next year, reports Reuters citing Nikkei Asia newspaper...