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Apple's iPhone X hits Asia

Apple's iPhone X hits Asia

-- 2017-11-04 12:23:01

SYDNEY/BEIJING:  Long, snaking lines formed outside Apple Inc stores in Asia early on Friday as fans flocked to buy the new iPhone X, a turnout that contrasts with the more lackluster launches fo...

Twitter's rewritten rules published

Twitter's rewritten rules published

BBC 2017-11-04 12:00:00

Twitter has published a new version of its rules, which it says will clarify its policies and how it enforces them. It is part of a series of changes as the social network tries to address complaints...

Twitter employee shuts down Trump account

Twitter employee shuts down Trump account

-- 2017-11-03 12:00:00

US President Donald Trump’s @realdonaldtrump Twitter account was “inadvertently deactivated” due to human error by a Twitter Inc employee on Thursday and was down for 11 minutes befo...

Trending apps to increase efficiency of your startup

Trending apps to increase efficiency of your startup

FE Online Desk 2017-11-03 08:04:52

According to the different metrics found on internet, globally the following startups are using these apps to increase efficiency- Slack The best example of new sort of communication system comes fr...

Facebook ad revenue tops $10 billion

Facebook ad revenue tops $10 billion

BBC 2017-11-02 11:20:20

Facebook profits soared in the third quarter as it brought in more than $10 billion from advertising. The firm said profits were $4.7 billion (£3.5 billion) in the three months to the end of Se...

Social media sites under scrutiny for 'Russian meddling’

Social media sites under scrutiny for 'Russian meddling’

BBC 2017-11-01 12:00:00

Facebook, Twitter and Google lawyers on Tuesday defended themselves to US lawmakers probing whether Russia used social media to influence the 2016 election. The three firms faced hard questions at a...

Malaysia probes alleged leak of 46m mobile users data

Malaysia probes alleged leak of 46m mobile users data

-- 2017-11-01 09:57:05

Malaysia is investigating an alleged attempt to sell the data of more than 46 million mobile phone subscribers online after a major data breach, Communications and Multimedia Minister Salleh Said Keru...

Team Bonsai wins Digital Khichuri Challenge

Team Bonsai wins Digital Khichuri Challenge

FE Online Desk 2017-11-01 02:43:49

Being inspired by the success of the first ‘Digital Khichuri Challenge’ in 2016, the innovative competition returned this year with an aim to promote peace, tolerance and cultural diversit...

Russia-backed Facebook posts 'reached' 126m US users

Russia-backed Facebook posts 'reached' 126m US users

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

Facebook on Monday said as many as 126 million American users may have seen content uploaded by Russia-based operatives over the last two years. The social networking site said about 80,000 posts wer...

Bangladeshi-born scientist wins NASA's innovator award

Bangladeshi-born scientist wins NASA's innovator award

-- 2017-10-31 12:00:00

NASA research engineer Mahmooda Sultana has been named the 2017 “IRAD Innovator of the Year,” an award bestowed annually on those who achieve significant results creating technologies unde...

WEF asks tech firms to do more on extremism

WEF asks tech firms to do more on extremism

Reuters 2017-10-30 12:00:00

US tech firms such as Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc should be more aggressive in tackling extremism and political misinformation if they want to avoid government action, a report from the World Economi...

Ex-employee sues Facebook for misclassifying workers

Ex-employee sues Facebook for misclassifying workers

-- 2017-10-30 09:35:38

A former Facebook employee is suing the social media giant for allegedly misclassifying employees to exempt them from overtime pay. According to a report in arstechnica.com on Monday, Susie Bigger, a...

Google to localise searches by default

Google to localise searches by default

FE Online Desk 2017-10-30 02:55:31

With an aim to provide most relevant search results to the users, Google has finally said goodbye to its age-old practice of manually entering country code domain for receiving country-specific servic...

New AI system can predict earthquakes: Study

New AI system can predict earthquakes: Study

-- 2017-10-29 12:00:00

Scientists have developed an artificial intelligence (AI) system to successfully predict earthquakes, an advance that may help prepare for natural disasters and potentially save lives. The study, pub...

Facebook to disclose more on political ads

Facebook to disclose more on political ads

BBC 2017-10-28 10:00:03

Facebook has announced measures to make political advertising on the social media platform more transparent. Political advertisers will have to verify their identity and location and their posts will...

Twitter bans Russia Today and Sputnik ads

Twitter bans Russia Today and Sputnik ads

-- 2017-10-27 10:51:42

Twitter is banning two of Russia's biggest media outlets from buying advertising amid fears they attempted to interfere with the 2016 US election. The ban on advertising from Russia Today (RT) and Sp...

TAITRONICS 2017 ends in Taipei

TAITRONICS 2017 ends in Taipei

-- 2017-10-26 11:58:32

This year’s Taipei International Electronics Industry Exhibition TAITRONICS successfully ended in Taipei, Taiwan The exhibition was organised to create a platform for great set of innovations a...

1,000mph supersonic car set for first public runs

1,000mph supersonic car set for first public runs

BBC 2017-10-26 01:31:30

The British car designed to go 1,000mph (1,610km/h) is set to make its first public runs in Cornwall soon. Bloodhound SSC is conducting initial "slow-speed" trials and should get up to about 200mph (...

Twitter promises more ad transparency

Twitter promises more ad transparency

BBC 2017-10-25 12:55:22

Twitter has pledged to make advertising more transparent as it attempts to fend off proposed new regulations. It said it would be clearer about who funded ads and to what end, especially those pushin...

Toyota 'not moving away' from hydrogen cars

Toyota 'not moving away' from hydrogen cars

Reuters 2017-10-25 12:00:00

Toyota Motor Corp said its solid-state battery technology under development could be a “game changer” for electric vehicles, but that does not mean it is moving away from hydrogen-powered...

Bumpy start for Google Pixel

Bumpy start for Google Pixel

Reuters 2017-10-24 12:00:00

The launch of Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) second-generation Google Pixel smartphones has been hampered by display screen problems and pricing and shipping issues, prompting the company to open an i...

US says hackers target its energy, industrial firms

US says hackers target its energy, industrial firms

Reuters 2017-10-22 12:24:18

The US government issued a rare public warning that sophisticated hackers are targeting energy and industrial firms, the latest sign that cyber attacks present an increasing threat to the power indust...

Internet to remain slow for three days

Internet to remain slow for three days

-- 2017-10-22 04:43:09

Internet speed in Bangladesh may remain slow for three days starting from October 24 to 26 due to renovation work on the first submarine cable. State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana...

Radisson Technology wins 7 ICT awards

Radisson Technology wins 7 ICT awards

FE Online Desk 2017-10-21 12:26:04

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Tech master Scoble apologises over harassment allegations

Tech master Scoble apologises over harassment allegations

BBC 2017-10-21 12:00:00

Renowned tech consultant and commentator Robert Scoble has apologised after multiple accusations of inappropriate behaviour towards women. In a post on Medium, journalist Quinn Norton accused Mr Scob...

Apple hit with trademark lawsuit

Apple hit with trademark lawsuit

Reuters 2017-10-21 10:36:59

A Japanese software company is suing Apple Inc in a U.S. court over the trademark for the term “animoji”, alleging the U.S. technology company stole the name to use on a feature of its iPh...

Facebook plans to launch news subscription feature

Facebook plans to launch news subscription feature

-- 2017-10-20 08:42:18

Facebook Inc started a trial that gives its mobile app users access to a limited number of articles a month and then the option to subscribe via the publishers’ own websites. The social media s...

Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

Google DeepMind: AI becomes more alien

BBC 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Google's DeepMind says it has made another big advance in artificial intelligence by getting a machine to master the Chinese game of Go without help from human players. The AlphaGo program, devised b...

Lower-income kids give more time to TV: Study

Lower-income kids give more time to TV: Study

AP 2017-10-19 12:00:00

Children in lower-income families spend more time watching TV and using electronic devices than kids in more affluent homes, according to a survey released Thursday. The report by the US-based nonpro...

Twitter vows new crackdown on abusive tweets

Twitter vows new crackdown on abusive tweets

AP 2017-10-18 12:47:35

Twitter vowed to crack down further on hate speech and sexual harassment, days after CEO Jack Dorsey said in a tweet-storm that the company was “still” not doing enough to protect its user...