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Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

Apple likely to unveil Mac laptop computers with more powerful chips

-- 2021-10-18 20:14:03

Analysts expect Apple Inc to unveil new Mac laptop computers with more powerful processor chips at an event that will be streamed later Monday. According to global media reports, Apple plans to relea...

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

Facebook planning to hire 10,000 in EU over next five years to build 'metaverse'

-- 2021-10-18 10:21:32

Facebook Inc plans to hire 10,000 in the European Union over the next five years, the social media giant said on Monday, to help build the so-called metaverse - a nascent online world where peopl...

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

FIFA to expand gaming and e-sports portfolio

-- 2021-10-17 17:48:10

World soccer's governing body FIFA said on Friday that it will widen its gaming and e-sports portfolio to ensure that controlling rights don't lie in the hands of one party. This comes after a report...

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

NASA launches first space probe to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids

-- 2021-10-16 17:17:43

NASA launched the first-of-its-kind mission on Saturday to study Jupiter's Trojan asteroids, two large clusters of space rocks that scientists believe are remnants of the primordial material that form...

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

China launches second crewed mission to build new space station

-- 2021-10-16 14:15:17

China on Saturday launched a rocket carrying three astronauts - two men and one woman - to the core module of a future space station where they will live and work for six months, the longest orbit for...

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

Star Trek's Shatner becomes world's oldest space traveller

-- 2021-10-14 10:19:24

Having made a career out of playing an explorer of the cosmos, William Shatner - Captain James Kirk of "Star Trek" fame - did it for real on Wednesday, becoming at age 90 the oldest person in space ab...

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

Journalists, activists to be regarded as public figures on Facebook

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-10-14 09:22:47

Facebook Inc (FB.O) will now count activists and journalists as "involuntary" public figures and so increase protections against harassment and bullying targeted at these groups, its global safety chi...

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

US becomes largest bitcoin mining centre overtaking China

-- 2021-10-13 19:42:22

The United States has overtaken China to account for the largest share of the world's bitcoin mining, data published on Wednesday by Britain's Cambridge Centre for Alternative Finance showed. The fig...

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

SAU teacher develops fish vaccine, first of its kind in Bangladesh

-- 2021-10-13 18:18:01

An assistant professor of Sylhet Agriculture University (SAU) has developed an oral vaccine for fish, the first of its kind in Bangladesh, which can protect different species of fish from bacterial di...

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

Russia excluded from 30-country meeting on ransomware, cybercrime

-- 2021-10-13 16:06:58

Russia was not invited to attend a 30-country virtual meeting led by the United States that is aimed at combating the growing threat of ransomware and other cybercrime, a senior administration officia...

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

Facebook CEO asked to retain documents related to whistleblower

-- 2021-10-13 10:28:44

Senate Commerce Committee Chair Maria Cantwell on Tuesday called on Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg to preserve all documents related to testimony last week from company whistleblower Fr...

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

EU to investigate Nvidia's $54 bln ARM bid after remedies fall short

-- 2021-10-12 20:36:32

Nvidia's $54 billion bid for British chip designer ARM is expected to face an extended EU antitrust investigation after concessions offered last week failed to address competition concerns, three peop...

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

China has won AI battle with United States, Pentagon's ex-software chief says

-- 2021-10-11 13:28:34

China has won the artificial intelligence battle with the United States and is heading towards global dominance because of its technological advances, the Pentagon's former software chief told the Fin...

What’s new in Windows 11

What’s new in Windows 11

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-10-11 12:43:14

It's been five years since the last Windows upgrade and Microsoft has come up with the latest one- Windows 11. The new features have been the subject of speculation. As Windows is constantly notifying...

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

China state media says gaming time limit loopholes should be closed to ‘prevent addiction’

-- 2021-10-11 10:39:00

Chinese state media said loopholes allowing minors to bypass new rules aimed at curbing gaming playtime to three hours per week should be removed to "prevent addiction." China introduced new rules in...

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

Facebook to try to 'nudge' teens away from harmful content

-- 2021-10-11 09:44:56

A Facebook Inc executive said Sunday that the company would introduce new measures on its apps to prompt teens away from harmful content, as US lawmakers scrutinise how Facebook and subsidiaries...

Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

Telegram says over 70 million new users joined during Facebook outage

-- 2021-10-06 11:16:17

Messaging app Telegram gained over 70 million new users during Monday's Facebook outage, its founder Pavel Durov said on Tuesday, as people worldwide were left without key messaging services for nearl...

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

Facebook blames 'faulty configuration change' for global outage

-- 2021-10-05 12:07:24

Facebook blamed a "faulty configuration change" for a nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from accessing its social media and messaging services such as Wha...

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp restored after nearly six-hour outage

-- 2021-10-05 08:56:21

Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and WhatsApp lit up again late on Monday afternoon Eastern time after a nearly six-hour outage that prevented the company's 3.5 billion users from ac...

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

Facebook, Instagram, Whatsapp go down in major global outage

-- 2021-10-04 22:15:55

Facebook Inc's suite of apps –including popular photo-sharing platform Instagram and messaging app WhatsApp– have gone down in a major outage in several parts of the world. The apps compl...

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

Doctor uses iPhone 13 Pro camera for eye checkup

-- 2021-10-03 16:00:12

Dr Tommy Korn, MD, an ophthalmologist working at Sharp Rees-Stealy Medical Group in San Diego, USA, recently went viral for demonstrating how he uses the new iPhone 13 Pro macro camera to photograph h...

Facebook aware of Instagram harm to teens, US senators say

Facebook aware of Instagram harm to teens, US senators say

-- 2021-10-01 08:23:30

US senators on Thursday grilled Facebook on its plans to better protect young users on its apps, drawing on leaked internal research that showed the social media giant was aware of how its Instagram a...

Apple Watch Series 7: What is Different?

Apple Watch Series 7: What is Different?

Sofia Noor Rafa 2021-09-30 21:08:55

The Apple Watch Series 7 will be hitting the market in the fall this year. Up for a new smartwatch? The difference is there but how much discrepancy is there between the previous Watch releases and th...

Gaming Mattress goes on sale in Japan

Gaming Mattress goes on sale in Japan

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-09-30 13:13:24

Bauhutte is now producing a 'Gaming Mattress', a high-quality urethane mattress that supports the sleeping environment of gamers, claims the product's official webpage. The Japanese firm makes a vari...

Google adds visual search features

Google adds visual search features

-- 2021-09-30 08:42:15

Google users can soon combine images and text in search queries, a feature unveiled on Wednesday that could help the Alphabet unit expand its role in e-commerce and dominance in online video, reports...

YouTube announces to block all anti-vaccine content

YouTube announces to block all anti-vaccine content

-- 2021-09-29 20:50:25

YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond COVID-19 to include content that alleges vaccines cause chronic health effects or contains misinformation on the substances in vaccines, it s...

One charger for all: Advantages - disadvantages

One charger for all: Advantages - disadvantages

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-09-27 10:39:47

The European Commission (EC) is pushing to impose a universal charger (USB-C type) for smartphones, putting Apple and its widely used iPhone in conflict. EC, the executive body of the European Union...

How Google becomes popular search engine overcoming Yahoo and Bing

How Google becomes popular search engine overcoming Yahoo and Bing

Sofia Noor Rafa 2021-09-24 19:15:03

Why is Google the most popular and used search engine? It is one of the most arguable topics ever. The discussion on this might get bigger than big, and facts can hit each other up. Long ago, technol...

India's Silicon Valley state proposes ban on online games

India's Silicon Valley state proposes ban on online games

-- 2021-09-24 17:04:07

The Indian state of Karnataka, home to India's Silicon Valley, has proposed a ban on online games involving betting and wagering, sparking concerns that growing state regulations could hit the nascent...

Clubhouse launches 'wave' feature for private chats

Clubhouse launches 'wave' feature for private chats

-- 2021-09-24 09:05:00

US social audio app Clubhouse launched a feature on Thursday to let users virtually wave at friends inside its audio-only chat app to show they are open to a private chat, in a move to expand beyond p...