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WhatsApp puts its new privacy policy on hold in India

WhatsApp puts its new privacy policy on hold in India

UNB 2021-07-09 20:02:14

After nearly a six-month stand-off with the Indian government over its new contentious privacy policy, Facebook-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp has finally blinked. The California-headquartered...

Reporting of Huawei’s two test satellites launch for 6G research is fake news: Huawei

Reporting of Huawei’s two test satellites launch for 6G research is fake news: Huawei

-- 2021-07-06 16:48:46

Chinese technology giant Huawei on Tuesday refutes reports that it is set to launch two test satellites for 6G technology verification in July. The company tagged media reports of the launch of two s...

Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content, says Indian govt

Twitter loses immunity over user-generated content, says Indian govt

REUTERS 2021-07-06 15:36:39

Twitter Inc no more enjoys liability protection against user-generated content in India as the US microblogging giant has failed to comply with new IT rules, the Indian government said in a court fili...

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world affected by ransomware attack: Kaseya CEO

Up to 1,500 businesses around the world affected by ransomware attack: Kaseya CEO

Reuters 2021-07-06 10:56:03

Between 800 and 1,500 businesses around the world have been affected by a ransomware attack centred on US information technology firm Kaseya, its chief executive said on Monday. Fred Voccola, the Flo...

Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 US businesses

Ransomware breach at Florida IT firm hits 200 US businesses

Reuters 2021-07-03 10:48:57

Hundreds of American businesses were hit Friday by an unusually sophisticated ransomware attack that hijacked widely used technology management software from a Miami-based supplier called Kaseya. The...

Facebook asks its users: Are your friends becoming extremists?

Facebook asks its users: Are your friends becoming extremists?

REUTERS 2021-07-02 10:59:43

Facebook is starting to warn some users they might have seen "extremist content" on the social media site, the company said on Thursday. Screenshots shared on Twitter showed a notice asking "Are...

India says US social media giants must obey the country's laws

India says US social media giants must obey the country's laws

Reuters 2021-07-01 10:07:13

India's technology minister said on Wednesday that US social media giants must obey the laws of his country, where they are doing brisk business. The comments by IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad follo...

SAU-BBDF researchers produce biogas from kitchen waste

SAU-BBDF researchers produce biogas from kitchen waste

UNB 2021-06-27 22:18:08

A joint research team of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University (SAU) and Bangladesh Biogas Development Foundation (BBDF) has successfully generated biogas from kitchen waste and municipal solid waste...

Coronavirus outbreak struck East Asia over 20,000 years ago, study finds

Coronavirus outbreak struck East Asia over 20,000 years ago, study finds

-- 2021-06-27 20:04:24

New research by the authors of the Australian National University has revealed that a coronavirus outbreak may have swept across East Asia more than 20,000 years ago. The authors in an article on The...

AI is watching: Things you need to know about workplace surveillance

AI is watching: Things you need to know about workplace surveillance

Thomson Reuters Foundation 2021-06-26 12:31:44

From Swedish retailer H&M being fined 35 million euros ($42 million) for recording employees' private data to Britain's Barclays bank accused of spying on its staff, workplace surveillance has com...

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 operating system

Microsoft unveils Windows 11 operating system

REUTERS 2021-06-25 11:31:41

Microsoft Corp on Thursday unveiled Windows 11, its first major operating system revamp since 2015 with new changes that take direct aim at Apple's lucrative App Store business model. Windows 11, whi...

Australian scientist speaks to frogs, fears their silence

Australian scientist speaks to frogs, fears their silence

-- 2021-06-24 17:51:02

Wading through a moonlit pond on Australia's east coast talking to frogs makes Michael Mahony feel like a kid again. The 70-year-old biology professor and conservationist at the Australia's Universit...

Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee commits suicide, lawyer says

Larger-than-life software mogul John McAfee commits suicide, lawyer says

-- 2021-06-24 11:07:01

British-born US technology entrepreneur John McAfee died on Wednesday by suicide in a Barcelona prison after the Spanish high court authorised his extradition to the United States on tax evasion charg...

imo announces stronger ‘security layer’ to stop tech-savvy criminals

imo announces stronger ‘security layer’ to stop tech-savvy criminals

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-06-21 14:46:47

In view of increasing cyber risks and threats, instant communication platform imo has added new features to enhance its security protection system, inclusive of an anti-fraud mechanism, the company ha...

UNDP, Puncforon launches 'MyResponse' campaign against cyberbullying

UNDP, Puncforon launches 'MyResponse' campaign against cyberbullying

UNB   2021-06-18 20:41:09

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has teamed up with Puncforon, the winner of its Digital Khichuri Challenge 2020, to launch the "#MyResponse" campaign to raise awareness against online...

Shakuntala Thilsted wins World Food Prize 2021 for mola fish research

Shakuntala Thilsted wins World Food Prize 2021 for mola fish research

  Md Abdul Wahab 2021-06-17 17:06:58

The World Food Prize Foundation has awarded the World Food Prize 2021 to Dr Shakuntala Haraksingh Thilsted, global lead for Nutrition and Public Health of WorldFish. She won the most prestigious priz...

China launches spacecraft with astronauts aboard in historic mission

China launches spacecraft with astronauts aboard in historic mission

Reuters 2021-06-17 13:03:29

China launched a spacecraft on Thursday carrying three astronauts to part of a space station still under construction for the longest stay in low Earth orbit by any Chinese national. A Long March 2F...

China to send astronauts into space, first such mission in five years

China to send astronauts into space, first such mission in five years

Reuters 2021-06-16 10:09:45

China will send three men into orbit on Thursday in its first crewed mission in nearly five years, part of an ambitious plan to complete a space station by the end of next year. China is expected to...

Twitter introduces 'Arabic (feminine)' language setting

Twitter introduces 'Arabic (feminine)' language setting

Reuters 2021-06-15 15:35:10

Twitter on Tuesday introduced an "Arabic (feminine)" language setting enabling the social media site to speak to users using feminine grammar, part of what it said was an inclusion and diversity drive...

UN asks world not to forget about saving species while fixing global warming

UN asks world not to forget about saving species while fixing global warming

-- 2021-06-11 18:10:50

To save the planet, the world needs to tackle the crises of climate change and species loss together, taking measures that fix both and not just one, United Nations scientists said, reports AP. A joi...

Google, Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?

Google, Facebook pledged millions for local news. Was it enough?

REUTERS 2021-06-10 18:15:17

Facing regulatory and political pressure, Facebook and Alphabet Inc’s Google in recent years committed a combined $600 million to support news outlets globally - many of them local or regional e...

Bangabandhu Innovation Grant champion to get $100,000

Bangabandhu Innovation Grant champion to get $100,000

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-06-09 21:21:13

The prize-giving ceremony of the Bangabandhu Innovation Grant (BIG 2021) competition is expected to take place next September and the winner of the first prize will get a grant of $100,000. Prime Min...

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

Websites rumble back to life after Fastly-linked outage

REUTERS 2021-06-08 18:48:06

Government, news and social media websites across the globe were coming back online Tuesday after being hit by a widespread outage linked to US-based cloud company Fastly Inc. High traffic sites incl...

Social media, news websites hit by major internet outage

Social media, news websites hit by major internet outage

-- 2021-06-08 17:09:35

Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at US-based cloud computing services provider Fastly. Fastl...

Facebook says Trump to remain banned for at least two years

Facebook says Trump to remain banned for at least two years

REUTERS 2021-06-05 09:30:17

Facebook on Friday extended the suspension on former US President Donald Trump until at least January 2023 and announced changes to how it will treat world leaders who break the rules on its site. Fa...

Twitter introduces subscription service to undo tweets, customise app

Twitter introduces subscription service to undo tweets, customise app

-- 2021-06-04 18:23:44

Twitter Inc is going to roll out a new subscription product, initially in Australia and Canada, called Twitter Blue to let paying users edit their tweets before posting and change the color theme of t...

Facebook plans to end rule exemptions for politicians

Facebook plans to end rule exemptions for politicians

-- 2021-06-04 11:31:09

Facebook plans to end a contentious policy championed by CEO Mark Zuckerberg that exempted politicians from certain moderation rules on its site, according to several news reports. The company’...

Venus: Nasa announces two new missions

Venus: Nasa announces two new missions

BBC 2021-06-03 17:45:41

Nasa has announced that it is sending two new missions to Venus in order to examine the planet's atmosphere and geological features. The missions, which have each been awarded $500m (£352m) in...

Huawei launches new operating system for smartphones

Huawei launches new operating system for smartphones

-- 2021-06-02 18:54:02

China's Huawei Technologies announced the launch of its proprietary Harmony operating system (HarmonyOS) for smartphones on Wednesday, as the embattled company looks to recover from US sanctions that...

Intel says chip supply shortages could last several years

Intel says chip supply shortages could last several years

Reuters 2021-05-31 10:39:11

Intel Corp's CEO said on Monday it could take several years for a global shortage of semiconductors to be resolved, a problem that has shuttered some auto production lines and is also being felt in ot...