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Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9 million

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet sells for $2.9 million

-- 2021-03-23 13:18:42

Twitter founder Jack Dorsey's first ever tweet has been sold for the equivalent of $2.9m (£2.1m) to a Malaysia-based businessman. The tweet, which said "just setting up my twttr," was first pub...

Digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia up for auction

Digital artwork by humanoid robot Sophia up for auction

REUTERS 2021-03-23 09:30:36

Robot artist Sophia, whose first artwork goes up for auction on Wednesday, says she draws inspiration for her work from people and is open to future creative partnerships with humans. A digital artwo...

Trump plans social media return with his own platform

Trump plans social media return with his own platform

-- 2021-03-22 10:10:58

Former US President Donald Trump, suspended from Twitter, Facebook, and other social media sites after the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, plans to launch his own platform in two to three months, one of...

US DOJ accuses Google of dragging its feet in antitrust trial

US DOJ accuses Google of dragging its feet in antitrust trial

-- 2021-03-20 13:31:34

The US Department of Justice accused Google of dragging its feet in providing documents in preparation for a trial on allegations that it broke antitrust law while the search and advertising giant sai...

Facebook services suffer global outage

Facebook services suffer global outage

Reuters 2021-03-20 08:51:37

Facebook has fixed a technical issue that caused a global outage of its services after more than a million people reported problems with its photo-sharing app Instagram. The issue had also affected t...

TikTok likely to introduce group chat feature this year

TikTok likely to introduce group chat feature this year

Reuters   2021-03-17 16:58:56

Video-sharing platform TikTok may launch a group messaging feature this year, people with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters, putting the Chinese-owned app in more direct competition with socia...

Microsoft, Google openly feuding amid hacks, competition inquiries

Microsoft, Google openly feuding amid hacks, competition inquiries

REUTERS 2021-03-13 10:26:28

Google and Microsoft are at knives drawn. Driven in part by pressure from lawmakers and regulators over the extraordinary power the two technology companies wield over American life, the California-b...

Facebook launches Instagram Lite in Bangladesh

Facebook launches Instagram Lite in Bangladesh

UNB 2021-03-12 20:55:05

Facebook has launched Instagram Lite in Bangladesh to provide access to all users - irrespective of device, platform and network they are on. This lightweight version of the Instagram app for Android...

Light-speed travel in 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek' – Is it possible?

Light-speed travel in 'Star Wars', 'Star Trek' – Is it possible?

REUTERS 2021-03-12 12:45:34

Spaceships zipping at the speed of light or faster are a staple of science fiction. Think of the Millennium Falcon in the “Star Wars” movies and the starship Enterprise in “Star Trek...

Russia moves to slow Twitter's speed

Russia moves to slow Twitter's speed

REUTERS 2021-03-11 10:07:14

Russia said on Wednesday it was slowing down the speed of Twitter in retaliation for what it described as a failure to remove banned content, threatening to block the US platform outright if it did no...

Facebook tests feature in India to share Instagram reels on its news feed

Facebook tests feature in India to share Instagram reels on its news feed

REUTERS 2021-03-09 21:49:21

Facebook Inc said on Monday it was testing a feature on Instagram that allows some content creators in India to share short video clips, known as reels, on their Facebook accounts. In the test, some...

Why your laptop slows down over time

Why your laptop slows down over time

Nayeem Chowdhury 2021-03-07 12:26:17

Dealing with a slow laptop has become a perennial problem for us. A sluggish machine can make even the most basic tasks toilsome. There are several reasons a machine decelerates over time. Some of th...

Twitter's Dorsey auctions first ever tweet as digital memorabilia

Twitter's Dorsey auctions first ever tweet as digital memorabilia

REUTERS 2021-03-07 09:57:46

“just setting up my twttr” - the first ever tweet on the platform is up for sale after Twitter boss Jack Dorsey listed his famous post as a unique digital signature on a website for sellin...

Facebook being proped for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring, promotions

Facebook being proped for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring, promotions

REUTERS 2021-03-07 09:35:08

A US agency investigating Facebook Inc for racial bias in hiring and promotions has designated the probe as “systemic,” attorneys for three job applicants and a manager who claim the compa...

Over 20,000 US organisations compromised through Microsoft flaw

Over 20,000 US organisations compromised through Microsoft flaw

REUTERS 2021-03-07 09:31:36

More than 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the US government&rsqu...

US agency probes Facebook for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring, promotions

US agency probes Facebook for 'systemic' racial bias in hiring, promotions

-- 2021-03-06 17:56:44

A US agency investigating Facebook Inc for racial bias in hiring and promotions has designated the probe as “systemic,” attorneys for three job applicants and a manager who claim the compa...

SpaceX Starship rocket prototype blows up

SpaceX Starship rocket prototype blows up

-- 2021-03-06 10:40:00

The third time appeared to be the charm for Elon Musk’s Starship rocket - until it wasn’t. The latest heavy-duty launch vehicle prototype from SpaceX soared flawlessly into the sky in a h...

Microsoft email software hack spreads, experts brace for more impact

Microsoft email software hack spreads, experts brace for more impact

-- 2021-03-06 10:31:16

More than 20,000 US organisations have been compromised through a back door installed via recently patched flaws in Microsoft Corp’s email software, a person familiar with the US government&rsqu...

Twitter explores 'undo send' feature for paying users

Twitter explores 'undo send' feature for paying users

-- 2021-03-06 10:07:46

Twitter Inc is testing an “undo send” function that would give users a short time to withdraw a tweet before it is posted, the company confirmed on Friday. App researcher Jane Manchun Won...

Alien 'super-Earth' may offer clues about atmospheres on distant worlds

Alien 'super-Earth' may offer clues about atmospheres on distant worlds

-- 2021-03-05 14:32:48

Scientists have spotted a planet orbiting a star relatively near our solar system that may offer a prime opportunity to study the atmosphere of a rocky Earth-like alien world - the type of research th...

Global reduction to increase 10-fold to meet Paris Agreement goals, study says

Global reduction to increase 10-fold to meet Paris Agreement goals, study says

-- 2021-03-04 17:13:18

Sixty-four countries reduced their fossil carbon-dioxide emissions during the period between 2016 and 2019, but the rate of global reduction needs to increase tenfold to meet the Paris Agreement goals...

Google won't use other web tracking tools

Google won't use other web tracking tools

-- 2021-03-04 14:17:22

Alphabet Inc’s Google will not build or use alternate tools to track web browsing traffic once it begins phasing out existing technology from its Chrome browser next year, it said in a blog post...

Facebook removes Thai military-linked information influencing accounts

Facebook removes Thai military-linked information influencing accounts

-- 2021-03-04 12:38:09

Facebook Inc has taken down 185 accounts and groups engaged in an information-influencing operation in Thailand run by the military, the company said on Wednesday, the first time it has removed Thai a...

Zoom down for more than a thousand users

Zoom down for more than a thousand users

Reuters 2021-03-03 23:11:23

Zoom Video Communications Inc’s video-conferencing platform was down for more than a thousand users on Wednesday, according to outage tracking website Downtector.com. Downdetector showed there...

US panel recommends export 'choke points' to prevent Chinese dominance in semiconductors

US panel recommends export 'choke points' to prevent Chinese dominance in semiconductors

-- 2021-03-02 10:28:15

A US national security commission has recommended Congress tighten up “choke points” on chipmaking technology to prevent China from overtaking the United States in semiconductors in the co...

eGeneration implements ‘Dhowni’ for ICT Division

eGeneration implements ‘Dhowni’ for ICT Division

-- 2021-02-28 18:36:44

eGeneration has successfully implemented “Dhowni” for ICT Division on Saturday. Dhowni enables the conversion of Bangla to International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) using cutting-edge technol...

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences elects Muhammad Morshed as expatriate fellow

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences elects Muhammad Morshed as expatriate fellow

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-02-28 16:20:49

Bangladesh Academy of Sciences has elected Muhammad Morshed, a Bangladeshi native Canadian clinical microbiologist, as an expatriate fellow in December last year. The academy elected him in recogniti...

Huawei not banned as Brazil approves 5G spectrum auction rules

Huawei not banned as Brazil approves 5G spectrum auction rules

REUTERS 2021-02-27 10:29:10

Brazil’s telecoms regulator Anatel has approved rules for a spectrum auction for fifth-generation networks this year without any curbs on China’s Huawei Technologies Co as an equipment sup...

The child, who once beat bone cancer, is now headed into space

The child, who once beat bone cancer, is now headed into space

Reuters 2021-02-27 10:21:18

Bone cancer survivor Hayley Arceneaux is thrilled to be going into space. As a crew member on SpaceX’s Inspiration4, the world’s first all-commercial astronaut mission to Earth’s or...

Toyota develops fuel cell system module to cut carbon footprint

Toyota develops fuel cell system module to cut carbon footprint

Reuters 2021-02-26 13:13:52

Toyota Motor Corp said on Friday it has developed a packaged fuel cell system module, as it hopes to expand its usage and accessibility of the zero-emission technology amid the industry’s shift...