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China's retrieved lunar samples weigh less than targeted

China's retrieved lunar samples weigh less than targeted

Reuters 2021-01-19 12:41:19

Lunar rocks retrieved by a historic Chinese mission to the moon weighed less than initially targeted, but China is still willing to study the samples with foreign scientists, the mission’s spoke...

Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space with mid-air rocket launch

Branson's Virgin Orbit reaches space with mid-air rocket launch

Reuters 2021-01-18 12:57:38

Billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Orbit reached space for the first time on Sunday with a successful test of its air-launched rocket, delivering ten NASA satellites to orbit and achieving a k...

Turkish messaging app tops users’ list in Bangladesh

Turkish messaging app tops users’ list in Bangladesh

MENAFN 2021-01-17 17:13:35

Turkish communication and messaging app, BiP placed at the top of the users' list in Bangladesh in the wake of concerns about new privacy on WhatsApp. MobileAction, one of the world's leading app sto...

Brazil to allow China's Huawei in 5G auctions

Brazil to allow China's Huawei in 5G auctions

REUTERS 2021-01-17 11:44:26

Brazil’s government will not seek to bar Chinese telecom equipment maker Huawei Technologies Co Ltd from 5G network auctions slated for June this year, newspaper Estado de S. Paulo reported on S...

NASA's Boeing moon rocket ready for 'once-in-a-generation' ground test

NASA's Boeing moon rocket ready for 'once-in-a-generation' ground test

REUTERS 2021-01-17 11:19:24

NASA’s deep space exploration rocket built by Boeing briefly ignited all four engines of its behemoth core stage for the first time on Saturday, cutting short a crucial test to advance a years-d...

90pc public services to be digitised by this year, Palak says

90pc public services to be digitised by this year, Palak says

-- 2021-01-16 19:20:59

Reiterating the government’s plan to ensure access to internet for all, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said the digitalisation of 90 per cent of the public services will b...

Google Play is unsportsmanlike, US states may argue

Google Play is unsportsmanlike, US states may argue

REUTERS 2021-01-16 11:22:07

State attorneys general are planning a third lawsuit against Alphabet Inc’s Google, this one focused on the search and advertising giant’s Play Store for Android phones, according to two s...

Signal sees higher growth after WhatsApp controversy

Signal sees higher growth after WhatsApp controversy

-- 2021-01-14 11:19:44

Messaging app Signal has seen “unprecedented” growth following a controversial change in rival WhatsApp’s privacy terms and is looking to hire more staff as it seeks to bolster the s...

Razer makes 'world's smartest face mask'

Razer makes 'world's smartest face mask'

BBC 2021-01-13 18:44:14

Gaming company Razer has made what they claim is world's smartest face mask - complete with a built-in microphone. The prototype, revealed at the tech convention CES, claims to amplify the users' voi...

GM unveils futuristic vehicle: Look, up in the sky

GM unveils futuristic vehicle: Look, up in the sky

-- 2021-01-13 11:19:08

General Motors Co on Tuesday presented a futuristic flying Cadillac - a self-driving vehicle which takes off and lands vertically and carries the passenger above the streets and through the air. A se...

Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast's products to spy on customers

Hackers hijacked email security firm Mimecast's products to spy on customers

-- 2021-01-13 10:49:36

Email security provider Mimecast said on Tuesday that hackers had hijacked its products in order to spy on its customers. The company said it had been alerted to the attack by investigators at Micros...

GM working with 'best startups' on next-gen EV battery tech

GM working with 'best startups' on next-gen EV battery tech

-- 2021-01-12 10:57:20

General Motors Co, as part of a $27 billion initiative to match or surpass Tesla Inc in the electric vehicle sector, is working with “all the best startups” on next-generation EV battery t...

Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows

Identical twins aren’t perfect clones, research shows

AP 2021-01-10 15:14:17

If you’re an identical twin who’s always resisted being called a clone of your sibling, scientists say you have a point. Identical twins are not exactly genetically the same, new research...

Google suspends social networking app favoured by Trump supporters

Google suspends social networking app favoured by Trump supporters

-- 2021-01-09 17:34:16

Alphabet Inc's Google on Friday suspended the Parler social networking service from its app store, citing posts inciting violence and demanding “robust” content moderation from the app fav...

5G network guidelines drafted though 3G, 4G still not fully available

5G network guidelines drafted though 3G, 4G still not fully available

FE REPORT 2021-01-09 10:27:24

The telecoms regulator has floated a draft guideline on fifth-generation (5G) cellular network seeking opinions from stakeholders despite unavailability of full 3G and 5G networks in Bangladesh as yet...

Facebook drops 'likes' button from public pages

Facebook drops 'likes' button from public pages

Reuters 2021-01-06 22:59:47

Facebook Inc has dropped the ‘likes’ button from its redesigned public pages used by artists, public figures and brands, the social media company said on Wednesday. Facebook Pages will on...

Trump bars US transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay

Trump bars US transactions with eight Chinese apps including Alipay

Reuters 2021-01-06 16:35:01

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order banning transactions with eight Chinese software applications, including Ant Group's Alipay mobile payment app, the White House said, esc...

China aims for 40-plus space launch missions in 2021

China aims for 40-plus space launch missions in 2021

Global Times 2021-01-05 15:36:29

China's biggest rocket contractor China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation (CASC) has outlined its aim to conduct more than 40 space launch missions in 2021, and the construction of the coun...

Love, tech and online abuse of women

Love, tech and online abuse of women

THOMSON REUTERS FOUNDATION 2021-01-05 10:33:59

When Priya’s boyfriend posted a nude photo of her online, he told her it would give her a confidence boost by making her an object of desire for other men. Instead she felt powerless knowing th...

Bangladeshi software firm Millennium wins IFFSA Gold Award

Bangladeshi software firm Millennium wins IFFSA Gold Award

FE Online Report 2021-01-02 21:05:20

Millennium Information Solution Limited (MISL), a software company for Islamic banking and finance in Bangladesh, has won the ‘Technology Provider of the Year’ GOLD Award. The award was a...

Tencent games reinstated on Huawei app store

Tencent games reinstated on Huawei app store

-- 2021-01-02 13:21:38

Tencent’s online games were removed and then reinstated on Huawei’s app store on Friday in a dispute over revenue sharing by the Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding compa...

SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code

SolarWinds hackers accessed Microsoft source code

REUTERS 2021-01-01 13:34:04

The hacking group behind the SolarWinds compromise was able to break into Microsoft Corp and access some of its source code, Microsoft said on Thursday, something experts said sent a worrying signal a...

Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk

Japan developing wooden satellites to cut space junk

-- 2020-12-29 20:28:33

A Japanese company and Kyoto University have joined forces to develop the world's first satellites made out of wood by 2023. Sumitomo Forestry said it has started research on tree growth and the use...

Appeal against order blocking US TikTok restrictions

Appeal against order blocking US TikTok restrictions

-- 2020-12-29 10:51:07

The US government on Monday appealed a federal judge’s order that blocked the Commerce Department from imposing restrictions on Chinese-owned short video-sharing app TikTok that would have effec...

Scientists at Google told to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research

Scientists at Google told to 'strike a positive tone' in AI research

Reuters 2020-12-24 12:37:37

Alphabet Inc’s Google this year moved to tighten control over its scientists’ papers by launching a “sensitive topics” review, and in at least three cases requested authors ref...

Apple aims at car production by 2024

Apple aims at car production by 2024

REUTERS 2020-12-23 10:39:45

Apple is moving forward with self-driving car technology and is targeting 2024 to produce a passenger vehicle that could include its own breakthrough battery technology, people familiar with the matte...

Facebook going to add more account security features next year

Facebook going to add more account security features next year

-- 2020-12-23 09:12:47

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would start allowing users to set up physical security keys as a way to verify their identity before logging into the social network’s mobile app, beginning next...

Indian TikTok clone raises over $100 million from Google, Microsoft

Indian TikTok clone raises over $100 million from Google, Microsoft

-- 2020-12-22 12:29:51

The parent of a TikTok copycat from India has raised more than $100 million from investors including Alphabet Inc’s Google and Microsoft, months after the Chinese-owned short-video app was banne...

SolarWinds hackers broke into US cable firm, web records show

SolarWinds hackers broke into US cable firm, web records show

REUTERS 2020-12-19 10:59:45

Suspected Russian hackers accessed the systems of a US internet provider and a county government in Arizona as part of a sprawling cyber-espionage campaign disclosed this week, according to an analysi...

WhatsApp bringing voice, video calls to desktop next year

WhatsApp bringing voice, video calls to desktop next year

-- 2020-12-19 09:37:48

Facebook Inc’s WhatsApp will introduce voice and video calling feature to the messaging app’s desktop version next year, a company spokesperson told Reuters news agency. The move to facil...