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Zoom removing cap on call lengths during the holidays

Zoom removing cap on call lengths during the holidays

-- 2020-12-19 09:16:20

Friends and families kept apart by Covid this Christmas and New Year will not find their virtual gatherings over Zoom cut short by the usual 40-minute limit for free subscribers. Zoom Video Communica...

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

-- 2020-12-18 16:44:35

Microsoft Corp said on Thursday it found malicious software in its systems related to a massive hacking campaign disclosed by US officials this week, adding a top technology target to a growing list o...

China to share part of lunar samples with other countries

China to share part of lunar samples with other countries

REUTERS 2020-12-17 16:17:12

China plans to share data and samples that the Chang’e 5 probe obtained during its recent mission to the moon, based on international cooperation conventions, said the deputy head of the country...

WhatsApp will stop working on these Android and iOS phones in 2021

WhatsApp will stop working on these Android and iOS phones in 2021

Hindustan Times 2020-12-17 16:05:38

WhatsApp ends support for older devices every year. This includes smartphones running dated versions of Android and iOS. This time too, WhatsApp will reportedly end support for iPhones and Android...

China's moon probe returns to Earth with lunar samples

China's moon probe returns to Earth with lunar samples

-- 2020-12-17 15:24:23

China’s Chang’e-5 moon probe has landed in the northern Chinese region of Inner Mongolia, the official Xinhua news agency reported, completing its return to Earth and bringing back the fir...

Alibaba complicit in recognising facially Uighur minority: Report

Alibaba complicit in recognising facially Uighur minority: Report

Reuters 2020-12-17 15:17:31

Technology giant Alibaba Group Holding Ltd has facial recognition technology which can specifically pick out members of China’s Uighur minority, surveillance industry researcher IPVM said in a r...

Google sued by 10 US states for ad monopoly

Google sued by 10 US states for ad monopoly

-- 2020-12-17 11:34:48

Texas and nine other states sued Google on Wednesday, accusing it of working with Facebook Inc in an unlawful manner that violated antitrust law to boost its already-dominant online advertising busine...

Suspected Russian hackers breach private equity's software investments

Suspected Russian hackers breach private equity's software investments

Reuters 2020-12-16 14:30:00

Some of the world’s biggest private equity firms, including Blackstone Group Inc, Silver Lake Partners LP and Thoma Bravo LP, own major stakes in the software firms whose shares dived on news th...

Tech coalition launched to promote key internet law

Tech coalition launched to promote key internet law

-- 2020-12-16 09:31:08

Several technology companies including Snap Inc, Pinterest, Dropbox and eBay announced a coalition on Tuesday that would advocate the benefits of Section 230, a decades-old law protecting internet fir...

Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage

Google's YouTube, Gmail recover after global outage

Reuters 2020-12-14 19:59:12

Google services, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were restored for most users on Monday, following a global outage that affected thousands. Google's website that logs outages said the serv...

All Google services including Gmail, YouTube down across the globe

All Google services including Gmail, YouTube down across the globe

-- 2020-12-14 18:37:03

Google services, including Gmail, YouTube, and Google search, were down for millions of users across the world. Downdetector confirmed the outage saying that the issues started at around 11:56 GMT,...

China's spacecraft begins journey from moon to return to Earth

China's spacecraft begins journey from moon to return to Earth

-- 2020-12-14 11:28:38

A Chinese spacecraft carrying rocks and soil from the moon has begun its journey back to Earth, the official Xinhua news agency reported on Sunday, putting China on course to become the first country...

Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins journey back to Earth

Chinese capsule with moon rocks begins journey back to Earth

AP 2020-12-13 16:06:19

A Chinese space capsule, bringing back the first moon rocks in more than four decades, started its three-day return to Earth on Sunday. The Chang’e 5 lunar probe, which had been orbiting the mo...

Bangladesh will be key leader of Fourth industrial revolution, Joy hopes

Bangladesh will be key leader of Fourth industrial revolution, Joy hopes

-- 2020-12-11 16:34:53

Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy has expressed his optimism that Bangladesh will be the key leader of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. “We believe Bangladesh is goin...

First-ever National Cyber Drill on Saturday

First-ever National Cyber Drill on Saturday

SAJIBUR RAHMAN 2020-12-11 15:22:01

A total of 234 registered teams are set to take part in the country’s first-ever National Cyber Drill (NCD 2020) on Saturday. The teams have already registered from the different financial and...

Facebook says some users facing issues with Messenger, Instagram

Facebook says some users facing issues with Messenger, Instagram

Reuters 2020-12-10 18:41:31

Facebook Inc said on Thursday some users were facing issues while sending messages on Messenger, Instagram and its office collaboration service Workplace. “We’re working to get things bac...

French watchdog fines Google, Amazon millions for breaching cookies rules

French watchdog fines Google, Amazon millions for breaching cookies rules

-- 2020-12-10 15:47:52

France’s data privacy watchdog has handed out its biggest ever fine of 100 million euros ($121 million) to Alphabet’s Google for breaching the country’s rules on online advertising t...

Hackers access Covid-19 vaccine data: BioNTech

Hackers access Covid-19 vaccine data: BioNTech

-- 2020-12-10 11:27:29

US drugmaker Pfizer and its German partner BioNTech said on Wednesday that documents related to development of their Covid-19 vaccine had been “unlawfully accessed” in a cyberattack on Eur...

Facebook faces lawsuits,  can be forced to sell Instagram, WhatsApp

Facebook faces lawsuits, can be forced to sell Instagram, WhatsApp

-- 2020-12-10 10:57:15

Facebook could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the US Federal Trade Commission and nearly every US state filed lawsuits against the social media company, saying it use...

Greenhouse gas emissions hit new record last year, UN reports shows

Greenhouse gas emissions hit new record last year, UN reports shows

Reuters 2020-12-09 19:25:37

Greenhouse gas emissions reached a new high last year, putting the world on track for an average temperature rise of 3.0 degrees Celsius, a UN report showed on Wednesday. The report by the United Nat...

Vivo V20 review

Vivo V20 review

FE Online Desk 2020-12-08 18:07:15

  vivo V20: a camera-centric showstopper with industry-leading features and sleek design Are you fond of taking photos and enjoy taking selfies? Do you have a shutterbug inside of you? If yes,...

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

Facebook to remove COVID-19 vaccine-related misinformation

AP 2020-12-03 23:19:44

Facebook said Thursday it will start removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines, in its latest move to counter a tide of coronavirus-related online misinformation. In the coming weeks, the socia...

Twitter expands hate speech policy to include race, ethnicity

Twitter expands hate speech policy to include race, ethnicity

Reuters 2020-12-03 11:41:23

Twitter has expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement on Wednesda...

2020 on track to become world’s second hottest, UN says

2020 on track to become world’s second hottest, UN says

Reuters 2020-12-02 20:59:46

This year is underway to be the second hottest on record, behind 2016, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. Five data sets currently place 2020, a year characterised by heat...

China successfully lands spacecraft on moon’s surface to retrieve lunar materials

China successfully lands spacecraft on moon’s surface to retrieve lunar materials

-- 2020-12-02 14:02:09

China successfully landed a spacecraft on the moon’s surface on Tuesday in a historic mission to retrieve lunar surface samples, Chinese state media reported. China launched its Chang’e-5...

Two thirds of school-age children without internet access: UN

Two thirds of school-age children without internet access: UN

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-12-01 21:51:39

Two thirds of the world’s school-age children – or 1.3 billion children aged 3 to 17 years old – do not have internet connection in their homes, according to a report. The UNICEF an...

Australian telescope maps 3.0m galaxies in just 300 hours

Australian telescope maps 3.0m galaxies in just 300 hours

Aljazeera 2020-12-01 16:29:27

A powerful new telescope in outback Australia has mapped vast areas of the universe in record-breaking time, revealing a million new galaxies and opening the way to new discoveries, the country’...

Supreme Court cause-list app now available on App Store

Supreme Court cause-list app now available on App Store

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-12-01 13:16:39

The Supreme Court (SC) cause-list app has been made available on the Apple App Store, according to a top court statement issued on Tuesday. The app provides a user-friendly interface for the judges,...

China's first Hualong One nuclear reactor starts operations

China's first Hualong One nuclear reactor starts operations

-- 2020-11-29 18:51:45

China National Nuclear Corp (CNNC) said on Friday its first Hualong One, a third-generation pressurised water nuclear reactor, has started operations and is connected to the grid. The design, seen as...

IOM launches app to provide information on safe migration

IOM launches app to provide information on safe migration

FE ONLINE REPORT 2020-11-26 18:14:39

The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched a mobile application on Wednesday to provide information on safe migration. IOM developed the app and information platform, BdeshJaatra (ht...