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China releases report on science popularisation capacity

China releases report on science popularisation capacity

Xinhua 2019-10-31 16:36:40

China has released a report on its science popularisation capacity, China Science Daily reported Thursday. From 2006 to 2017, the country witnessed an 8.08 per cent average growth rate of science pop...

China's state telecos to launch 5G services Friday

China's state telecos to launch 5G services Friday

-- 2019-10-31 13:50:50

China’s three state telecoms on Thursday announced the roll-out of 5G mobile phone services, marking a key step in Beijing’s ambitions to become a technology superpower at a time when it r...

Twitter to ban political ads

Twitter to ban political ads

Reuters 2019-10-31 10:33:19

Twitter will ban political advertising on its platform next month, the company’s chief executive said on Wednesday (US local time), a move that won praise from Democrats and scorn from Donald Tr...

Hundreds of engineers join Nokia to speed up 5G development

Hundreds of engineers join Nokia to speed up 5G development

Reuters 2019-10-30 17:21:31

Telecom network equipment maker Nokia has hired hundreds of engineers in Finland this year to speed up its 5G development, the company said on Wednesday. The Finnish company, rival to Sweden’s...

Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Facebook agrees to pay UK fine over Cambridge Analytica scandal

Reuters 2019-10-30 17:15:22

Facebook has agreed to pay a 500,000 pound ($644,000) fine for breaches of data protection law related to the harvesting of data by consultancy Cambridge Analytica, Britain’s information rights...

China's space telescope opens new window to observe black holes

China's space telescope opens new window to observe black holes

Xinhua 2019-10-30 16:28:24

China's first X-ray space telescope has helped scientists open a new window to observe and better understand bizarre celestial bodies like black holes and neutron stars. The Hard X-ray Modulation Tel...

WhatsApp sues Israeli firm over phone hacking claims

WhatsApp sues Israeli firm over phone hacking claims

-- 2019-10-30 14:47:35

Facebook-owned WhatsApp has filed a lawsuit against Israel's NSO Group, alleging the firm was behind cyber-attacks that infected devices with malicious software. WhatsApp accuses the company of sendi...

Humankind's ancestral 'homeland' pinpointed in Botswana

Humankind's ancestral 'homeland' pinpointed in Botswana

-- 2019-10-29 21:05:31

A large ancient wetlands region spanning northern Botswana - once teeming with life but now dominated by desert and salt flats - may represent the ancestral homeland of all of the 7.7 billion people o...

Scientists name new beetle species after Greta Thunberg

Scientists name new beetle species after Greta Thunberg

-- 2019-10-26 17:13:08

Scientists have named a species after teenage climate activist Greta Thunberg in recognition of her 'outstanding contribution' to raising awareness of climate change, reports bdnews24.com citing The D...

Microsoft wins Pentagon's contract beating Amazon

Microsoft wins Pentagon's contract beating Amazon

-- 2019-10-26 16:42:25

Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon’s $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defence Department said on Friday, beating out favourite Amazon.com Inc. The contracting process had long been m...

China's clean energy grows rapidly in first three quarters

China's clean energy grows rapidly in first three quarters

Xinhua 2019-10-22 18:17:25

China's clean energy use grew rapidly and the energy consumption per unit of GDP continued to fall in the first three quarters, official data showed. Energy consumption per unit of GDP in the first t...

GovInsider recognizes 333 as the Best Citizen Engagement Project in Asia

GovInsider recognizes 333 as the Best Citizen Engagement Project in Asia

FE Online Desk 2019-10-22 13:33:44

333- the national call centre providing information on procedures of receiving public services and redressal of social problems has been recognized as the best citizen engagement project in Asia by Go...

Huawei’s 5G technology a best buy for US firms

Huawei’s 5G technology a best buy for US firms

Global Times 2019-10-20 18:56:07

Huawei is betting its chance of success in the US on licensing its 5G network technology to US telecom carriers. According to media reports, the Chinese technology giant is currently engaged in early-...

Internet service provider association election on October 26

Internet service provider association election on October 26

-- 2019-10-19 20:11:44

The election of Internet Service Provider Association of Bangladesh (ISPAB) will be held on October 26. The ISPAB is an association for all the internet service providing organisations in Bangladesh,...

Govt unblocks online game PUBG shortly after blocking

Govt unblocks online game PUBG shortly after blocking

-- 2019-10-19 10:42:30

The Bangladesh authorities have unblocked online multiplayer game PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds or PUBG shortly after blocking it at the request of police following complaints by parents of adolescent...

BTRC blocks online battle game PUBG

BTRC blocks online battle game PUBG

-- 2019-10-18 20:03:54

The Bangladesh telecom regulator has blocked online multiplayer game Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) at the request of cyber security police following complaints by parents of adolescent players...

Zuckerberg defends Facebook's approach to free speech

Zuckerberg defends Facebook's approach to free speech

Reuters 2019-10-18 13:25:03

Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday (US local time) defended the social media company’s light regulation of speech and lack of fact checking on political advertising, while citi...

'5G mobile network service to be available by 2023'

'5G mobile network service to be available by 2023'

-- 2019-10-16 18:59:23

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Chairman Md Jahurul Haque has said the fifth generation (5G) mobile network service will be available in the country by 2021 to 2023. Jahurul...

Germany will not bar Huawei from its 5G networks

Germany will not bar Huawei from its 5G networks

BBC 2019-10-16 17:50:45

Germany will not exclude Chinese tech giant Huawei from its 5G mobile networks, saying it wants to create "a level playing field" for vendors. The US has banned Huawei from selling 5G equipment to it...

NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing

NASA unveils new spacesuits for human lunar landing

Xinhua 2019-10-16 17:26:43

The US space agency NASA unveiled on Tuesday the next-generation spacesuits to be used in its Artemis programme that will send the first woman and next man to the Lunar South Pole by 2024. NASA Admin...

Google unveils Pixel 4 with unique features

Google unveils Pixel 4 with unique features

-- 2019-10-16 15:32:57

Google unveiled its latest family of hardware ranging from smartphones, ear buds to laptops at a major product launch event in New York on Tuesday (local time), with its new Pixel 4 phone featuring fa...

Google to show off new phone, devices at NY event

Google to show off new phone, devices at NY event

-- 2019-10-15 17:11:02

Google is expected to unveil a new Pixel phone with an updated camera and an emphasis on artificial intelligence features. Google has already announced many details of the Pixel 4, including motion-s...

Two NASA astronauts complete nearly seven-hour spacewalk

Two NASA astronauts complete nearly seven-hour spacewalk

Xinhua 2019-10-12 18:14:28

Two US astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station...

Major payment companies leave Facebook's Libra project

Major payment companies leave Facebook's Libra project

Reuters 2019-10-12 16:20:23

Facebook Inc’s ambitious efforts to establish a global digital currency, called Libra, suffered severe setbacks on Friday, as major payment companies including Mastercard and Visa Inc quit the g...

NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

NASA to launch first manned SpaceX mission

-- 2019-10-11 17:24:59

SpaceX's new Crew Dragon astronaut capsule will be ready for its first manned flight into orbit in the first quarter of next year provided "everything goes according to plan" in upcoming tests, NASA c...

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

Early humans store bone marrow like canned soup: Study

-- 2019-10-11 16:45:49

An international team of researchers found prehistoric humans some 400,000 years ago were able to store bone marrow for later consumption, which is believed to be the earliest evidence of such an inno...

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

Facebook to settle advertiser lawsuit for $40 million

-- 2019-10-08 17:49:11

Facebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watched videos. The San Jose Mercury News says the California-based social media giant denied a...

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

NASA astronauts complete seven-hour spacewalk

Xinhua 2019-10-07 13:47:05

Two US astronauts completed a spacewalk out of the International Space Station on Sunday, the first in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace batteries on the far end of the station's port...

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

China, Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits

BBC 2019-10-06 17:21:25

Ask Google or Siri: "What is Taiwan?" "A state", they will answer, "in East Asia". But earlier in September, it would have been a "province in the People's Republic of China". For questions of fact...

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

11m people send names to Mars on NASA's rover

Xinhua 2019-10-03 19:45:25

Nearly 11 million people have participated in a NASA public event, through which they can send their names, stenciled on chips, to Mars along with NASA's Mars 2020 rover. The event started in late Ma...