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Jashore motor mechanic achieves glory with various inventions

Jashore motor mechanic achieves glory with various inventions

-- 2018-12-09 14:24:15

Mizanur Rahman Mizan, locally known as a motor mechanic, has turned out to be a very inspiring man as he achieved the national acclaim through inventions of new devices and machines. Mizan, who has a...

BD teams make it to Top 4

BD teams make it to Top 4

FE Report 2018-12-09 10:53:06

For the first time, two projects prepared by Bangladeshi teams have been named at the top four in two separate categories of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)'s international challe...

China launches two satellites for Saudi Arabia

China launches two satellites for Saudi Arabia

-- 2018-12-08 13:33:22

China launched two satellites for Saudi Arabia on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 12:12 pm on Friday. Each weighing 425 kg, the two low orbit rem...

Kurigram boy invents awareness device for cars

Kurigram boy invents awareness device for cars

-- 2018-12-07 16:25:34

A talented young student of Kurigram Polytechnic Institute has come up with a novel invention that can put a check on reckless driving on the country's roads induced by drug or alcohol abuse, and even...

Producing fuel from plastic

Producing fuel from plastic

-- 2018-12-07 13:58:01

A rural youth lacking higher education and enduring various odds has embarked on a successful mission of innovating an environment-friendly technology of generating fuel from plastic wastes such as po...

Google targets Europe for delivery via drones

Google targets Europe for delivery via drones

-- 2018-12-06 14:40:38

Google's parent company, Alphabet, will test its drone delivery service in Finland next year, it has announced. Helsinki will be the first European location for Wing, which has been testing drones in...

Rats, pigeons replace iconic fauna and flora

Rats, pigeons replace iconic fauna and flora

-- 2018-12-05 18:47:14

The modification of land for farming and building cities is favouring the same species everywhere, according to a new study. Animals like rats and pigeons are taking over from less common ones, which...

India launches 'heaviest' satellite for internet access

India launches 'heaviest' satellite for internet access

-- 2018-12-05 13:04:18

India's heaviest satellite has gone into orbit on a French rocket to help boost broadband internet services. Weighing about 5,854kg (12,906lb), the GSAT-11 is India's "most-advanced" multi-band commu...

Quora discloses massive breach that affects 100 million users

Quora discloses massive breach that affects 100 million users

-- 2018-12-04 10:26:26

About 100 million users of Quora were affected by unauthorised access to one of its systems by a “malicious third party,” the knowledge-sharing website said on Monday. Account information...

NASA selects nine US companies to make lunar robotic payloads

NASA selects nine US companies to make lunar robotic payloads

-- 2018-12-02 14:33:14

The United States space agency NASA on Thursday announced nine commercial American companies in a partnership to develop lunar robotic landers in the coming decade. NASA would buy space on commercial...

Vibrations offer new way to track elephants

Vibrations offer new way to track elephants

-- 2018-12-01 15:11:12

Researchers have come up with a new way of tracking elephants, via the vibrations that the animals make. Scientists Dr Beth Mortimer and Prof Tarje Nissen-Meyer discovered that elephants generate vib...

Marriott hack hits 500 million guests

Marriott hack hits 500 million guests

-- 2018-11-30 19:36:23

The records of 500 million customers of the hotel group Marriott International have been involved in a data breach. The hotel chain said the guest reservation database of its Starwood division had be...

Chinese firm plans to provide free worldwide WiFi by 2026

Chinese firm plans to provide free worldwide WiFi by 2026

-- 2018-11-30 17:01:03

A Chinese internet technology firm is planning to launch a constellation of 272 satellites by 2026 with an aim to provide free WiFi service worldwide. LinkSure Network, founded in Shanghai in 2013, &...

Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'

Pentagon looks to exoskeletons to build 'super-soldiers'

-- 2018-11-30 15:13:40

The US Army is investing millions of dollars in experimental exoskeleton technology to make soldiers stronger and more resilient, in what experts say is part of a broader push into advanced gear to eq...

China orders halt to medical team on gene-edited babies

China orders halt to medical team on gene-edited babies

-- 2018-11-29 19:13:56

China’s government has ordered a halt to work by a medical team that claimed to have helped make the world’s first gene-edited babies. Vice Minister of Science and Technology Xu Nanping t...

Amazon launches machine learning chip

Amazon launches machine learning chip

-- 2018-11-29 17:10:37

Amazon.com on Wednesday launched a microchip aimed at so-called machine learning, entering a market that both Intel Corp and Nvidia Corp are counting on to boost their earnings in the coming years. A...

US charges Iranian ‘SamSam’ hackers

US charges Iranian ‘SamSam’ hackers

-- 2018-11-29 15:23:17

The hacking attack was said to have lasted for 34 months, holding schools, hospitals, universities in several countries to ransom - earning the perpetrators millions of dollars in the process. Now US...

Amazon unveils cloud-based robotics testing platform

Amazon unveils cloud-based robotics testing platform

-- 2018-11-28 14:33:50

US e-commerce leader Amazon's subsidiary Amazon Web Services, Inc. on Monday launched the cloud-based service, AWS RoboMaker, that will facilitate developers to develop, deploy and test robotics appli...

NASA's latest Mars craft lands safely

NASA's latest Mars craft lands safely

-- 2018-11-27 13:03:05

NASA's Mars lander InSight touched down safely on the surface of the Red Planet on Monday to begin its two-year mission as the first spacecraft designed to explore the deep interior of another world....

Russia plans new flight to check authenticity of moon landing

Russia plans new flight to check authenticity of moon landing

-- 2018-11-25 17:23:30

Russia’s space agency plans to send a mission to the moon to check whether the American moon landings were real. In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, Dmitry Rogozin, the Director General...

Scientists test out baleen whales’ teeth

Scientists test out baleen whales’ teeth

-- 2018-11-25 17:12:03

Chinese and American researchers have for the first time uncovered how baleen whales' "teeth" withstood a lifetime of forces generated by water flow and prey without fracturing. The finding published...

Deforestation in Amazon reaches decade high

Deforestation in Amazon reaches decade high

-- 2018-11-24 19:16:29

Deforestation of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil has hit its highest rate in a decade, according to official data. About 7,900 sq km (3,050 sq miles) of the world's largest rainforest was destroyed b...

Scientists propose new way to tackle climate change

Scientists propose new way to tackle climate change

-- 2018-11-24 14:08:16

Scientists have proposed a new way to tackle climate change by spraying sun-dimming chemicals into the Earth's atmosphere, according to a study published Friday. Scientists at Harvard and Yale univer...

Robot taxis set to hit London, Edinburgh roads

Robot taxis set to hit London, Edinburgh roads

-- 2018-11-23 14:32:56

Robot taxis that take to the road without drivers are set to appear on the streets of two major British cities, according to a Thursday announcement. The trial schemes will see robot taxis without dr...

Nokia reorganises itself ahead of 5G race

Nokia reorganises itself ahead of 5G race

-- 2018-11-22 14:28:32

Nokia will merge its mobile networks and fixed networks business groups into a new unit called Access Networks as it takes aim at 5G opportunities, the Finnish firm announced on Thursday. “By c...

European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google

European privacy search engines aim to challenge Google

AP 2018-11-21 19:10:58

In the battle for online privacy, U.S. search giant Google is a Goliath facing a handful of European Davids. The backlash over Big Tech's collection of personal data offers new hope to a number of...

China develops 'artificial Sun'

China develops 'artificial Sun'

-- 2018-11-21 17:53:42

From its plans to harness and enhance its artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities to its vision of a solar highway planned into the not-too-distant future, China is strongly demonstrating its positi...

50pc ATMs in India may shut down by March Next Year

50pc ATMs in India may shut down by March Next Year

-- 2018-11-21 17:24:36

Mumbai:  Nearly 50 per cent of the Automated Teller Machines (ATMs) may be shut down by March 2019 due to unviability of operations, hitting hard both urban and rural population, the Confederatio...

Musk renames BFR spacecraft Starship

Musk renames BFR spacecraft Starship

-- 2018-11-21 13:45:26

Elon Musk has changed the name of his forthcoming passenger spaceship from Big Falcon Rocket (BFR) to Starship. The entrepreneur would not reveal why he had renamed the craft, which has not yet been...

India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

India’s Delhi to induce artificial rain

-- 2018-11-20 16:22:00

The scientists, for the first time in India, are going to induce artificial rain over Delhi this week to wash away toxic pollutants from the air and provide residents respite from the poor air quality...