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Twitter not safer under Elon Musk, says former head of trust and safety

Twitter not safer under Elon Musk, says former head of trust and safety

REUTERS 2022-11-30 14:14:05

Former Twitter head of trust and safety Yoel Roth on Tuesday said the service was not safer under new owner Elon Musk, warning in his first interview since resigning this month that the company no lon...

Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission

Chinese astronauts board space station in historic mission

REUTERS 2022-11-30 11:56:29

Three Chinese astronauts arrived on Wednesday at China's space station for the first in-orbit crew rotation in Chinese space history, launching operation of the second inhabited outpost in low-Earth o...

Elon Musk: Apple threatened to yank Twitter from App Store

Elon Musk: Apple threatened to yank Twitter from App Store

FE ONLINE DESK 2022-11-29 09:51:20

Elon Musk accused Apple Inc of threatening to block Twitter Inc from its app store without saying why in a series of tweets on Monday that also said the iPhone maker had stopped advertising on t...

Did you know QWERTY Keyboard was invented to slow down your typing?

Did you know QWERTY Keyboard was invented to slow down your typing?

Safrina Kabir 2022-11-28 16:59:54

QWERTY keyboard was invented long ago, in the latter part of the 1800s. It was introduced in the time of typewriters. As of today, the QWERTY keyboard is not a very efficient keyboard to work with.&nb...

Twitter to launch gold, grey checks alongside blue verified mark

Twitter to launch gold, grey checks alongside blue verified mark

-- 2022-11-25 15:40:31

Twitter will roll out verified gold and grey check marks as it relaunches the coveted blue check service next Friday, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk said in a tweet, after holding off the rollout e...

Elon Musk says Twitter to provide 'amnesty' to some suspended accounts starting next week

Elon Musk says Twitter to provide 'amnesty' to some suspended accounts starting next week

REUTERS 2022-11-25 11:48:17

Elon Musk said on Thursday that Twitter will provide a "general amnesty" to suspended accounts starting next week after running a poll on whether to do so for users who had not broken the law or engag...

Europe names world's first disabled astronaut

Europe names world's first disabled astronaut

-- 2022-11-24 17:21:50

The European Space Agency on Wednesday named the first ever "parastronaut" in a major step towards allowing people with physical disabilities to work and live in space. The 22-nation agency said it h...

Men smash surveillance cameras at China iPhone plant

Men smash surveillance cameras at China iPhone plant

-- 2022-11-23 15:52:52

Men wielding sticks smashed surveillance cameras and windows at a massive campus owned by Apple supplier Foxconn in the Chinese city of Zhengzhou, scenes broadcast live on the Kuaishou short video pla...

UK investigating Apple, Google mobile browser dominance

UK investigating Apple, Google mobile browser dominance

REUTERS 2022-11-23 14:35:48

Britain's competition watchdog on Tuesday launched an in-depth investigation into the dominance of the mobile browsers of Apple and Google. Responses to a consultation it launched in June revealed "s...

100m brought under high-speed internet

100m brought under high-speed internet

FE REPORT 2022-11-23 09:02:52

Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen said about 100 million people in 60 per cent of the geographical area of the country have come under the high-speed internet facility provided by the government's Info...

HR and Sales openings at 10 Minute School

HR and Sales openings at 10 Minute School

FE Online 2022-11-22 20:47:44

10 Minute School is the pioneer of the Ed-Tech industry in Bangladesh. We are teaching more than 2 million students every day through our website, app, and social media to accelerate their learning....

Musk says Trump's Twitter account to be reinstated after poll shows narrow support

Musk says Trump's Twitter account to be reinstated after poll shows narrow support

REUTERS 2022-11-20 09:02:33

Donald Trump on Saturday said he had no interest in returning to Twitter even as a slim majority voted in favour of reinstating the former US President, who was banned from the social media service fo...

Musk starts Twitter poll on whether to bring back Trump

Musk starts Twitter poll on whether to bring back Trump

-- 2022-11-19 10:48:18

Elon Musk started a Twitter poll late on Friday asking followers to vote on whether to reinstate former US President Donald Trump's account on the platform, with early results showing roughly 60 per c...

Elon Musk says he will find a new leader for Twitter

Elon Musk says he will find a new leader for Twitter

REUTERS 2022-11-17 12:04:20

Elon Musk said on Wednesday he expected to reduce his time at Twitter and eventually find a new leader to run the social media company, adding that he hoped to complete an organisational restructuring...

Over 3.0m mobile, net subscribers drop out

Over 3.0m mobile, net subscribers drop out

ISMAIL HOSSAIN 2022-11-17 08:48:44

Domestic digital divide is widening as all three private mobile network operators (MNOs) lost around two million mobile subscribers and over one million internet users in September, according to lates...

EV battery makers race to develop cheaper cell materials

EV battery makers race to develop cheaper cell materials

-- 2022-11-15 14:25:27

US and European startups are racing to develop new batteries using two abundant, cheap materials — sodium and sulfur — that could reduce China's battery dominance, ease looming supply bott...

Meta says Facebook Reels available for both iOS and Android users in Bangladesh

Meta says Facebook Reels available for both iOS and Android users in Bangladesh

-- 2022-11-13 20:24:53

After the launch of Instagram Reels in August, Meta has now brought Facebook Reels to everyone in Bangladesh, introducing short-form, entertaining video experiences and tools to creators and audiences...

Australia to consider banning paying of ransoms to cyber criminals

Australia to consider banning paying of ransoms to cyber criminals

-- 2022-11-13 15:12:05

Australia's Home Affairs Minister Clare O'Neil on Sunday said the government would consider making illegal the paying of ransoms to cyber hackers, following recent cyber-attacks affecting millions of...

Crypto exchange FTX files for US bankruptcy, its CEO resigns

Crypto exchange FTX files for US bankruptcy, its CEO resigns

-- 2022-11-12 18:22:33

Crypto exchange FTX filed for US bankruptcy on Friday and Sam Bankman-Fried stepped down as CEO, after a liquidity crisis that has prompted intervention from regulators around the world. FTX, its aff...

Tech billionaires who lost billions in net worth in 2022

Tech billionaires who lost billions in net worth in 2022

Rassiq Aziz Kabir  2022-11-12 15:03:11

2022 has been a rough year for the global economy. Even the billionaires who made their fortune in technology have faced a significant hit as their collective loss amounts to about USD 500 billion. Th...

Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

Musk warns of Twitter bankruptcy as more senior executives quit

-- 2022-11-11 15:02:09

Twitter's new owner Elon Musk on Thursday raised the possibility of the social media platform going bankrupt, capping a chaotic day that included a warning from a US privacy regulator and the exit of...

Hubble reveals massive star's explosion in blow-by-blow detail

Hubble reveals massive star's explosion in blow-by-blow detail

-- 2022-11-10 18:06:06

About 11.5 billion years ago, a distant star roughly 530 times larger than our sun died in a cataclysmic explosion that blew its outer layers of gas into the surrounding cosmos, a supernova documented...

Israel harnessing DNA of crops to enhance food supply

Israel harnessing DNA of crops to enhance food supply

-- 2022-11-10 16:38:34

Could the key to securing the world's food supply for the future be hidden in the DNA of crops from the distant past? Scientists in Israel are creating a gene bank from the seeds of local wild crops,...

10 Minute School is looking for a Product Manager

10 Minute School is looking for a Product Manager

FE Online 2022-11-10 15:38:43

10 Minute School is the pioneer of the Ed-Tech industry in Bangladesh. We are teaching more than 2 million students every day through our website, app, and social media to accelerate their learning....

IBM launches its most powerful quantum computer

IBM launches its most powerful quantum computer

-- 2022-11-09 22:08:00

International Business Machines Corp on Wednesday said it launched its most powerful quantum computer to date called the Osprey, a 433-qubit machine that has three times the number of qubits than its...

'Beaver blood moon' offers world's last total lunar eclipse until 2025

'Beaver blood moon' offers world's last total lunar eclipse until 2025

Reuters 2022-11-09 17:40:24

Nighttime skywatchers from East Asia to North America have been treated to the rare spectacle of a "Beaver blood moon" on Tuesday, as the Earth, moon and sun align to produce a total lunar eclipse for...

Musk lays out Twitter mission

Musk lays out Twitter mission

-- 2022-11-07 15:37:01

Twitter's new CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday the social media platform's mission was to become the most accurate source of information about the world, sparking debate about how it would achieve that an...

Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week: Report

Facebook parent Meta is preparing large-scale layoffs this week: Report

-- 2022-11-07 12:23:15

Meta Platforms is planning to begin large-scale layoffs this week that will affect thousands of employees, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday citing people familiar with the matter, with...

Crypto exchange Binance helped Iranian firms trade $8 billion despite sanctions

Crypto exchange Binance helped Iranian firms trade $8 billion despite sanctions

-- 2022-11-06 16:51:04

Crypto giant Binance has processed Iranian transactions with a value of $8 billion since 2018 despite US sanctions intended to cut Iran off from the global financial system, blockchain data show. Alm...

Musk's Twitter updates app to start charging $8 for blue checkmark

Musk's Twitter updates app to start charging $8 for blue checkmark

-- 2022-11-06 10:45:18

Twitter on Saturday updated its app in Apple's App Store to begin charging $8 for sought-after blue check verification marks, in Elon Musk’s first major revision of the social media platform. T...