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UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred against Rohingyas in Myanmar

UN blames Facebook for spreading hatred against Rohingyas in Myanmar

-- 2018-03-14 00:00:00

UN investigators have said the use of Facebook played a "determining role" in stirring up hatred against Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar. One of the teams probing allegations of genocide in Myanmar said...

Astronomers discover galaxy with twice as many stars as Milky Way

Astronomers discover galaxy with twice as many stars as Milky Way

-- 2018-03-13 20:05:05

Using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have unearthed a ‘relic galaxy’ in the Milky Way's backyard. The galaxy NGC 1277, lies near the centre of the Perseus cluster of over 1,00...

Apple Music bags 38m paid subscribers

Apple Music bags 38m paid subscribers

-- 2018-03-13 11:46:22

American multinational technology company Apple Inc’s streaming music service now has 38 million paid subscribers, up from 36 million in February, the company said on Monday. Apple is locked in...

BB launches mobile app to deal with clients’ complaints

BB launches mobile app to deal with clients’ complaints

-- 2018-03-11 21:43:07

The Financial Integrity and Customer Services Department (FICSD) of Bangladesh Bank (BB) on Sunday launched a mobile application to ease the procedure of filing complaints of clients. BB governor Faz...

Robi Safenet to protect kids from harmful content

Robi Safenet to protect kids from harmful content

FE Online Desk 2018-03-11 14:09:14

Robi has revolutionised Bangladesh’s digital landscape by introducing Robi Safenet - a unique service that allows parents to protect their kids from harmful content on the internet through filte...

IT sector to ensure jobs for young generation: Envoy

IT sector to ensure jobs for young generation: Envoy

-- 2018-03-11 13:12:16

Bangladesh Ambassador to the Netherlands Sheikh Mohammed Belal said Bangladesh is savouring unique demographic dividend and emphasised that IT sector of Bangladesh would create more employment for you...

New German minister to challenge Google, Facebook’s news feed

New German minister to challenge Google, Facebook’s news feed

-- 2018-03-10 13:06:32

Germany’s incoming minister with responsibility for digital policy says she will push social media giants to make users’ information feeds more diverse and timely to avoid creating “...

Fake news spreads faster, study shows

Fake news spreads faster, study shows

-- 2018-03-09 18:42:02

A study of 126,000 rumours and false news stories spread on Twitter over a period of 11 years found that they travelled faster and reached more people than the truth. Researchers from the Massachuset...

Grab in talks to buy Uber’s Southeast Asia business: Source

Grab in talks to buy Uber’s Southeast Asia business: Source

-- 2018-03-09 12:57:14

Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing firm, Grab, is in advanced negotiations to buy parts of Uber Technologies Inc’s business in the region, said a source with knowledge of the talks, in...

NASA spacecraft strips Jupiter down to its underwear

NASA spacecraft strips Jupiter down to its underwear

-- 2018-03-08 20:55:39

The interior of Jupiter is just as intriguing as the planet's dazzling surface, with a swirling mixture of liquid hydrogen and helium at its centre, vast atmospheric jet streams and exotic gravitation...

Google Maps now promotes women-led businesses

Google Maps now promotes women-led businesses

-- 2018-03-08 12:58:27

Businesses can now describe themselves in Google Maps listings as being owned, led or founded by women, the American multinational conglomerate Alphabet Inc unit announced Wednesday. The feature woul...

BlackBerry sues Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram

BlackBerry sues Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram

-- 2018-03-07 11:02:23

Canadian multinational company BlackBerry Ltd on Tuesday filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Facebook Inc and its WhatsApp and Instagram apps, arguing that they copied technology and features...

Facebook hires former BuzzFeed, Pinterest executives for video content

Facebook hires former BuzzFeed, Pinterest executives for video content

-- 2018-03-06 11:58:31

Social media giant Facebook Inc hired the former head of BuzzFeed Studios to lead its global video content and a former Pinterest executive as in charge of its video content platform Facebook Watch, t...

Google expansion plans may turn NYC into tech hub

Google expansion plans may turn NYC into tech hub

-- 2018-03-05 14:40:32

As New York City waits to hear whether it’s been chosen as the site for Amazon’s second headquarters, recent moves by another tech giant, Google, to expand its footprint in the city are he...

Robi launches IoT-based smart factory solution   

Robi launches IoT-based smart factory solution  

-- 2018-03-04 21:54:48

Leading digital services provider, Robi, has recently launched an Internet of Things (IoT) based on smart factory solution for the country's RMG sector in association with nCinga, a start-up company o...

US firm targets Microsoft Office users in automated sales

US firm targets Microsoft Office users in automated sales

-- 2018-03-04 14:43:41

A leading US firm that specialises in sales engagement platforms announced Thursday that its automated scheduling tool has been made available to users of Microsoft Office 365 and Microsoft Exchange (...

Russian propagandists target Reddit

Russian propagandists target Reddit

-- 2018-03-03 11:46:33

Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed. It had been widely presumed that Reddit, a hub for campaigning...

AutoSaw: Robot carpenter makes custom furniture

AutoSaw: Robot carpenter makes custom furniture

-- 2018-03-03 11:28:53

Researchers have repurposed existing robotic technology so it is able to create custom wooden furniture, a move they say will greatly improve safety. The team at the Massachusetts' Institute of Techn...

SMS-based complaints about public hospitals spike

SMS-based complaints about public hospitals spike

Saif Uddin 2018-03-03 10:03:00

Mobile phone SMS-based service launched by the government to know about irregularities in public hospitals from service recipients has gained popularity in recent times. According to available data,...

Scientists detect water in exoplanet's atmosphere

Scientists detect water in exoplanet's atmosphere

-- 2018-03-02 19:39:59

Astronomers have detected a large amount of water in the atmosphere of a hot, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. The planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn d...

BITM's digital marketing training course ends

BITM's digital marketing training course ends

-- 2018-03-02 18:08:32

BASIS Institute of Technology & Management (BITM) recently organised training on professional digital marketing. The programme, titled "Be an expert Digital Marketing Professional", covered many...

Norway's Telenor seeks salvation in the cloud

Norway's Telenor seeks salvation in the cloud

-- 2018-03-02 13:56:21

Picture an old telephone exchange with operators connecting calls manually, add vast computing power by putting it on the Amazon cloud, and you have Working Group Two — a new platform for hostin...

Crypto-currencies causing deaths: Bill Gates

Crypto-currencies causing deaths: Bill Gates

-- 2018-03-02 13:46:38

Crypto-currencies are killing people in a "fairly direct way", Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. He was referring to the way digital currencies like Bitcoin are used to buy drugs like synthetic...

Pesticides endangering bees, says European watchdog

Pesticides endangering bees, says European watchdog

-- 2018-03-01 13:30:00

Most uses of insecticides known as neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, the European Food Safety Authority has confirmed. The use of neonicotinoids has been restricted in the E...

Scientists detect very first signal from 'cosmic dawn'

Scientists detect very first signal from 'cosmic dawn'

-- 2018-03-01 12:55:48

Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tun...

First mobile phone network on the moon

First mobile phone network on the moon

-- 2018-02-28 11:26:01

The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission...

Appier's Aixon connects to Google ad platforms

Appier's Aixon connects to Google ad platforms

-- 2018-02-27 12:38:42

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced that Aixon, its AI-based data intelligence platform, now connects directly with Google's advertising platforms, including DoubleC...

Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at US SC

Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at US SC

-- 2018-02-27 12:37:27

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday wades into a major privacy rights fight between Microsoft Corp and the Justice Department, weighing whether US law allows prosecutors to compel technology companies to...

Sony phone adds rumble to games, films

Sony phone adds rumble to games, films

-- 2018-02-27 11:23:23

Sony's latest top-end smartphone vibrates in time with movie and TV action scenes and video games. The Xperia XZ2's rumble tech adapts a feature originally developed for the firm's PlayStation contro...

Banglalink to bring 30pc people under 4G coverage by June

Banglalink to bring 30pc people under 4G coverage by June

-- 2018-02-26 21:36:32

The country's third largest mobile phone operator Banglalink eyes to bring 30 per cent people of 64 districts under its 4G coverage by June this year. The operator, at a press conference on Monday in...