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Facebook to notify users when their photos are uploaded

Facebook to notify users when their photos are uploaded

Reuters 2017-12-20 03:10:33

Facebook Inc said on Tuesday it would begin using facial recognition technology to tell people on the social network when others upload photos of them, if they agree to let the company keep a facial t...

Facebook removes 3m posts over copyright violation

Facebook removes 3m posts over copyright violation

Reuters 2017-12-19 12:36:31

Facebook Inc announced Monday that it removed nearly 3 million posts, including videos, ads and other forms of content, from its services during the first half of 2017 following complaints of counterf...

Bongo clinches Merit Award at APICTA

Bongo clinches Merit Award at APICTA

FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 11:10:38

Bongo, a project of Stellar Digital Limited, has won the First Merit Award at APICTA (Asia Pacific ICT Awards) Ceremony at the Bangabandhu International Conference Center in Dhaka. Bongo picked up th...

Social media bad for mental health, admits Facebook

Social media bad for mental health, admits Facebook

-- 2017-12-19 08:00:52

Facebook has acknowledged that social media use can have negative impacts on user’s mental health. The social media is feeling pressure from a growing chorus of critics raising alarms about the...

Scientists create plants that glow

Scientists create plants that glow

FE Online Desk 2017-12-19 07:56:22

MIT researchers have created plants that glow hoping it can be used in the future to replace things like street lamps or bed side lamps. In a paper recently published in the journal Nano Letters, res...

China begins first AI lab for broadcasting

China begins first AI lab for broadcasting

-- 2017-12-19 07:23:30

China's first artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory for broadcasting has opened on Monday. The lab, in Changsha, capital of the central province of Hunan, is a project between the provincial broadc...

How bus app can ease your life on Dhaka roads

How bus app can ease your life on Dhaka roads

Md. Ziaur Rahman with SM Najmus Sakib 2017-12-18 12:00:00

Have you ever imagined when you will get a relief from the nuisance of waiting for a bus in Dhaka—beset with hectic traffic? Hardly could you say you did it, or you would say you never did it o...

Scientists unveil ‘smallest micro-greetings Christmas card’

Scientists unveil ‘smallest micro-greetings Christmas card’

Reuters 2017-12-18 04:12:27

British scientists have created what they believe is the world’s smallest Christmas card, a seasonal greeting so tiny that over 200 million of them could fit into a standard postage stamp. The...

EU, a false haven of net neutrality?

EU, a false haven of net neutrality?

Reuters 2017-12-17 12:00:00

America’s decision to scrap rules designed to ensure a free and open internet leaves the European Union as the biggest market where Net neutrality still prevails -- but critics say the EU is not...

Disney-Fox deal may create new nerdy nirvana

Disney-Fox deal may create new nerdy nirvana

AP 2017-12-17 12:00:00

The coming union of the Disney and Fox media empires is set to create a new nirvana for fanboys and -girls, one that reunites superheroes and sci-fi characters long separated by an energy barrier of c...

Camera to detect human emotion

Camera to detect human emotion

-- 2017-12-17 12:00:00

A Chinese firm announced it had developed technology to efficiently detect human emotion, even through using cameras on mobile phones. The technology, the first of its kind in China, can detect and a...

Second C919 jet makes maiden test flight

Second C919 jet makes maiden test flight

-- 2017-12-17 06:21:05

A second prototype of China's large passenger jet C919 completed its maiden flight in Shanghai Sunday, which was marked as a step closer to China becoming a global aviation powerhouse. The domestic j...

US, Russian, Japanese crew lifts off for space station

US, Russian, Japanese crew lifts off for space station

-- 2017-12-17 03:02:50

A trio of US and Japanese astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut blasted off from Kazakhstan on Sunday for a two-day trip to the International Space Station, a NASA TV broadcast showed. Commander Anton S...

US admits running secret UFO programme

US admits running secret UFO programme

-- 2017-12-17 01:17:25

The Pentagon has been running a secret multi-million dollar programme to investigate Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), US media report. Only a small number of officials were aware of the programme,...

Vodafone offers thousands early contract exit

Vodafone offers thousands early contract exit

BBC 2017-12-16 12:50:02

Thousands of Vodafone customers will be able to end their contracts early after the UK's communications regulator raised concerns over new charges. In April, Vodafone introduced new international roa...

Uber used covert 'undercover agents'

Uber used covert 'undercover agents'

BBC 2017-12-16 12:00:00

Uber set up a covert unit tasked with stealing competitors' secrets and engaging in undercover surveillance, a letter published by a US court on Friday has alleged. It is critical evidence in Uber's...

Facebook hits back at critics

Facebook hits back at critics

Reuters 2017-12-16 03:48:14

Facebook Inc on Friday struck back against scientific researchers and tech industry insiders who have criticised the world’s biggest social media network and its competitors for transforming how...

US weakens net neutrality rules

US weakens net neutrality rules

BBC 2017-12-15 10:16:49

Restrictions on US broadband providers' ability to prioritise one service's data over another are to be reduced after a vote by a regulator. The Federal Communications Commission voted three to two t...

Google crunches data for NASA to find new planets

Google crunches data for NASA to find new planets

Reuters 2017-12-15 03:35:16

Alphabet Inc’s Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis identified two new planets around distant stars, including one that is part of the first star system with as many...

France proposes age rule for Facebook users

France proposes age rule for Facebook users

-- 2017-12-14 12:00:00

All French children under the age of 16 will have to seek parental approval to open an account on Facebook or any other social network under draft legislation presented on Wednesday. The requirement...

Russian ads promoting Brexit found on Facebook, Twitter

Russian ads promoting Brexit found on Facebook, Twitter

BBC 2017-12-14 11:15:24

Facebook says its investigation into Russian attempts to influence the Brexit vote has determined the activity amounted to just three adverts. Twitter says its own inquiry has linked six ads promotin...

Minister lauds youth’s contribution in IT

Minister lauds youth’s contribution in IT

FE Online Report 2017-12-14 09:54:21

Science and Technology Minister Yafes Osman lauded Bangladeshi youths for their contribution to the IT and freelancing sector which grabbed developed world’s attention. The minister said it as...

India's e-waste hits 2m tonnes in 2016: Study

India's e-waste hits 2m tonnes in 2016: Study

-- 2017-12-14 07:38:39

India has one of the fastest growing electronics industries in the world, and its e-waste production is likely to touch three million tonnes in 2018. The world produced 44.7 million tonnes of electro...

Nissan starts mass recall over fire fears

Nissan starts mass recall over fire fears

-- 2017-12-14 02:52:06

Nissan Motor Co said on Thursday it was recalling nearly 320,000 vehicles in Japan to fix defective coating in an electronic power unit that could cause a short circuit and fire in the worst-case scen...

Google opens AI research centre in China

Google opens AI research centre in China

-- 2017-12-13 12:13:24

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Wednesday it is opening an artificial intelligence (AI) research centre in China to target the country’s local talent, even as the US search firm’s prod...

Panasonic, Toyota team up on EV batteries

Panasonic, Toyota team up on EV batteries

-- 2017-12-13 02:36:17

Japan’s Panasonic Corp and Toyota Motor Corp said on Wednesday they will consider jointly developing batteries for electric vehicles. The move could help Panasonic extend its lead as the world&...

Keylogger found in over 460 HP laptop models

Keylogger found in over 460 HP laptop models

BBC 2017-12-12 12:16:17

Hidden software that can record every letter typed on a computer keyboard has been discovered pre-installed on hundreds of HP laptop models. Security researcher Michael Myng found the keylogging code...

Black hole 55m times mass than Sun: Scientists

Black hole 55m times mass than Sun: Scientists

-- 2017-12-12 05:16:42

Astronomers have used a powerful array of telescopes across Australia and the rest of the world to examine a black hole 55 million times more massive than the Sun. The research published Tuesday show...

Artificial intelligence to fight ad fraud

Artificial intelligence to fight ad fraud

-- 2017-12-12 01:44:31

A leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, Appier on Tuesday shared the results of a real-world study that it conducted on its own network to demonstrate the ability of an AI-based model to fight...

Google launches Files Go

Google launches Files Go

FE Online Desk 2017-12-12 01:18:41

Google launched Files Go, a new app for freeing up space, finding files faster and easily sharing them with others. Files Go is globally available from Tuesday on the Google Play Store​for all ph...