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Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday: NASA

Asteroid over 22 metres in diameter to pass by Earth on Tuesday: NASA

-- 2020-08-30 19:41:24

An asteroid with diameters between 22 and 49 metres will shoot pass Earth in a distance closer than Earth from the Moon on Tuesday, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (N...

China's Mars probe travels around 100m kilometres

China's Mars probe travels around 100m kilometres

Xinhua 2020-08-28 16:55:56

China's Mars probe Tianwen-1 has travelled around 100 million km as of 10:08am Friday, according to the China National Space Administration (CNSA). The Mars probe is in stable condition and its multi...

Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy

Facebook employees internally question policy after India content controversy

REUTERS 2020-08-20 14:52:37

Facebook and its top lobbying executive in India, Ankhi Das, are facing questions internally from employees over how political content is regulated in its biggest market, according to sources with dir...

Gmail is down globally as users face issues with log-in, attachments

Gmail is down globally as users face issues with log-in, attachments

-- 2020-08-20 14:32:44

Gmail users across the world have been left crippled thanks to an outage on the email service that is not allowing users to send attachments via mail. Gmail users took to social media to complain abo...

Facebook poses 'danger to public health': Report

Facebook poses 'danger to public health': Report

-- 2020-08-19 18:59:54

Health misinformation on Facebook was viewed 3.8 billion times in the past year, peaking during the Covid-19 crisis, said a report of activist group Avaaz. Avaaz which conducted the research, said Fa...

PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020 schedule announced

PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020 schedule announced

FE Online Desk 2020-08-17 22:00:09

After its outstanding run last year, Tencent Games and PUBG Corp. are all set to bring PUBG MOBILE Bangladesh Challenge 2020, the second edition of their biggest, open-to-all flagship tournament back....

Indian scientists make space bricks for building structures on moon

Indian scientists make space bricks for building structures on moon

Xinhua 2020-08-16 16:15:35

A team of scientists from the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) Bengaluru have developed a sustainable process to make space bricks on the lunar surf...

Huawei 49th on 2020 Fortune Global 500 ranking

Huawei 49th on 2020 Fortune Global 500 ranking

-- 2020-08-15 16:52:30

Huawei has ranked 49th on the Fortune Global 500 list in 2020. This is the first time that the telecommunications giant breaks into the top 50, continuing a multi-year track record of acceleration, s...

US ban on TikTok could cut it off from app stores, advertisers

US ban on TikTok could cut it off from app stores, advertisers

Reuters 2020-08-12 10:36:36

President Donald Trump’s executive order banning China’s TikTok could prevent US app stores from offering the popular short-video app and make advertising on the platform illegal, accordin...

Russia fines Google for not blocking banned content - Ifax

Russia fines Google for not blocking banned content - Ifax

-- 2020-08-10 15:44:20

A Russian court on Monday fined Google 1.5 million roubles ($20,350) after finding it guilty of failing to block content banned in Russia, Reuters reported citing the Interfax news agency.

Zoom beats peers as people retreat to living rooms

Zoom beats peers as people retreat to living rooms

JASIM UDDIN HAROON and SAIF UDDIN 2020-08-09 09:23:14

Dewan Ali Ahmed, a sexagenarian businessman, starts his workday through an online meeting platform named Zoom during the ongoing pandemic situation. In April, frustration gripped him as many employ...

Exhausted of Zoom calls? Company offers at-home hologram machines

Exhausted of Zoom calls? Company offers at-home hologram machines

-- 2020-08-08 18:55:32

Looking for a new way to communicate during the pandemic? A Los Angeles company has created phone booth-sized machines to beam live holograms into your living room, reports Reuters. The device made b...

BD among global hotspots of series of floods: Study

BD among global hotspots of series of floods: Study

UNB 2020-08-07 16:15:51

Bangladesh is one of the hotspots of series of floods in the world, a latest study says, noting that 250 million coastal dwellers will face rising floods globally. The study identifies a series of fl...

Facebook removes Trump post over 'false' virus claims

Facebook removes Trump post over 'false' virus claims

-- 2020-08-06 11:17:03

Facebook has deleted a post from US President Donald Trump’s page for violating its policy against spreading misinformation about the coronavirus. Facebook said on Wednesday that the “vid...

Singapore scientists develop artificial skin able to feel

Singapore scientists develop artificial skin able to feel

-- 2020-08-04 17:06:38

Singapore researchers have developed ‘electronic skin’ capable of recreating a sense of touch, an innovation they hope will allow people with prosthetic limbs to detect objects, as well as...

NASA astronauts make historic return to Earth

NASA astronauts make historic return to Earth

Reuters 2020-08-03 10:38:52

US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon, splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that wa...

NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

NASA astronauts riding SpaceX capsule poised for Sunday return

REUTERS 2020-08-02 15:34:07

The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space...

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

NASA launches Mars rover to find signs of ancient life

-- 2020-07-30 20:39:04

NASA has launched its new Mars rover, Perseverance, on a six-month journey to the Red Planet as part of an ambitious, long-range project to bring the first Martian rock samples back to Earth to be ana...

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Pandemic turns smartphones from luxury to must-have as India's schools go online

Reuters 2020-07-30 16:45:16

Kuldip Kumar, a farmer from northern India, sold his only cow to buy a smartphone so his children could keep up with lessons that shifted online when the coronavirus lockdown closed schools four month...

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Twitter says hackers saw messages from 36 accounts, including Netherlands official

Reuters 2020-07-23 15:16:06

Twitter said on Wednesday that the hackers who breached its systems last week likely read the direct messages of 36 accounts, including one belonging to an elected official in the Netherlands. In twe...

China launches independent, unmanned Mars mission

China launches independent, unmanned Mars mission

REUTERS 2020-07-23 12:20:17

China successfully launched an unmanned probe to Mars on Thursday in its first independent mission to another planet, a bid for global leadership in space and a display of its technological prowess an...

GP introduces portable pocket router

GP introduces portable pocket router

-- 2020-07-20 10:19:03

To address the growing need for home office and remote working solutions, Grameenphone has introduced a new LTE pocket router (MF927U) that enables 4G LTE mobile data access for homes, retail stores,...

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

Twitter disables Trump tweet over copyright complaint

Reuters 2020-07-19 12:44:34

Twitter disabled a campaign-style video that President Donald Trump retweeted on Saturday, citing a copyright complaint. The video, which included music from the group Linkin Park, disappeared from t...

Google bans ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content

Google bans ads on coronavirus conspiracy theory content

-- 2020-07-18 11:49:32

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Friday it would prohibit websites and apps that use its advertising technology from running ads on “dangerous content” that goes against scientific cons...

Scientists identify gel-like substance found on Moon

Scientists identify gel-like substance found on Moon

Xinhua 2020-07-17 19:01:50

Chinese researchers have published an analysis of a gel-like substance spotted by the country's Yutu-2 lunar rover in a crater on the far side of the moon last year. In a research paper published in...

Major US Twitter accounts hacked to solicit digital currency

Major US Twitter accounts hacked to solicit digital currency

-- 2020-07-16 22:55:15

Twitter said hackers accessed its internal systems to hijack some of the platform’s top voices including former US President Barack Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, reality TV star Ki...

Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination: UN expert

Emerging technologies entrenching racism, discrimination: UN expert

-- 2020-07-16 21:41:40

An independent UN human rights expert called for greater scrutiny of emerging digital technologies which she said are being used to uphold racial inequality, discrimination and intolerance. Special R...

New depth map over the Arctic Ocean comes out in Scientific Data

New depth map over the Arctic Ocean comes out in Scientific Data

FE ONLINE DESK 2020-07-16 15:59:33

Details of a new depth map of the Arctic Ocean have been published in the nature journal Scientific Data, according to a press release. The new portrayal of the Arctic Ocean floor is in the form of a...

Every person has unique visual fingerprint: Study

Every person has unique visual fingerprint: Study

Xinhua 2020-07-15 18:20:52

Our human ability to pinpoint the exact location and size of objects varies from one to another, and even within our own individual field of vision, according to a research released by the University...

Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G

Nokia rolls out software upgrade to 5G

Reuters 2020-07-14 13:50:35

Finnish telecom equipment maker Nokia launched on Tuesday software which enables mobile operators to upgrade their 4G radio stations to new 5G technology without visiting the site or replacing equipme...