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Twitter to ban political ads from Nov 22

Twitter to ban political ads from Nov 22

Reuters
Twitter Inc will ban political advertising on its platform next month, the company's chief executive said on Wednesday, a move that won praise from...Details
WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO over phone-hacking claims

WhatsApp sues Israel's NSO over phone-hacking claims

Reuters
WhatsApp sued Israeli surveillance firm NSO Group on Tuesday, accusing it of helping government spies break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users...Details
Johnson set to grant Huawei access to UK's 5G network

Johnson set to grant Huawei access to UK's 5G network

Reuters
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is preparing to grant China’s Huawei Technologies Co Ltd access to the UK’s future 5G telecoms...Details
NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

NASA plans to send water-hunting robot to moon surface in 2022

Reuters
NASA will send a golf cart-sized robot to the moon in 2022 to search for deposits of water below the surface, an effort to evaluate the vital...Details
Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10b cloud computing contract

Microsoft beats Amazon for Pentagon's $10b cloud computing contract

Reuters
Microsoft Corp. has won the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract, the Defense Department said on Friday, beating out favorite Amazon.com...Details
Video games evolve into high tech laptop based entertainment

Video games evolve into high tech laptop based entertainment

Hitlar A Halim
Once video game shops were common entertainment spots; this paved way to X-Box, play station, gaming consul and others. But in the evolution of...Details
Somewhere In Blog unblocked after eight months

Somewhere In Blog unblocked after eight months

Bangtla Tribune Report
The government has unblocked Somewhere In Blog eight months after it blocked access to the largest Bengali-language community blog platform by late...Details
US senators call for TikTok investigation

US senators call for TikTok investigation

Reuters
US Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Tom Cotton on Wednesday asked intelligence officials to investigate whether the popular...Details
Japan’s KDDI to invest in Bangladesh for 5G network

Japan’s KDDI to invest in Bangladesh for 5G network

Bangla Tribune Desk
Japan’s second-largest telecom company KDDI has shown its interest to invest in Bangladesh’s 5G network, IoT, other digital...Details
India mobile operators face $13b in charges

India mobile operators face $13b in charges

Reuters
India’s top court on Thursday upheld a demand by the country’s telecoms department that wireless carriers pay $12.97 billion in overdue...Details
Google claims 'quantum supremacy'

Google claims 'quantum supremacy'

Reuters
Google said on Wednesday it had achieved a breakthrough in computer research, by solving a complex problem in minutes with a so-called quantum...Details
Facebook suspends Russian Instagram accounts targeting US voters

Facebook suspends Russian Instagram accounts targeting US voters

Reuters
Facebook Inc said on Monday it has suspended a network of Instagram accounts operated from Russia that targeted Americans with divisive political...Details
Seoul helps Dhaka to build digital public service delivery system

Seoul helps Dhaka to build digital public service delivery system

Bangla Tribune Report
South Korea is helping Bangladesh to develop a digital system that will make smooth and hassle-free public service delivery.A citizen will get all...Details
Joy launches one-stop services for citizen

Joy launches one-stop services for citizen

BSS
Prime Minister’s ICT Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy inaugurated three digital one-stop services – Eksheba, Ekpay and Ekshop– to...Details
China's next commercial rockets to make test flights in 2020, 2021

China's next commercial rockets to make test flights in 2020, 2021

Reuters
China will launch test flights for the next two space rockets in its Smart Dragon series meant for commercial use in 2020 and 2021, the official...Details
PUBG unblocked in Bangladesh after brief ban

PUBG unblocked in Bangladesh after brief ban

Bangla Tribune Desk
Popular online game Player Unknown's Battlegrounds (PUBG) went through a brief ban in Bangladesh on Friday, amid growing concerns that the game is...Details
Bangladesh bans PUBG

Bangladesh bans PUBG

Bangla Tribune Report
Bangladesh has banned online multiplayer game PlayerUnknown's BATTLEGROUNDS, better known as PUBG, fearing that it could 'incite violence' among...Details
Martin Luther King's daughter criticises Facebook over disinformation

Martin Luther King's daughter criticises Facebook over disinformation

Reuters
Disinformation campaigns helped lead to the assassination of Martin Luther King, the daughter of the US civil rights champion said on Thursday...Details
First all-female spacewalking team makes history

First all-female spacewalking team makes history

Reuters
Two NASA astronauts made space history on Friday, completing the first spacewalk by an all-woman team when they stepped outside the International...Details
Govt clears appointment of administrators for GP, Robi

Govt clears appointment of administrators for GP, Robi

Bangla Tribune Report
The government has approved administrators for Grameenphone and Robi to oversee the operation of the two mobile operators. The approval came after...Details
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