China successfully launched a new optical remote-sensing satellite from the southwestern Xichang Satellite Launch Center at 12:57 a.m. on Monday (Beijing Time). The high-orbit optical remote... Read more
China’s Mars probe Tianwen-1 successfully conducted a deep-space maneuver on Friday night (Beijing time), according to the China National Space Administration. The probe completed the... Read more
A US judge has ordered Twitter to reveal the identity of an anonymous user who allegedly fueled a discredited conspiracy theory about the 2016 death of a Democratic party worker. Twitter has... Read more
Emmanuelle Charpentier of France and Jennifer Doudna of the United States on Wednesday won the Nobel Chemistry Prize for developing the gene-editing technique known as the CRISPR-Cas9 DNA sn... Read more
Three scientists won this year’s Nobel Prize in physics Tuesday for advancing our understanding of black holes, the all-consuming monsters that lurk in the darkest parts of the univers... Read more
With the 2020 Nobel prizes this week comes a recurrent question: has the world’s most prestigious awards for physics, chemistry and medicine — first conferred in 1901 — lost touch with the w... Read more
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:40 a.m. EDT Saturday, Oct. 31, for the launch of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), according... Read more
Google said Monday it plans to start enforcing a rule requiring Android apps in its Play store to use its payment system, which takes a 30 per cent cut of transactions. “We have clarified th... Read more
Huawei has unveiled a paradigm shift for industrial digital transformation with the aim of cultivating a robust ecosystem and scenario-specific solutions for a future intelligent society in... Read more
Google has removed images from its Street View that allowed users to virtually walk on Australia’s Uluru, a sacred Aboriginal site closed to tourists since last year, the company said Friday... Read more
The US space agency (Nasa) has formally outlined its $28bn (£22bn) plan to return to the Moon by 2024. As part of a programme called Artemis, Nasa will send a man and a woman to the lunar su... Read more
Twitter on Thursday said it is tightening security of high-profile politicians, campaigns and journalists as a “critical preventative step” ahead of the US presidential election. Twitter wil... Read more
Astronomers have found a potential sign of life high in the atmosphere of Venus. They hints there may be bizarre microbes living in the sulfuric acid-laden clouds of the hothouse planet, rep... Read more
Israeli and US archaeologists say they have found evidence of an earthquake that occurred about 3,700 years ago. It is one of the earliest earthquakes recorded at an archeological site, said... Read more
Google and Twitter have said they are clamping down further on misinformation online ahead of the US elections. Messaging platforms expect a flood of false claims and misleading posts ahead... Read more
The a2i Programme has succeeded at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) awards for the 7th consecutive time. Two projects of a2i were declared champions in two different categories... Read more
State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Junaid Ahmed Palak said today the government has been working to earn US dollar six billion from the country’s lone IT secto... Read more
The Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division has won one of the world’s most prestigious awards in the field of information technology, the “World Summit on Informat... Read more
The authorities of Facebook (FB) has appointed Sabhanaz Rashid Diya, a Bangladeshi writer and computational social scientist as the country manager of Bangladesh. Facebook announced the appo... Read more
Is streaming going to look more like TV in India? Fifteen online platforms — including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar, Voot, Zee5, ALTBalaji, Eros Now, JioCinema, Discovery+, H... Read more
