Photo: Shoppers visit a Huawei store in Beijing. Chinese tech giant Huawei has filed a motion in U.S. court challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecom equipment. Shenzhen, May 29 : Chinese tech giant Huawei filed a motion in U.S. court Wednesday challenging the constitutionality of a law that limits its sales of telecom equipment, ...
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Chinese man guilty of defrauding Apple out of 1,500 iPhones
Photo: An Apple iPhone XR on display at the Steve Jobs Theater after an event to announce new products, in Cupertino, Calif. Salem, May 23 : Over the span of two years, a Chinese national in Oregon sent devices that looked like iPhones to Apple, saying they wouldn’t turn on and should be replaced under warranty. He didn’t just submit ...
Read More »India launches earth observation satellite RISAT-2B successfully
New Delhi, May 22 : The Indian space research organisation (ISRO) Wednesday morning successfully launched a radar imaging earth observation satellite RISAT-2B, officials said. The satellite was launched from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) in Sriharikota, off the Bay of Bengal coast located in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh at 5:30 a.m. local time. The launch of satellite ...
Read More »Huawei has immediately lost access to Android and Google
Dhaka, May 20 : Alphabet’s Google has suspended business with Huawei that requires the transfer of hardware, software and technical services except those publicly available via open source licensing, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Sunday, in a blow to the Chinese technology company that the U.S. government has sought to blacklist around the world, reports CNBC. ...
Read More »After the Moon, people on Mars by 2033 or 2060
On December 11, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a directive ordering NASA to prepare to return astronauts to the Moon “followed by human missions to Mars and other destinations.” The dates fixed by the space agency are 2024 for the Moon and Mars in 2033, but according to experts and industry insiders, reaching the Red Planet by then is ...
Read More »31 Local TV channels to use Bangabandhu-1 satellite
At least thirty one Television channels, both public and private, are going to airing programmes using Bangabandhu-1, the country’s first communication satellite. Shahjahan Mahmood, Chairman of Bangladesh Communication Satellite Company Ltd (BCSCL), disclosed this information while taking to newsmen at his office on Thursday. Through this, Bangabandhu-1 satellite is going to start its commercial service after one year of its ...
Read More »Huawei hit by US export controls, potential import ban
Photo: A logo of Huawei is displayed at a shop in Shenzhen, China’s Guangdong province. In a fateful swipe at telecommunications giant Huawei, the Trump administration issued an executive order Wednesday apparently aimed at banning its equipment from U.S. networks and said it was subjecting the Chinese company to strict export controls. Huawei would be the largest business ever subjected ...
Read More »NASA: Budget boost ‘good start’ to put astronauts on moon
Photo: Apollo 12 mission Commander Charles P. “Pete” Conrad stands on the moon’s surface. Cape Canaveral, May 15 : NASA’s chief said Tuesday that the Trump administration’s proposed $1.6 billion budget boost is a “good start” for getting astronauts back on the moon within five years. Administrator Jim Bridenstine addressed employees a day after the White House introduced the budget ...
Read More »NASA dubs 2024 moon mission ‘Artemis,’ asks for $1.6 billion
NASA’s next mission to the Moon will be called Artemis, the US space agency announced Monday, though it’s still looking for the money to make the journey happen by its accelerated 2024 deadline. In March, US President Donald Trump’s administration moved the date for the next American lunar mission up by four years from its original goal of 2028 while ...
Read More »WhatsApp discovers ‘targeted’ surveillance attack
Hackers were able to remotely install surveillance software on phones and other devices using a major vulnerability in messaging app WhatsApp, it has been confirmed. WhatsApp, which is owned by Facebook, said the attack targeted a “select number” of users, and was orchestrated by “an advanced cyber actor”. A fix was rolled out on Friday.The attack was developed by Israeli ...
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