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Sporting a trendy brown bob, a humanoid robot named Erica chats to a man in front of stunned audience members in Madrid.   She and others like her are a prime focus of robotic research, as their uncanny human form could be key to integrating such machines into our lives, said researchers gathered this week at the annual International Conference ...

Apple and Amazon are among US companies and agencies who have had data stolen by Chinese spies, claims Bloomberg. The data had been siphoned off via tiny chips inserted on server circuit boards made by a company called Super Micro Computer, reported the news agency.   The servers had been compromised during manufacturing and the chips activated once they were ...

Tendering a fresh apology in the data breach that affected 50 million users, Facebook has said that a detailed investigation found no evidence that the hackers accessed any third-party apps using Facebook Login.   In the biggest-ever security breach after Cambridge Analytica scandal, Facebook last week admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access ...

Japan’s space agency (Jaxa) is about to send a 10kg lander to the surface of an asteroid. The Hayabusa-2 spacecraft will release the German-French Mascot lander onto the asteroid 162173 Ryugu on Wednesday.   Mascot will then analyse the asteroid’s surface properties, including its mineral composition and magnetic field.   Hayabusa-2 reached the asteroid Ryugu in June this year after ...

Houston, Oct 3 : A human trafficking survivor from Texas sued Facebook this week, alleging the social media platform provides human traffickers an unrestricted way to “stalk, exploit, recruit, groom … and extort children into the sex trade.” The lawsuit was filed Monday in Houston against Facebook, the shuttered classifieds site Backpage.com and the owners of two Houston hotels. The ...

Photo: Guests at the launching ceremony of AfterAccess surveys regarding Bangladesh at a city hotel on Tuesday. Dhaka, Oct 2 : A recently released research report shows that by late 2017 only 13 percent of Bangladeshis aged 15-65 used the Internet and social media. This is despite 45 percent of the same age group owning an Internet-friendly device. The findings ...

The much-awaited mobile number portability (MNP) service for the country’s cell phone customers will start in early hours of Monday.   Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) will unveil the technical and commercial aspects of MNP at a press conference at its office this morning, said its media wing on Sunday.  Officials said all the mobile phone operators, public switched telephone ...

After Facebook admitted that hackers broke into nearly 50 million users’ accounts by stealing their “access tokens” or digital keys, cyber experts on Saturday warned over 2.3 billion users to log out and log back into Facebook, or any of third-party apps that use Facebook login.   Facebook has reset the access tokens of almost 50 million accounts it knew ...

Space station astronauts have received a special delivery from a Japanese capsule named White Stork.   The cargo ship known as Kounotori in Japanese arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, five days after liftoff. It’s the seventh Japanese shipment and the first in two years.  Commander Andrew Feustel (FOY-stull) used a robot arm to capture the White Stork. ...

New York, Sept 28 : Facebook on Friday said it recently discovered a security breach affecting nearly 50 million user accounts. The hack is the latest setback for Facebook during a year of tumult for the global social media service. In a blog post , the company says hackers exploited its “View As” feature, which lets people see what their ...