Technology

Google has unveiled a new search experience making it easier for job seekers in three countries of South Asia, including Bangladesh, to find employment opportunities from popular job listing websites, online classifieds and companies.   The new feature is built directly into Google Search to provide a comprehensive listing of jobs across the web.  At launch, job search will have ...

US tech giant Google announced on Monday that it is employing a new artificial Intelligence (AI) technology to combat online spreading of contents involving child sexual abuse.   Google said its cutting-edge AI technology uses deep neural networks for image processing to help discover and detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) online.  The new tool based on the deep neural ...

Paris, Sep 3 : French children who are going back to school Monday after summer vacation will have to do so without their mobile phones. The government passed a law banning phone use in all primary and middle schools for the entire day, including during breaks —with exceptions in cases of emergency and for disabled children. Pupils are requested to ...

China will restrict the number of video games and take steps to curb playing time by minors to address growing rates of childhood visual impairment as the government steps up its crackdown on the world’s biggest online gaming market.   A statement posted on the education ministry website late on Thursday justified the new curbs as a way to counter ...

It might sound like pie in the sky, but Japan’s government is banking on a future with flying cars, launching an initiative Wednesday with the private sector to develop futuristic vehicles.   The initiative aims to draw up a roadmap by the end of the year on commercialising flying cars, a concept that so far remains largely theoretical.  Japanese government ...

Beijing,  Aug 29 :  More than a dozen human rights groups have sent a letter to Google urging the company not to offer censored internet search services in China. The joint letter dated Tuesday calls on CEO Sundar Pichai to explain what Google is doing to safeguard users from the Chinese government’s censorship and surveillance. That follows a letter earlier ...

Countries should quickly agree a treaty banning the use of so-called killer robots “before it is too late”, activists said Monday as talks on the issue resumed at the UN.   They say time is running out before weapons are deployed that use lethal force without a human making the final kill-order and have criticised the UN body hosting the ...

London, Aug 23 : Facebook has banned a third-party quiz app amid concerns over the possible misuse of users’ data and pulled its own security software from Apple’s app store after the iPhone maker tightened data security rules. The social media company said Wednesday it took action against the myPersonality app because its creators refused an inspection, and over worries ...

Dhaka, Aug 21 : Microsoft has uncovered new hacking attempts by Russia targeting U.S. political groups ahead of the midterm elections. The company said Tuesday that a group tied to the Russian government created fake websites that appeared to spoof two American conservative organizations: the Hudson Institute and the International Republican Institute. Three other fake sites were designed to look ...

San Francisco, Aug 13 : Google wants to know where you go so badly that it records your movements even when you explicitly tell it not to. An Associated Press investigation found that many Google services on Android devices and iPhones store your location data even if you’ve used privacy settings that say they will prevent it from doing so. ...