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Carnival of computing, from heart of Bangladesh

The International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), held in Dhaka in November, attracted young computer talents from all over the world. ICPC is an annual multi-tiered programming competition among universities around the world. As the 4th Asian country to host the event after China, Japan and Thailand, Bangladesh has proven its capacity to host such a global event. The United States’ ...

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Nasa successfully launches mega Moon rocket

Nasa’s towering next-generation moon rocket blasted off from Florida on Wednesday on its debut flight, a crewless voyage inaugurating the US space agency’s Artemis exploration program 50 years after the final Apollo moon mission. The 32-story Space Launch System (SLS) rocket surged off the launch pad from the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral to send its Orion capsule on ...

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Twitter slashes 50pc staff

Twitter Inc laid off half its workforce on Friday but said cuts were smaller in the team responsible for preventing the spread of misinformation, as advertisers pulled spending amid concerns about content moderation. Tweets by staff of the social media company said teams responsible for communications, content curation, human rights and machine learning ethics were among those gutted, as were ...

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South Korea air raid sirens blare after North fires 10 missiles

Air raid sirens sounded in South Korea after the North fired about a dozen missiles in its direction Wednesday, at least one of them landing near the rivals’ tense sea border. The launches came hours after North Korea threatened to use nuclear weapons to get the U.S. and South Korea to “pay the most horrible price in history” as it ...

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Elon Musk takes control of Twitter

Elon Musk took control of Twitter and fired its top executives late Thursday in a deal that puts one of the leading platforms for global discourse in the hands of the world’s richest man. Musk sacked chief executive Parag Agrawal, as well as the company’s chief financial officer and its head of safety, the Washington Post and CNBC reported citing ...

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WhatApp messaging platform goes down for users globally

WhatsApp, the messaging platform, has gone down for users around the world, including Bangladesh. Many people have taken to social media to complain they are unable to send or receive messages on the popular Meta-owned platform. When connecting to the browser version (https://web.whatsapp.com/), the URL asks the user if their internet is down and automatically logs out users. Users are ...

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Facebook adds way to remove misinformation from groups

Facebook on Thursday added a method for people running groups to automatically sift out claims that have been debunked since being posted. The ability for group administrators to send misinformation to a “quarantine queue” comes ahead of midterm elections in the United States and as Facebook-parent Meta continues to fend off critics who say it doesn’t do enough to fight ...

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Judge halts Twitter-Musk case, sets Oct. 28 deadline to close deal

A US judge on Thursday suspended litigation in the saga over Elon Musk’s proposed $44-billion takeover of Twitter, giving the parties until October 28 to finalize the on-again, off-again megadeal. Delaware Judge Kathaleen McCormick, ruling on a Musk request to freeze the case that had drawn a biting retort from Twitter, said a trial originally scheduled to begin in 11 ...

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NASA says delayed Moon rocket passed fueling test

NASA said Wednesday it had successfully trialed the fueling process for its new rocket, after technical issues a few weeks ago halted two attempts to get the behemoth off the ground and headed towards the Moon. “All of the objectives that we set out to do we were able to accomplish today,” said Charlie Blackwell-Thompson, launch director of the program ...

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Satellites now get full-year view of Arctic sea-ice

Satellites can now measure the thickness of sea-ice covering the Arctic Ocean all year round. Traditionally, spacecraft have struggled to determine the full state of the floes in summer months because the presence of surface meltwater has befuddled their instruments. But by using new “deep learning” techniques, scientists have pushed past this limitation to get reliable observations across all seasons. ...

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