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Performers bring famous paintings to life

Shawdesh Desk: Each summer, on a stage in Laguna Beach, California, performers assemble themselves into “tableaux vivant” — living pictures. They work quickly under the cover of dimmed red or

Pentagon cancels disputed JEDI cloud contract with Microsoft

Shawdesh Desk: The Pentagon said it canceled a disputed cloud-computing contract with Microsoft that could eventually have been worth $10 billion. It will instead pursue a deal with both Microsoft

Social media run sans law

Shawdesh Desk: *No control over foreign platforms *Experts for formulation of laws to protect privacy *Social media asked to set up local data centres *Hackers steal users’ info thru VPN

Malicious Contents on Social Media: Govt turns a blind eye

Shawdesh Desk: # 45 million Facebook accounts run from Bangladesh # Google, Facebook merely respond to govt’s request for info # Google, Facebook run in Bangladesh by Singapore, India offices

China releases videos of its Zhurong Mars rover

Shawdes Desk: China’s space agency has released video of its Zhurong rover trundling across the surface of Mars. The pictures were acquired by a wireless camera that the robot had

NASA shares image of international space station as it transited Sun

Shawdesh Desk: NASA shared a captivating image of the International Space Station (ISS) transiting the Sun when two astronauts were out on a spacewalk on Friday. The ISS is seen

NASA reports trouble with Hubble Space Telescope

Shawdesh Desk: The Hubble Space Telescope, which has been peering into the universe for more than 30 years, has been down for the past few days, NASA said Friday. The

Chinese rocket with manned crew to blast off Thursday

Shawdesh Desk: Astronauts blasting off on Thursday for China’s first manned mission to its new space station will have a choice of 120 different types of food and “space treadmills”