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Zuckerberg appears in Congress as Facebook faces scrutiny

Shawdesh Desk: Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is again appearing before Congress to face questions about his company’s massive market power, privacy lapses and tolerance of speech deemed false or hateful.

One-minute digital account service kicks off

Shawdesh Desk: Information and Communication Technology Affairs Advisor to the Prime Minister Sajeeb Wazed Joy on Tuesday launched one-minute digital savings account service. Joy inaugurated the service at a function

Facebook to deliver News Corp stories following mass demand

Shawdesh Desk: Facebook on Friday confirmed that some stories from News Corp, publisher of The Wall Street Journal, will be delivered at a new ‘tab’ planned at the leading social

Netflix heads into showdown with slowing subscriber growth

Shawdesh Desk: Netflix’s subscriber growth is bogging down even before the leading video streaming service confronts high-powered threats from Apple and Walt Disney Co. The latest sign of the challenges

Google touts privacy options, but still depends on your data

Shawdesh Desk: Google’s latest phone and smart-home devices came packaged with a not-so-subtle message: Google cares about your privacy. Does it? The tech company has had a complicated relationship with

China’s blacklisted AI firms What you should know

Shawdesh desk: The Chinese high-tech companies blacklisted by Washington over alleged ties to rights abuses are rising stars in China’s ambitious drive to overtake the United States in the technology

Two NASA astronauts complete nearly 7-hour spacewalk

Shawdesh Desk: Two U.S. astronauts wrapped up a spacewalk out of the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, the second in a series of five spacewalks in October to replace

Nobel prize honors breakthroughs on lithium-ion batteries

Shawdesh Desk: If you’re reading this on a cellphone or laptop computer, you might thank the three winners of this year’s Nobel Prize in chemistry for their work on lithium-ion