Category: Tech

ISTANBUL (AP): Facebook announced Monday it has begun the process of assigning a legal entity in Turkey to comply with a controversial law governing social media companies. The law, which passed in July, requires social media companies such as Facebook and Twitter to maintain representatives in Turkey to deal with complaints about content on their… Continue reading Facebook bows to Turkish demand to name local representative

Kathmandu (Rastriya Samachar Samiti): The ‘Citizen App’, which was unveiled on Friday under the slogan ‘Support for Communication and Information Technology, Government Service at Hand’, has attracted a lot of users. It has been found that 162,500 users have downloaded the app on the Android till 12 noon today. According to the National Information Technology… Continue reading One lakh 62 thousand downloaded ‘Nagarik App’

Kathmandu: Both Connect IPS and QR code syllable usage and payment amounts, which have become easy means of payment, have increased significantly. People were more attracted to e-commerce during the Corona epidemic. Due to which e-commerce has been increasing significantly in recent times. According to the Nepal Rastra Bank, the number of connected IPS transactions… Continue reading Significant increase in the use of Connect IPS and QR codes

Kathmandu: The government has launched a Nagarik app to make public services faster and more effective. Minister for Communications and Information Technology Parbat Gurung unveiled the citizen app at a press conference. At the press conference, Minister Gurung said that the app was brought as a test to make the government service simple, transparent and… Continue reading Govt launch ‘Nagarik App’

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP): Europe’s push into electric cars is gathering speed — despite the pandemic. Automaker Volkswagen tripled sales of battery-only cars in 2020 as its new electric compact ID.3 came on the market ahead of tough new European Union limits on auto emissions. And Germany, long a laggard in adopting electric vehicles, saw more… Continue reading Volkswagen triples electric car sales ahead of climate rules

Kathmandu: Bagmati Pradesh has demanded applications for setting up IT labs in its subordinate community campuses. To improve the quality of community campuses, the state is going to set up an IT lab / science laboratory. This program was launched by the state in the previous fiscal year as well. Therefore, it has been mentioned… Continue reading Application demand for setting up IT labs in colleges

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP): New Zealand’s central bank said Sunday that one of its data systems has been breached by an unidentified hacker who potentially accessed commercially and personally sensitive information. A third party file sharing service used by the Reserve Bank of New Zealand to share and store sensitive information had been illegally accessed,… Continue reading New Zealand central bank says data system hacked

Kathmandu: Nepal Electricity Authority (NEA) has demanded free frequency from the government for the use of smart meters. NEA has demanded a frequency of 395 to 400 MHz band to bring the data of the customer’s connected smart meter to the data center of the authority. NEA needs radio frequency to bring the data of… Continue reading Nepal Electricity Authority ask govt for free frequencies

(AP): Twitter banned President Donald Trump’s account Friday, citing “the risk of further incitement of violence” following the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Twitter has long given Trump and other world leaders broad exemptions from its rules against personal attacks, hate speech and other behaviors. But in a detailed explanation posted on… Continue reading Twitter bans Trump, citing risk of violent incitement

(AP): In an unprecedented step, Facebook and Twitter suspended President Donald Trump from posting to their platforms Wednesday following the storming of the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. Twitter locked Trump out of his account for 12 hours and said that future violations by Trump could result in a permanent suspension. The company required the… Continue reading Twitter, Facebook muzzle Trump amid Capitol violence