Dosing farm animals with antibiotics increases greenhouse gas emissions from cow dung, research suggests.   Scientists say the drugs boost methane production in cowpats - apparently by favouring antibiotic-resistant, methane-producing organisms in the gut.   Antibiotics also change the microbes which inhabit dung beetles, although apparently with no adverse effects.   The researchers…

Almost two-thirds of people aged over 75 have never gone online, suggest figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Despite this, net use among this group is growing with the numbers trying the net doubling since 2011, it found. It also revealed that 25% of disabled people have yet to use the net - a figure campaigners called "shocking". About 88% of all UK adults, about 46 million…

Pepper, the robot that has been trained to "perceive" human emotion, is opening up its platform to Android developers. Maker SoftBank is hoping that it will spur new apps and new capabilities for the humanoid robot which has sold well but still has no clear defined purpose. Ten thousand of the robots have been sold but developers have been slow to make apps for its closed Naoqi operating…

A new device pushes sunlight-to-electricity conversion efficiency to 34.5 percent. This marks a world record and an increase of 44 percent on the previous world record holder, Alta Devices in the US, which reached 24 percent.   The device was created by senior research fellow Mark Keevers and director Martin Green of UNSW's Australian Centre for Advanced Photovoltaics. In 2014, they achieved…

The social media users in Bangladeshi, especially Facebook, are joining hands to protest the incident of humiliation of a school teacher in Narayanganj who was recently publicly humiliated in presence of an MP. The Facebook users posted photos of them holding their ears with the caption “sorry sir” on social media platforms to express their solidarity with the teacher who had been made…

Though the government is working with the vision ‘Digital Bangladesh’, the country is still lagging behind many countries in terms of number of people who are not connected to the internet, said a World Bank report.   With 148 million offline population, Bangladesh has the world’s fifth largest number of population yet to be connected with the internet, the reports added.  …

State Minister for Power and Energy Nasrul Hamid has directed the power and energy division officials to be pro-active in social media to reach to their consumers easily. The state minister came up with the directive on Sunday while addressing a seminar on “Power and Energy Sector in Social Media” at Biddyut Bhaban in Dhaka. Terming the social media a bridge between the power-energy sector…

Tesla has hired Audi executive Peter Hochholdinger as its new Vice President of Vehicle Production, following the departure of two senior production managers earlier this month, the company said in a statement emailed to The Verge this evening. Hochholdinger will be in charge of production of the current Model S and Model X, as well as scaling up the manufacturing program for the newly announced Model…

Technology is transforming the global sex trade and making it easier than ever for travellers to prey on children, a landmark study on paedophiles warned on Thursday. The UN-backed report shines a light on the rampant spread of child sex tourism, a scourge that touches every corner of the world and is outpacing all efforts to contain it. Researchers say the spread of communications technology is facilitating…

Scientists have detected atomic oxygen in the Martian atmosphere for the first time since the last observation 40 years ago. Atomic oxygen-an elemental form of oxygen that does not exist in Earth’s atmosphere-affects how other gases escape Mars and therefore has a significant impact on the planet’s atmosphere. An instrument onboard the Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA)…

The additional “Reaction” buttons that social media giant Facebook introduced next to the “Like” button this year have failed to charm users, a study has found. The study by social media analytics and benchmarking tool for professionals Quintly found that “Reaction” emoticons are underused till date. Quintly filtered 130,000 posts and found that users rarely take…

Bangladesh, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Palestinian territoriesand Nepal attract the highest rates of attempted malware attacks, according to Microsoft Corp. Countries that attracted the fewest include Japan, Finland, Norway and Sweden, Microsoft said in a new study, based on sensors in systems running Microsoft anti-malware software. “We look at north of 10 million attacks on identities every…

Raising the hope to find alien life near us, an international team of astrophysicists has discovered three Earth-sized planets orbiting near the "habitable zone" of a dwarf star -- the first planets ever discovered around such a tiny and dim star. The planets are so close to Earth -- only 40 light years away -- that astronomers should eventually be able to study in greater detail the composition…