MNA Technology Desk: Facebook Inc changed its popular Trending feature, which shows users the most-talked about topics of the day, to make it more automated and further eliminate the potential for human bias, the company wrote in a blog post on Friday. The update is Facebook’s latest attempt in recent months to stress its neutrality as its influence grows. The feature came under scrutiny in May after a news report alleged it suppressed conservative news, which prompted a demand from Republican members of the US Congress for more transparency. Facebook said an internal probe found no evidence of bias. To ...

MNA Technology Desk: Twitter has closed 360,000 accounts for threatening or encouraging terror activities since the middle of 2015, the twitter authority confirmed it on Thursday. The micro blogging stage has formerly come under fire from Washington and third-party groups for not doing enough to stop accounts linked to Islamic State militants. Since February, it has closed an additional 235,000 accounts, after halting 125,000 accounts since the middle of 2015, most of which were linked to Islamic State. Though it said an algorithm cannot recognize terrorist propaganda, it relies on spam-fighting tools to help identify repeat offenders, including those who ...

MNA Technology Desk: IT entrepreneur Mustafa Jabbar will lead new BASIS (Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services) executives for IT and software over the next three years. BASIS said on Monday that Jabbar had been elected President of the body for the 2016-19 term at elections held on Saturday. Russell T Ahmed of Team Creative was elected Senior Vice President, while M Rashidul Hasan of Systech Digital Limited and Farhana A Rahman of UY Systems Limited became Vice Presidents. Jabbar is best known for being the creator of software Bijoy. He published the Bijoy Bengali Keyboard, the first Bengali ...