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Russian propagandists target Reddit

Russian propagandists target Reddit

-- 2018-03-03 11:46:33

Russian propagandists targeted the popular news-sharing website Reddit to influence American political debate, a US website has claimed. It had been widely presumed that Reddit, a hub for campaigning...

AutoSaw: Robot carpenter makes custom furniture

AutoSaw: Robot carpenter makes custom furniture

-- 2018-03-03 11:28:53

Researchers have repurposed existing robotic technology so it is able to create custom wooden furniture, a move they say will greatly improve safety. The team at the Massachusetts' Institute of Techn...

SMS-based complaints about public hospitals spike

SMS-based complaints about public hospitals spike

Saif Uddin 2018-03-03 10:03:00

Mobile phone SMS-based service launched by the government to know about irregularities in public hospitals from service recipients has gained popularity in recent times. According to available data,...

Scientists detect water in exoplanet's atmosphere

Scientists detect water in exoplanet's atmosphere

-- 2018-03-02 19:39:59

Astronomers have detected a large amount of water in the atmosphere of a hot, Saturn-mass exoplanet some 700 light-years away. The planet, known as WASP-39b, has three times as much water as Saturn d...

BITM's digital marketing training course ends

BITM's digital marketing training course ends

-- 2018-03-02 18:08:32

BASIS Institute of Technology & Management (BITM) recently organised training on professional digital marketing. The programme, titled "Be an expert Digital Marketing Professional", covered many...

Norway's Telenor seeks salvation in the cloud

Norway's Telenor seeks salvation in the cloud

-- 2018-03-02 13:56:21

Picture an old telephone exchange with operators connecting calls manually, add vast computing power by putting it on the Amazon cloud, and you have Working Group Two — a new platform for hostin...

Crypto-currencies causing deaths: Bill Gates

Crypto-currencies causing deaths: Bill Gates

-- 2018-03-02 13:46:38

Crypto-currencies are killing people in a "fairly direct way", Microsoft founder Bill Gates has said. He was referring to the way digital currencies like Bitcoin are used to buy drugs like synthetic...

Pesticides endangering bees, says European watchdog

Pesticides endangering bees, says European watchdog

-- 2018-03-01 13:30:00

Most uses of insecticides known as neonicotinoids represent a risk to wild bees and honeybees, the European Food Safety Authority has confirmed. The use of neonicotinoids has been restricted in the E...

Scientists detect very first signal from 'cosmic dawn'

Scientists detect very first signal from 'cosmic dawn'

-- 2018-03-01 12:55:48

Scientists say they have observed a signature on the sky from the very first stars to shine in the Universe. They did it with the aid of a small radio telescope in the Australian outback that was tun...

First mobile phone network on the moon

First mobile phone network on the moon

-- 2018-02-28 11:26:01

The moon will get its first mobile phone network next year, enabling high-definition streaming from the lunar landscape back to earth, part of a project to back the first privately funded moon mission...

Appier's Aixon connects to Google ad platforms

Appier's Aixon connects to Google ad platforms

-- 2018-02-27 12:38:42

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, announced that Aixon, its AI-based data intelligence platform, now connects directly with Google's advertising platforms, including DoubleC...

Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at US SC

Microsoft clashes with Justice Department at US SC

-- 2018-02-27 12:37:27

The US Supreme Court on Tuesday wades into a major privacy rights fight between Microsoft Corp and the Justice Department, weighing whether US law allows prosecutors to compel technology companies to...

Sony phone adds rumble to games, films

Sony phone adds rumble to games, films

-- 2018-02-27 11:23:23

Sony's latest top-end smartphone vibrates in time with movie and TV action scenes and video games. The Xperia XZ2's rumble tech adapts a feature originally developed for the firm's PlayStation contro...

Banglalink to bring 30pc people under 4G coverage by June

Banglalink to bring 30pc people under 4G coverage by June

-- 2018-02-26 21:36:32

The country's third largest mobile phone operator Banglalink eyes to bring 30 per cent people of 64 districts under its 4G coverage by June this year. The operator, at a press conference on Monday in...

Samsung unveils long-awaited Galaxy S9

Samsung unveils long-awaited Galaxy S9

-- 2018-02-26 10:19:28

Samsung Electronics Co Ltd unveiled its flagship Galaxy S9 smartphone with an emphasis on visual applications for social media, hoping to attract tech savvy young consumers to weather a market slowdow...

GP launches 4G service in Rajshahi

GP launches 4G service in Rajshahi

Our Correspondent 2018-02-26 00:38:55

RAJSHAHI, Feb-25: Grameenphone (GP) formally launched 4G service in Rajshahi city on Sunday. Head of Transformation of Grameenphone Kazi Mahboob Hasan, who inaugurated the 4G services of GP in Rajsha...

Google raises price of YouTube TV online service

Google raises price of YouTube TV online service

-- 2018-02-25 14:18:11

Alphabet Inc’s Google is raising the price of its YouTube TV online service for new customers as it adds channels from Time Warner Inc’s Turner, National Basketball League and Major League...

MIT’s AI expert to mentor Bangladeshi programmers

MIT’s AI expert to mentor Bangladeshi programmers

-- 2018-02-24 20:39:09

Machine learning expert Alan Edelman will mentor Bangladeshi young programmers to develop new technologies through Artificial Intelligence (AI). Alan Stuart Edelman, father of the programming languag...

Bangladesh Computer Council bags int’l award for innovation

Bangladesh Computer Council bags int’l award for innovation

-- 2018-02-24 18:23:50

Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) has won ‘Open Group President Awards-2018’ for innovation in developing Bangladesh National Enterprise Architecture (BNEA) that will make government infor...

Facebook removes shooting game demo

Facebook removes shooting game demo

-- 2018-02-24 11:03:12

Facebook has said it regrets promoting a virtual reality shooting game on its stand at a US conservatives' event. The game allows the player to shoot imaginary weapons against enemies in a public tra...

Tech giants face new UK tax crackdown

Tech giants face new UK tax crackdown

-- 2018-02-23 11:16:32

Some of the world's largest technology firms are facing hefty new bills as the UK government moves to fundamentally change the way they are taxed. Google and Facebook are braced for significant chang...

Americans prefer bank branches to apps in opening new accounts

Americans prefer bank branches to apps in opening new accounts

-- 2018-02-22 15:04:48

Mobile banking apps keep getting better, but 60 per cent of Americans would still rather open a new checking account in person at a bank branch than on a phone, tablet or desktop computer, according t...

Twitter moves to prevent spread of false stories

Twitter moves to prevent spread of false stories

-- 2018-02-22 13:50:02

Twitter Inc revealed Wednesday that it would bar people to post identical messages from multiple accounts. Cracked down on a tactic over Russian agents’ alleged use to make tweets or topics go v...

AI poses risks of misuse by hackers, experts warn

AI poses risks of misuse by hackers, experts warn

-- 2018-02-21 12:12:33

Rapid advances in artificial intelligence are raising risks that malicious users will soon exploit the technology to mount automated hacking attacks, cause driverless car crashes or turn commercial dr...

Microsoft introduces Bangla app

Microsoft introduces Bangla app

-- 2018-02-21 10:20:48

Microsoft Corporation has introduced the Bangla version of 'Microsoft Kaizala', a mobile app, to mark the International Mother Language Day. The mobile application 'Microsoft Kaizala' designed for la...

Uber CEO sees commercialisation of flying taxis in 5-10 years

Uber CEO sees commercialisation of flying taxis in 5-10 years

-- 2018-02-20 13:14:25

Uber Technologies Inc Chief Executive Officer Dara Khosrowshahi said on Tuesday he can visualise commercialisation of the Uber Air flying taxi service happening within five to 10 years. The US ride-h...

Facebook apologises over non-security SMS bug

Facebook apologises over non-security SMS bug

-- 2018-02-19 13:45:28

After several people received non-security-related notifications from Facebook after giving the social network their phone numbers for two-factor authentication (2FA), the company admitted there was a...

Robi to offer 4G within minutes of getting licence

Robi to offer 4G within minutes of getting licence

-- 2018-02-18 19:10:07

Robi subscribers can avail 4G/LTE service, moments after the cellular company receives the licence for offering the service. Managing Director and CEO of Robi Robi Axiata Limited Mahtab Uddin Ahmed a...

Twitter ends support for its official Mac app

Twitter ends support for its official Mac app

-- 2018-02-18 11:56:06

Twitter has announced it is ending support for its dedicated desktop Mac application and that it has pulled it from the web and from Apple’s App Store. “We’re focusing our efforts o...

Google complies with Getty Images, drops ‘view image’

Google complies with Getty Images, drops ‘view image’

-- 2018-02-17 18:14:25

Google has made it more difficult for people to save pictures from its image search product, as part of a "peace deal" with photo library Getty Images. In 2017, Getty Images complained to the Europea...