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Bangladesh eyes 5G rollout in 2020

Bangladesh eyes 5G rollout in 2020

-- 2019-01-17 16:07:04

Bangladesh is set to rollout 5G, the latest generation of cellular mobile communications, services next year, the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has said. Steps are underwa...

Robotics carnival begins at BUET

Robotics carnival begins at BUET

-- 2019-01-17 11:32:46

A two-day "Robo Carnival-2019" has begun at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) on Thursday to engage the robotics enthusiasts of different institutions of the country. State M...

Nike rolls out self-lacing trainers

Nike rolls out self-lacing trainers

-- 2019-01-16 16:38:55

Nike has launched self-lacing trainers, which fit themselves to the shape of the foot and are controlled via a smartphone. It is the latest iteration of the futuristic footwear, first referred to in...

YouTube bans harmful or dangerous prank videos

YouTube bans harmful or dangerous prank videos

-- 2019-01-16 11:00:02

YouTube clips that depict dangerous or emotionally distressing “pranks” have been banned from the platform. The move comes in response to so-called “challenges” that have some...

China to collect samples from moon this year

China to collect samples from moon this year

-- 2019-01-14 15:52:47

China will launch a probe to collect samples from the moon around the end of this year, a space official said on Monday, weeks after Beijing hailed the successful touch down on the far side of the moo...

Termites can help reduce impact of drought: Study

Termites can help reduce impact of drought: Study

-- 2019-01-13 15:26:52

A new study by international researchers has revealed for the first time that termites play a significant role in lessening the effects of drought in rainforests, showing once again that even the smal...

Apple to launch three iPhones with new camera features

Apple to launch three iPhones with new camera features

-- 2019-01-12 13:54:47

Apple Inc plans to launch three iPhone models this year with some new camera features, including three rear cameras for the most expensive model and two for the other models, the Wall Street Journal r...

Galaxy S10 launches Feb 20

Galaxy S10 launches Feb 20

-- 2019-01-11 17:25:00

Samsung has finally announced the launch date of its next flagship smartphone, expected to be called the Galaxy S10. The South Korean technology giant sent an invite to media for an event in London o...

China launches Zhongxing-2D satellite

China launches Zhongxing-2D satellite

-- 2019-01-11 14:33:58

China fired Zhongxing-2D satellite into space on a Long March-3B carrier rocket from the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre in Sichuan Province at 1:11am on Friday. The satellite has entered the preset...

Scientists receive mysterious signals from deep galaxy

Scientists receive mysterious signals from deep galaxy

-- 2019-01-10 17:23:49

Astronomers have revealed details of mysterious signals emanating from a distant galaxy, picked up by a telescope in Canada. The precise nature and origin of the blasts of radio waves is unknown. Am...

Hyundai unveils concept for 'walking car'

Hyundai unveils concept for 'walking car'

-- 2019-01-09 13:15:27

Hyundai Motors has unveiled the concept for 'walking car' on legs, a small model of a car it says can activate robotic legs to walk at 3mph (5km/h) over rough terrain, at the CES technology fair in La...

Vietnam accuses Facebook of violating cybersecurity law

Vietnam accuses Facebook of violating cybersecurity law

-- 2019-01-09 11:54:08

Facebook has violated Vietnam’s new cybersecurity law by allowing users to post anti-government comments on the platform, state media said on Wednesday, days after the controversial legislation...

Intel teams up with Facebook on AI chip

Intel teams up with Facebook on AI chip

-- 2019-01-08 10:42:15

US-based tech giant Intel said that it is working with Facebook to finish a new artificial intelligence chip in the second half of this year. The chips are Intel’s gambit to retain hold of a fa...

Nearly 9.0m British jobs could be lost by 2030

Nearly 9.0m British jobs could be lost by 2030

-- 2019-01-07 19:40:51

Nearly nine million British jobs are at risk from robots, with those working in retail, manufacturing and business support services most at risk, figures reveal. The rise of Artificial Intelligence i...

Apple inks deal with Samsung to distribute iTunes shows

Apple inks deal with Samsung to distribute iTunes shows

-- 2019-01-07 15:15:04

Samsung Electronics says that it will add an app to its smart televisions in the coming months to let owners watch content bought on Apple's  iTunes service, a possible first sign Apple is look...

Sahara desert climate changes in every 20,000 years: Study

Sahara desert climate changes in every 20,000 years: Study

-- 2019-01-06 16:15:56

A study published recently in the journal Science Advances has shown that the Sahara desert and North Africa in general swing between wet and dry climates every 20,000 years. Researchers from Massach...

New Horizons begins hunt for distant moons

New Horizons begins hunt for distant moons

-- 2019-01-05 18:47:48

After studying a space rock some 4.0 billion miles (6.4 billion km) from Earth, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft set off on a new hunt for moons in the solar system’s most distant edge, sear...

Chinese rover exploring far side of moon

Chinese rover exploring far side of moon

-- 2019-01-05 16:33:29

A Chinese robotic rover has got its wheels dirty after rolling off its landing craft and onto the lunar soil. The Chang'e-4 spacecraft touched down on the far side of the Moon at 10:26 Beijing time (...

China starts 6G research

China starts 6G research

-- 2019-01-05 14:44:05

Southeast University in eastern China's Jiangsu Province recently said that a team has begun to research 6G mobile networks. You Xiaohu, a professor with the university and the team leader, said they...

Offices becoming 'smart' in Berlin

Offices becoming 'smart' in Berlin

-- 2019-01-04 14:51:32

Employees will not need a key to get into the office of the future when it opens in Berlin this year, featuring ample meeting space, plenty of copy machines always stocked with paper along with high-q...

China rocket first to land on far side of moon

China rocket first to land on far side of moon

-- 2019-01-03 19:27:08

A Chinese probe has made the first-ever landing on the far side of the moon, according to state media, in a groundbreaking mission in space exploration. The unmanned Chang'e 4 spacecraft successfully...

NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world

NASA's New Horizons releases first images of entire new world

-- 2019-01-03 13:58:39

Scientists from NASA's New Horizons mission on Wednesday released the first detailed images of the most distant object ever explored - the Kuiper Belt object nicknamed Ultima Thule, unveiling the very...

Google's radar-based hand motion sensor gets approval

Google's radar-based hand motion sensor gets approval

Reuters 2019-01-02 14:27:16

Alphabet’s Google unit won approval from US regulators to deploy a radar-based motion sensing device known as Project Soli. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) said in an order late on...

Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies

Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies

-- 2019-01-01 14:56:44

American scientist Larry Roberts who helped design and build the forerunner of the internet has died aged 81. In the late 1960s, he ran the part of the US Advanced Research Projects Agency (Arpa) giv...

Google Doodle marks New Year's Eve

Google Doodle marks New Year's Eve

-- 2018-12-31 12:34:51

Google is celebrating New Year's Eve with an animated playful doodle which shows two purple baby elephants wearing a yellow and a green party cap each. The baby elephant on the left is seen blowing...

Rapid march of ICT in 2018

Rapid march of ICT in 2018

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-12-31 09:43:25

A satellite in space, the launch of 4G service and the advent of local handset assembling are some of the highlights from 2018 for Bangladesh in telecoms, and information and communication technolog...

Cyber attack hits US newspaper distribution

Cyber attack hits US newspaper distribution

-- 2018-12-30 13:03:53

A cyber attack caused major printing and delivery disruptions on Saturday at the Los Angeles Times and other major US newspapers, including ones owned by Tribune Publishing Co such as the Chicago Trib...

Scientists may use 'tunnelbot' to find life on Europa

Scientists may use 'tunnelbot' to find life on Europa

-- 2018-12-29 20:07:12

Scientists have proposed a way to retrieve samples from Jupiter's icy moon, Europa, which is believed to contain a liquid ocean underneath that could hold microbial life. Andrew Dombard, associate pr...

S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

S Africa launches Africa's most advanced nanosatellite

-- 2018-12-29 16:28:21

Africa's most advanced nanosatellite, developed by South Africa, was successfully launched on Thursday, the South African Department of Science and Technology said. "Today marks another historic mile...

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

NASA finds signs of water in asteroid

-- 2018-12-28 20:35:23

Data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission reveals that water mixed in with clay minerals has been discovered in the asteroid Bennu. As reported by NASA, the OSIRIS-REx (Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Re...