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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...

Facebook faces challenge over future US election meddling

Facebook faces challenge over future US election meddling

-- 2018-02-17 11:09:22

The Russian influence operation designed to tamper with the 2016 US presidential election used a combination of old-school espionage tactics and 21st-century technologies that will not be easy to stop...

Country's digital infrastructure boasts tier-4 data centre

Country's digital infrastructure boasts tier-4 data centre

Mehdi Musharraf Bhuiyan 2018-02-17 10:41:54

Bangladesh's digital capability is taking a boost powered by a latest data centre, with a US institute endorsing its design and a Chinese bank bankrolling the scheme. The new National Data Centre, sa...

'100,000 orangutans' killed in 16 years

'100,000 orangutans' killed in 16 years

-- 2018-02-16 19:05:07

More than 100,000 Critically Endangered orangutans have been killed in Borneo since 1999, research has revealed. Scientists who carried out a 16-year survey on the island described the figure as "min...

Robust growth gives Google's app network massive boost

Robust growth gives Google's app network massive boost

-- 2018-02-15 13:42:41

Search engine giant Google has been netting ‘huge profit’ through its dynamic network of advertisements that show up in more smartphone apps than any other technology company. That is the...

YouTube, Instagram face ban in Russia

YouTube, Instagram face ban in Russia

-- 2018-02-15 11:41:17

YouTube and Instagram face being blocked by Russian internet service providers as a result of a standoff between one of the country's richest businessmen and an opposition leader. Russia's internet c...

Mars on Earth: Scientists conduct simulation tests in Oman’s desert

Mars on Earth: Scientists conduct simulation tests in Oman’s desert

-- 2018-02-14 17:40:22

Two scientists in spacesuits, stark white against the auburn terrain of desolate plains and dunes, test a geo-radar built to map Mars by dragging the flat box across the rocky sand. When the geo-rada...

Google to introduce system that would automatically update emails

Google to introduce system that would automatically update emails

-- 2018-02-14 11:58:12

Gmail is about to get dynamic. Alphabet Inc’s Google plans to demonstrate a software programming system that would enable emails to feature continuously updating information and greater interact...

Symphony rolls out 4G-enabled ‘Symphony P11’

Symphony rolls out 4G-enabled ‘Symphony P11’

-- 2018-02-13 18:48:13

Mobile phone maker Symphony launched ‘Symphony P11’ -- a 4G-enabled smartphone -- on the local market recently.  The handset sports a 5.7-inch 2.5 HD+ display, 64-bit quad core proce...

Appier demonstrates breakthrough in AI creativity

Appier demonstrates breakthrough in AI creativity

-- 2018-02-13 13:42:51

Appier, a leading artificial intelligence (AI) company, demonstrated pioneering research that showcased AI’s ability to be creative at the 32nd AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-1...

UK introduces ‘extremism blocking tool’

UK introduces ‘extremism blocking tool’

-- 2018-02-13 12:57:31

The government has unveiled a tool it says can accurately detect jihadist content and block it from being viewed. Home Secretary Amber Rudd told the BBC she would not rule out forcing technology comp...

Facebook use of personal data ‘illegal’

Facebook use of personal data ‘illegal’

-- 2018-02-13 11:56:30

A German consumer rights group said that a court had found Facebook’s use of personal data to be illegal because the US social media platform did not adequately secure the informed consent of it...

Future-proof tech policies key to Asia  Pacific harnessing future of work

Future-proof tech policies key to Asia Pacific harnessing future of work

-- 2018-02-12 19:54:57

Future-proof technology policies are key to the Asia Pacific region harnessing the future of work, says the Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). According to a release of Media OutReach, releasin...

ACCA stresses future-proof tech policy for Asia Pacific

ACCA stresses future-proof tech policy for Asia Pacific

FE Online Report 2018-02-12 14:54:59

Future-proof technology policies are the key to the Asia Pacific region harnessing the future of work, says Asia Cloud Computing Association (ACCA). Releasing an industry statement on the future of...

Malware hits over 4,200 govt sites of US, UK

Malware hits over 4,200 govt sites of US, UK

-- 2018-02-12 12:51:22

Thousands of websites, including ones run by US and UK government agencies, were infected for several hours on Sunday with code that causes web browsers to secretly mine digital currencies. More than...