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Are Pixel phones worth their price premium in Bangladesh?

Are Pixel phones worth their price premium in Bangladesh?

Fardeen Kabir 2021-12-18 19:34:48

Pixel devices are famous for their seamless user experience, prolonged software support from Google and their industry-leading camera software. Although the Pixel phones have faced many criticisms fo...

This subterranean creature has 1,306 legs. Yes, that's a record.

This subterranean creature has 1,306 legs. Yes, that's a record.

-- 2021-12-17 16:30:44

Deep underground in an exploratory drill hole in a mining region of Australia, scientists have discovered a "marvel of evolution," a remarkably elongated blind millipede possessing the most legs - 1,3...

Bangladesh adds 1.07 million mobile phone subscribers in October

Bangladesh adds 1.07 million mobile phone subscribers in October

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-17 11:51:55

Bangladesh ended October with more than 181.32 mobile phone subscribers, up from 180.25 million  million in September. The number of mobile SIM users increased by 1.07 million in October compare...

Log4j security flaw can impact the entire internet: Report

Log4j security flaw can impact the entire internet: Report

-- 2021-12-16 17:00:34

A critical flaw in a widely-used software poses potential risks for the entire internet, according to a CNN report that quoted concerns raised by cybersecurity experts. The report, published on Wedne...

Chromebooks: The cheaper alternative for light laptop users

Chromebooks: The cheaper alternative for light laptop users

Fardeen Kabir 2021-12-15 13:58:41

During the covid-19 pandemic, the world has seen the largest surge of demand for computers and laptops.  The situation has affected Bangladesh quite similarly too; the demand for computers and l...

Your PC-buying guide for a budget PC

Your PC-buying guide for a budget PC

Fardeen Kabir 2021-12-14 15:56:22

The computer industry is ever-evolving, but one thing that has stayed almost constant over the years is the increased price premium on products over their previous generations. For a lot of people, t...

Intel unveils research for packing more computing power into chips beyond 2025

Intel unveils research for packing more computing power into chips beyond 2025

-- 2021-12-12 12:56:52

Research teams at Intel Corp on Saturday unveiled work that the company believes will help it keep speeding up and shrinking computing chips over the next ten years, with several technologies aimed...

Bangladesh becomes champion at NASA Space Apps Challenge again

Bangladesh becomes champion at NASA Space Apps Challenge again

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-12-11 17:25:15

For the second time, Bangladesh has become the world champion at the Best Mission Concept Category of the NASA Space Apps Challenge by beating 4,534 teams from 162 countries. In past human missions t...

China removes 106 apps from app stores over privacy violations

China removes 106 apps from app stores over privacy violations

-- 2021-12-09 15:31:00

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has removed 106 apps from Chinese app stores including movie review app Douban, karaoke app Changba, and phone reseller Aihuishou, the regulator...

Instagram aims to launch chronological feed option next year

Instagram aims to launch chronological feed option next year

-- 2021-12-09 14:10:18

The head of Instagram said on Wednesday he aims to launch next year a version of the app with a chronological feed, rather than one ranked algorithmically, in his first appearance before Congress wher...

Ransomware attack on Australian utility claimed by Russian-speaking hackers

Ransomware attack on Australian utility claimed by Russian-speaking hackers

-- 2021-12-09 10:53:43

One of the most prolific Russian-speaking ransomware gangs has claimed credit for a weekend attack on an Australian electric utility serving millions of people, reports Reuters. Australian media repo...

Japanese billionaire Maezawa blasts off to International Space Station

Japanese billionaire Maezawa blasts off to International Space Station

FE ONLINE DESK 2021-12-08 15:02:42

Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa blasted off to the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday in his first space flight, a voyage he sees as a dry-run for his planned trip around the moon with...

Amazon's cloud service outage hits major websites, streaming apps

Amazon's cloud service outage hits major websites, streaming apps

-- 2021-12-08 09:17:07

A major outage disrupted Amazon's cloud services on Tuesday, temporarily knocking out streaming platforms Netflix and Disney+, Robinhood, a wide range of apps and Amazon.com Inc's e-commerce website a...

Toyota turns to Chinese tech to make low-cost electric vehicle

Toyota turns to Chinese tech to make low-cost electric vehicle

-- 2021-12-03 16:59:03

Toyota Motor Corp will launch an all-electric small sedan in China late next year, having turned to local partner BYD for key technology to finally make an affordable yet roomy runaround, four sources...

International Space Station turns aside to dodge space junk

International Space Station turns aside to dodge space junk

-- 2021-12-03 15:43:49

The International Space Station performed a manoeuvre on Friday to temporarily swerve away from a fragment of a US launch vehicle, the head of Russia's space agency said. Dmitry Rogozin, who heads Ro...

Sajeeb Wazed Joy to inaugurate 5G services on December 12

Sajeeb Wazed Joy to inaugurate 5G services on December 12

-- 2021-12-01 20:57:09

The Prime Minister’s Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Ahmed Wazed Joy will inaugurate the 5G technology services in the country on December 12. “Prime...

Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

Facebook risks metaverse flop, developers say

-- 2021-12-01 18:45:48

Facebook risks missing the point of metaverse - and a coming shift in consumers' behaviour - if it fails to permit digital ownership, according to some of the virtual world's pioneers, reports Reuters...

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Meet Parag Agarwal, Twitter's new CEO

Md. Zahidur Rabbi 2021-12-01 16:01:33

Indian-born Parag Agrawal was appointed as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of popular social media platform Twitter.  Its co-founder and the former CEO Jack Dorsey declared his retirement as C...

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Pinterest as an escape from ritualistic scrolling

Shadya Naher Sheyam 2021-11-30 18:30:12

Whenever one feels like they’re unable to do anything productive because of habitual browsing, turning to Pinterest can be a virtual comfort.  From signing up for the platform out of curio...

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

FSR is a relief for low-budget gaming GPUs

Fardeen Kabir 2021-11-30 17:36:02

The gaming scenario in Bangladesh has massively changed in the past 5-6 years. Gaming is now more popular than ever among the younger generation.  But the global chip shortage, the additional 15...

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

WhatsApp wins approval to double payments offering to 40m users in India

-- 2021-11-27 18:42:23

WhatsApp has won regulatory approval to double the number of users on its payments service in India to 40 million, a source with direct knowledge said on Friday. The company had requested that there...

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

Xiaomi to open car plant in Beijing with annual output of 300,000 vehicles

-- 2021-11-27 17:28:51

Chinese smartphone giant Xiaomi Corp will build a plant that can produce 300,000 vehicles annually in Beijing for its electric vehicle unit, authorities in the capital said on Saturday, reports Reuter...

MOU signed between iDEA Project  and UGC

MOU signed between iDEA Project and UGC

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-24 17:53:29

The iDEA project of Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) under the ICT Division has been working since 2016 to provide grants and other benefits to startups for increasing their promotion, skills and kno...

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

China to publish machine intelligence journal in English

-- 2021-11-19 15:03:50

A Chinese institute will publish a new English language journal called Machine Intelligence Research to promote international academic exchanges, reports Xinhua citing China Science Daily on Frid...

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

During COP26, Facebook served ads with climate falsehoods, scepticism

-- 2021-11-18 19:37:45

Facebook advertisers promoted false and misleading claims about climate change on the platform in recent weeks, just as the COP26 conference was getting underway. Days after Facebook's vice president...

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

Apple to sell spare parts to repair iPhones, Macs

-- 2021-11-18 16:41:37

Apple Inc on Wednesday said it will for the first time start selling spare parts and tools to the general public to perform their own repairs on some iPhones and Mac computers. The self-service repai...

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

Four Bangladeshis serve legal notice on Zuckerberg, ask him to stop abuse of Facebook

FE ONLINE REPORT 2021-11-18 15:29:32

Mark Zuckerberg, Chief Executive Officer of Meta, just-renamed company of Facebook, has been asked to take steps to stop abuse and misuse of the social media platform in Bangladesh. Four Bangladeshi...

China, Russia establish space weather centre

China, Russia establish space weather centre

-- 2021-11-17 12:28:35

China and Russia have established a space weather centre in Beijing as part of worldwide efforts to improve global space weather centre systems, the China Meteorological Administration (CMA) said on W...

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Mutant, variant and strain - what's the difference?

Shaeri Nawar 2021-11-15 18:26:59

Although the fear of COVID-19 is fading, there are still concerns regarding its variants and strains. While many of us don't know the differentiations properly, we often step into false information re...

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

NASA, SpaceX launch four more astronauts into orbit

-- 2021-11-11 12:04:41

NASA and private rocket company SpaceX launched four astronauts into orbit late on Wednesday, sending a veteran spacewalker, two younger crewmates chosen for future lunar missions and a German materia...