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Apple upgrades Vision Pro with M5 chip
22 October 2025, 07:53 AM
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OpenAI launches Atlas, new AI web browser
22 October 2025, 07:15 AM
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Press Release / Bangladesh among targets in ‘Mysterious Elephant’ cyberespionage campaign
21 October 2025, 10:59 AM
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Views / Positioning Bangladesh in the global retail race
21 October 2025, 10:32 AM
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Press Release / TikTok removed over 16 million videos from Bangladesh
21 October 2025, 10:30 AM
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Apple nears $4 trillion value due to strong iPhone 17 sales
21 October 2025, 08:22 AM
Tech & Startup
Vivo introduces Y33s in Bangladesh
Vivo has recently launched its latest Y series smartphone, Vivo Y33s in Bangladesh.
5 April 2022, 08:54 AM
Sri Lanka bans social media; VPN use spikes
Sri Lanka's attempt to contain spiralling protests by blocking popular social media platforms led to an extraordinary spike in the use of censorship-dodging virtual private networks, a tracking firm said Monday.
Demand for VPNs went up by a staggering 17,000 per cent on Sunday when the ban came into effect, Top10VPN.com said after tracking downloads by Sri Lankan users.
5 April 2022, 08:52 AM
Realme launches Narzo 50 in Bangladesh
Realme Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of its Narzo lineup, realme Narzo 50.
5 April 2022, 08:19 AM
Fortnite and Microsoft raise US$144 million for Ukraine relief
Epic Games, in association with Microsoft, has raised a staggering $144 million through the online video game Fortnite for the Ukraine relief.
5 April 2022, 06:55 AM
DBI and Braintoy to bring machine learning solutions for Bangladeshi market
Bangladesh-based market research company DBI Research Private Limited and Canada-based technology company Braintoy have announced a partnership to promote and market Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence-based products and services in the Bangladesh market.
4 April 2022, 04:44 AM
Facebook Messenger down for users worldwide
Facebook parent Meta's Messenger is reportedly down for users across the globe. Users in Bangladesh are also facing issues with accessing the instant messaging platform.
Outage detector website DownDetector.com showed a surge in complaints regarding the outage around 12:00 AM Bangladesh time.
Reports are also coming in of people esperiencing outages on Instagram.
Meta is yet to acknowledge the issue.
3 April 2022, 18:14 PM
Samsung Galaxy A53 5G launched in Bangladesh
Samsung Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of their Galaxy A50 lineup: Samsung Galaxy A53 5G.
3 April 2022, 09:58 AM
Dhaka gets first ever drone show over Hatirjheel
Country’s first-ever drone show lit up the Dhaka sky over Hatirjheel on Thursday, March 31.
The drone, aerial and fireworks shows were organised by the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country's independence.
Noted musicians also performed in the Hatirjheel Amphitheater.
The event drew a modest audience and ended up causing a long tailback of slow-moving traffic along the Hatirjheel circuit.
31 March 2022, 20:18 PM
Meta provided user data to hackers who forged requests: reports
Meta, Facebook’s parent company, provided user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source mentioned recently.
Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified “emergency data requests,” which can slip past privacy barriers, said the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
Criminal hackers have been compromising email accounts or websites tied to police or government and claiming they can't wait for a judge's order for information because it's an “urgent matter of life and death,” cyber expert Brian Krebs wrote recently.
Bloomberg news agency, which originally reported Meta being targeted, also reported that Apple had provided customer data in response to forged data requests.
Apple and Meta did not officially confirm the incidents, but provided statements citing their policies in handling information demands.
When US law enforcement officials want data on a social media account's owner or an associated cell phone number, they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena, Krebs wrote.
But in urgent cases authorities can make an “emergency data request,” which “largely bypasses any official review and does not require the requestor to supply any court-approved documents,” he added.
Meta, in a statement, said the firm reviews every data request for “legal sufficiency” and uses “advanced systems and processes” to validate law enforcement requests and detect abuse.
“We block known compromised accounts from making requests and work with law enforcement to respond to incidents involving suspected fraudulent requests, as we have done in this case,” the statement added.
Apple noted its guidelines, which say that in the case of an emergency application “a supervisor for the government or law enforcement agent who submitted the... request may be contacted and asked to confirm to Apple that the emergency request was legitimate.”
Krebs noted that the lack of a unitary, national system for these types of requests is one of the key problems associated with them, as companies end up deciding how to deal with them.
“To make matters more complicated, there are tens of thousands of police jurisdictions around the world - including roughly 18,000 in the United States alone - and all it takes for hackers to succeed is illicit access to a single police email account,” he wrote.
31 March 2022, 19:31 PM
Facebook hired firm to run smear campaigns against TikTok, report suggests
Facebook's owner Meta has hired a consulting firm to carry out a US campaign denigrating its fierce rival TikTok, according to a Washington Post report Wednesday partially confirmed by AFP. The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok, allegedly using the type of tough tactics familiar to Washington politics.
31 March 2022, 19:12 PM
Choosing your undergraduate major concentration: Things to consider
A concentration is a subsection of a major that focuses on a particular topic of study, though not all majors have one.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Check out our top picks for refrigerators under BDT 60K
These days, owning a refrigerator is tantamount to preserving health and leading a healthy lifestyle. Even though we mostly use refrigerators to store food and keep them fresh,
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Thinking of buying an AC? Here are our top recommendations
From what we witnessed in the last month, we can all agree that the summer this year too will be brutal.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Local ed-tech platform Edutechs raise $100K in pre-seed funding
Edutechs, an edtech startup based in Bangladesh has raised USD 100K in its pre-seed round, led by serial investor Mohammad Maaz and industrialist F. K. Md. Emdad Khan.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
5 things to keep in mind when considering protective gears
What are these protective gears you ask? Well, wearing a helmet is mandatory, but there are other crucial ones: protective goggles, ear guards, hand gloves, knee-shinbone-elbow caps, arm guards, jagged boots and protective jackets or bodysuits.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
Honouring the frontrunners of today: BASIS Luna Shamsuddoha Award 2022
10 women and 3 companies were recently awarded the prestigious ‘BASIS Luna Shamsuddoha Award’ at the Grand Ballroom of Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden hotel in the capital city.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM
How LG might be shaping the future of consumer electronics
LG has officially announced the latest additions to their ever-growing family of home electronics: the LG Instaview™ Side-by-Side refrigerator and the LG OLED Evo TV.
31 March 2022, 13:26 PM
NASA astronaut returns to Earth after record-breaking space flight
Three astronauts - one American and two Russian, safely landed in Kazakhstan on 30 March after departing from the same capsule from the International Space Station, despite the ongoing hostility between the USA and Russia.
31 March 2022, 10:29 AM
Here’s how you can send messages without notifying receivers on Messenger
Meta, the parent company of Facebook Messenger, is introducing new shortcuts which allow you to send messages silently while you’re chatting with your friends.
30 March 2022, 13:40 PM
Wavemaker makes second round of investment in Bangladesh with BDT 35 crores
Wavemaker Partners, a leading venture capitalist firm in Southeast Asia, recently invested 35 crore taka in the second round of Bangladeshi edTech Shikho’s seed round.
30 March 2022, 12:10 PM