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India bans 43 more Chinese apps

India banned 43 more Chinese apps on Tuesday including some from e-commerce giant Alibaba, saying they threatened its “sovereignty and integrity” as tensions remain high between the nuclear-armed neighbours following a deadly border clash.
25 November 2020, 08:43 AM

Samsung to launch Galaxy M51, the 7000 mAh smartphone, in BD

Samsung Bangladesh has started taking pre-orders of Galaxy M51, a smartphone with humongous battery, recently.
25 November 2020, 06:04 AM

Apple’s global security chief charged with bribery

Apple’s global security chief Thomas Moyer has been indicted by a grand jury in the US for his alleged involvement in a bribery case, along with two members of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s office.
24 November 2020, 11:00 AM

Gigabyte's 7 new gaming laptops launched in the market

Smart Technologies (BD), a leading hardware and solutions distributor, has launched seven new high-end gaming laptops of GIGABYTE brand in Bangladesh. The laptops were unveiled in the capital on November 23.
24 November 2020, 05:19 AM

Twitter to hand @POTUS account to Biden, even if Trump doesn't yield

Twitter confirmed Saturday it will hand control of the presidential @POTUS account to Joe Biden when he is sworn in on inauguration day, even if President Donald Trump has not conceded his election loss. “Twitter is actively preparing to support the transition of White House institutional Twitter accounts on January 20th, 2021,” the social network said in a statement to AFP. “As we did for the presidential transition in 2017, this process is being done in close consultation with the National Archives and Records Administration,” the statement said.
21 November 2020, 18:45 PM

Apple to pay $113 mn for intentionally slowing down older iPhones

Apple has agreed to pay $113 million to settle litigation with more than 30 US states over its slowdown in the performance of older iPhones to manage battery power. The latest “batterygate” settlement will divide the settlement among California and 33 other states, according to a statement by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra. The settlement resolves complaints that the tech giant made misrepresentations about iPhone batteries and software updates that throttled processing performance manage insufficient battery power, according to the state official.
21 November 2020, 18:27 PM

Bangladesh bags six awards in WITSA 2020

Six Bangladeshi initiatives were awarded by the World Information Technology and Services Alliance (WITSA) at World Congress of IT at their first-ever Virtual Global ICT Excellence Awards on November 19, 2020. This event, popularly dubbed as the technology Olympics in the region, was hosted in conjunction with the “Road to WCIT Malaysia”.
21 November 2020, 12:19 PM

Record number of govt requests for Facebook user data in first half of 2020

The Bangladesh government made 241 requests for data to Facebook in the first half of 2020, a new record high.
21 November 2020, 08:47 AM

Climate change devastated dinosaurs not once, but twice

Most people know that land-dwelling dinosaurs were wiped out some 66 million years ago when an asteroid roughly twice the diameter of Paris crashed into Earth. If the explosive fireball didn't get them, the plunge in global temperature on a planet with little or no ice -- caused by a blanket of heat-shielding debris in the atmosphere -- did.
20 November 2020, 14:36 PM

Former Yahoo CEO Mayer makes comeback with new contacts app

Former Yahoo chief executive Marissa Mayer began her comeback to the tech scene Wednesday with the launch of a new mobile app aimed at helping people organize their contacts. The startup created by Mayer after her departure from Yahoo in 2017 unveiled its app called Sunshine Contacts, which “automatically creates a comprehensive set of your personal and professional contacts from disparate places like your phone, online address books, and email,” according to the company.
20 November 2020, 14:30 PM

Arecibo telescope, star of the astronomy world, to be decommissioned

The renowned Arecibo telescope in Puerto Rico will be dismantled after 57 years of service due to the rupture of cables that have led to the threat of collapse, the US National Science Foundation announced Thursday. Two cables supporting the 900-ton instruments for the telescope above a radio dish 1,000 feet (305 meters) in diameter broke on August 10 and November 6.
20 November 2020, 14:22 PM

Google launches end-to-end encryption for Android messages

Google said Thursday it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption for Android users, making it harder for anyone -- including law enforcement -- to read the content of messages.
20 November 2020, 14:18 PM

Sony’s PS5 has encountered its first major bug

Less than two days after release, Sony’s brand new gaming console has encountered a problem with its online download system.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Exploring the layered histories of Dhaka

Densely populated and a witness to centuries of Mughal, British, Pakistani rule and now, the capital city of Bangladesh, every nook and cranny of the city bears a strong link to the multicultural heritage of the city and the country at large.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Amader Golpo: An initiative to revive cultural heritage and histories through comics

With the help of Life 101 Foundation and 'Diversity for Peace' initiative of United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Quizards have planned to launch a website named 'Amader Golpo' to bring positive changes in people's mindset and thought process by letting them know about the concepts of diversity.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

As pandemic fatigue sets in, experts warn of danger lurking around

With weariness from the prolonged pandemic settling in, even the most conscious ones are slowly starting to visit restaurants, cafes and tourist destinations as they open up to public gatherings. While dangers still loom large, frustration from a seemingly never-ending pandemic is driving people to take up small cautious risks.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

Tired of it

I mean the virus. As the pandemic drags on for the 8th month now, for many of us, it’s getting incredibly difficult to keep maintaining the health guidelines down to the last details.
19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

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19 November 2020, 18:00 PM

New James Bond game in the works from Hitman developers

IO Interactive, the creator of the Hitman Franchise, announced they are working on a James bond game.
19 November 2020, 15:26 PM

Facebook to sue ‘facebook.com.bd’ domain in Bangladesh

Facebook, the global social media giant, is preparing to file a lawsuit -- in a Bangladeshi court -- against a Bangladesh Telecommunications Company Limited (BTCL) owned domain called “facebook.com.bd”.
19 November 2020, 10:35 AM