High Court bans mobile phone call rate hike
Dhaka, Dec 13 – The High Court on Thursday imposed a ban on hiking the…
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Huawei executive gets bail in case rattling China ties
A Canadian court granted bail on Tuesday to a top Chinese telecom company executive wanted…
Group-IB notes 40,000 compromised online users in 30 countries
Moscow, Dec 11.2018 – Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks has…
A democratic model for Facebook
Facebook is regularly in the news as a force disrupting democratic politics across the globe…
BTRC orders blocking 58 websites on security grounds
A day after blocking those, Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) on Monday evening unblocked the…
China launches rover for first far side of the moon landing
China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the…
Japan to ban government use of Huawei, ZTE products
Japan is to ban government use of telecoms products made by Chinese tech giants Huawei…
Thermal houses keep people warm in Peru’s highlands
Thirty families from a rural community more than 4,300 meters above sea level will have…
Chinese scientists aim for world’s most detailed 3D map of human brain
Now Chinese scientists are planning to draw the clearest yet three- dimensional map of the…
Artificial Intelligence’s Ethical Implications
We cannot banalize the power and importance of artificial intelligence (AI) in the modern economy.…
Docs show Facebook used user data as competitive weapon
Internal Facebook documents released by a U.K. parliamentary committee offer the clearest evidence yet that…
Don’t post status on social media without knowing facts
Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan Kamal on Thursday urged all to refrain from posting any status…
California, here we come!
by Nate Engle “California, here we come!” I was singing this phrase in my head…
Rosatom’s innovation enable life-extension of large reactors
26 November 2018 (Balakovo, Russia) – Rosatom has completed the annealing of a large capacity…
Mainul Hosein gets bail in 2 defamation cases
The High Court on Wednesday granted bail for six months to Barrister Mainul Hosein in…
Scientists reveal origin, evolution of golden snub-nosed monkey
Chinese scientists have revealed the origin and population history of the golden snub-nosed monkey in…
1st baby born using transplanted uterus of deceased donor
Brazilian doctors are reporting the world’s first baby born to a woman with a uterus…
NASA spacecraft arrives at ancient asteroid, its 1st visitor
After a two-year chase, a NASA spacecraft arrived Monday at the ancient asteroid Bennu, its…
Mobile phones exposed to growing cyber threats
Mobile phones are helping millions of low-income customers to access financial services for the first…
Writ challenges EVM use in 6 constituencies
A writ has been filed with the High Court challenging the legality of the Election…
Govt launched ‘ugly cyber war’ against BNP: Rizvi
BNP senior joint secretary general Ruhul Kabir Rizvi on Saturday alleged that the government has…
China’s Weibo eyes global expansion, foreign-language products
Chinese social media giant Weibo is making a push into foreign markets and is considering…
The brave new world of work
Robert Solow famously remarked that the effects of the IT revolution were showing up everywhere…
Charge Sheet against Bd newspaper publisher Barrister Mainul
Dhaka, Nov 29 – A Dhaka court on Thursday took cognizance of a charge-sheet in…
Internet likely to be cheaper from Dec: Minister
The government is likely to reduce the value-added tax (VAT) for the backward linkage of…
Cheers as Mars In Sight spacecraft lands on Red Planet
Cheers and applause erupted at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on Monday as a waist-high unmanned…
Dictionary.com chooses ‘misinformation’ as word of the year
Misinformation, as opposed to disinformation, was chosen Monday as Dictionary.com’s word of the year on…
Gene-editing work a failure of self-regulation: US biologist
A leader of an international conference on gene editing said Wednesday that the work of…
National ICT Day to be observed as ‘Digital Bangladesh Day’
Dhaka, Nov 26 –The Cabinet on Monday approved a proposal for observing the ‘National ICT…
EVMs for Dhaka-6, 13, Ctg-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2, Satkhira-2
Electronic voting machines will be used in Dhaka-6 and 13, Chattogram-9, Rangpur-3, Khulna-2 and Satkhira-2…