After over 250 female employees were found to be suffering from food poisoning at the Southern Indian Foxconn iPhone plant, a protest was led against the substandard conditions prevailing in the factory.

Located in Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City, Kaliakoir, Joydebpur, the National Data Centre has recently shown potential to be a big source of foreign investment. According to reports, international firms are interested in storing their company data there. 

Recently, eSIMs have been making waves as the next step in mobile technology. What is it, and how can we use it in Bangladesh? Here are all the important details you need to know about eSIM.

Everything you need to know about 5G in Bangladesh, including what 5G is, and where and how you can access it.

World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) recently announced The Daily Star as one of the South Asian Digital Media Awards 2021 winners in the ‘Best Branded Content Campaign’ category. The Daily Star earned a Silver Award along with Hindustan Times. The Hindu received the Gold Award.

On 24 December, the local freelancer community Fiverr Bangladesh hosted the ‘Freelancers Biggest Meetup’, an event where freelancers from all over the country joined to learn and discuss the tricks of the trade, as well as engage in future opportunities in the world of freelancing.

The Digital Entrepreneur Summit 2021 organized by Uddokta Hoi was held on Saturday, December 25, at the Bishwo Shahitto Kendro.

Motorola has been reportedly working on bringing a third-generation version of its iconic foldable Razr smartphone into the global market, reports The Verge.

Samsung has announced the release of its first displays that support the HDR10+ Gaming standard, an enhanced version of HDR10 that can also calibrate itself. HDR10+ Gaming was first revealed in October, but Samsung has now confirmed that its new 2022 series of QLED TVs (Q70 and higher) and gaming monitors will be the first to support it.

The world's first dual-mode vehicle, equally at home on road and rail, made its public debut on 25 December in the town of Kaiyo in Japan's Tokushima prefecture.

The world’s largest and most powerful space telescope rocketed away Saturday on a high-stakes quest to behold light from the first stars and galaxies and scour the universe for hints of life.

For Neil Harbisson, a self-described 'cyborg' artist living near Barcelona, colour is quite literally music to his ears thanks to an antenna he designed to overcome colour blindness. Well-known in Spain and with an international following that enabled him to meet the likes of Leonardo di Caprio and Tom Cruise, Harbisson is now testing out a new device designed to feel physically the passing of time.

A Japanese professor has developed a prototype lickable TV screen that can imitate food flavours, another step towards creating a multi-sensory viewing experience. The device, called Taste the TV (TTTV), uses a carousel of 10 flavour canisters that spray in combination to create the taste of a particular food. The flavour sample then rolls on hygienic film over a flat TV screen for the viewer to try.

Grameenphone announced their latest partnership with the startup DigiPro Solutions and an existing partner ReCom Consulting.

Earlier today, Infinix announced the newest inclusion to their Hot series smartphones: Hot 11 Play, featuring the Helio G35 octa-core chip.

The first SMS ever sent over a mobile phone in 1992 was sold Tuesday as an NFT at auction for 107,000 euros ($120,600), the Aguttes auction house said. The buyer, whose identity was not disclosed but is a Canadian involved in the tech sector, is now the owner of a unique digital replica of the first SMS message in the form of a Non-Fungible Token, or NFT.

Scientists on Tuesday announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or oviraptorosaur, which the researchers dubbed 'Baby Yingliang.' 

This year, tech CEOs drew inspiration from a 1990s sci-fi novel, Reddit investors' lexicon seeped into the mainstream as 'diamond hands' and 'apes' shook Wall Street, and something called a DAO tried to buy a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution. If you're still drawing a blank as 2021 wraps up, here's a short glossary: 

‘Taalpata’ – the latest addition to the race of ‘Made in Bangladesh’ laptops, assembled locally by Datasoft Manufacturing & Assembly Inc Limited (DMA), at Hi-Tech Park in Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City of Kaliakoir, is somewhat of a sitting duck, with 500 units of laptops produced but no plans for commercial production as of yet. 


Walton has released digital writing pads, for kids, in the market. The digital writing pad is equipped with a scratch-resistant 10-inch LCD film screen which does no harm to children's eyes. It has a stylus pen with
 which children can easily draw or write when they will find a smooth writing experience
with the pad.