Facebook Inc’s independent Oversight Board announced on Tuesday the first six cases where it could overrule the social media company’s decisions to remove certain pieces of content from its platforms.

World champion Lewis Hamilton has tested positive for coronavirus and will miss this weekend's Sakhir Grand Prix in Bahrain, Formula One's governing body FIA announced Tuesday. “In accordance with Covid-19 protocols and public health authority guidelines in Bahrain he (Hamilton) is now isolating,” said an FIA statement. “The procedures set out by the FIA and Formula 1 will ensure no wider impact on this weekend's event."

The massive telescope at Puerto Rico’s Arecibo Observatory that had been deteriorating since August collapsed today, officials said, after 57 years of astronomical discoveries.

Zoom's video conferencing service remains a fixture in pandemic life, but its breakneck growth is showing signs of tapering off as investors debate whether the company will be able to build upon its recent success after a vaccine enables people to intermingle again.

Italy's competition authority said Monday it had fined Apple 10 million euros ($12 million) for misleading claims about the water-resistant properties of various iPhone models. It said the US tech giant “did not make it clear that this feature exists under certain specific conditions”, notably in laboratory tests with static and pure water, “and not under normal conditions of use”.

Lewis Hamilton won the Bahrain Formula One Grand Prix for Mercedes on Sunday after French driver Romain Grosjean had a miraculous escape from a fiery first lap crash that ripped his car in two.

Toyota Corolla and Honda Civic. Two of the most popular affordable cars in the world and the darlings of our JDM focused car community. Both of them recently got their generation upgrade, triggering the inevitable discussion of what the local petrolheads think about them? Well, we did some snooping about on their interwebs and this is what we found.

Freelancers in Bangladesh are finally getting a state-endorsed electronic/virtual identity card.

Bangladesh Computer Council’s e-Government Computer Incident Response Team (BGD e-GOV CIRT) said that they did not have any specific credible intelligence regarding any imminent attack in the financial infrastructure of Bangladesh. Sources in the ICT Division informed that no such imminent threat was raised to CIRT in the last few days that might be deemed out of the ordinary.

Amazon.com Inc's widely used cloud service, Amazon Web Services (AWS), is experiencing a large-scale outage, the company said on Wednesday, affecting users ranging from websites to software providers.

The Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Division has launched an event titled “Bangabandhu Innovation Grant 2020 (BIG)”, marking the birth centenary of Father of the Nation Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur Rahman.

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.

Samsung Bangladesh has started taking pre-orders of Galaxy M51, a smartphone with humongous battery, recently.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Bangladesh’s automobile industry has fallen into deep uncertainty as sales declined by 40 per cent this year due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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”.

The Bangladesh government made 241 requests for data to Facebook in the first half of 2020, a new record high.