New York City to restrict student AI use in schools through eighth grade
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Delivery Hero board recommends Uber’s $15bn takeover offer to shareholders
3 September 2026
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OpenAI’s reported ‘opaque recurrence’ technique raises fresh AI safety concerns
3 September 2026
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Dropbox says about 5,000 accounts compromised in August hack
3 September 2026
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Tim Cook receives $47 million package as Apple executive chair
3 September 2026
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Uber to cut about 3,300 jobs in restructuring drive
3 September 2026
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Meta launches Muse Voice Transcribe for real-time multilingual speech recognition
3 September 2026
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Razer Valorant Cup kicks off
Razer and Star Tech has organised an e-sports contest this year- 'Razer Valorant Cup'. Local e-sports teams will have the opportunity to participate in an elimination Battle Royal for the grand prize of the Tk. 50,000/- tournament.
10 September 2021
TikTok surpasses YouTube in terms of average watch time, says report
According to a report from app analytics firm App Annie, TikTok users now spend more time each month watching content than YouTube users.
9 September 2021
Facebook and Ray-Ban debut 'smart' shades
Facebook and iconic eyewear brand Ray-Ban on Thursday launched their new smart glasses, the latest effort in a tricky, niche market but which the social media giant sees as a step toward its future. The “Ray-Ban Stories” shades can take pictures and video upon the wearer's voice commands, and the frames can connect wirelessly to Facebook's platform through an app.
9 September 2021
PayPal joins mad rush to buy pay-later now
The pay-later craze is making everyone want to buy now. PayPal jumped on the bandwagon on Tuesday with an agreed $2.7 billion acquisition of Japan’s Paidy, just a month after Jack Dorsey’s Square struck read more a $29 billion deal for Afterpay. Rival Affirm’s shares have jumped 41% since that transaction was announced, pushing its valuation past $24 billion.
8 September 2021
Apple to hold event on Sept 14, new iPhones expected
Apple Inc said on Tuesday it would hold a special event on Sept. 14, which most industry watchers believe will be used to unveil a new line of its flagship iPhones.
7 September 2021
Bangladeshi Startup Sigmind.ai participating in K-startup 2021
Bangladeshi AI-focused Startup, Sigmind.ai has been nominated to take part in K-Startup this year. The K-Startup Grand Challenge, the competitive accelerator program held every year in Seoul, Korea offers startups all over the world a global platform to break into Asia using the Korean market as a stepping stone.
7 September 2021
BTRC forms committee to formulate guideline to operate OTT platforms
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has formed an eight-member committee to formulate a guideline to operate OTT (over-the-top) platforms and for collecting revenues from them in compliance with a High Court directive.
7 September 2021
Pros and cons for El Salvador, the first bitcoin nation
El Salvador will on Tuesday become the first country in the world to recognize bitcoin as legal tender, a move President Nayib Bukele says will save Salvadorans living abroad millions of dollars in commissions on money they send home.
7 September 2021
Facebook mistakenly labels black men 'primates'
Facebook on Friday said it disabled its topic recommendation feature after it mistook Black men for "primates" in video at the social network.
4 September 2021
Samsung Z Fold3 5G and Z Flip3 5G preorders skyrocket
Redefining the smartphone experiences to a significant extent, Samsung introduced its ‘Galaxy Z Fold3 5G’ and ‘Galaxy Z Flip3 5G’ android handsets to the global market quite recently. And perhaps to nobody’s surprise, these two models have received a grand market success with their innovational dazzle! In Bangladesh, preorders for Samsung Z Flip3 5G and Z Fold3 5G began on September 01, 2021.
2 September 2021
OPPO introduces the A16
OPPO A16 is now available in all outlets and online marketplaces.
2 September 2021
Irish data privacy watchdog fines WhatsApp 225 million euros
Ireland hit Facebook's (FB.O) WhatsApp with a record 225 million euro ($266 million) fine on Thursday following an inquiry into the messaging app's transparency around sharing personal data with other Facebook companies.
2 September 2021
Cross border e-commerce platform Aadi delivers Bangladesh's T20 jersey globally
Bangladesh’s first-ever cross-border eCommerce platform, Aadi, is celebrating the Bangladesh cricket team’s T20 journey by offering free delivery of the cricket team’s T20 official matchday jerseys and official caps worldwide, with the global delivery support of DHL express.
2 September 2021
Agrotech startup Protein Market secures Angel Investment
Protein Market, an agrotech startup that’s working to provide safe and unadulterated protein products to B2B & B2C, has raised their first round of Angel investment.
1 September 2021
TikTok launches Safety Centre for Bangladesh
Much debated short video platform, TikTok yesterday has made the announcement of launching a dedicated Safety Centre for Bangladesh. This online Safety Centre will act as a one-stop destination providing access to safety policies, and resources in both Bengali and English, according to a press release issued by the platform yesterday.
1 September 2021
The new, updated PS5 is lighter; perhaps not in a good way
Usually, PlayStation game console systems do not receive a hardware update until the consoles reach the half-life in their life cycle when Sony usually releases a slimmer version of the existing console, which is also cheaper to buy.
This time around, however, Sony released a newly updated version of their existing PlayStation 5 model, not even after a full year.
31 August 2021
Unfolding a new experience
Leaks and teases- that’s all we had for more than a couple of months about the third installment of Samsung’s foldable device-based Z series. And after much anticipation, just a few weeks back, I had the pleasure of playing around with the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold3 5G and Galaxy Z Flip3 5G. Right after the global unveiling, Samsung was able to showcase the devices to a few of the top reviewers of the country. After fiddling with the devices for a couple of hours, here’s my first impression:
31 August 2021
Instagram to require users to share their birthday amid youth safety push
Instagram will begin requiring users to confirm their birthdays as part of an effort to create new safety features for young people, the Facebook Inc-owned social media app said Monday.
31 August 2021
Don't host content propagating militancy, pornography: Mustafa Jabbar to Facebook
Posts and Telecommunications Minister Mustafa Jabbar has called on Facebook not to host content that propagates terrorism, militancy, sectarianism, sedition, pornography, and those that go against the socio-cultural values in Bangladesh.
30 August 2021
Three hours a week: Play time's over for China's young video gamers
China has forbidden under-18s from playing video games for more than three hours a week, a stringent social intervention that it said was needed to pull the plug on a growing addiction to what it once described as "spiritual opium".
30 August 2021
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