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21 July 2023, 03:00 AM TOGGLE

Intel suspends business in Russia

U.S. chipmaker Intel recently suspended its business operations in Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine.
6 April 2022, 08:15 AM

Axiom Space and SpaceX to launch first-ever private space mission to ISS

Axiom Space, the American commercial space flight startup, in association with Elon Musk's commercial space venture Space X, alongside other companies, is launching the very first all-private astronaut team to the International Space Station (ISS). 
5 April 2022, 09:08 AM

Vivo introduces Y33s in Bangladesh

Vivo has recently launched its latest Y series smartphone, Vivo Y33s in Bangladesh.
5 April 2022, 08:54 AM

Sri Lanka bans social media; VPN use spikes

Sri Lanka's attempt to contain spiralling protests by blocking popular social media platforms led to an extraordinary spike in the use of censorship-dodging virtual private networks, a tracking firm said Monday. Demand for VPNs went up by a staggering 17,000 per cent on Sunday when the ban came into effect, Top10VPN.com said after tracking downloads by Sri Lankan users.
5 April 2022, 08:52 AM

Realme launches Narzo 50 in Bangladesh

Realme Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of its Narzo lineup, realme Narzo 50.
5 April 2022, 08:19 AM

Fortnite and Microsoft raise US$144 million for Ukraine relief

Epic Games, in association with Microsoft, has raised a staggering $144 million through the online video game Fortnite for the Ukraine relief.
5 April 2022, 06:55 AM

Facebook Messenger down for users worldwide

Facebook parent Meta's Messenger is reportedly down for users across the globe. Users in Bangladesh are also facing issues with accessing the instant messaging platform. Outage detector website DownDetector.com showed a surge in complaints regarding the outage around 12:00 AM Bangladesh time.  Reports are also coming in of people esperiencing outages on Instagram. Meta is yet to acknowledge the issue.
3 April 2022, 18:14 PM

Samsung Galaxy A53 5G launched in Bangladesh

Samsung Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of their Galaxy A50 lineup: Samsung Galaxy A53 5G. 
3 April 2022, 09:58 AM

Dhaka gets first ever drone show over Hatirjheel

Country’s first-ever drone show lit up the Dhaka sky over Hatirjheel on Thursday, March 31. The drone, aerial and fireworks shows were organised by the Ministry of Liberation War Affairs, to celebrate the golden jubilee of the country's independence. Noted musicians also performed in the Hatirjheel Amphitheater. The event drew a modest audience and ended up causing a long tailback of slow-moving traffic along the Hatirjheel circuit.
31 March 2022, 20:18 PM

Meta provided user data to hackers who forged requests: reports

Meta, Facebook’s parent company, provided user information to hackers who pretended to be law enforcement officials last year, a company source mentioned recently.   Imposters were able to get details like physical addresses or phone numbers in response to falsified  “emergency data requests,” which can slip past privacy barriers, said the source who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.   Criminal hackers have been compromising email accounts or websites tied to police or government and claiming they can't wait for a judge's order for information because it's an  “urgent matter of life and death,” cyber expert Brian Krebs wrote recently.   Bloomberg news agency, which originally reported Meta being targeted, also reported that Apple had provided customer data in response to forged data requests. Apple and Meta did not officially confirm the incidents, but provided statements citing their policies in handling information demands.   When US law enforcement officials want data on a social media account's owner or an associated cell phone number, they must submit an official court-ordered warrant or subpoena, Krebs wrote.   But in urgent cases authorities can make an  “emergency data request,” which  “largely bypasses any official review and does not require the requestor to supply any court-approved documents,” he added.   Meta, in a statement, said the firm reviews every data request for  “legal sufficiency” and uses  “advanced systems and processes” to validate law enforcement requests and detect abuse.   “We block known compromised accounts from making requests and work with law enforcement to respond to incidents involving suspected fraudulent requests, as we have done in this case,” the statement added.   Apple noted its guidelines, which say that in the case of an emergency application  “a supervisor for the government or law enforcement agent who submitted the... request may be contacted and asked to confirm to Apple that the emergency request was legitimate.”   Krebs noted that the lack of a unitary, national system for these types of requests is one of the key problems associated with them, as companies end up deciding how to deal with them.   “To make matters more complicated, there are tens of thousands of police jurisdictions around the world - including roughly 18,000 in the United States alone - and all it takes for hackers to succeed is illicit access to a single police email account,” he wrote.  
31 March 2022, 19:31 PM

Facebook hired firm to run smear campaigns against TikTok, report suggests

Facebook's owner Meta has hired a consulting firm to carry out a US campaign denigrating its fierce rival TikTok, according to a Washington Post report Wednesday partially confirmed by AFP. The campaign reportedly includes placing letters in major US news outlets and promoting negative stories about TikTok, allegedly using the type of tough tactics familiar to Washington politics.
31 March 2022, 19:12 PM

Summer is (almost) here!

With the scorching heat of summer reaching us in no time, we need to make sure to preserve the leftovers of our Iftar and have our Sehri intact in our refrigerators.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Surveillance giant Hikvision launches local assembly plant

Hikvision, a leading global surveillance device supplier, officially launched the first-ever security surveillance equipment manufacturing plant in Bangladesh at Bangabandhu Hi-Tech City in Kaliakair on 25 March.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Elon Musk giving ‘serious thought’ to launch new social media platform

Tesla Inc Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet on 26 March.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Apple to sell iPhones via monthly subscriptions: reports

Apple is reportedly launching a brand new subscription-based service in which users can purchase iPhones and iPads. Reports state that this service could launch as early as late this year.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Choosing your undergraduate major concentration: Things to consider

A concentration is a subsection of a major that focuses on a particular topic of study, though not all majors have one.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Check out our top picks for refrigerators under BDT 60K

These days, owning a refrigerator is tantamount to preserving health and leading a healthy lifestyle. Even though we mostly use refrigerators to store food and keep them fresh,
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Thinking of buying an AC? Here are our top recommendations

From what we witnessed in the last month, we can all agree that the summer this year too will be brutal.  
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

Local ed-tech platform Edutechs raise $100K in pre-seed funding

Edutechs, an edtech startup based in Bangladesh has raised USD 100K in its pre-seed round, led by serial investor Mohammad Maaz and industrialist F. K. Md. Emdad Khan.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM

5 things to keep in mind when considering protective gears

What are these protective gears you ask? Well, wearing a helmet is mandatory, but there are other crucial ones: protective goggles, ear guards, hand gloves, knee-shinbone-elbow caps, arm guards, jagged boots and protective jackets or bodysuits.
31 March 2022, 18:00 PM