Country's biggest technology expo Digital World 2020, co-organised by Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and Department of ICT (DoICT) of the Ministry of Post, Telecommunication and IT, was inaugurated by the President M Abdul Hamid on Wednesday.

WhatsApp on Tuesday added virtual shopping carts people can load with purchases and then use to fire off orders to businesses as the Facebook-owned messaging service pushed deeper into e-commerce. More than 175 million people contact businesses via WhatsApp daily, according to the service, and the new feature is aimed at making it easier for them to use the service for holiday shopping.

Apple Inc on Tuesday unveiled its new AirPods Max, a set of wireless over-ear headphones at $549 apiece, pricier than some of its other popular phone and tablet products, in a measure likely to boost sales over the December holiday period.

Apple Inc on Tuesday unveiled its new AirPods Max, a set of wireless over-ear headphones at $549 apiece, pricier than some of its other popular phone and tablet products, in a measure likely to boost sales over the December holiday period.

Adam Lach, a Polish photographer and avid gamer, said Cyberpunk 2077 was “something exceptional in popular culture”. The game raises “questions about our outlook on the world, where we are headed, while other games are just entertainment,” Lach said. The launch has been anything but smooth, however. The game was delayed three times this year, sparking a fierce backlash from gamers -- some of whom even sent death threats.

Chinese scientists have created the world's first light-based quantum computer that can reliably demonstrate "quantum computational advantage", a milestone in which a quantum machine can solve a problem no classical supercomputer can tackle within a reasonable amount of time.

A top Google scientist on ethical artificial intelligence says she was fired after criticizing the company's diversity efforts, a claim the Alphabet Inc unit disputed on Thursday, in the latest brush-up between the internet giant and worker activists.

If you are someone who loves travelling particularly by air, then being homebound for the last few days must have been really the dullest period of your life. To make your mundane life a bit tolerable, we bring you a compiled list of stuff related to aviation travel that you might find interesting:

HMD Global Oy today announced the availability of Nokia 6300 4G in Bangladesh with basic social media apps to provide ‘smart experience’ in feature phone and also announced that Nokia 225 4G will be available in the market soon.

Starting today, Google Maps will show routes, stops, and estimated travel times to assist commuters in planning their journeys using public transportation. This feature is primarily made available for public buses inside Dhaka and Bangladesh Railway operated trains.

Salesforce on Tuesday announced a $27.7 billion deal to buy online collaboration firm Slack, giving the business software giant a broader array of tools as the pandemic fuels a remote work trend. San Francisco-based Salesforce will mesh Slack messaging technology with its platform for managing marketing and sales teams. “Together, Salesforce and Slack will shape the future of enterprise software and transform the way everyone works in the all-digital, work-from-anywhere world,” Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff said in a release.

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”.

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.