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Two new realme smartphones and a watch hit market

Chinese technology brand realme has recently launched two new smartphones and a watch for the Bangladesh market.
30 July 2020, 18:00 PM

WATCH LIVE: CEOs of Facebook, Google, Amazon and Apple testify in front of US Congress

The four major tech firms whose chief executives are testifying at a congressional antitrust hearing face a variety of complaints about their dominance in the US and elsewhere. Investigations are being led by antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and by authorities in US states. Watch the session live here:
29 July 2020, 19:58 PM

Big Tech and antitrust: Where things stand

The four major tech firms whose chief executives are testifying at a congressional antitrust hearing face a variety of complaints about their dominance in the US and elsewhere. Investigations are being led by antitrust enforcers at the Justice Department, Federal Trade Commission and by authorities in US states. Here is a summary of the main issues.
27 July 2020, 17:18 PM

Google to extend work-from-home policy to mid-2021

Google will allow most employees to work from home through to July 2021 in response to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, the tech giant said Monday.
27 July 2020, 17:13 PM

India bans 47 more Chinese mobile apps

India has banned 47 more Chinese apps just weeks after blocking the highly popular video-sharing platform TikTok and 58 others over national security and privacy concerns, an information ministry official and media reports said Monday.
27 July 2020, 13:04 PM

US unveils blueprint for quantum internet

US officials and scientists have begun laying the groundwork for a more secure “virtually unhackable” internet based on quantum computing technology.
25 July 2020, 18:00 PM

TikTok launches $200 mn 'creator fund'

TikTok unveiled plans for a $200 million "creator fund" to add content from emerging social media personalities to the fast-growing video-sharing app.
25 July 2020, 13:22 PM

Microsoft sees growth amid pandemic computing demands

Microsoft on Wednesday reported rising revenues in the past quarter amid strong demand for cloud computing services from pandemic-hit businesses and consumers and big gains in its Xbox gaming operations.
23 July 2020, 13:17 PM

Xbox cloud gaming service to debut in September

Microsoft said Thursday its cloud video game service will debut in September as a feature available to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.
22 July 2020, 17:39 PM

Apple to remove carbon from supply chain, products by 2030

Apple Inc said on Tuesday it plans to remove carbon emissions from its entire business, including its products and sprawling supply chain, over the next decade. The iPhone maker said its global corporate operations such as offices and data centres are already carbon neutral but that it will extend its effort to the thousands of suppliers that contribute to its products.
21 July 2020, 12:10 PM

Twitter attack was work of a young group of hackers: NYT

Hackers involved in the high-profile hijacking of Twitter accounts earlier this week were young pals with no links to state or organized crime, The New York Times reported Friday. The attack, which Twitter and federal police are investigating, started with a playful message between hackers on the platform Discord, a chat service popular with gamers, according to the Times.
18 July 2020, 14:43 PM

Five things to know about Huawei

Britain on Tuesday said it would ban mobile carriers from buying new 5G Huawei equipment from 2021 and ordered them to strip out all of the telecom giant's gear by 2027 over long-term concerns with the company's links to the Chinese government.
17 July 2020, 16:56 PM

The rise and fall of TikTok

TikTok has breathed in a completely new possibility of whiling away one's time other than having meetings on Zoom or chilling with Netflix. While both of the latter activities are primarily connected to work and solitary leisure hours, TikTok acts as a portal of unlimited creative pursuits through dancing, lip-syncing, and memes.
16 July 2020, 18:00 PM

Twitter accounts of Musk, Gates, Obama hit in major hack

Twitter is investigating a massive hack in which high-profile users from Elon Musk to Joe Biden had their accounts hijacked by scammers, who the social network believes targeted its employees to gain access to internal systems.
16 July 2020, 16:55 PM

'Fortnite' creator Epic Games gets $250 mln investment from Sony

Epic Games, the creator of the popular video game "Fortnite", said on Thursday it had received a $250 million investment from Japan's Sony Corp for a minority stake in the company.
15 July 2020, 23:28 PM

Video game industry faces its #metoo moment

After years of simmering controversy over sexism in the video game industry, change may be on its way after outrage came to a boil with a C-suite massacre at Ubisoft. Following online allegations of sexual misconduct, the publisher of Assassin's Creed and Far Cry launched a probe, resulting in the departure over the weekend of the company's chief creative officer.
15 July 2020, 18:23 PM

Google invests heavily in Jio Platforms, Reliance Group’s push for 5G

Global tech giant Google will invest over Rs 33,737 crore (close to four billion dollars) for 7.7 percent stake in Jio Platforms, India’s leading business group, Reliance Industries Chairman Mukesh Ambani said today.
15 July 2020, 10:50 AM

Decapitated body of Pathao co-founder Fahim Saleh found in NY apartment

Fahim Saleh, co-founder of ride-sharing venture Pathao, is found dead in an apartment in New York.
15 July 2020, 04:31 AM

Samsung launches battery and camera heavy budget smartphone – Galaxy M21

Samsung Bangladesh has recently launched its latest budget-friendly smartphone -- Galaxy M21 -- available in the market around the nation. The device is the successor of Galaxy M20 and comes with a massive battery of 6,000mAh along with a triple rear camera setup.
13 July 2020, 14:42 PM

Fugaku vs COVID: The Fast and the Fatal

Its Fugaku supercomputer can perform more than 415 quadrillion computations a second, 2.8 times faster than the Summit system developed by the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in the US, which held the title when the twice-yearly rankings were last published in November.
9 July 2020, 18:00 PM