UK blocks Microsoft's $69bn bid for 'Call of Duty' games giant

Britain on Wednesday blocked Microsoft's $69-billion takeover of "Call of Duty" video games giant Activision Blizzard, arguing it would harm competition in cloud gaming..The ruling will be appealed by both US companies -- but analysts warned it could spell game over for the gigantic takeov
26 April 2023, 19:05 PM

Netflix subscribers at record high, password crackdown coming

The streaming television giant reported a quarterly profit of $1.3 billion, in line with expectations, but said it had delayed a broad crackdown on sharing of account passwords "to improve the experience for members"
19 April 2023, 02:12 AM

Elon Musk to start rival to Microsoft-backed ChatGPT

"I'm going to start something which I call 'TruthGPT', or a maximum truth-seeking AI that tries to understand the nature of the universe," Musk said in an interview with Fox News Channel's Tucker Carlson aired on Monday
18 April 2023, 02:12 AM

Alibaba unveils Tongyi Qianwen, an AI model similar to GPT

It will first be integrated into DingTalk, Alibaba's workplace messaging app and can be used to summarise meeting notes, write emails and draft business proposals. It will also be added to Tmall Genie, Alibaba's voice assistant
11 April 2023, 04:24 AM

Apple to open first company-owned retail store in India

Apple also plans to assemble iPads and AirPods in India
6 April 2023, 04:22 AM

Meta releases AI model that can identify items within images

Facebook-owner Meta published an artificial intelligence model on Wednesday that can pick out individual objects from within an image, along with a dataset of image annotations that it said was the largest ever of its kind
6 April 2023, 02:09 AM

Musk defends paid Twitter as blue tick ultimatum looms

"The fundamental challenge here is that it's (easy) to create literally 10,000 or 100,000 fake Twitter accounts using just one computer at home and with modern AI (artificial intelligence)," Musk told a question and answer session on Twitter
1 April 2023, 02:13 AM

OpenAI's ChatGPT blocked in Italy

Italy's privacy watchdog said Friday it had blocked the controversial robot ChatGPT, saying the artificial intelligence app did not respect user data and could not verify users' age.
31 March 2023, 12:56 PM

Nagad now a billion dollar venture: ICT State Minister Palak

The ICT State Minister mentioned this during the official inauguration of the ‘Meghna Pay’ banking service at The Westin Dhaka recently.
22 March 2023, 15:22 PM

'I'm back': Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after 2-year ban

The posts on his Facebook page and YouTube channel, titled "I'M BACK!", show a CNN video announcing Trump's election as president in the 2016 race against Hillary Clinton. It then fades to a "Trump 2024" screen
18 March 2023, 09:02 AM

TikTok says US threatens ban if Chinese owners don't sell stakes

The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by US officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's US user data could be passed on to China's government. ByteDance-owned TikTok has more than 100 million US users
16 March 2023, 06:29 AM

BUP to host HR strategy-based case competition AdventHR 2.0

Many companies are now investing heavily in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) or even in developing their own AI, and to do that they are cutting costs with restructuring and downsizing.
3 March 2023, 14:00 PM

TikTok to add screen time limits for young users

TikTok today said it would introduce automatic daily screen time limits of one hour for accounts belonging to under-18s, as the social media platform faces criticism over its addictiveness among young users..Teenagers will have to enter a passcode to continue watching after 60 minutes and
1 March 2023, 15:54 PM

Global report on internet shutdowns: Bangladesh ranked 5th

Bangladesh is among the top five countries where authorities have shut down the internet last year as "weapons of control", according to a global digital rights watchdog
1 March 2023, 15:48 PM

White House gives federal agencies 30 days to enforce TikTok ban

Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to "remove and disallow installations" of the application on agency-owned or operated IT devices, and to "prohibit internet traffic" from such devices to the app.
28 February 2023, 03:19 AM

Canada bans TikTok on govt phones, other devices

Effective Tuesday, "the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future," the government said in a statement
28 February 2023, 01:37 AM

Twitter cuts more staff as Musk turmoil grows

Reports of more layoffs at Twitter landed on Monday as owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy that risked pushing advertisers further away from the struggling platform.
28 February 2023, 01:30 AM

Elon Musk calls US media 'racist' after Dilbert row

"For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians," Musk wrote on the social network, where he has reinstated users banned for hate speech
27 February 2023, 04:20 AM

Facebook, Instagram could have 12m paying subscribers by early 2024, says Bank of America

Considering the subscription services costs $11.99 a month, the BoFA analysts said that Meta could generate $1.7 billion “in high-margin revenue in 2024”
22 February 2023, 06:08 AM

Angry Bing chatbot just mimicking humans: Experts

Tales of disturbing exchanges with the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot -- including it issuing threats and speaking of desires to steal nuclear code, create a deadly virus, or to be alive -- have gone viral this week
18 February 2023, 11:11 AM