Make-A-Thon 2016, organised by The World Bank and BetterStories Limited in partnership with the ICT Division of the Ministry of Post, Telecommunications and Information Technology and 18 esteemed partners, has brought 100 top talents from the fields of engineering, agriculture, business, fashion technology and design together to solve problems for Bangladesh. HiFi Public was the communications partner of the event.

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Name of App: Medicify - Medicine Reminder

Huawei has cut down the prices of a range of Huawei handset models in the Bangladesh market. The reduction in prices is aimed at

Four new gaming Motherboards has been launched for the local market. It has introduced X99A, B150M, H110M and Z170A in a business

Samsung Electronics has launched all new Smart Convertible Refrigerator in Bangladesh. This exclusive refrigerator of Samsung

Computer Source unleashed 13 Fujitsu Brand Notebooks which comes with Intel 6th Generation processor. All these models come with a

Lenovo brings about a new sub-brand under the ZUK nametag. Is a big sharp screen, big battery and last years flagship processor enough to set them on the path to world dominance?

NASA successfully inflated a new experimental room at the International Space Station on Saturday, producing the world's first pump-it-up compartment for astronauts.

The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon has appointed Sonia Bashir Kabir, Managing Director of Microsoft Bangladesh, to serve in the Governing Council of the Technology Bank for the Least Developed Countries (LDC). The Secretary-General has appointed 12 expert members from different countries (including non-LDC countries) to the Technology Bank. Sonia has been hand-picked to represent Bangladesh at the council.

Microsoft and Facebook announces they will work together to lay a high-speed Internet cable across the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean.

Google wins a major US court battle with software firm Oracle after a jury ruled it did not unfairly appropriate parts of the Java programming language.

Facebook Inc says its customers' ads will now be visible on third-party apps and websites to everyone who has ever visited its website, and not just to users logged into its social networking service.

A new discovery about how clouds form may scale back some of the more dire predictions about temperature increases caused by man-made global warming.

Mars is going through an ice age, according to a new study. Based on radar data collected by Nasa's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, researchers at the Southwest Research Institute have found an increase in ice at Mars' north pole is consistent with the long-term drop in temperature associated with an ice age.

A new proof concept of concept of using 3D printing in architecture has been unveiled though it is still small as logistics are being ironed out. Dubai unveils an open-plan office constructed using an industrial 3D printer after nearly a year in development.

Epic releases a fully meshed Deathmatch level called Underland with the new Unreal Tournament build. This level is designed for 6 to 8 players who fight across a hidden outpost, once lost for a thousand years, that guards the entrance to the massive Underland caverns.

In the southwest of France, Neanderthals built one of the world’s oldest constructions—176,000-year-old semicircular walls of stalagmites in the bowels of a cave.

In Fading Light you control a pixel of light and navigate by tapping left or right on your screen.

Uncharted 4: A Thief's End is the perfect send-off to the journey of Nathan Drake. It's a Hollywood blockbuster in the form of a video game with a remarkable accomplishment in deep story telling & graphical fidelity.