Last Friday saw Dhaka’s classic cars and vintage bikes meet at the Italian embassy in Dhaka, organised by Durjoy Bangladesh Foundation, in collaboration with penthouse livings, to celebrate the occasion of 50 years of friendship between Italy and Bangladesh.

Meta is reportedly working on a new form of digital currency called ‘Zuck Bucks’, named after the CEO of Meta, Mark Zuckerberg.

To prevent misinformation and hate speech during the upcoming Phillippines general election on 9 May, Meta removed accounts associated with organisations such as Philippines' New People's Army and banned groups

A remake of the hit third-person shooter game Max Payne is in the works.

Elon Musk, the famed founder of Tesla and SpaceX, remains the world's richest man. According to Forbes, he now leads Amazon founder Jeff Bezos by US$100 billion, who is in second place. 

Arena of Valor Bangladesh, a multiplayer online battle arena game, has recently hosted the AIC South Asia Qualifiers 2022 in the capital.

U.S. chipmaker Intel recently suspended its business operations in Russia, following its invasion of Ukraine.

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). 

Vivo has recently launched its latest Y series smartphone, Vivo Y33s in Bangladesh.

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.

Realme Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of its Narzo lineup, realme Narzo 50.

Epic Games, in association with Microsoft, has raised a staggering $144 million through the online video game Fortnite for the Ukraine relief.

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.

Samsung Bangladesh has recently launched the latest version of their Galaxy A50 lineup: Samsung Galaxy A53 5G. 

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.

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.  

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.

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.

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.

10 women and 3 companies were recently awarded the prestigious ‘BASIS Luna Shamsuddoha Award’ at the Grand Ballroom of Radisson Blu Dhaka Water Garden hotel in the capital city.