Old iPhones are now being sold for up to US$25,000. A recent surge in popularity among collectors has reportedly caused this drastic increase in resale value of old Apple gadgets.

A third-year engineering student from India’s Vellore Institute of Technology (VIT), Priyanjali Gupta, has developed a remarkable artificial intelligence model capable of translating American sign language into English in real-time.

US scientists have measured Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity -- which holds that gravity slows time down -- at the smallest scale ever, demonstrating that clocks tick at different rates when separated by fractions of a millimetre.

Bangladesh Computer Council (BCC) of the ICT Division has founded a project called "Connected Bangladesh" to provide internet access to remote areas of the country. The project started in October 2018 and will run till December 2023 with an estimated cost of  BDT 50443.31 lacs. Through this project, BCC will ensure internet facilities in 617 remote unions of Bangladesh. Under the project, a high network will be established in the telecommunication-deprived areas. One of the objectives of this project is to provide network connectivity to all schools, colleges, madrasas, growth centres, telecom operators etc. in remote areas. Apart from promoting e-commerce, e-services, telemedicine through high-speed internet usage, one of the goals of the project is to increase employment in the IT sector and create new entrepreneurs. T The Connected Bangladesh project is being implemented with the funding of the “Social Obligation Fund (SOF)” managed by the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) under the Posts and Telecommunications Division to expand telecommunication facilities. Under this project, 8106 km of optical fibre cable is being installed at the union level, backbone router and DC power system are being installed in the union and pop room renovation work are underway. Bangladesh Cable Shilpa Ltd, Khulna a state-owned company, has procured 8106 km of optical fibre cable and 5,000 km of duct pipes. As of January 2022, according to the internal data of the project, the work of Pop Room Renovation is about 51.28% and the work of laying Optical Fiber Cable is about 40.22%.

Customers can now pre-order their Samsung Galaxy S22+ or S22 Ultra. The devices can be pre-ordered through the Samsung website.

Four-day workweeks? Sounds like a dream? Or is it too good to be true? Feel free to dive into our cover story to find out how some countries around the world are embracing the 4-day workweek and how Bangladesh can employ the practices as well.

YouTube recently elaborated on its blockchain and metaverse plans for 2022, saying it could harness the emerging technologies to cut fraud in the fast-growing digital art market and offer a more social viewing experience for gaming content. The announcement was made on 10 February.

Featuring a system full of powerful hardware, Samsung Galaxy S22 Ultra and S22+ are two devices that attempt to take advantage of the latest smartphone features and come with a new style.

Apple is reportedly working on two augmented reality projects due release in 2023, which will reportedly feature the brand new AR/VR operating system realityOS.

In the digital age, eBook reader apps have partially, or in some cases, fully replaced conventional printed books.

Nordic countries are continuously experimenting to improve traditional economic systems. The proof of this is the trials of four-day workweeks conducted between 2015 to 2019. In Iceland, the experiment achieved overwhelming success with similar or improved productivity. The Finnish prime minister Sanna Martin is also considering four-day workweeks. Can Bangladesh do the same?

Google will start limiting ad tracking on Android devices, according to an announcement made by the tech giant yesterday. This announcement follows Apple declaring ad tracking to be a privacy concern on iOS devices.

Instagram, the Meta-owned social media platform, is launching a new feature called Private Story Likes, which will allow users to like someone’s Insta Story without sending them any direct messages. Instagram is moving away from the previously enabled feature where any response sent by a user appeared as a direct message in the creator’s inbox, regardless of it being an emoji or a complete message. Adam Mosseri, Head of Instagram, shared the news of rolling out the Story Likes feature from his Instagram account. “As you go through Stories, between ‘Send message’ and the airplane icon, there will be a heart icon. And if you tap on it, it will send the author of that story a Like. And that like will show up on the viewer sheet, not in your DM thread with them.” he mentioned. The Likes on stories will be private and will not have any counts. They will appear as 'hearts', next to the viewer's handles in the user’s Stories view sheet. The popular photo-sharing app hopes that users can express their support for each other without crowding their DMs through the Story Likes feature.

Google has revealed that it is giving early access to a new version of the Chrome Operating System. The latest version is called Chrome OS Flex. It is designed for schools and businesses and will run on old PCs and Macs. According to Google’s blog post, the new OS can be installed "within minutes".

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk donated a total of 5,044,000 shares in the world's most valuable automaker to a charity from Nov. 19 to Nov. 29 last year, its filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) showed on Monday.

Netflix, 2K, and Take-Two Interactive announced on Tuesday that they will collaborate on a live-action BioShock film. According to Netflix's website, the film is based on the BioShock franchise but no details on the potential plot were revealed.

Garena Free Fire, a popular Battle Royale game, was reportedly among dozens of apps hit with a ban on national security concerns. Tech giant Sea, which is backed by China's Tencent, has apologised to users in India following the ban.

The iconic DMC DeLorean, made famous by the Back to the Future films, is set to be reborn as an all-electric sports car, nearly 40 years after its first release. 

Simcubator, an incubation program for local healthcare and education startups in Bangladesh, has successfully completed its three-day-long workshop ‘Simcubator Bootcamp 2022’ on February 13. The program was sponsored by the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland and SELISE, a leading IT consultation and software firm based out of Switzerland with offices in Dhaka.

Wander Woman, a social venture catering to female travellers from Bangladesh, has won a grant worth $22.5K at the UNLEASH Plus 2021 Program for “developing a revolutionary platform for female travellers in South Asia,” according to a press release.