India’s Space Research Organisation, ISRO has announced to launch 31 satellites, including Cartosat-2 series earth observation spacecraft, in a single mission next month, state-run broadcaster – All India Radio (AIR) said Saturday. The satellites according to the broadcaster would be…
by David Child The Telegram Service, Launched in the 1830s, Invented by the UK, User calls telephone operator to dictate message, which is then sent by post to recipient The last clarion call of the Titanic, an announcement of the…
Virus infections made computer users in Vietnam to rack up losses of 12.3 trillion Vietnamese dong (544 million U.S. dollars) in 2017.
Apple has apologised after facing criticism for admitting it deliberately slows down some ageing iPhone models. The company now says it will replace batteries for less and will issue software in 2018 so customers can monitor their phone’s battery health.
Savar, Dhaka – DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid) barcoding of a total of 150 insect-species has successfully been done in Jahangirnagar University (JU).
Sea levels are rising because polar ice is melting. Polar ice is melting because greenhouse gases are warming the world.
Google on Wednesday celebrated poet Mirza Ghalib’s 220th birth anniversary with a doodle. A poet in Urdu and Persian languages during the Mughal era, Ghalib became famous for his Urdu ghazals. His poems and ghazals have been translated and recited…
Hanoi, Dec 26 (AP/UNB) — A powerful storm that left a trail of death and destruction in the Philippines was downgraded to a tropical depression Tuesday and failed to make landfall in Vietnam.
The Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) report for the Kuala Lumpur-Singapore High Speed Rail (KL-SG HSR) is ready for public viewing from Wednesday.
Dubai’s Roads and Transports Authority (RTA) is trialling the region’s first hydrogen-powered electric vehicles, according to the Dubai Media Office. The Toyota Mirai will be put to the test as part of Dubai’s taxi fleet, in collaboration with Al Futtaim…
The UAE’s Telecommunications Regulation Authority has announced the initiation of IMT2020 technology – commonly known as 5G – which is expected to be deployed across the country from early 2018. According to state news agency WAM, licencees from mobile operators…
China started building its first national engineering laboratory for atmospheric environmental monitoring on Sunday in Hefei, capital of east China’s Anhui Province.
China’s home-grown AG600, the world’s largest amphibious aircraft in production, took to the skies on Sunday for its maiden flight.
A Virtual Private Network (VPN) seller in southern China has been sentenced to five and a half years in prison, official media reported Wednesday, one of the most severe sentences yet for helping users evade the country’s “Great Firewall”.
NASA on Wednesday announced two finalists for billion-dollar robotic missions—one to explore a comet and another Saturn’s moon Titan—with a launch by the winner planned in the 2020s.
With GPS-guided bombs, armed drones beaming footage via satellite and spy cameras scooping up intel from the heavens, America’s military machine is growing ever more reliant on space-based technology.
Paris, Dec 18 (AP/UNB) – French economy minister Bruno Le Maire has launched a lawsuit against American e-commerce giant Amazon for imposing unfair commercial relationships to suppliers in the country.
Technology that forces trains to adhere to speed limits was being installed on the express that crashed in the US state of Washington on Monday but was not yet operational, investigators say. Three people died when the train derailed at…
The Swedish strategic programme against antibiotic resistance (Strama) has played a key role in decreasing antibiotic use on all levels in Sweden over the past 20 years. Through a bottom-up multidisciplinary approach and intervention measures that include treatment guidelines, monitoring…
Rajshahi, 18 Dec – A two-day-long 2nd RUSC Science Fiesta 2017 will begin at Rajshahi University (RU) on Wednesday.
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, said substantial and sustainable boosting the number of science-minded students and youths can be the vital means of taking the nation forward. He said the young generation should be enriched with science…
With a view to archive the every minute incidents of the War of Liberation of Bangladesh in a single map, Priyo Limited has taken a move to build digital mapping platform “MuktiPin”.
A record-tying eighth planet has been found in a faraway solar system, matching our own in number. Even more amazing, machines and not humans made the discovery. NASA joined with Google on Thursday to announce the finding.
Two astronauts, from the US and Italy, and a Russian cosmonaut on Thursday landed in Kazakhstan after almost five months on the International Space Station, footage from the Russian space agency showed. American Randy Bresnik, Paolo Nespoli of Italy and…
Dhaka, Dec 13 – Each year farmers in Bangladesh grow close to 10 million tonnes of potato, well surpassing the domestic demand of the tuber crop and export the surplus to 20 countries. But to save the prime vegetable from…
Google announced Wednesday that it will open a new artificial intelligence research centre in Beijing, tapping China’s talent pool in the promising technology despite the US search giant’s exclusion from the country’s internet.
The British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has discovered a severe flaw that would affect Microsoft’s Windows system, including the latest Windows 10, an online report said Monday.
Stockholm, Dec 11 (AP/UNB) — An American researcher who shared this year’s Nobel Prize for medicine bluntly criticized political developments at home in his address at the awards’ gala banquet Sunday night. Michael Rosbash, who was honoured for his work…
By Jonathan Cook Nazareth: Can anyone still doubt that access to a relatively free and open internet is rapidly coming to an end in the west? In China and other autocratic regimes, leaders have simply bent the internet to their…
Finance Minister Abul Maal Abdul Muhith handed over a crest to Taher Ahmed Chowdhury, Deputy Managing Director of Islami Bank Bangladesh Limited at the closing ceremony of the Digital World-2017.