Young children know that name-calling is wrong. Tweens are taught the perils of online bullying and revenge porn: It’s unacceptable and potentially illegal.But celebrities who engage in flagrant attacks on social media are rewarded with worldwide attention. President Donald Trump’s…
Helsinki, Jul 10 (AP/UNB) – The European Union says coal-fired power plants are responsible for the most pollution on the continent, with Britain among the top polluters.
Kuwait: Kuwait Airways and Royal Jordanian have become the latest Middle Eastern airlines to let passengers take laptops in the cabin on US-bound flights. Both carriers said they had worked with US officials to tighten security checks on flights from…
Qualcomm on Thursday escalated its legal battle with Apple, filing a patent infringement lawsuit and requesting a ban on the importation of some iPhones, claiming unlawful and unfair use of the chipmaker’s technology. Qualcomm said it filed two separate legal…
A nanosatellite, designed by Bangladesh’s three prodigious students, has been fired into the orbit from the International Space Station.‘BRAC Onnesha’ is now orbiting the earth after a successful launch from the ISS on Friday. Onnesha denotes search or exploration in…
SpaceX on Wednesday deployed a broadband communications satellite for IntelSat, after twice ditching launch plans in the final seconds before liftoff earlier this week. The satellite, known as IntelSat 35e, soared into the blue sky over Cape Canaveral at 7:38…
US Vice-President Mike Pence has made a tongue-in-cheek apology to Nasa after a photo of him touching a piece of space flight equipment went viral. Mr Pence was visiting the Kennedy Space Center in Florida when he placed his hand…
Samsung Electronics has reported a record quarterly profit thanks to surging global demand for memory chips. The South Korean tech giant reported an operating profit of 14 trillion won ($12bn; £9.3bn) in the three months to June, up 72 per…
Simple mud concrete bricks provide the most affordable and sustainable houses in the tropics, a Sri-Lankan study suggests.
By IPS World Desk Rome, Jul 5 (IPS) – In the Near East and North Africa region, the per capita renewable water availability is around 600 cubic metres per person per year –only 10 per cent of the world average-…
ASE Group, an engineering company and member of Russia’s state nuclear corporation Rosatom, has launched tenders related to the construction of new units at Hungary’s Paks nuclear power plant (NPP), the company said in a statement on Tuesday. Read also…
Contraceptives may give us the advantage of avoiding accidental and unwanted pregnancies as well as keep us protected from STDs, but the chemicals from them may be messing with fish’s gender. As per a study, researchers have said that chemicals…
Seoul, Jul 4 (AP/UNB) – North Korea launched an intermediate-range ballistic missile Tuesday that appeared to have flown for a longer time than previous such missiles, landing in waters near North Korea’s bitter rival, Japan, according to U.S., Japanese and…
Yuma, Jul 3 (AP/UNB) – A solar-powered drone backed by Facebook that could one day provide worldwide internet access has quietly completed a test flight in Arizona after an earlier attempt ended with a crash landing.
Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have extended the deadline for Qatar to accept a list of demands or face further sanctions by 48 hours.
Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) has rejected the appeal of mobile phone operator Banglalink for direct assignment of 5MHz spectrum in 2100MHz band without any auction. The telecom regulator has termed the appeal as “illogical” and “unwanted” saying that the…
Dhaka, July 1 – A team of the Anti Corruption Commission (ACC) on Saturday arrested Mehboob Chowdhury,the chief executive officer (CEO) of mobile phone operator Citycell, from Shahjalal International Airport in a case filed for embezzlement of bank loan.
Apple co-founder Steve Jobs, who died in 2011, contemplated putting the company’s hardware and software smarts to work in a car nearly a decade ago, according to reports in trade press. Speculation about an Apple Car became the stuff of…
Paris, Jun 30 (AP/UNB)- A cyberattack that caused indiscriminate economic damage around the world was apparently designed to create maximum havoc in Russia’s neighbor and adversary Ukraine, security researchers said.
Throughout its 4.5-billion-year history, Earth has been repeatedly pummelled by space rocks that have caused anything from an innocuous splash in the ocean to species annihilation. When the next big impact will be, nobody knows. But the pressure is on…
Cairo – An Egyptian inventor has successfully tested a safe electricity system for homes that eliminates the risk of electric shocks and reduces energy consumption significantly.
Companies across the globe are reporting that they have been struck by a major ransomware cyber-attack. British advertising agency WPP is among those to say its IT systems have been disrupted as a consequence.
What if your flight, your car and your hotel were all combined into one luxury, high-tech transit complex? That’s the idea behind Brandan Siebrecht’s Hyperloop Hotel — an inventive solution to 21st century traveling. Siebrecht, a graduate architect at the…
It seemed like a glimpse into the city of tomorrow – but China’s “straddling bus” was riddled by doubts early on and now is headed for the scrap yard. The futuristic idea was a bus that would drive above traffic,…
German news weekly Der Spiegel reported on Thursday that it had received materials documenting German surveillance efforts aimed at a number of US businesses and government, including the White House. The Bundesnachrichtendienst (BND), Germany’s foreign intelligence agency, reportedly monitored email…
With its army of salespeople and vast network of outlets, a relatively new smartphone maker has exploded in popularity to overtake global giants Apple and Samsung in China’s market—and now it has its eye on the West. Oppo began life…
Six mobile phone operators of the country has paid Tk 855.01 crore as revenue in the 2016-17 fiscal. Tarana Halim, State Minister for Post and Telecommunications, came up with the information while replying to a tabled starred question from Sukumar…
Google is stepping up its efforts to block “extremist and terrorism-related videos” over its platforms, using a combination of technology and human monitors. The measures announced Sunday come on the heels of similar efforts unveiled by Facebook last week, and…
The Cabinet on Monday approved the draft of ‘The National Online Mass Media Policy, 2017’ incorporating a proposal for constituting a National Broadcast Commission to facilitate the operation of online mass media in a well-organised manner. The approval was given…
Boeing has maintained the pressure on Airbus, its main rival, with the launch of the biggest version yet of the 737 short-haul jet. The world’s largest commercial aircraft maker announced plans for the 737 Max 10 at the Paris Air…