French companies will be required to guarantee a “right to disconnect” to their employees from Sunday as the country seeks to tackle the modern-day scourge of compulsive out-of-hours email checking. From January 1, a new employment law will enter into…
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Mobile operators’ service quality to be assessed: BTRC Chairman
Chairman of the Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC) Shajahan Mahmood on Thursday said they will be able to assess the service quality of mobile operators as they have procured necessary equipment for it.“The measurement process will start soon,” said the…
Avatar-style S. Korean manned robot takes first baby steps
A giant South Korean-built manned robot that walks like a human but makes the ground shake under its weight has taken its first baby steps. Designed by a veteran of science fiction blockbusters, the four-metre-tall (13-foot), 1.5 ton Method-2 towers…
PM opens mobile app for faster weather info
Bangladesh Meteorological Department (BMD) has developed a mobile application ‘BMD Weather App’ to facilitate smartphone users to get its all daily information services and keep them update about weather.The smartphone users can now download the mobile application from the Google…
Smartphone-obsessed Finns rank tops in screen time
On the crowded morning metro in Helsinki, silence prevails. Everyone is hunched over their smartphone screens, reading the news, checking emails or watching videos. A loud “yeah!” breaks the quiet, along with delighted screech from a toddler whose mother has…
China plans to land probes on moon, Mars by 2020
Beijing (AP/UNB) — China vowed Tuesday to speed up the development of its space industry as it set out its plans to become the first country to soft land a probe on the far side of the moon, around 2018,…
Robi Circle Club facilitates digital socialization
Robi subscribers of similar interest can now form clubs within the Robi Circle where people of similar interest can engage with each other on topics that interests them most.The Robi Circle has separate clubs for Cricket, Entertainment, Foodies, Gaming, Readers,…
Youths start building Digital Bangladesh: Shahriar
State Minister for Foreign Affairs Shahriar Alam, MP, here today said the youth forces have already started building Digital Bangladesh through their learning and earning activities. He said present government of Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is extending all support towards…
The sheer size of Yahoo’s breach a challenge to regulators
Earlier this month, Yahoo revealed that it suffered a massive hack in 2013 that affected at least 1 billion user accounts. That came just three months after the company disclosed a hack from 2014 that affected 500 million accounts. The…
Canada regulator declarers high speed internet an essential survice
Canada’s telecommunications regulator on Wednesday declared access to high-speed internet an essential service that must be available to all, including rural and remote areas of the world’s second-largest nation by land mass. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)…
Huge solar plant beams power, hope to rural Uganda
When power goes out in the rural town of Soroti in eastern Uganda, store manager Hussein Samsudin can only hope it won’t go on so long it spoils his fresh goods. Another shop owner, Richard Otekat, 37, has to pay…
Google Bangladesh domain hacked
Google’s Bangladesh domain has come under a cyber attack. Internet users have been failing to access the search engine using Google Chrome since Tuesday morning. A black screen appears when ‘google.com.bd’ is typed into Chrome’s browser.
Zuckerberg builds software butler for his home
Mark Zuckerberg’s artificial intelligence-imbued software “butler”—named Jarvis—is now in service, and even plays with his family, the Facebook chief said Monday. Zuckerberg took on the personal project this year, devoting about 100 hours to making a system inspired by the…
Thousands to attend American space legend John Glenn’s memorial
Thousands were expected to gather Saturday in Ohio for a memorial service to pay tribute to American space legend John Glenn, who died last week at the age of 95. The gathering in the home state of the first American…
Apple, Google oppose effort to build ‘Muslim registry’
Apple and Google spokespeople went on the record saying that the two tech behemoths would be opposed to helping build or contributing to any sort of ‘Muslim Registry’. An Apple spokesperson said: “We think people should be treated the same…
New Technologies in Debate in Biodiversity Conference
Synthetic biology, geoengineering and the recognition of ancestral knowledge are the issues that have generated the most heated debate in the United Nations Conference on Biodiversity, which ends in this Mexican resort city on Friday Dec. 17.The outcome of the…
China’s selfie app Meitu debuts on Hong Kong exchange
China’s popular selfie app developer Meitu made a muted debut on the Hong Kong stock exchange Thursday after the biggest IPO by a technology company in the city in almost a decade. With 456 million monthly active users, the Xiamen-based…
Yahoo suffers world’s biggest hack affecting 1 billion users
San Francisco(AP/UNB) —Yahoo has discovered a 3-year-old security breach that enabled a hacker to compromise more than 1 billion user accounts, breaking the company’s own humiliating record for the biggest security breach in history.
Google goes all-in on self-driving cars
By Noah Kulwin Google was the first major tech company to get into self-driving vehicles, revealing its initial prototype in the spring of 2014. Now, two and a half years later, the company is ready turn its research into a…
IBM unveils plan to hire 25,000 in US on eve of Trump meeting
US technology giant IBM said Tuesday it would hire 25,000 people in the country over the next four years, a day before President-elect Donald Trump meets with tech industry leaders. About 6,000 of those hirings will occur in 2017, IBM…
Porno websites to be listed, not viewers: Tarana
Dhaka – Mentioning that the government is bound to protect the personal information of people, State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Tuesday said her ministry will make the list of pornographic websites, not the porno viewers. She…
Govt working to bolster cyber security: Ranga
Dhaka – State Minister for LGRD and Co-operatives Moshiur Rahman Ranga on Monday said the government is working to prevent cyber crimes and enhance the standard of internet service.
Tarana’s ministry to track file movement through app on mobiles
Dhaka – State Minister for Posts and Communications Tarana Halim on Monday said the Posts and Telecommunications Division has launched a digital ‘file tracking’ system, accessible through a mobile phone app, with the aim of instilling pace, accountability and transparency…
Sydney New Year fireworks to be live streamed on Facebook
Sydney’s famous New Year’s Eve fireworks, which traditionally kick off the world’s major celebrations, are set to be streamed live on Facebook for the first time, officials said Monday. The visual extravaganza in Australia’s biggest city is already watched by…
Dialogue on struggle, achievement & future of ICT held
Speakers at a dialogue on “International Crimes Tribunal Model under State Law-its struggle, achievement and future in Bangladesh” today called upon all to take it advance together. They also emphasized on taking effective and speedy measures in this regard by…
CID finds 23 foreign nationals’ involvement in BB heist
Dhaka-The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) of police on Saturday claimed that they have found the involvement of 23 foreigners in the $ 101-million cyber heist from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve Bank.
New cyber-attacks on major banks thwarted, Russia says
Distributed denial of service strikes on five biggest banks and financial organisations in Russia was halted. Russia’s telecom operator on Friday said it had blocked a series of cyber-attacks on the country’s leading banks this week, the latest to target…
John Glenn, the 1st American to orbit Earth, has died at 95
Washington— John Glenn, whose 1962 flight as the first U.S. astronaut to orbit the Earth made him an all-American hero and propelled him to a long career in the U.S. Senate, died Thursday. The last survivor of the original Mercury…
Samsung prevails over Apple in $399 mn patent appeal
The US Supreme Court on Tuesday overturned a $399 million patent infringement penalty imposed on Samsung for copying Apple’s iPhone design, in a case watched for its implications for technology innovation. The shorthanded justices ruled 8-0 that Samsung should not…
Twitter, Facebook, YouTube team up to tackle terrorist content
By David Gilbert Well that was quick. Just 24 hours after the European Union criticized them for failing to fulfill their promise to tackle the proliferation of extremist content on their platforms, Twitter, Facebook, Microsoft and YouTube have announced a…