Bhutan wants to import Bangladesh’s unused internet bandwidth as Dhaka in principle has decided to sell the surplus. The new Bhutanese High Commissioner Pema Choden expressed Thimphu’s interest in importing surplus bandwidth while meeting with State Minister for Foreign Affairs…
Tesco is to launch its first own-brand smartphone by the end of the year.
By Melissa Hogenboom Neuroscience is a fast growing and popular field, but despite advances, when an area of the brain ‘lights up” it does not tell us as much as we’d like about the inner workings of the mind.
Twitter is trialling a feature in its mobile apps that allows users to mute accounts that are becoming irritating.
Microsoft has said users of its Windows XP operating system will also get the security update it has issued to fix a flaw in the Internet Explorer browser.
By Jonathan Amos Rolf Hut, from Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands, plans to turn our umbrellas into rain gauges. His prototype smart brolly has a sensor that detects raindrops falling on its canvas, and uses bluetooth to send this information…
US space agency Nasa has been showing off the wardrobe essentials for future astronauts looking for a new outfit for their first flight to Mars.
Those who watched on a “movie screen” would pay the most while those using smartphones would only pay a small fee, Jeffrey Katzenberg said.
By Leo Kelion Rather than focus on what the owner sees, Prof Hirotaka Osawa’s kit shows computer-generated eye animations in place of the wearer’s real ones.
A private firm, WinSun, used four 10m x 6.6m printers to spray a mixture of cement and construction waste to build the walls, layer by layer, officialXinhua news agency reported.
The Cabinet division website (http://www.cabinet.gov.bd), has been hacked. ‘Bl@Ck Dr@GoN, Indian Hackers Online Squad’, claimed that it hacked the site.
The deal between the two firms should have been completed earlier this year but it was delayed by a hold-up in regulatory approvals.
Helsinki-based ProtoGeo created the Moves app that uses a smartphone’s built-in sensors to track activity and calories burned.
By Rebecca Morelle The mystery of a bizarre quacking sound heard in the ocean has finally been solved, scientists report.
By Leo Kelion Zuta Labs is proceeding with the project after raising over $435,000 (£260,000) via a crowdfunding site.
A conference on nanotechnology was held On Monday at the BRAC University, Dhaka. The Conference was organized by the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. The title of talk was ‘Recent Developments of Nanotechnology’ for the next generation manufacturing. The…
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One lucky citizen of the oil-rich United Arab Emirates could soon get the chance to be rocketed into space. Government-backed Aabar Investments on Sunday announced the start of a competition to award an Emirati…
Researchers at the University of Virginia demonstrated tweets could predict certain kinds of crimes if the correct analysis is applied.
In January, the U.S. software company said Xbox One sales had crossed three million as of the end of 2013.
Amazon hasn’t confirmed that it has plans for a smartphone. Introducing such a device would be tough in a crowded market dominated by Apple and Samsung.
Vita is a robot which can be manoeuvred around hospital wards from afar.
Science has often come to the rescue when it comes to the world’s big problems, be it the Green Revolution that helped avoid mass starvation or the small pox vaccine that eradicated the disease.
Participants’ brain scans revealed that artists had increased neural matter in areas relating to fine motor movements and visual imagery.
Berlin-based Security Research Labs fooled the equipment using a mould it had previously created to spoof the sensor on Apple’s iPhone 5S. The researchers said they were concerned that thieves could exploit the flaw in Samsung’s device to trigger money transfers via…
By Jonathan Amos The big aerospace concern was declared the winner at the latest meeting of the European Space Agency’s (Esa) Industrial Policy Committee (IPC).
Users must be 18 years old and are required to fill in an online form in order to be eligible to buy the device.
Popular online social networking site facebook has restricted access in Bangladesh to three pieces of content as ‘requested by the government due to violations of local law’.
As the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which deals with the physical science of climate change, is launched this week (30 January), SciDev.Net speaks to Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the panel’s…
By Paul Rincon The ocean liner sank on its maiden voyage 102 years ago, with the loss of more than 1,500 lives.
The Digital Media Initiative (DMI) was intended to move the BBC away from using and storing video tape.