A breakthrough in wireless charging could result in the death of costly battery-powered wireless sensors, researchers from the Australian National University (ANU) said on Wednesday. Used in the health industry as well as agricultural sectors such as viniculture and farming…
Internet mogul Kim Dotcom has announced plans to relaunch his Megaupload empire in 2017, exactly five years after US authorities shut it down over allegations of massive copyright piracy. The file-sharing service was once the 13th most visited site on…
Two decades after Scotland’s Dolly the sheep became the first cloned mammal consumers may well wonder whether they are drinking milk or eating meat from cookie-cutter cows or their offspring. The simple answer: “probably”. The fact is, there is no…
IT Desk Standing out from the crowd in today’s digital economy isn’t easy, but the key might be pursuing personal projects more than polishing CVs, according to a senior member of Facebook’s creative team. Diving into a passion and making…
When allegations emerged that Facebook was skewing its trending news stories, many learned about it… on Facebook. That underscored the rapid shift in media—not only is news moving from print to digital, but Facebook, Google and other tech platforms are…
German engineers have created a camera no bigger than a grain of salt that could change the future of health imaging—and clandestine surveillance. Using 3-D printing, researchers from the University of Stuttgart built a three-lens camera, and fit it onto…
Adding CO2 instead of water to the cocktail used in fracking, could boost oil and gas extraction and help fight global warming at the same time, scientists said Tuesday. Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking”, harvests fossil fuels locked inside shale formations…
A team of international scientists said Wednesday that they had detected gravitational waves—ripples in space and time, which Albert Einstein predicted a century ago—for the second time. Einstein predicted the existence of the waves in his theory of relativity a…
North Korean hackers managed to steal thousands of records from private firms and state agencies in the South including defence industry information and files from Korean Air, Seoul police said Monday.The hacking originated from 16 servers based in the North’s…
Dhaka-Alongside Google and Facebook, the government has also started working with Microsoft for ensuring cyber security in the country and preventing child pornography. State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim came up with the disclosure in Parliament on Sunday.
The US administration on Thursday endorsed a plan to cede its oversight of the gatekeeper of Internet addresses to the broader online community. Commerce Department assistant secretary for communications and information Lawrence Strickling told AFP that the proposal from the…
Experts have said that as Technology is changing very fast the people with the support of technology are getting upgraded in a dynamic way. They were speaking at the concluding session of two days long programme at the Rajshahi University…
Dhaka – A 6-member IT Forensic Expert of Interpol has started its work to help local experts of CID in connection with heist of $81 million from Bangladesh Bank’s account with the US Federal Reserve Bank. The Interpol team, led…
Popular social networking site, Facebook, has for the first time responded to requests of Bangladesh government providing users’ information.
London (CNN)British police and government aviation investigators have launched inquiries after a passenger jet was struck by what was believed to be a drone as it approached a London airport Sunday. British Airways Flight BA727 from Geneva, Switzerland, was coming…
Rumour has it Apple will completely redesign the iPhone. Out will go the ranges’ famed aluminum chassis and in its place will be the return of an all-glass enclosure. This will also be complemented by new cutting edge curved OLED…
By Ryan Faith This week, on the 55th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s first-ever manned spaceflight, Russian internet entrepreneur Yuri Milner and British physicist Stephen Hawking announced a project aimed to send a spacecraft to another star. With lasers! Breakthrough Starshot,…
An international team of scientists has successfully detected a mysterious new state of matter that causes electrons — thought to be nature’s indivisible building blocks — to break into pieces.The state, known as a quantum spin liquid, was found in…
Samsung is regaining smartphone share in India with a revamped line-up packed with special features including a safety mode for motorcyclists, as rival Apple readies a renewed push into the world’s fastest-growing market.Long the leader in price-conscious India, the South…
Software produced by a little-known Australian developer has helped journalists piece together news leads from the mountains of data found in the contents of the Panama Papers, one of the biggest document leaks in history.Sydney-based Nuix Pty Ltd donated its…
Tesla unveiled a new, cheaper model of its electric car aimed at the mass market. Photo: AFPTesla unveiled a new, cheaper model of its electric car aimed at the mass market on Thursday, taking more than 115,000 orders in the…
Google on Tuesday unveiled a new landline telephone service aimed at helping consumers stay connected in the Internet cloud.The new Fiber Phone service will be made available to a few US markets and later expanded to other cities where Google…
The US Department of Justice will disclose over the next two weeks whether it will continue with its bid to compel Apple Inc to help access an iPhone in a Brooklyn drug case, according to a court filing on Tuesday.The…
An unmanned cargo ship packed with science experiment materials plus food, water and clothes successfully docked at the International Space Station on Saturday, NASA partner Orbital ATK said.The cargo ship, Cygnus, which blasted off Tuesday on the resupply run, was…
Apple is planning big changes to its iPhone lineup next year, according to a US media report.
AFP, Sydney – Australia will invest Aus$1 billion in clean energy technologies, Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said Wednesday, in a stark shift away from his predecessor’s climate change policies as an election looms. Turnbull, long known as a supporter of…
The rapidly-spreading Zika virus has an unlikely victim – Indian carmaker Tata Motors Ltd.The carmaker said on Tuesday it had decided to rename its soon-to-be-launched hatchback Zica, short for Zippy Car, after the mosquito-borne virus was declared an international health…
European plane manufacturer Airbus will be launching a new cabin design, called Airspace by Airbus. The design will deliver enhanced passenger comfort by using new technologies it has recently developed.
The launch of such a phone – expected to be called the iPhone SE – would represent Apple’s second bid for the crowded mid-tier market after an unsuccessful foray three years ago.It might give the world’s best-known technology company a…
Twitter Inc’s 140-character tweets are here to stay, Chief Executive Jack Dorsey said on Friday, ending speculation that the microblogging site might abandon one of its trademark features for a 10,000-character limit. “It’s staying. It’s a good constraint for us…