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…
Popular social networking site, Facebook, has for the first time responded to requests of Bangladesh government providing users’ information.
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…
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…
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…
Google Maps v9, which has been in Google Play for a while, has had the ability to show heads-up bubbles announcing upcoming turns and street or exit names while in navigation mode. The feature was previously only available to a…
London — A proposed British law that gives police and spies unprecedented powers to look at the Internet browsing records of everyone in the country passed its first major vote in Parliament on Tuesday.
Europe and Russia are set to launch an unmanned spacecraft Monday to smell Mars’ atmosphere for gassy evidence that life once existed on the Red Planet, or may do so still.ExoMars 2016, the first of a two-phase Mars exploration, will…
NK News North Korea launched a rocket at 9:30 a.m. Sunday, South Korea’s Yonhap News Agency reported, citing the South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff. S. Korean media says N. Korean rocket successfully puts satellite into space. North Korea launches…
A Google artificial intelligence program has beaten the European champion of the board game Go.The Chinese game is viewed as a much tougher challenge than chess for computers because there are many more ways a Go match can play out.The…
Staff Reporter Axiata announces to acquisition Nepal’s Ncell just after 3 months of announcing Robi-Airtel merger, Yesterday.
Staff reporter The government has took decision to allow a person to resister maximum 20 mobile phone SIM cards against his/her national identity card, said state minister for posts and telecommunications Tarana Halim. The government set the limit of using…
Neuroscientists, including an Indian-origin researcher from Johns Hopkins University, have pinpointed a part of the brain that helps you decipher memory from new experiences.In a supermarket, on board the Metro or at airport, you suddenly see a familiar face and…
They look alike, act alike and long have been considered to be the same species.But, in the case of the golden jackals found across parts of Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Europe, it turns out that appearances can be…
Scientists using NASA’s powerful Kepler telescope have found a planet beyond the solar system that is a close match to Earth.The planet, which is about 60 percent bigger than Earth, is located about 1,400 light years away in the constellation…
A US spacecraft sailed past the tiny planet Pluto in the distant reaches of the solar system on Tuesday, capping a journey of 3 billion miles (4.88 billion km) that began nine and a half years ago.
Celebrating the Earth Day, NASA has released some of the most gorgeous images and a stunning video of planet Earth as captured from the International Space Station (ISS).
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has defended the aims of his Internet.org initiative after several Indian firms decided to pull out of the project.
A camera powered by the light it uses to take pictures has been invented by American scientists.