Friday, 29 Mar, 2024

Tech

Stephen Hawking joins Facebook

DHAKA: The famous theoretical physicist professor Stephen Hawking is now on Facebook, asking fans to be ‘curious’.In his first Facebook post, Hawking said, ‘I have always wondered what makes the universe exist. Time and space may forever be a mystery, but that has not stopped my

The Queen sends 1st tweet for Science Museum

DHAKA: "It is a pleasure to open the Information Age exhibition today at the @ScienceMuseum and I hope people will enjoy visiting. Elizabeth R."That was the Queen's first tweet - sent through the @BritishMonarchy account - heralding the launch of a major new exhibition at London's

Ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn released

DHAKA: The latest version of Ubuntu, 14.10, has been officially released.Version 14.10 — dubbed Utopic Unicorn — doesn’t bring much to the table in terms of new features, but it does mark an important anniversary.Ten years ago this week, the very first version of Ubuntu was

No more ‘Nokia’ phone: Microsoft

DHAKA: Microsoft has announced that the Nokia Lumia brand is dead; there will be no more Nokia-branded Windows Phones.Instead, we’ll now get Microsoft Lumia devices — and in the next few days, all of the existing branding, websites, and social channels will be rebranded as

ITEE examination Sunday

DHAKA: Some 450 local IT professionals and students will sit Sunday for International Standardized Information Technology Engineers Examination (ITEE) in Dhaka to get a global recognition of their IT skills. The examination will be held at Dhaka University, Bangladesh University of

Google launches new email service

DHAKA: Google Inc launched an email service called ‘Inbox’ on Wednesday that will better organize emails and display information such as appointments, flight bookings and package deliveries in a more user-friendly way.Google said it was sending out invitations to selected Gmail

Bangladesh’s mobile phone users now 12cr

DHAKA: Bangladesh is the 10th in world ranking with around 11.75 crore mobile phone subscribers out of its some 16 crore people.Out of 700 crores people of the world, 680 crores use mobile phones.The information was disclosed in a workshop titled ‘Development of Strategy and

Your Instagram picture is worth a thousand ads

DHAKA: Alina Tsvor, 24, is a freelance photographer who sometimes struggles to make ends meet. But when she wanted to charter a helicopter to take her and her friends for a ride over Chicago, she had the currency.Nikoletta Csanyi, 28, a banking consultant, leveraged her capital for a

Sony Xperia Z4 specifications, features leaked

DHAKA: Sony Xperia Z3 is less than two months old, but it seems that the Japanese manufacturer won't take long to launch its next top-end smartphone.According to a report by technology website AndroidOrigin, Sony Xperia Z4 is said to sport a 5.5-inch screen with a QHD 2560 x 1440

Banglanews English Version in New Look

DHAKA: banglanews24.com, country’s top and the new-generation multimedia news portal to disseminate news for round-the-clock news, made changes in its English Version.To live up to with new ideas, cutting-edge outlook and futuristic vision for info-savvy new generations, banglanews

Here's what hackers do with your data

DHAKA: The past few weeks have seen a flurry of hacker activity. From the leak of celebrity nudes to the 200,000 Snapchat photos stolen and posted on 4chan, to the most recent infiltration of Dropbox, it's clear hackers have moved on from the days of stealing our credit card

Apple SIM: The death of the SIM card

DHAKA: The little gold-plated circuits — which identify you as a subscriber on a particular carrier — plug into phones, tablets, and basically anything else with a cellular radio.Customers of GSM carriers have been using them since time immemorial; CDMA carriers have started using

Comet to hit Mars spacecraft

DHAKA: A comet is speeding toward a close-encounter with Mars. Comet Siding Spring is expected to come within 87,000 miles of Mars at about 2:27pm ET (0727 GMT) on Sunday – very close for a comet flyby.The space rock is moving at about 126,000 mph.NASA thinks the comet will miss the

Tinfoil for FB to protect privacy on Android

DHAKA: The Facebook app and its Messenger counterpart have been met with a lot of criticism from users. Among the reviews, you'll find complaints about permission settings and the lack of features in each app when compared to the mobile Web UI, reports cnet.com.  As an alternative to

Optoma S315 DLP Projector available

DHAKA: Unique Business system Limited, a renowned ICT product distributor of the country, has introduced a new model of Optoma S315 DLP Projector in the local market, considering the day to day business need and being.Business presentations are only as good as the content. Besides,

Dropbox: We weren't hacked!

DHAKA: A group of anonymous hackers claims to have stolen nearly 7 million Dropbox username and password combinations. But Dropbox denied that it was hacked.The hackers have posted several hundred email addresses and passwords so far on Pastebin.com, releasing more logins as they

Google launches Apple TV rival Nexus Player

DHAKA: Google just staked its — third, fourth? — claim for the living room with the Nexus Player. The search giant announced seemingly out of the blue on October 15 that its Android TV-based set-top box will be available for pre-order starting October 17.Despite previous leaks of

Apple Announces The iMac With Retina Display

DHAKA: In addition to showing off updates to the iPad lineup, Apple announced this year’s new iMac, the first Apple desktop to receive a Retina display.Packaged in a thin body like the last few iMacs, this new all-in-one packs a 27-inch Retina 5K display with 14.7 million pixels

Rain? Air-Brella Soon!

DHAKA: Umbrellas are kind of terrible. They’re a pain to carry around with you all day, they turn inside-out in the wind, and it’s a wonder that more eyes aren’t poked out by those protruding metal edges when a crowd of people funnel out of a train station and unfurl them all at

Facebook challenging YouTube in video supremacy

DHAKA: In Facebook’s house, Facebook gets what Facebook wants. And what Facebook wants right now is to challenge YouTube for dominance in video consumption.Big surprise: Facebook is now challenging YouTube for dominance in video consumption — within its walls, anyway. According to