Facebook is suffering the most severe outage in its history, with key services rendered unusable for users globally for much of Wednesday. The last time Facebook had a disruption of this magnitude was in 2008, when the site had 150m users - compared to around 2.3bn monthly users today.

DHAKA:  The local electronics giant Walton is going to produce five best smart refrigerators of global models. The features include innovative design, quality, capacity, reasonable rates and advanced tecknology with the target of grabbing a remarkable portion of potential electronics

DHAKA: Bangabandhu-I satellite authority will provide free broadcast  service to all private TV channels for three months on the occasion of its 1st year launching anniversary. Information Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud told reporters after emerging from a meeting with Association of

Back in August, Spotify secured a major partnership as Samsung's go-to music provider.  That power couple gets serious on Friday (Mar 8), with the announcement that Spotify will now be pre-installed on the newest Samsung mobile devices, allowing listeners to start using the app as

Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has said he believes secure, private messaging services will become more popular than open platforms. In a blog, Mr Zuckerberg outlined his vision to transform Facebook into a "privacy-focused platform." Facebook owns Messenger and WhatsApp, but message

Huawei has filed a lawsuit against the US government over a ban that restricts government agencies from using its products. It said the US failed to provide evidence to support the ban, and the firm also rejected claims it had links to the Chinese government. The US has restricted

Zhores Alferov, the 2000 Nobel prize winner in physics and a member of Russia's parliament, has died aged 88 in St Petersburg, the Russian Communist party said on Saturday. Alferov shared the nearly $1 million award, which recognised his research work in the 1970s in information

Facebook and Instagram are suing four companies and three people in China for creating and promoting the sale of fake accounts, likes and followers on the social networks. The lawsuit, which was filed in US federal court, alleges that the companies and people violated US intellectual

The US is about to take a major step towards being able to fly its astronauts into space once again. California's SpaceX firm is performing a demonstration of a new rocket and capsule system, which, if it works well, will be approved to carry people. Routine crew missions to the

DHAKA: International body for domain control management ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) has assured its all-out support to resolve the Joint Letter (Jukto Borno) problems of Bangla font in Unicode. ICT ministry here disclosed the development in a press

Short-form video sharing app TikTok has been handed the largest ever fine for a US case involving children's data privacy. The company has agreed to pay $5.7m (£4.3m) and implement new measures to handle users who say they are under 13. The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) said

Huawei has revealed its first smartphone to feature a foldable screen, less than a week after its rival Samsung did the same. The rival handset-tablet hybrids have contrasting designs. Huawei's Mate X places its fold-out screen on the outside of the device, so that it covers the

DHAKA: Bangladesh Telecommunication Company Limited (BTCL) has decided to change the phone numbers of 791 and 792 series under Uttara Telephone Exchange due to technical glitch.  The existing phone numbers starting with 791 will be switched into 8-digit group starting with 4896. Last

DHAKA: Bangladesh clinched the championship of National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Space Apps Challenge, the biggest hackathon in the world. ‘Team Olik’ from Shahjalal University of Science & Technology (SUST) beat top four teams from US, Malaysia and Japan to

DHAKA: The 15th edition of BASIS SoftExpo will begin on Mar 19. The three-day exposition will continue till Mar 21 at International Convention City Bashundhara (ICCB).  The schedule was announced formally at a press briefing held at BASIS Headquarters in Karwan Bazar Saturday (Feb

A panel of MPs in India wants Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey to appear before it on February 25 to seek his views on “safeguarding citizens’ rights on social/online news media platforms”. The parliamentary committee had previously summoned representatives of Twitter to a meeting on

Russia is planning to briefly disconnect from the internet as part of planning for a future cyber-war. The test will mean data passing between Russian citizens and organisations stays inside the nation rather than being routed internationally. A law mandating technical changes

A US teenager who discovered a security flaw in Apple's FaceTime video-calling system has been given a bug bounty. Apple has not revealed the exact amount it is giving 14-year-old Grant Thompson but it is believed to include money to help pay for his education. The teenager

Germany's competition authority has told Facebook it can only continue gathering so much data about users from beyond its app and website if it gets individuals' consent. The watchdog has carried out a probe into the social network following concerns that members were unaware

DHAKA: Over 200 porn websites were blocked in Bangladesh following an order from Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Commission (BTRC). International Internet Gateway (IIG) and Internet Service Provider (ISP) organizations were directed on Wednesday (Feb 6) to implement the order.