Technology

London, Jul 4 : Vodafone has become the second UK mobile operator to turn on its 5G network, offering faster speeds and the opportunity for new services, reports the BBC. The network is going live in seven UK cities, including Cardiff, London, Manchester and Glasgow. Making a success of the service could be crucial to the firm which has seen ...

Dhaka, Jun 30 : Telecoms giant Nokia has disowned the comments one of its senior executives made about rival Huawei, reports the BBC. Nokia’s chief technology officer Marcus Weldon told the BBC that the UK should be wary of using the Chinese hardware. He said Huawei’s telecoms kit had vulnerabilities that meant it posed a risk to 5G networks. In ...

New York City Council members voted to declare a climate emergency. It’s the largest city to make the statement yet. Photo: Collected Dhaka, June 28 : New York City officials declared a climate emergency in an effort to mobilize local and national responses to stall global warming, reports CNN. It’s the largest city in the US, with over 8.62 million ...

Up to 20 million manufacturing jobs around the world could be replaced by robots by 2030, according to analysis firm Oxford Economics, reports BBC. People displaced from those jobs are likely to find that comparable roles in the services sector have also been squeezed by automation, the firm said. However, increasing automation will also boost jobs and economic growth, it ...

Photo: Representational image. This undated file illustration made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta depicts Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, one of the germs that can evolve to resist antibiotics. San Francisco, June 23 : Antibiotic-resistant bacteria could be transmitted to humans through consumption of plant foods, which may pose health risks for the general public, according ...

Photo : An address sign for Facebook Way is shown in Menlo Park, Calif. Facebook unveiled a broad plan Tuesday, June 18, to create a new digital currency. San Francisco, Jun 19 : Facebook already rules daily communication for more than 2 billion people around the world. Now it wants its own currency, too. The social network unveiled an ambitious ...

 Facebook is set Tuesday to unveil a bid to bring cryptocurrency payments into the mainstream, reportedly with the endorsement of governments and financial giants. The world’s biggest social network is expected to outline details of a virtual currency launching next year that it hopes will avoid the rollercoaster volatility of “blockchain” technologies such as bitcoin. Facebook is setting up a ...

Photo: Made almost from scratch, the car runs on five batteries. Narayanganj, June 17 : At first sight, it looks like a gorgeous imported sports car. At most, some may think it was assembled in the country after importing foreign materials. But a youth named Akash, a resident of Narayanganj, actually built the car from scratch at a workshop here ...

Photo: A wireless hotspot device on a police patrol car laptop in Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage, Jun 13 : The police chief of Alaska’s largest city hurried out of the department’s glass building after the ground began to shake. Phone lines jammed and even police radios were spotty after a major earthquake, but his cellphone was recently equipped with a national ...

Photo: A woman using a cell phone walks past T-Mobile and Sprint stores in New York. New York, Jun 12 : A group of state attorneys general led by New York and California filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday to block T-Mobile’s $26.5 billion bid for Sprint, citing consumer harm. The state attorneys general said the promised benefits, such as better ...