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The government has ordered to shut mobile internet services as violence centering non-cooperation movement of the Anti-Discrimination Students’ Movement spread to the country. “A direction to stop 4G services came to us,” a top official of mobile phone operator informed this to media on Sunday. It was learned that after 1pm on Sunday, all mobile operators have shut mobile internet ...

Social media platform Facebook and Russian-based messaging app Telegram have been found unresponsive on mobile network. According to the relevant sources, after 12.15 pm on Friday, users have been having trouble using the two apps with a few of them facing no such issue. Those concerned say that if Facebook is closed on mobile data, the use of VPN will ...

Access to all social media platforms–Facebook, YouTube, TikTok and Whatsapp– restored on Wednesday afternoon after 14 days’ of restriction following the violence centering Quota Reform Movement. Users can log in to their respective Facebook IDs after 2pm without VPN application. Earlier at 1pm, State Minister for Telecommunications and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak announced that all social media platforms will ...

After 10 days of outage, 4G internet restored in the country at 3PM on Sunday. Earlier in the day, State Minister for ICT Zunaid Ahmed Palak informed that 5GB bonus will be given for free to all users for three days. But decision on social media platforms–Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, TikTok–on 31 July.  

State Minister of Ministry of Posts, Telecommunications, and Information Technology Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Saturday said a meeting to discuss the restoration of mobile internet 4G services will be held on Sunday. The state minister shared the information while addressing an event held at Agargaon in the capital marking 54th birthday of Sajeeb Wazed Joy. He said the Ministry of ...

Bangladesh Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (BTRC) has said that mobile internet services may be restored early next week. Mohiuddin Ahmed, chairman of the organization, said on Friday that testing is still going on regarding the restore of mobile internet. He said, the transmission lines and data centers that have been repaired, how the impact is and as the pressure on the ...

Two weeks ahead of the Paris 2024 Opening Ceremony, Samsung Electronics unveiled the next frontier of Galaxy AI with Galaxy Unpacked 2024 on Wednesday, 10 July (local time) at the Carrousel du Louvre — located underground the historic Louvre Museum in Paris, France. Attendees were greeted by Galaxy Unpacked 2024 banners around the venue where an inverted glass pyramid reminiscent ...

McDonald’s is removing artificial intelligence (AI) powered ordering technology from its drive-through restaurants in the US, after customers shared its comical mishaps online. A trial of the system – which uses voice recognition software to process orders – was announced in 2019. It has not proved entirely reliable however – resulting in viral videos of bizarre misinterpreted orders. ranging from ...

Instagram is testing adverts that users cannot skip past. The social media platform currently allows people to swipe or scroll past adverts that appear in its main feed of images and videos, as well as in its Stories and Reels feeds. But it is now trialling a feature called “ad break”, which users say they can not flick past as ...

Apple on Thursday said its quarterly profit ebbed but topped market forecasts as it announced an unprecedented $110 billion share buyback. The iPhone maker reported a profit of $23.6 billion on $90.8 billion in revenue in the first three months of this year. “Given our confidence in Apple’s future and the value we see in our stock, our Board has ...