Technology

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 ...

The US Senate has approved a controversial landmark bill that could see TikTok banned in America. It gives TikTok’s Chinese owner, ByteDance, nine months to sell its stake or the app will be blocked in the United States. The bill will now be handed over to US President Joe Biden who has said he will sign it into law as ...

Grindr, the world’s biggest dating app for the LGBT community, is being sued for allegedly sharing personal information such as people’s HIV status with third parties. According to the claim, lodged at the High Court in London, “covert tracking technology” was deployed, and highly sensitive information was illegally shared with advertisers. Law firm Austen Hays says there are more than ...

Google said on Thursday it had terminated 28 employees after some staff participated in protests against the company’s cloud contract with the Israeli government. The Alphabet unit said a small number of protesting employees entered and disrupted work at a few unspecified office locations, reports Reuters. “Physically impeding other employees’ work and preventing them from accessing our facilities is a ...