Technology

A total of 1235 mobile towers in 10 flood affected districts have not working. Bangladesh Telecommunication and Regulatory Commission (BTRC) informed it on Friday in a press release. The districts include Noakhali, Laxmipur, Feni, Cumilla, Brahmanbaria, Chattogram, Khagrachhari, Habiganj, Moulvibazar and Sylhet. Already the Bangladesh Army has provided all out necessary assistance including vessels and speedboats to carry the equipment, ...

The mobile and broadband internet services faced shutdown during the recent quota reform movement at the verbal instruction of then state minister for posts, telecommunications and information technology and the NTMC, an organization affiliated to the home ministry. A primary probe report submitted today to the Posts, Telecommunications and Information Technology Ministry revealed this, said an official handout, reports BSS. ...

NASA on Tuesday postponed the departure of astronauts bound for the International Space Station on a SpaceX flight due to ongoing issues with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft. The Starliner, which brought two NASA astronauts aboard the ISS in early June, has been docked for the past two months due to anomalies detected in its propulsion system during its flight, with the ...

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 ...

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 ...