technology

Why we need to learn from the Shenzhen innovation model

Shenzhen rose from a fishing village to a tech hub through market-driven innovation.

International Mother Language Day / Technology can play a crucial role in language preservation

Bangladesh marks 25 years of promoting linguistic diversity and multilingualism.

Valentine’s Day / Love ensnared by technology

Technology, as Binoy Mukhopadhyay said, gives speed, and steals emotions. Love suffers its impact.

Our outdated, inefficient higher education institutions

The world has never witnessed such unprecedented human-to-technology interactions.

Let’s stake our claim to outer space

Though the Outer Space Treaty specifies space as a global common resource, it does not mean that the space is public property.

Finding a balance between technology and nature in our daily lives

It is true that living without our smartphones or social media in this day and age is next to impossible but it is also true that due to technology we often feel disconnected from the natural world.

#Technology / Tech trends that will shape our future

Let's look at some tech trends that will change our future.

Review: Nonfiction / Tech bias: not a glitch, but a structural problem

With statistics backing her up, Broussard does a stellar job of portraying this bias for the readers with stories from individuals who have faced such discrimination. The book opens with the story of Robert Julian-Borchak Williams who gets wrongfully identified by a police facial recognition technology and gets taken into custody.

A technological evolution of crimes

Technology has advanced at a rapid pace, bringing many benefits to society, but it also has led to changes in crime patterns. Law enforcers’ race against crimes has become even more challenging faced with these technology-facilitated crimes. On many occasions, these techno criminals catch the police off guard.

January 18, 2016
January 18, 2016

First national vegetables fair begins

The day is not far when farmers would not need soil to grow vegetables, fruits and flowers in Bangladesh.

January 6, 2016
January 6, 2016

‘Telecom operators will be forced to compensate call drops’

The country’s mobile phone operators will be forced to compensate their users for call drops, State Minister for Telecommunication Tarana Halim says

December 31, 2015
December 31, 2015

Police form special counter-terror unit

A 600-men police unit specialising in technology has been formed under the Dhaka Metropolitan Police to enhance police capability in combating militancy and terrorism.

December 22, 2015
December 22, 2015

Mobile internet use drops after Facebook bar

Telecom regulator registers 5.14 crore active mobile internet connections last month – what was 5.23 crore in October-end. The move comes after weeks of ban on Facebook that started last month and continued till December. BTRC, however, did not explain the reason of the fall.

November 28, 2015
November 28, 2015

Instagram is testing support for multiple accounts on Android

Instagram may finally be adding support for multiple accounts, reports Mashable.

November 26, 2015
November 26, 2015

[WATCH NOW] Man freed from jail after 44yrs reacts to today's technology

Otis Johnson was locked up in jail for 44 years and was recently released from prison to find the world he left behind has vastly changed.

November 18, 2015
November 18, 2015

Internet restored after an hour’s block

Internet blocked across country for over an hour shortly after blocking of Facebook, WhatsApp and Viber.

November 15, 2015
November 15, 2015

Phones need 'bed mode' to protect sleep

Smartphones, tablets and e-readers should have an automatic "bedtime mode" that stops them disrupting people's sleep, says a leading doctor.

November 12, 2015
November 12, 2015

Apple apologises after racism outcry

Apple apologises to six schoolboys asked to leave one of their shops in Australia, in what the students described as a racist incident.

November 6, 2015
November 6, 2015

Blackberry Priv: The final phone in the coffin?

Before Apple's iPhone, Blackberry kicked off the smartphone revolution and brought the office out of the office and into the tap-tap-tap grasp of workers all over the world.