DHAKA: British theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking has warned that development of artificial intelligence could mean the end of humanity.In an interview with the BBC, the scientist said such technology could rapidly evolve and overtake mankind, a scenario like that envisaged in the

DHAKA: The next time your iPhone is about to fall onto the ground, it might just rotate in mid-air and save itself from damage.An Apple Insider report said that Apple has been granted a patent for a futuristic iPhone protection system that recognises when a phone is dropped.The device

DHAKA: Just one week after announcing a new search partnership with Yahoo, Mozilla is rolling out a new Firefox interface that will enable one-click searches for an array of specific search engines.A report, published on toptechnews, said that in addition to a set of pre-installed

DHAKA: It cuts through plastic! It burns holes in walls!It ... tells time?Like something out of a James Bond film, it's a watch -- equipped with a laser. Its inventor, Patrick Priebe, built it during downtime from his full-time gig creating props and modestly describes it as a "tiny

DHAKA: It looks like a throwback to the Apollo era, but NASA's new spaceship is roomier and designed to go far beyond the moon -- to an asteroid and eventually Mars.According to a report, published on CNN, Orion is scheduled to lift off on its first test flight at 7:05am ET Thursday

DHAKA: If you've ever fancied a favorite color’s case for your smartphone but that’s not available in the market, this could be just what you're looking for.  The balloon, which costs the rock bottom price, and it will take just 10 seconds to put on.    The first step

DHAKA: Disappointing sales of the Apple iPhone 5C will inevitably lead to an early exit from the market for the brightly colored smartphone, as the company is said to be preparing to take it off the shelves next year. 2011’s iPhone 4S was discontinued only in September this year which

DHAKA: Computer Source Ltd (CSL), country’s one of the largest technology distributors, has started selling the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus in Bangladesh from this week. The latest Apple handsets are available both in cash and installments at ‘Authorized Apple Shop’ in CSL Dhanmondi branch

DHAKA: A two-day international conference on Information Technology (IT) is scheduled to be held here from December 22. Daffodil International University (DIU) will arrange the 17th Computer and IT conference on its campus in Ashulia with the cooperation of Information and Communication

DHAKA: The Independent and Telegraph as well as the CNBC website have been hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA). Twitter users have suggested other sites including PC World,  Forbes, OK Magazine, the NHL, Elsevier and Dell’s UK site have also been affected.Pop ups reading

DHAKA: European privacy regulators want Internet search engines such as Google and Microsoft's Bing to scrub results globally, not just in Europe, when people invoke their "right to be forgotten" as ruled by an EU court. The European Union's privacy watchdogs agreed on a set of

DHAKA: Apple set a record by becoming the first company to be valued at $700bn.The iPhone maker was already the world’s most valuable business, but in early trading its shares rose nearly 1% to $119.75, giving it a market capitalization of $701.7bn, reports The Guardian.This is

DHAKA: Drones, self-driving cars, robots, balloons providing internet access – Google is stretching a long way from search. Now the company has added a “smart” spoon to its portfolio of hi-tech products.Google has started promoting its Liftware spoon, a utensil that uses hundreds

DHAKA: One in six smartphone users in the world have fallen prey to a cyber attack, reveals a new study, adding that 60% of smartphone users and almost half of tablet users are vulnerable to hacking as these devices have no protection against malicious software. According to the

DHAKA: Digital World 2015, an international event of ICT sector is going to be held at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in city from February 9 to 12 next.  Bangladesh Association of Software and Information Services (BASIS) and Information and communications technology

DHAKA: Microsoft Corporation, which earlier in September revealed its selfie phone, the Lumia 730, has captured the world’s largest selfie with the device at Bashundhara City Shopping Mall in Dhaka.The actual picture was posted on the Microsoft Lumia Bangladesh Facebook page, which

DHAKA: Facebook’s move to fulfil its ambition to be the personal ‘newspaper’ for its billion-plus members is likely to mean more woes for the ailing news media. The huge social network has become a key source of news for many users, as part of a dramatic shift in how people get

DHAKA: Facebook, the largest social connecting platform, has recently opened an app to create and share personalized video cards for your friends. With this app, you can create a video for your close friend, your significant other, a relative, a coworker, an old friend – or anyone else

DHAKA: The European Parliament is preparing a non-binding resolution that proposes splitting Google Inc's search engine operations in Europe from the rest of its business as one possible option to rein in the internet company's dominance in the search market. European politicians have

DHAKA: Forget meditation and self-help books, the key to a happy life could be down to the sounds you hear. Scientists in London have hacked a pair of sandals which they claim will allow people to 'hear themselves happy'. The sandals link to headphones which change the sound of each