DHAKA: A European Space Agency probe has made a historic landing on a comet, but its status remains uncertain after harpoons failed to anchor it to the surface. ESA officials said the lander, Philae, touched down on schedule Wednesday after a seven-hour descent from its orbiting mother

DHAKA: A Google subsidiary is going to lease a NASA facility in California's Bay Area for $1.16 billion over the next 60 years. The agency officials, regarding the matter, announced that Planetary Ventures, LLC will lease Moffett Federal Airfield (MFA), which is currently managed by

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics Co. is making another run at that perennial technogeek dream, the wrist communicator, with plans in the next few months to unveil a smartwatch that works as a stand-alone phone. However, Samsung's watch-phone will be able to make and receive calls without being

DHAKA: Google Bus Bangladesh, powered by Google, has made its journey for the first time in the country aiming to increase internet use among the students. State minister for Information and Communication Technology ministry Zunaid Ahmed Palak inaugurated the service at Bangabandhu

DHAKA: Technology giant Yahoo said it will buy digital video advertising service BrightRoll for $640m. The move would allow Yahoo to grow its video advertising platform, ‘making it the largest in the US’, the firm said, reports the BBC. BrightRoll does automated online video

DHAKA: Apple Inc was ordered to face a US federal lawsuit claiming it failed to tell consumers that its messaging system would block them from receiving text messages if they switched to Android-based smartphones from iPhones.US District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said

DHAKA: The 11,000 young men and women, who are working at 4,500 digital centers at union level, are earning from Tk 50-60 thousand per month.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's son and also her Information Technology (IT) Affairs Adviser Sajeeb Wazed Joy disclosed the information on

    DHAKA: Alibaba said $2 billion of goods were sold in the first hour of its ‘Singles Day’ shopping bonanza in China Tuesday, maintaining the day’s dominance as the world’s biggest retail event as it went global for the first time.The ecommerce giant said that amount was

DHAKA: China-based OPPO recently unveiled R5, the thinnest smartphone of the world, measuring 4.85mm only. The phone is too slim to fit a traditional headphone jack. Although OPPO R5 mobile phone is super thin, it comes with the same hardware specifications as its thicker competitors,

DHAKA: Vision 2021, Bangladesh’s development strategy, sees the country becoming a middle-income nation by 2021, in large part by super-charging its science and technology (S&T) sector to drive economic growth. A ‘digital Bangladesh’ revolution is already underway with the

DHAKA: You are 36 times more likely to get scammed if your contacts' accounts have been hacked, according to a study released this week by Google (GOOG).It's rare. On an average day, only nine in 1 million accounts get stolen, reports the CNN on Saturday.But, according to the report,

DHAKA: Silk Road 2.0 and 400 other sites operating on the Tor network - a part of the internet unreachable via traditional search engines - have been shut down.The joint operation between 16 European countries and the US saw 17 arrests.Tor is home to thousands of illegal marketplaces,

DHAKA: A headset that talks visually impaired people around cities has been designed by Microsoft. It works with a Windows phone and uses location and navigation data with a network of information beacons in urban locations to describe routes, reports the BBC. The headset was tested on

DHAKA: Rumors of a larger-screen iPad 'Pro' have been floating around since early this year. Most of them have suggested variations on a supposed 12.9-inch screen size, reports the Tech News World. However, as soon as they rise, though, they're buried by another news wave, the report

DHAKA: New malware targeting Apple products is mostly affecting Chinese users, warned an online security researcher. US based Palo Alto Networks said "WireLurker" which is infecting Apple's desktop and mobile operating systems appears to have originated in China and is mostly infecting

DHAKA: The government has asked for detailed information of 17 Bangladeshi Facebook users.In this regard, the government has already told the social networking site authorities to disclose their identities with detail information.Sources told banglanews that the government made the

DHAKA: Wearing Google Glass may partially obstruct peripheral vision, causing blind spots that could interfere with daily tasks such as driving.A new study has found, reports NDTV.Peripheral visual field is a main component of vision and essential for daily activities such as driving,

DHAKA: Facebook has created the ability for users to connect directly to the social network via anonymising ‘dark web’ service Tor.While it was already possible to access Facebook via Tor, the new set-up means all data is encrypted and Tor users are not mistaken for hacked

DHAKA: The factors, to make e-commerce attractive for investors and managers, are coined as 6 C’s.The factors were came out from a discussion of the entrepreneurs of leading e-commerce companies, including Brit& Co, Dolls Kill, Dropship, Indiegogo, Kiwi Crate, LeTote, Massdrop,

DHAKA: China’s new generation mobile phone-set maker Oppo, which is also doing business in Bangladesh, has recently unveiled its new flagship smartphone, Oppo N3. The company previously launched a smartphone featuring a rotating camera module first of its kind eliminating the need of