Wednesday, 09 Oct, 2024

Tech

Banglanews English Version in New Look

DHAKA: banglanews24.com, country’s top and the new-generation multimedia news portal to disseminate news for round-the-clock news, made changes in its English Version.To live up to with new ideas, cutting-edge outlook and futuristic vision for info-savvy new generations, banglanews

Here's what hackers do with your data

DHAKA: The past few weeks have seen a flurry of hacker activity. From the leak of celebrity nudes to the 200,000 Snapchat photos stolen and posted on 4chan, to the most recent infiltration of Dropbox, it's clear hackers have moved on from the days of stealing our credit card

Apple SIM: The death of the SIM card

DHAKA: The little gold-plated circuits — which identify you as a subscriber on a particular carrier — plug into phones, tablets, and basically anything else with a cellular radio.Customers of GSM carriers have been using them since time immemorial; CDMA carriers have started using

Comet to hit Mars spacecraft

DHAKA: A comet is speeding toward a close-encounter with Mars. Comet Siding Spring is expected to come within 87,000 miles of Mars at about 2:27pm ET (0727 GMT) on Sunday – very close for a comet flyby.The space rock is moving at about 126,000 mph.NASA thinks the comet will miss the

Tinfoil for FB to protect privacy on Android

DHAKA: The Facebook app and its Messenger counterpart have been met with a lot of criticism from users. Among the reviews, you'll find complaints about permission settings and the lack of features in each app when compared to the mobile Web UI, reports cnet.com.  As an alternative to

Optoma S315 DLP Projector available

DHAKA: Unique Business system Limited, a renowned ICT product distributor of the country, has introduced a new model of Optoma S315 DLP Projector in the local market, considering the day to day business need and being.Business presentations are only as good as the content. Besides,

Dropbox: We weren't hacked!

DHAKA: A group of anonymous hackers claims to have stolen nearly 7 million Dropbox username and password combinations. But Dropbox denied that it was hacked.The hackers have posted several hundred email addresses and passwords so far on Pastebin.com, releasing more logins as they

Google launches Apple TV rival Nexus Player

DHAKA: Google just staked its — third, fourth? — claim for the living room with the Nexus Player. The search giant announced seemingly out of the blue on October 15 that its Android TV-based set-top box will be available for pre-order starting October 17.Despite previous leaks of

Apple Announces The iMac With Retina Display

DHAKA: In addition to showing off updates to the iPad lineup, Apple announced this year’s new iMac, the first Apple desktop to receive a Retina display.Packaged in a thin body like the last few iMacs, this new all-in-one packs a 27-inch Retina 5K display with 14.7 million pixels

Rain? Air-Brella Soon!

DHAKA: Umbrellas are kind of terrible. They’re a pain to carry around with you all day, they turn inside-out in the wind, and it’s a wonder that more eyes aren’t poked out by those protruding metal edges when a crowd of people funnel out of a train station and unfurl them all at

Facebook challenging YouTube in video supremacy

DHAKA: In Facebook’s house, Facebook gets what Facebook wants. And what Facebook wants right now is to challenge YouTube for dominance in video consumption.Big surprise: Facebook is now challenging YouTube for dominance in video consumption — within its walls, anyway. According to

Apple's iPad Air 2 and iPad Mini 3 tablets are unveiled

DHAKA: Apple announced a new version of its tablet, the iPad Air 2, which it said was the thinnest device of its kind on the market. It is 6.1mm (0.24in) thick, and also gains a Touch ID fingerprint sensor.It has an anti-reflective coating on the screen for the first time, and the

Apple leaks new iPad details

DHAKA: Apple tries very hard to keep its big announcements secret. The latest culprit responsible for ruining one of the tech company's surprises is -- Apple. The day before a media event at its Cupertino, California, headquarters, the company accidentally leaked key details about new

Google unveils Nexus 6 with Android 5.0 Lolipop

DHAKA: The next-generation Nexus smartphone with Android 5.0 Lollipop was unveiled on Wednesday, and while there's no word yet on the Google Nexus 6 price in India, we do know the price and availability details in the US. In a departure from tradition, the Google Nexus 6 is not being

Potato power to light the world

DHAKA: Mashed, boiled, baked or fried? You probably have a preference for your potatoes. Haim Rabinowitch, however, likes his spuds “hacked”. For the past few years, researcher from Hebrew University of Jerusalem Rabinowitch and colleagues have been pushing the idea of “potato

Robots will be next smartphones

DHAKA: When you think about robots and Japan, you're likely to imagine large, incredibly life-like androids that emulate humans in every way, or shiny metallic mechanical butlers that fulfils your every whim. But what if robots were instead made from plastic, fitted into your pocket or

Robi offers affordable smartphone

DHAKA: Robi Axiata Limited, the country’s fastest growing mobile operator, has partnered with a number of leading smartphone makers in the world to take quality internet service to the masses. Robi has identified the lack of affordable smartphone as the key barrier to spreading

Snapchat hacked!

DHAKA: Snapsaved.com, a website which allows users to save images sent via Snapchat, claimed that hackers had breached its servers and made off with some 500 megabytes of photographs. The claim by the little-known website sheds some light on reports in past days that hackers were

Social media to track Hudhud affected areas

DHAKA: India Andhra Pradesh government's move to leverage the power of technology and involve citizens in disaster management works post 'Hudhud' devastation seems to be yielding dividends as scores of people have uploaded pictures of affected areas from their smartphones.The Indian

iPad mini 3 to be unveiled alongside iPad Air 2

DHAKA: We're fully expecting to see the iPad Air 2 at Apple's event on Thursday but there was some doubt as to whether we'd also see the iPad mini 3.There have been comparatively few rumours about the slate and some of them have pointed to a release in 2015. But a new report from Mac