Sunday, 06 Oct, 2024

Tech

Perfectly kept dinosaur embryo from 66 million years ago found

Scientists have announced the discovery of an exquisitely preserved dinosaur embryo from at least 66 million years ago that was preparing to hatch from its egg just like a chicken. The fossil was discovered in Ganzhou, southern China and belonged to a toothless theropod dinosaur, or

CodersTrust now a leading skills development US company with Global presence

CodersTrust, a global Digital Skills Training Company, led by international business leader Aziz Ahmad, a visionary technology entrepreneur, is now head-quartered in the United States of America. Mr. Ahmad co-founded CodersTrust Global in 2014 with a dream of bringing digital skills

Indian PM Modi's Twitter hacked with bitcoin tweet

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Twitter account was hacked with a message saying India had adopted bitcoin as legal tender and would distribute it to all citizens. The tweet was swiftly deleted and his office said the account had been very briefly compromised. It is the

Why Indian-born CEOs dominate Silicon Valley

Parag Agrawal, who was appointed this week as Twitter's CEO, has joined at least a dozen other Indian-born techies in the corner offices of the world's most influential Silicon Valley companies. Microsoft's Satya Nadella, Alphabet's Sundar Pichai, and the top bosses of

Bangladeshi engineer Bashima featured in Forbes 30 under 30 list

Bangladeshi engineer Bashima Islam has been named in Forbes 30 under 30 list 2022 under the science category. Forbes uploaded a short profile of Bashima on its website. It wrote: Islam, an incoming assistant professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, is engineering the next

Elon Musk jokes about whistleblowers with new Tesla product

Elon Musk has made an apparent joke about whistleblowers as he promoted the latest piece of Tesla-branded merchandise. Mr Musk's tweet to his 65.1m followers said "Blow the whistle on Tesla!" with a link to a $50 (£38) "Cyberwhistle". It is currently

Twitter CTO Parag Agrawal replaces Jack Dorsey as CEO

Confirming rumors first reported this morning by CNBC, Twitter co-founder and CEO Jack Dorsey announced his departure. The company confirmed that CTO Parag Agrawal would succeed him and take a seat on the board, effective immediately, while Bret Taylor is taking over as the board’s

Jute cellulose-based pads: Farhana Sultana wins global award 

International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b) assistant scientist Farhana Sultana has been awarded for developing a machine to produce jute cellulose-based sanitary pads for sustainable menstrual health. The American Society for Tropical Medicine and

Mission to smack a space rock launches

A spacecraft has launched on a mission to test technology that could one day tip a dangerous asteroid off course. Nasa's Dart mission wants to see how difficult it would be to stop a huge space rock from colliding with Earth The spacecraft will crash into an object called

Google to invest $740m in Australia

Google has announced that it will invest A$1bn ($740m, £550m) in Australia over the next five years. It is the US technology giant's largest investment in the country to date. Google says the money will be used to build a research hub, increase its cloud computing capacity

Russian anti-satellite missile test draws condemnation

The US has condemned Russia for conducting a "dangerous and irresponsible" missile test that it says endangered the crew aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The test blew up one of Russia's own satellites, creating debris that forced the ISS crew to shelter in

FBI probes cyber-attack emails sent from internal server

The FBI has launched an investigation after thousands of fake email messages were sent from one of its servers warning of a possible cyber-attack. The government agency said the incident on Saturday morning was part of an "ongoing situation", but provided no further details.

Elon Musk sells $5bn of shares after Twitter poll

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has sold around $5bn (£3.7bn) of shares in the electric carmaker. It comes days after he asked his 63 million Twitter followers whether he should sell 10% of his stake in Tesla. The company's shares fell by around 16% in the two days after

Facebook to end use of facial recognition software

Facebook has announced it will no longer use facial recognition software to identify faces in photographs and videos. There have been growing concerns about the ethics of facial recognition technology, with questions raised over privacy, racial bias, and accuracy. Regulators had not

Palak for introducing bachelor degree on cyber security 

State Minister for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Zunaid Ahmed Palak on Sunday (today) underscored the need for introducing diploma courses, certificate courses and bachelor degrees in the country's higher educational institutions to meet the demand of global cyber

Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos are now worth almost half a trillion dollars

The combined net worth of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos approached $500 billion on Wednesday, fueled by the unrelenting rally in Tesla Inc. shares and a broad surge in tech stocks that sent the Nasdaq 100 to an intraday record.  The value of the two fortunes — a sum bigger than

MSI knowledge sharing session held at Bogura

Knowledge in tech product encourage the conversion rate to go high. Customers like to know details about a product before purchasing devices like laptops, projectors, projector and any others.  On the other hand, to resell any tech device, the retailer also needs to have the

Facebook earns $9bn despite whistleblower scandal

Facebook has posted better-than-expected profits for the third quarter, as it continues to face bad press over leaked internal documents. The social media giant made $9bn (£6.5bn) of profit in the three months to September, up from $7.8bn last year. However, it was hit by a

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong convicted and fined on drug charges

Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong has been convicted and fined for illegally using the sedative propofol. The embattled businessman had taken the drug, commonly used as anaesthesia, dozens of times in recent years. Under South Korean law, recipients of a controlled drug can be prosecuted as

South Korea launches first homegrown space rocket Nuri

South Korea has launched its first homegrown rocket Nuri in its bid to join the race for space exploration. Also known as the Korean Satellite Launch Vehicle II, it took off from Goheung located 500km (310 miles) south of Seoul. It put a 1.5 tonne dummy satellite into orbit. South