DHAKA: A 4-day international event on Information, Communication and Technology (ICT) titled ‘Digital World 2015’ is set to begin at Bangabandhu International Conference Centre (BICC) in the capital from February 9.Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina will inaugurate the show.Information

DHAKA: Good news! We might not all die of an AI uprising, according to Eric Horvitz, the head of Microsoft's main research lab.But, the bad news is Microsoft's founder Bill Gates doesn't agree; he thinks AI will be "strong enough to be a concern" in a few decades, reports The

DHAKA: Want to gain entry to your office, get on a bus, or perhaps buy a sandwich? We're all getting used to swiping a card to do all these things. But at Epicenter, a new hi-tech office block in Sweden, they are trying a different approach - a chip under the skin.Felicio de Costa,

DHAKA: Job hunting site Glassdoor released a list of 25 best jobs for 2015, following the information shared by the employees who are involved with these jobs.However, 10 of them are technology related jobs.It looked at three things to come up with an overall "Job Score": Average

DHAKA: The Army is setting up a new unit that will use psychological operations and social media to help fight wars ‘in the information age’. Head of the Army General Sir Nick Carter said the move was about trying to operate ‘smarter’, reports the BBC. The 77th Brigade, made up

DHAKA: Are you an iPhone user? Congratulations! You're probably smarter than the Android owner sitting next to you. A new study conducted by online advertising network Chitika found that states with more college graduates tend to also have higher iPhone sales, reports the CNN. Notably,

DHAKA: As battery technologies go, the world has a love-hate relationship with lithium-ion. On the one hand, breakthroughs in Li-ion designs and construction are responsible for the Tesla Model S, new installations, green energy research, and the modern smartphone.On the other hand,

DHAKA: Humans should be worried about the threat posed by artificial Intelligence, Bill Gates has said. The Microsoft founder said he didn't understand people who were not troubled by the possibility that AI could grow too strong for people to control, reports the BBC. Mr Gates

DHAKA: Microsoft Office, officially, launched for Android devices on Thursday.The joining, however, brought Word, PowerPoint and Excel to the midsize devices, reports the CNet.The apps work much like the iOS versions, letting you create and edit documents, presentations and spreadsheets

DHAKA: USB 3.1 was a hot topic at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) this year, with multiple vendors talking up the standard’s performance and new, reversible connector. Shipping hardware is still some months away, but early performance data is looking solid — particularly given

DHAKA: Intel is getting one step closer to its goal of eliminating cables from personal computers, saying Thursday that its newest chip for work computers -- which packs in several wire-free features -- is now available.The fifth-generation Core vPro processor provides improved

DHAKA: After last week’s Windows 10 briefing, a brand new build of the Windows 10 Technical Preview was released publicly. From then on, anyone can sign-up for the Windows Insider program and get a taste of Windows 10.Of course, pre-release builds should never be used as a primary OS,

DHAKA: Samsung Electronics reported a fall in fourth-quarter net profit to KRW 5.35 trillion from KRW 7.30 trillion a year earlier. Operating profit dropped to KRW 5.29 trillion from KRW 8.31 trillion, and revenues declined to KRW 52.73 trillion from KRW 59.28 trillion a year ago. The

DHAKA: Goldberg, another Bangladeshi mobile handset company, will launch its own branded smartphones in local market by March.The company, a sister concern of Khansons Group, made the disclosure on Wednesday at a press conference held in city’s Farmgate area.Moreover, Goldberg

DHAKA: Sony plans to eliminate another 1,000 jobs in its smartphone operations, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.The new cuts will reduce staff in the division to about 5,000 after including 1,000 job losses previously announced by the company.The cuts will affect

DHAKA: Bangladesh ended December 2014 with 43.64 million active internet subscribers, compared with 42.99 million internet subscribers at the end of November.The mobile internet base reached 42.17 million, down from 41.51 million in November, according to figures from the Bangladesh

DHAKA: Huawei announced that it sold 138 million consumer devices in 2014, an increase of 7.8 percent on the previous year.Smartphone shipments rose 45 percent to 75 million, and the company said it targets 100 million units in 2015.Richard Yu, CEO of Huawei’s consumer business group,

DHAKA: After an hour-long effort, users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world can now connect to Facebook, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks Facebook and Instagram were not been available for the period of time.It was not clear what

DHAKA: Users in Bangladesh and elsewhere in the world are experiencing problems in connecting to Facebook and Instagram, both on the Web and via mobile apps.The websites of popular social media networks haven’t been available for some time.It’s not clear what’s causing the outage,

DHAKA: Kodak, with the help of UK phone manufacturer Bullitt, is trying to make a smartphone for people who don’t use smartphones. The Kodak Instamatic 5 won’t be the first device with that ambition, but it will be one of the first to wear the name of a brand many smartphone