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Social media monitoring begins ahead of polls

December 03 2018 | TW News Correspondent

E-Govt.

Secretary of Election Commission (EC) Helal Uddin Ahmed on Sunday (December 2) said the authorities concerned began monitoring the social media round the clock to check the spread of propaganda and rumors for the sake of a free, fair and...
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Shibir men held for making fake news websites

November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent

Happening

Law enforcement officials have found involvement of Bangladesh Islami Chattra Shibir, the student front of fundamentalist party Jamaat-e-Islami, in the creating and spreading of fake news websites in country.

Earlier in Wednesday night (Nov 29), Member of Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) arrested two people from Mohammadpur and Tongi areas in Dhaka for allegedly creating fake websites in the name of major dailies and...
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Google CEO to face Congress on Dec 5

November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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Google CEO Sundar Pichai is going to face Congress for the first time next week, according to The Washington Post.

Pichai will be grilled by the House Judiciary Committee on 5 December, during which he will face questions from Republicans who have unproven beliefs that Google has a liberal bias.

Citing three sources, the Post said the hea...
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31 satellites placed in orbit to study earth's surface

November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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ISRO successfully launched its Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle-C43 (PSLV-C43) rocket carrying India's best-ever high-resolution earth imaging satellite HysIS (Hyperspectral Imaging Satellite). Besides this, the workhorse rocket also carried 30 small co-passenger satellites from eight different countries, mostly belonging to the United States.

 

The...
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Amazon’s new server chips cheaper than Intel’s

November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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Amazon.com Inc. has taken a big step toward reducing reliance on Intel Corp. for a critical component of its cloud-computing service.

The largest cloud company unveiled its own server processors late Monday and said the Graviton chips...
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Banglalink introducing new number series ‘014’

November 29 2018 | TW News Correspondent

Telco

Private cell phone operator Banglalink is going to launch a new number series '014' alongside the existing ‘019’ series.

The new number series will be inaugurated on...
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Robi-10 Minute School gets three awards

November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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The largest online school of the country, Robi- 10 Minute School, (www.robi10minuteschool.com) has received three awards in the 5th Digital Marketing Summit recently.

 

The summit a theme - “Delving Dee...
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Govt incurs loss of Tk 1000cr for illegal handsets

November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent

Telco

The government is incurring a direct loss of around Tk 1000 crore every year due to unchecked volumes of handset shipments into the country through unauthorized channels, s...
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Google challenged over location tracking

November 28 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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Google has been accused of flouting European data protection laws when it tracks users' locations.

 

A coalition of seven consumer organizations is filing complaints with local data protection regulators over Google's tracking...
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China's interest in investment in Hi-Tech Park of Bangladesh.

November 27 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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Chinese companies have shown interest to invest in the high-tech industry of Bangladesh. Today, about 35 representatives from 20 companies of Dhenjo City of Shandong Province...
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NASA’s InSight spacecraft makes historic landing on Mars

November 27 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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A spacecraft carrying millions of pounds worth of British equipment has successfully landed on Mars, launching a two-year mission to mine more information about the Red Planet.

 

Nasa's InSightprobe came to a gentle landing on the Red Planet broad, dusty plain of Elysium Planitia at 7.55pm on Monday night, the first spacecraft to...
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‘Digital Bangladesh Day’ on Dec 12 from now on

November 26 2018 | TW News Correspondent

E-Govt.

The 12th of December will be observed as ‘Digital Bangladesh Day’ instead of ‘National ICT Day’ from now on.

 

The cabinet, chaired by Prime M...
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BASIS accords reception to Kafi for getting ASOCIO Award

November 26 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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Bangladesh Association of Software Information Service (BASIS) has accorded a reception to the former President of the Bangladesh Computer Samity (BCS) Abdullah H Kafi for achieving ‘The ASOCIO Honorary Award’.

Kafi, also former...
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Electronic Voting Machine to be used in 6 constituencies

November 25 2018 | TW News Correspondent

E-Govt.

The Election Commission (EC) on Saturday decided to use the Electronic Voting Machine (EVMs) at all centers of six constituencies in the 11th parliamentary elections.

EC Secretary Helal Uddin Ahmed made the disclosure to the media after a meeting of the commission at its office at Agargaon of Dhaka this evening.

He also said the six constituencies to be determined...
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China sends 5 satellites into orbit via single rocket

November 24 2018 | TW News Correspondent

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China launched a new space environment research satellite and four nanosatellites on a Long March-2D rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China at 7:40 a.m. Tuesday (November 20).

The satellites have successfully entered their preset orbit...
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