August2021

While shooting photos and videos with our phones has become a huge part of our lives, not everything we share needs to be saved as a digital record. Simply taking a photo on many phones means...

Apple announced on Thursday that iPhones and iPads will soon begin identifying and reporting photographs of child sexual abuse when they are uploaded to the company’s online storage in the United States, a move that privacy...

Dr. Rochelle Walensky, director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said Thursday that fully vaccinated people can still transmit the COVID-19 virus. Walensky told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, “Our immunizations are performing incredibly...

Quinn, a Canadian footballer, will become the first openly transgender athlete to earn an Olympic gold on Friday, marking yet another watershed event for the marginalized in the Tokyo Games. Quinn, who uses the pronouns “they”...

Huawei announced its plan to invest US$100 million in startup support recently at its inaugural Spark Founders Summit, which took place simultaneously in Singapore and Hong Kong. Huawei said the investment would go towards its Spark...

Argentina striker Lionel Messi will leave Barcelona despite both parties have reached an agreement over a new contract, the La Liga club said on Thursday, citing economic and structural obstacles to the renewal of the deal....

Samsung’s flagship phone, ‘Galaxy S21 Ultra 5G’, has won the Best Smartphone award in recognition of its top-notch features and innovative design at the recently-concluded Mobile World Congress (MWC 2021) held in Barcelona. This award is...

British coronavirus vaccine developer Sarah Gilbert has many science accolades to her credit but now shares the honour with Beyonce, Marilyn Monroe and Eleanor Roosevelt: a Barbie doll in her likeness. Gilbert, a 59-year-old professor at...

Google, the world’s most popular search engine, has paid the National Board of Revenue Tk2.3 crore in value-added tax (VAT) (NBR). They are the second big digital company to pay VAT in Bangladesh, following Facebook, which...

In a gradual relaxation of the protracted Covid-19 lockdown, the government has permitted domestic planes to resume operations on all routes beginning Friday. The information was confirmed in a cabinet division notification on lockdown limits sent...