Nagad now a billion dollar venture: ICT State Minister Palak

The ICT State Minister mentioned this during the official inauguration of the ‘Meghna Pay’ banking service at The Westin Dhaka recently.

'I'm back': Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after 2-year ban

The posts on his Facebook page and YouTube channel, titled "I'M BACK!", show a CNN video announcing Trump's election as president in the 2016 race against Hillary Clinton. It then fades to a "Trump 2024" screen

Canada bans TikTok on govt phones, other devices

Effective Tuesday, "the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future," the government said in a statement

Pakistan PM orders Wikipedia website unblocked

Pakistan's Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has ordered the immediate restoration of popular online encyclopedia Wikipedia that was banned by the telecom regulator last week for not "blocking/removing sacrilegious content".

Google to release ChatGPT rival named Bard

Google has said it will release a conversational chatbot named Bard, setting up an artificial intelligence showdown with Microsoft which has invested billions in the creators of ChatGPT, the hugely popular language app that convincingly mimics human writing.

Elon Musk, White House discuss electric vehicles

Tesla head Elon Musk met with senior White House officials Friday to discuss the Biden administration's push to grow the electric vehicle market, Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said.."That meeting did happen today," she told reporters..Musk, who has had sometimes openly prickly

Nagad now a billion dollar venture: ICT State Minister Palak

The ICT State Minister mentioned this during the official inauguration of the ‘Meghna Pay’ banking service at The Westin Dhaka recently.

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'I'm back': Trump returns to Facebook, YouTube after 2-year ban

The posts on his Facebook page and YouTube channel, titled "I'M BACK!", show a CNN video announcing Trump's election as president in the 2016 race against Hillary Clinton. It then fades to a "Trump 2024" screen

4d ago

TikTok says US threatens ban if Chinese owners don't sell stakes

The move is the most dramatic in a series of recent steps by US officials and legislators who have raised fears that TikTok's US user data could be passed on to China's government. ByteDance-owned TikTok has more than 100 million US users

1w ago

BUP to host HR strategy-based case competition AdventHR 2.0

Many companies are now investing heavily in integrating artificial intelligence (AI) or even in developing their own AI, and to do that they are cutting costs with restructuring and downsizing.

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TikTok to add screen time limits for young users

TikTok today said it would introduce automatic daily screen time limits of one hour for accounts belonging to under-18s, as the social media platform faces criticism over its addictiveness among young users..Teenagers will have to enter a passcode to continue watching after 60 minutes and

3w ago

Global report on internet shutdowns: Bangladesh ranked 5th

Bangladesh is among the top five countries where authorities have shut down the internet last year as "weapons of control", according to a global digital rights watchdog

3w ago

White House gives federal agencies 30 days to enforce TikTok ban

Office of Management and Budget director Shalanda Young in a memorandum called on government agencies within 30 days to "remove and disallow installations" of the application on agency-owned or operated IT devices, and to "prohibit internet traffic" from such devices to the app.

3w ago

Canada bans TikTok on govt phones, other devices

Effective Tuesday, "the TikTok application will be removed from government-issued mobile devices. Users of these devices will also be blocked from downloading the application in the future," the government said in a statement

3w ago

Twitter cuts more staff as Musk turmoil grows

Reports of more layoffs at Twitter landed on Monday as owner Elon Musk waded into a racism controversy that risked pushing advertisers further away from the struggling platform.

3w ago

Elon Musk calls US media 'racist' after Dilbert row

"For a *very* long time, US media was racist against non-white people, now they're racist against whites & Asians," Musk wrote on the social network, where he has reinstated users banned for hate speech

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