Being an automotive enthusiast has its quirks, in a sense that no one really takes it seriously. Many look at it from a “boys with their toys” point of view and mothers tend to tease that we will end up becoming mechanics in the future.

It’s amazing what makers can now do with some circuits and a bit of LCD. It’s the future and it’s all about 2020 vision.

Suzuki, everyone’s favourite Japanese-Indian manufacturer of bargain automobiles, has been doing rather well recently. The Swift (and its hotter sibling, the Swift Sport)

Augmedix, a US-based startup with a massive operation in Dhaka, has raised a foreign investment of 19 million US dollars as Series B of venture capital funding.

For more than six years, we’ve brought you the only weekly automotive publication in the country, right here on this page—the back of the Business page, every Wednesday (initially, every Friday), with your copy of The Daily Star.

HotWheels — Best of 2019

Tesla Cybertruck The Tesla Cybertruck makes big promises. During the launch, Elon claimed that the car is bulletproof, and the cold rolled ultra-hard steel underpinnings are quite reassuring.

International Hope School Bangladesh organised a special fest titled 'STEM Fest' last Saturday where students from Grade 6 to 12 showcased different innovative projects.

Black Friday is an event that occurs in The United States on the first Friday after Thanksgiving. The origin of the name itself has conflicting roots, some saying that it dates back to the Fisk-Gould scandal of 1869, when the price of gold skyrocketed.

Dell’s new XPS 13 was the first laptop to feature Intel’s latest 10th generation processors. The laptop is amazingly thin, made out of exotic materials such as precision milled aluminium and carbon fibre, making it very light and comfortable in tablet form.

It’s rare to come across a photo editing app that cuts above the rest and delivers a unique experience. PhotoPills is just that – an expansive toolbox full of tricks and features which can let you create some jaw dropping pictures.

Tech bites

Aziz Ahmad, co-founder of CodersTrust, recently spoke on a digital union in Brussels hosted by the European Parliament. Ahmed along with Dragos Tudorache, Member of European Parliament (MEP), Andrus Ansip, Member of the European Parliament (former Prime Minister of Estonia), Dacian Ciolos, President of Renew Europe (Former Prime Minister of Romania), Stephane Sejourne, MEP, Fr. Augusto Zampini, Vatican City among other guests were present on this occasion and delivered their remarks.

Strategy games are of many types, some are fast-paced and have an instant response, and some drag on for quite a while.

If you think owning a Huracan isn’t flashy enough, here’s a brightly coloured tricked out widebody Lambo is sure to catch some glances.

The first time I came across the Toyota Soarer was in an ad for its Lexus clone, the SC400, in a crumbling issue of Road and Track magazine from 1992 that I borrowed from my cousin in 2002.

Google’s integration with Waze, a GPS navigation software owned by Google into Maps gave Google Maps its most important feature – traffic updates.

TECH BITS

The successor to the successful V15 Pro pulls out all the stops in the camera department, quietly making a category for itself in the smartphone game. Unlike the OnePlus 7 or K20 Pro, which are approximately BDT 10,000/- more than the V17 Pro, vivo’s answer to this corner of the market is similar to how Google approached the flagship game – killer cameras.

Those who are into shooters had a Call of Duty phase in their lives at some point or the other.