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A team at the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET) has designed a 32-bit computer processor using entirely open-source technologies.
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The autonomous AI agent that escaped OpenAI’s control and hacked Hugging Face earlier this month also compromised a customer account on the platform of New York-based Modal Labs.
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Tech giants urge lawmakers not to restrict open-source AI
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Google ordered to remove 'right to be forgotten' links

Google receives order to remove nine links to news stories by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) under the "right to be forgotten".
21 August 2015, 12:23 PM

World breaks new heat records in July: US scientists

July was the hottest month in history, and the first seven months of the year were also the warmest since modern record-keeping began.
20 August 2015, 16:00 PM

Carbon nanofibres made from CO2 in the air

Scientists in the US finds a way to take carbon dioxide (CO2) from the air and make carbon nanofibres, a valuable manufacturing material.
20 August 2015, 11:57 AM

The ultimate offline map

If Google Maps is taking up a lot of your mobile data, this is your solution.
19 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Google loses data as lightning strikes

Google says data is wiped from disks at one of its data centres in Belgium - after it was struck by lightning four times.
19 August 2015, 14:33 PM

Climate change turned dogs into wolves in America: Study

A new study of American dog fossils at Brown University finds that climate change and consequential shifts in habitat turned native dogs from being an ambush predator to relentless trackers and pouncers like wolves.
19 August 2015, 13:05 PM

Video of flying over Pluto is absolutely amazing

People were treated to beautiful photos of Pluto’s surface when Nasa flew a spacecraft by Pluto for the first time in history last month on July 14, but unfortunately, there was no video of the dwarf planet's flyby -- until now!
19 August 2015, 05:38 AM

Canadian company gets patent for 20km-high space elevator

Canadian space company, Thoth Technology, has been granted the US patent for a 20-kilometre-high space elevator.
19 August 2015, 02:57 AM

3 new inmates in the supercar yard

Trio of supercars get ready to battle it out in the jail yard. Here be their dog-tags.
18 August 2015, 18:00 PM

M2's Mopar Glory

You can't go wrong with a set of '70 Challengers. This particular Mopar is one of the most storied and sought after muscle cars of the
18 August 2015, 18:00 PM

The 10 best looking Japanese coupes ever made

We at SHIFT HQ had an argument over the top best looking Japanese coupes and the best tasting burger in Dhaka. We figured these are the coupes that make the mark. What do you think? The debate on burgers still goes on.
18 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Photo of upcoming Nexus device emerges online

The rumors that Google has teamed up with LG for another Nexus phone, is true. Yesterday, someone on the internet uploaded the first ever images of upcoming Nexus.
18 August 2015, 09:46 AM

Youth held with firearm

Police arrested an alleged criminal with a pistol and two bullets on Chowmuhani-Laxmipur road in Begumganj upazila of the district on
17 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Our solar system may have had a fifth 'Giant' planet

According to a new study, our system was once home to a fifth gas giant that suddenly vanished some 4 billion years ago after a run-in with Neptune.
17 August 2015, 06:33 AM

Griffith University & Access to Information (a2i) signs MoU

Access to Information (a2i) of PMO yesterday signed MoU with Griffith University to jointly work on e-learning, e-Waste Management,
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Samsung's new GALAXY TAB E in the market

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. introduces the latest Tablet, Samsung GALAXY Tab E in Bangladesh. This tab has a Quad-core 1.3 GHz
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM

The superpower of protection: Kaspersky Lab 2016 product line is here

According to the Consumer IT Security Risks Survey 2015 survey protection of personal data is relevant to 70% of users with 61% worry
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Keeping tabs on TABS

4th Smartphone & Tablet Expo, the largest exposition of its kind, came to an end yesterday. According to the organizers, the expo, which
16 August 2015, 18:00 PM

Review: ACI Stylus O65

ACI is the latest entrant in the list of Bangladesh smartphone brands and with their first line up of devices, seems to be determined to wreak havoc in the market. And its flagship device Stylus 065 is on the forefront. How well does it play, let's find it out:
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