A New Zealand man of Asian descent has his passport photograph rejected when facial recognition software mistakenly registers his eyes as being closed.

The EMK Center is holding a new type of electronic music event on December 14 – a listening session and the launch of the Dhaka Noise Project 2016 EP (Akaliko Records).

The US Supreme Court sides with Samsung in its big-money smartphone patent fight with Apple, throwing out an appeals court ruling that the South Korean company had to pay a $399 million penalty to its American rival for copying key iPhone designs.

Microsoft (MSFT.O) wins EU antitrust approval for its $26 billion bid for professional social network LinkedIn (LNKD.N), its largest ever acquisition, after agreeing to a series of modest concessions.

Alfa Romeo made cars that were meant to seduce before they had broken down or rusted away. The Giulia is an especially enticing model with the perfect wheelbase, wrapped in a body that could only be described as petite and graceful.

Honda has released images and details of the next gen CRV - a mid-size SUV that is quite popular in Bangladesh.

Take a Mercedes, any Mercedes, add three letters and some numbers at the end that don’t have any relation to the car in any way - you have a bonkers machine that can rip holes in time, space, and wallets. There's a new one - the Benz E63 AMG.

The latest Mercedes E class is a fantastic combination of style, road presence, luxury and comfort. We take out the E200 for a test drive to see how well it copes at being one of the most reputed executive sedans in the world, in Dhaka.

If you have never tried this swollen but decent looking fish yet, probably you are lucky enough and would better stay away from it!

Chinese smartphone brands emerge to be expanding their horizon in the US market in the near future.

Web giants YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Microsoft will step up efforts to remove extremist content from their websites by creating a common database.

eGeneration Ltd. wants to play a role in the development of Bangladesh cricket scenario. eGeneration Ltd. has become one of the investors of Rajshahi Kings. Similarly BAGDOOM.com, a partner organization of eGeneration has joined hands as a sponsor of the team. Shameem Ahsan, Founder and Chairman of eGeneration Ltd. said, Bangladesh is no more known as just a rising team in the world of cricket.

BMW is to test autonomous vehicles in Munich next year as it seeks to keep up with ride-hailing firms like Uber [UBER.UL], which have spent billions on pay-per-use personal transport.

The amount of money spent on advertising on social media is set to catch up with newspaper ad revenues by 2020, a leading forecaster says.

Donald Trump derided the use of data and technology tools for his presidential campaign -- but those techniques might well have propelled him to victory.

Taking the stairs is rare these days unless and until you're someone who loses sleep over calories. You come home after a long day, jam your fingers on the elevator button twice or thrice or up to the point where someone asks how bad your day went and get inside for a few awkward seconds standing beside strangers who are equally eager to get off from this temporary confinement. We don't really care about something as trivial as “how good the elevator functioned”. Call it our habit of shutting out certain matters we deem as insignificant or simply being ignorant- ironically, there's an entire industry that cares a lot about how smoothly you get from the ground floor to your apartment or to that kickass hotel suite.

Did you know that seven out of ten Bangladeshis, while buying a smartphone, prefer one with a better camera than a bigger battery?

TECH BITS

Two day long eight-nation summit on data centre and green technology kicked off in Dhaka last Friday. Engineers' Institute Bangladesh

Linux Pathshala has been awarded in three categories out of four at the RedHat India annual conference in Sri Lanka recently. Red Hat is a