Facebook quarterly profit more than doubles as its ranks swelled during the past year to a mammoth user base of nearly 1.6 billion, the social media giant says.

Pakistan has asked Internet companies to block more than 400,000 pornography websites, officials said Tuesday, as part of a crackdown on what the top court calls "offensive content" in the Muslim-majority nation.

Facebook has created an artificial intelligence system that is "getting close" to beating the best human players at the Chinese board game Go, Mark Zuckerberg reveals.

Apple raises the specter of the end of a technological era after reporting the slowest growth sales ever of its market-leading, life-changing iPhone and warning it expects worse to come.

It's been 126 years since the first successful electric car (or more accurately, carriage) came out and for the entire time, the journey has been a race between time and tech. Then and now.

Apple's stock value drops to below $100 for the first time since October 2014.

Four key Twitter executives are to leave the company as the social network continues its attempt to turn around its fortunes.

TECH BITS

Two major ICT fairs of our country have been going on simultaneously since last week and it has been an exciting few days for tech

Samsung Mobile Bangladesh has launched “Samsung Studio”. Through this, for the first time ever, the product packaging for Samsung

BASIS has organized a workshop on Games Development titled "Games Development: Opportunity for Future Bangladesh” at the BASIS Auditorium on Saturday. The workshop was supported by BASIS Standing Committee on Mobile Apps, Games, VAS and Mobile Monday. SM Mahabub Alam, CEO, Massivestar Studio Ltd., AKM Masud, CEO, Tapstar Interactive Software. Ltd. and MD Safiur Rahman, Technical Lead, Sky Taper spoke at the workshop.

The IT company CodersTrust has been training freelancers in Dhaka to upgrade their skills, to enable them to earn. CodersTrust is currently offering live support, live office hours, online classes and video courses to everyone in Bangladesh over the internet.

Philips Electronics Bangladesh and IPE Technologies, one of the local authorized companies of Philips Netherlands introduced new technologies for

Name of the App: Nova Launcher

Huawei is about to launch the Mate8 phablet in Bangladesh. We find out first how blazing fast is the Kirin 950 processor equipped device.

US Internet giant Google pays Apple a billion dollars in 2014 to be the go-to search tool on iPhones, Bloomberg reported, citing court documents.

Google revealed on Thursday that it sidelined more than 780 million ads deemed rude, dishonest or dangerous in 2015 in a leap from the 524 million targeted a year earlier.

Starting a conversation and keeping them on are the most uncomfortable sweat-breakers some of us face every day. While it's easier with people we instantly click with, strangers and social friends seem to fall inside unchartered territory as we struggle with awkward silences. But more often than not, we ourselves are the ones to blame for conversations that drop dead in the middle. Here are a few pointers on how to avoid that.

We all have mornings when we are jostled into consciousness at the very last minute (by an angel or someone in your house) only to realise that we have an important class/meeting to catch and we have not a second to waste. So do you take time to make yourself look more human or show up at your destination looking like a zombie? What if you have a few life-saving-morning-hacks to save both your academic/job commitments and your image?

British Council Bangladesh, in partnership with Change Maker (a national non-profit organisation), launched 'Innovate, Incubate and Grow (IIG): A Social Enterprise Support Programme' on January 16, 2016 at the British Council-Fuller Road premises.