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Tech Happening

PRESS RELEASE / Government ICT officers forum elects new leadership

The Government ICT Officers Forum, a body of first-class gazetted ICT officers in the government sector, held its biannual election on July 13. Thirty-one candidates competed for 17 positions across six categories.

5m ago

AI vs humans: influencers face competition from virtual models

Social media influencers have embraced artificial intelligence to spice up their content but they are also facing growing competition from AI-generated Instagramers, TikTokers and YouTubers

8m ago

'Game of Thrones' author, other writers sue ChatGPT creator over copyrights

"Game of Thrones" author George RR Martin and other best-selling fiction writers have filed a class-action lawsuit against OpenAI, accusing the tech startup of violating their copyrights to fuel its generative AI chatbot ChatGPT.

1y ago

AI both a risk and opportunity for journalism: study

AI is both a threat and an opportunity for journalism, with more than half of those surveyed for a new report saying they had concerns about its ethical implications on their work.

1y ago

Musk says X could charge all users 'small monthly payment'

Online platform X could introduce a monthly fee for all users, its owner Elon Musk said Monday, citing the need to cut down on bots.

1y ago

Twitter's blue ticks start vanishing

Twitter began the mass removal of its blue ticks on Thursday, as the symbol previously used to signify a verified account vanished from users including the Pope, Donald Trump and Justin Bieber.

1y ago

Indian celebrities, politicians lose Twitter blue ticks

Twitter has removed verified blue ticks from the accounts of a host of Indian celebrities and politicians ranging from Bollywood megastars Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan and Salman Khan to Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee.

1y ago

Will AI help achieve gender equality at workplaces?

Gender stereotypes continue to hold women back at work, but a handful of tech firms say they have developed AI (artificial intelligence) systems that can help break biases in hiring and promotion to give female candidates a fairer chance.

3y ago

Google unveils new Pixel 6 phones with custom chips

Google on Monday unveiled a new flagship Pixel smartphone powered by its first mobile chip to put artificial intelligence in people's hands. Pixel 6 models set for release later this year, with superfast 5G wireless capability, will debut Google's own Tensor chip crafted along the lines of processors it made for data centres to enable computers to think more as people do.

3y ago

Walton launches Primo ZX4

Walton has launched its new flagship smartphone with a 64-megapixel rear Penta camera (five-sensor camera) set-up.  Besides, there is a 32-megapixel selfie camera on the front. The phone sports many advanced features including a large screen full HD+ display, gaming processor, powerful RAM, ROM and side-mounted fingerprint sensor.

3y ago

'Metaverse': the next internet revolution?

Imagine a world where you could sit on the same couch as a friend who lives thousands of miles away or conjure up a virtual version of your workplace while at the beach. Welcome to the metaverse: a vision of the future that sounds fantastical, but which tech titans like Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg are betting on as the next great leap in the evolution of the internet.

3y ago

Astronomers seek evidence of tech built by aliens

An international team of scientists led by a prominent Harvard astronomer announced a new initiative Monday to look for evidence of technology built by extraterrestrial civilizations.

3y ago

Rumor Scanner Bangladesh becomes verified signatory of the IFCN

Rumor Scanner, a fact-checking initiative affiliated with RSB Media & Research has become the second verified signatory in Bangladesh by International Fact-Checking Network (IFCN). The International Fact-Checking Network, a unit of the Poynter Institute of Journalism has awarded this recognition to Rumor Scanner on 28th July 2021.

3y ago

Fashol.com aims to solve ages old supply chain problems for farmers and retailers

Fashol.com, a wholesale marketplace for retailers, collects products--fruits and vegetables--from different parts of the country at night, including the wholesale markets of the capital and brings them to the Fashol distribution centre. In the next step, products get sorted using in house sorting method and then goods are delivered to the retailer early every morning. Retailers get 5% -10% lower prices than the market price. Fashol.com also offers zero delivery costs to retailers.

3y ago

Bezos offers NASA $2 billion in exchange for moon mission contract

Fresh off his trip to space, billionaire businessman Jeff Bezos on Monday offered to cover up to $2 billion in NASA costs if the U.S. space agency awards his company Blue Origin a contract to make a spacecraft designed to land astronauts back on the moon.

3y ago

Smart cards and robots: Saudi Arabia's 'digital hajj'

Thirty years ago, it took Egyptian pilgrim Ibrahim Siam several hours to track down his children when they went missing in crowds of worshippers during the hajj in Saudi Arabia. Fast forward to the modern-day and things are far simpler, meaning Siam, now 64, need not worry about losing track of his family and friends thanks to new technologies.

3y ago

CD Projekt studio releases The Witcher monster-hunting mobile game

The Pokemon-style game is based on the Witcher medieval fantasy series, where players hunt foul creatures in experience story-driven quests. It was developed by CD Projekt's studio Spokko and marks the group's debut in augmented-reality technology.

3y ago

Record sales of sacrificial animals on Digital Haat

The government's digital cattle market launched this year, www.digitalhaat.net, has seen a record sale this year worth 2,424 crore BDT. According to the latest data from digitalhaat.net, a total of 3,49,428 animals have been sold through the online platform across the country ahead of this year's Eid-ul-Azha. 

3y ago