Myisha Nawar With society having tired of its foray into the world of whether men with penises ought to pee next to little girls, we have ventured onto our next symptom of total insanity: a deep rumbling of rage over the shooting of a 17 year old gorilla that could have killed a three year…
Abrar Hussain: Family members of one of the injured leaders of quota reform movement alleged that authorities of a hospital in Dhaka forcefully released yesterday. Nurul Haque Nur, a joint convener of Bangladesh Sadharan Chhatra Odhikar Sangrakkhan Parishad, was injured along with several others in an attack allegedly by Bangladesh Chhatra League (BCL) members in…
AFP: In 1975, a young Kodak engineer called Steven Sasson showed his bosses a device he’d cobbled together from a portable digital cassette recorder, a Super-8 movie camera, 16 nickel cadmium-batteries and various other components. The device could capture and display a small black and white image on a TV screen. His bosses weren’t impressed….
Md. Taqi Yasir AlphaGo, a computer series premeditated by Google DeepMind, has just a game more to go against top-ranked player of GO Lee Sedol of South Korea, in a 5 game match redolent of the 1997 fight between Deep Blue and Garry Kasparov. AlphaGo’s success so far is exceptional, no matter the outcome of…
New Zealand artist Benjamin Lloyd recently announced on Facebook that he would give all the kids at Auckland’s Starship Children’s Hospital temporary tattoos if he received 50 likes. But he didn’t get 50 likes. He got over 400,000 of them! And the number just keeps on rising. True to his word, Lloyd has agreed to…
BSS: The Rajshahi City Corporation (RCC) has implemented infrastructure development projects involving around Tk. 844.59 crore during last 10 years. “We have implemented infrastructure uplifting works in various city areas with around Tk. 106.68 crore,” said Ashraful Haque, chief engineer of RCC. In addition to the vertical extension of the City Bhaban, an international standard…
Kabir Humayun: Google, the tech giant, celebrated its 20th birthday yesterday with a new Google Doodle marking the special occasion. The company, founded 20 years ago, marked the event with a Google Doodle around the world, reports UNB. This year’s doodle features letter-shaped balloons attached to a gift box. Tapping plays a YouTube video that…
AFP: An apparently suicidal mechanic stole an empty passenger plane from the Seattle-Tacoma airport late Friday, took it for a brief flight then crashed it in an incident officials said was unrelated to terrorism. Two military F-15s were scrambled to chase the stolen plane, but local officials said the jets “were not involved in the…