Marilyn Thipthorpe Skype has just decided to make your life a whole lot easier. The famous video chatting app is taking its features to a whole new level with its intelligence or rather artificial intelligence assistance. At a recent conference the Skype Group Program Manager, Lilian Rincon, showed off a prototype app of the new…
Japan Times: Traditional local festivals are having a more difficult time securing finances to cover event costs. In the western city of Tokushima, the “Awa Odori” traditional local folk dance festival saw record-low visitor numbers this year, partly due to the fallout from confusion which resulted from financing difficulties. “We’ve managed to generate profits,” said…
Samiul Bashar Samin Artificial food. That’s what humans eat. I say this to anyone who will listen. ‘Oh yes,’ comes the reply. ‘The more’s the pity. Cheap, nasty, imitation food-like substances. It’s high time to return to natural food.’ But, no, I mean artificial in its original sense of man-made, produced by humans, artfully created….
DOT Desk Traffic department of Chattogram Metropolitan Police (CMP) launched a bicycle patrol team, consisting 10 traffic police with an aim to ease traffic congestion in the city, reports Daily Sun. Harunur Rashid Hazaree, deputy commissioner of CMP traffic (North), inaugurated launching of the team in the morning at Tigerpass intersection. “The number of traffic…
AFP Unilever chief Paul Polman is “retiring” from the consumer giant, the firm said Thursday, a month after it was forced to ditch a controversial post-Brexit plan to move its headquarters from London to the Netherlands. The Anglo-Dutch group, maker of iconic brands like Marmite and Dove soap, will be headed from January by Alan…
Khaleej Times: Three women were killed Saturday in a landslide set off by Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippine police said, the first reported deaths in the massive storm. Officers in the city of Baguio recovered the women’s bodies from the soil and rubble after a hillside collapsed from the typhoon’s heavy rains, said police Superintendent Pilita…
DOT Desk The Bangladesh Economic Zones Authority (BEZA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Joules Power Limited (JPL) to establish country’s first solar Independent Power Producer (IPP), reports The Financial Express. The $180 million MoU was signed on Monday at the BEZA headquarters to construct the 100MW solar farm at BEZA’s Chandpur economic…
Desk Report: Feature length documentary based on the life of legendary Bangladeshi film actor Abdur Razzak, commonly referred to as Nayak Raj Razzak, will get its theatrical premiere on Star Cineplex in Dhaka today, marking the hero’s first death anniversary, reports Asian Age. The 90-minute-long documentary titled “Rajadhiraj Razzak” was directed by television personality Shykh…
Abdullah Al Naveed Venezuela’s President, Nicolas Maduro, says the nation’s main opposition parties are prohibited from partaking in next year’s presidential election as they boycotted Sunday’s mayoral vote. Justice First, Popular Will and Democratic Action parties boycotted the mayoral vote since according to them the voting system was biased and it only served what they…
Nusrat Jahan Did you know that every day you are killing yourself little by little? You probably do not even know that the daily good you are very reliant on are actually very harmful. Here is a list of few harmful things you probably did not know was bad for you. Perfumes: Toxic chemicals like…