Airbus has appointed its top executive in South Asia to be its next head of technology in a shake-up of design and engineering as it studies options for a successor to its best-selling A320neo jetliner, an internal memo showed on Friday. Remi Maillard, currently head of Airbus India and South Asia
Astronomers have observed two distant galaxies – each containing roughly as many stars as the Milky Way – hurtling towards each other ahead of an inevitable merger, in a scene resembling two knights charging in a joust. This cosmic event took place when the universe was about a fifth of
Microsoft has fired an employee who interrupted a speech by CEO Satya Nadella to protest the company’s work supplying the Israeli military with technology used for the war in Gaza. Software engineer Joe Lopez could be heard shouting at Nadella in the opening minutes Monday of the tech giant&
The contest in Silicon Valley to dominate artificial intelligence is playing out on a new court: superstar researchers. While the scramble to attract top talent and keep them happy has always been a hallmark of the tech industry, since ChatGPT launched in late 2022, recruiting has escalated to pro
Massive fires fueled by climate change led global forest loss to smash records in 2024, according to a report issued on Wednesday.Loss of tropical pristine forests alone reached 6.7 million hectares (16.6 million acres), an 80% spike compared to 2023 and an area roughly the size of Panama, mainly b
Unlimited data will be flowing on the information superhighway for tapping in knowledge economy as Bangladesh steps into the era of satellite internet with the commercial launch of US business-baron Elon Mask's much-vaunted Starlink. Terming historic Tuesday's event of the start of commercial oper
At the company's Build 2025 conference on Monday, Microsoft announced Microsoft Discovery, a platform that taps agentic artificial intelligence (AI) to "transform the discovery process." Microsoft Discovery is "extensible," and can handle certain science-related workloads "end-to-end," according t
Grameenphone and PalmPay launch cardless EMI for smartphones Grameenphone, in partnership with PalmPay, has launched a cardless EMI (Equated Monthly Installment) campaign to make smartphones more affordable and accessible across Bangladesh. Aimed at bridging the digital divide, the initiative enab
Nasrin Sultana, a private-sector employee and regular online shopper on various platforms, including Facebook pages, often faces situations where card payments aren't accepted. For her, the ability to add money to bKash from a card or bank account has become a reliable solution. "This instant add
China is preparing to launch near-Earth asteroid probe Tianwen-2 at the end of May, state-run CCTV reported on Sunday, in the country's first mission to collect samples from interplanetary space. Tianwen-2 was transported to the Xichang Satellite Launch Centre's launch area on May 14 and will take
