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Astronomers discover new type of black hole

Shawdesh Desk: Astronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said Thursday. LB-1 is 15,000 light

US develops new technology to improve forecasting of tremor, tsunamis

Shawdesh Desk: U.S. geoscientists have successfully developed and tested a new high-tech shallow water buoy that can detect the small movements and changes in Earth’s seafloor that are often a

Supreme Court orders GP to pay Tk 2,000 crore due to BTRC within 3 months

Shawdesh Desk: The Appellate Division of the Supreme Court on Sunday asked mobile phone operator Grameenphone to pay within three months Tk 2,000 crore of the Tk 12,579.95 crore dues

US FCC blocks China’s Huawei, ZTE from subsidy programme

Shawdesh Desk: American regulators on Friday unanimously branded Chinese telecoms firms ZTE and Huawei as threats to national security and blocked them from accessing $8.5 billion in federal funds for

Google reins in political advertising

Shawdesh Desk: Google is making it harder for political advertisers to target specific types of people. The company said that as of January, advertisers will only be able to target

WhatsApp hit by critical security vulnerability on Android, iOS

Shawdesh Desk: If someone has sent you an MP4 file on WhatsApp, guard against downloading it as hackers may use a critical vulnerability in the Facebook-owned app to execute snooping

Google healthcare data move makes some quesy

Shawdesh Desk: Google on Tuesday defended a project aimed at modernizing healthcare while giving it access to medical data of millions of people. Reports that Google was amassing medical data

NASA instrument to explore exoplanet clouds on European spacecraft

Shawdesh Desk: The U.S. space agency NASA is planning to attach an instrument to a European spacecraft that will explore the exoplanets’ clouds for the first time. NASA’s Jet Propulsion