New window to universe

An artist’s impression of the Circinus X-1 system showing the binary (double) star system. Two stars orbit each other every 16.5 days in an elliptical orbit. The small white sphere is the neutron star — an extremely dense and compact remnant of an exploded star, only about 20 km in diameter.

Nokia launches Lumia 720

Nokia has recently started selling Nokia Lumia 720 in the local market at affordable price.
The smartphone is available in the market in five colours with a price tag of Tk 27,999.
 

The sleek and stylish smartphone brings the high-end Lumia innovation to more affordable price point, and expands Nokia’s Windows Phone 8 portfolio.

Facebook unveils its ‘home’ on Android phone

Invitations to a press event at Facebook’s main campus in the Silicon Valley city of Menlo Park rekindled talk of a “Facebook phone,” but analysts say the social network wants to spread roots across the Android platform.

BUET team wins EATL app contest

Dalvik Coders, the team from BUET (Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology) with their ‘Course Mate’ app won the first prize of EATL (Ethics Advanced Technology Limited) Mobile Apps Development Competition.
 

          The winners’ name

Foreshocks predict earthquakes!

      

After a destructive earthquake, scientists sifting through the rumbles that preceded the big event often find foreshocks.
Foreshocks are smaller temblors that strike in the days and hours before a moderate-to-large earthquake. They’re puzzling. Not all earthquakes have foreshocks, and despite decades of effort, no one has successfully found a way to predict earthquakes using foreshocks.

Global internet slows after ‘biggest attack in history’

  The internet around the world has been slowed down in what security experts are describing as the biggest cyber-attack of its kind in history.

A row between a spam-fighting group and hosting firm has sparked retaliation attacks affecting the wider internet.

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