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Bangladesh
‘There wasn’t even a room — Dhanmondi Lake was e-CAB’s office’
In e-CAB’s twelfth anniversary month, its founder describes an association launched with no office, no minister in attendance and seven…
Bangladesh
A clip-on that turns a stethoscope into a heart screening tool won Grameenphone’s AI contest
Three student teams took the prizes at the second FutureMakers final: a stethoscope attachment, a river erosion early-warning system and a…
Technology
Four websites go up every second, and only one in seven is alive
The web passed 1.47 billion sites this September. The number that matters is the second one: 85 per cent of them are parked, abandoned or…
Technology
What Li-Fi is, and why internet through a light bulb is still not here
The idea is twenty-five years old and the physics works. A look at what Li-Fi actually does, the speed claim that gets repeated, and the…
World
Meta’s assistant will now talk back, with a face that moves while you speak
Meta has added real-time speech to its AI assistant, with a lip-synced avatar that reacts while you are still talking. It is a US-only…
World
Two Pacific atolls so remote they are still almost intact
Almost every reef on Earth is in decline. Two atolls in the Marshall Islands are the exception, and the reason is simply that they are too…
World
An Ohio company says it can put out a fire with sound instead of water
Water puts fires out and ruins what it touches. A company in Ohio is betting that low-frequency sound can do the first job without the…
World
Europe’s largest data centre may go on London’s green belt, and the neighbours are fighting it
The UK has about 477 data centres and is set to add roughly 100 more. One proposal in east London shows exactly where the argument now…
World
A court is investigating whether a new Indian library was filled with AI-written books
A novelist noticed odd authors, odd prices and odd ISBNs on the Tamil shelves of a brand-new library. A court has now frozen a publisher’s…
World
Lego has pulled BrickLink offline and will not say what happened
The marketplace collectors call the eBay of Lego has been dark for three days. Lego says it is containing an issue and investigating — and…
Technology
Six things to check before you buy a graphics card, starting with the number everyone gets wrong
VRAM comes first: 16GB covers most work, 32GB for heavy AI and simulation, 8GB a reasonable floor on a tight budget. But capacity alone is…
Technology
Google Maps is preparing to greet you when your plane lands
Found by Android Authority in an unreleased build, not announced by Google. The trigger is a geofence around more than 90 airports, Delhi…