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Health
3D bioprinting explained: the ink is living cells, and the printer builds tissue a layer at a time
Skin, bone, cartilage and beating heart tissue have all been printed. The nearer-term value is not transplants but tissue models that let…
Bangladesh
The Orionids peak tonight — but the moon is 74% full, so the hours before dawn are the ones that matter
No equipment needed, but timing decides everything. A bright moon hides the faint meteors for most of the night; the dark window opens in…
Bangladesh
Her mother sold her earrings to pay for the course — Mitu Akter now runs an agency from Munshiganj
The equipment barrier is the one nobody budgets for. A borrowed laptop broke twice and a pair of earrings paid the fee — and that, not the…
Bangladesh
AI calls Bangla a “low-resource language” — and the reason is simply that we have not written enough of it online
The models are not biased against Bangla; they are starved of it. Which means the fix is partly in the hands of everyone who writes correct…
World
Musk is considering merging Tesla and SpaceX — and SpaceX’s compute business is now bigger than Starlink
The merger talk is the headline. The number buried in the same results is more revealing: selling cloud compute earned SpaceX $7.5bn in a…
World
Prosecutors say the man accused of bugging an OpenAI meeting room had “considerable support” from the Saudi state
The case against Abdulrahman Alfozan has moved from an employee misconduct story to an allegation of state involvement — and the filing…
Technology
Apple will show new Macs on 28 October — and the rumour that matters is a touchscreen MacBook Pro
Apple spent a decade arguing a touchscreen laptop was a bad idea. Signals in the macOS 27.2 beta suggest that position is about to change…
World
The US has ordered DeepSeek out of its civilian agencies — and anything built with its models
The ban reaches further than the app. It covers technology built with the models — which, for an open-source system other companies have…
World
Thieves took the copper and a village lost broadband and phones for two days
The people hit hardest were the ones with no second option — elderly residents for whom a landline is the only link. The same economics…
World
Britain’s regulator wants Apple to open its contactless chip — and to charge much less for it
Nearly three in five Britons use a digital wallet, and Apple’s is the most popular. The watchdog says its fees and rules are blocking…
Technology
Lost your phone? Your WhatsApp account comes back through the SIM, not through WhatsApp
The company cannot verify who owns a number, so it cannot shut an account down on your say-so. Everything therefore depends on getting a…
Technology
Tesla’s Roadster does not fly — it jumps on compressed air, and the difference is the whole story
The demo showed a car flipping, righting itself and leaping a row of parked cars. What it did not show is sustained flight — and Tesla has…