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Chrome finally gets vertical tabs: how to switch them on, and whether you should
After years of leaving the feature to Edge and Vivaldi, Google has added vertical tabs to Chrome, plus a cleaner Reading Mode. Here is how…
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WhatsApp calls are getting noise cancellation — built for the Dhaka traffic jam
A new switch in WhatsApp’s calling menu, spotted in Android beta 2.26.14.1, suppresses background noise so the person on the other end…
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Your tea bag may be shedding billions of plastic particles into the cup — what 19 studies found
A review of 19 scientific studies finds that many tea bags — including some sold as biodegradable — release micro- and nanoplastics into…
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WhatsApp is building accounts for under-13s that parents control — here is how they will work
For years the rule was simple: no WhatsApp before 13. Now Meta plans supervised accounts where a parent decides who can message the child…
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The Ig Nobel Prizes leave America: why science’s funniest ceremony is moving to Zurich
For 35 years winners of the Ig Nobel Prize flew to Massachusetts to be pelted with paper aeroplanes. This year the ceremony moves to…
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From Lalmonirhat to Intel’s fabs: what a Bangladeshi metrology engineer actually does all day
Mohammad Mashrur Hossain finished school in Lalmonirhat, studied mechanical engineering at IUT and joined Intel two months after his US…
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Zoom’s Virtual Agent 3.0 reads your documents and settles the ticket itself — the customer-service bot grows up
Zoom’s new AI agent handles voice and chat, analyses uploaded forms and photos, and completes multi-step tasks in CRM, billing and order…
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Is it addiction or just a habit? What the science says about too much social media — and what actually helps
Experts disagree on whether compulsive scrolling meets the clinical definition of addiction, and the DSM does not list it. They agree on…
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Apple’s 4 March event: the five products the rumour mill expects, and which one matters for Bangladesh
Apple has not confirmed a thing, but Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman expects announcements from 2 March and a press event on the 4th. An iPhone…
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The PMO’s new Facebook page hit 562,000 followers in five days — how that compares across South Asia
Bangladesh’s Prime Minister’s Office launched verified Facebook and Instagram accounts on 17 February. The Facebook page passed 562,000…
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From the Banglabandha border to two million subscribers: how Movkidz built Bangladesh’s answer to Cocomelon
Selim Hossain grew up at the northern tip of Bangladesh, nearly joined the army, and taught thirty tuition batches to survive in Dhaka…
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Your phone may have been someone else’s proxy: Google shuts down the IPIDEA network
Google’s threat-intelligence team has dismantled one of the world’s largest "residential proxy" networks, which turned millions of infected…