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Does putting a wet phone in rice work? No. Here is what actually saves it
Rice absorbs a little surface moisture and leaves starch dust in the ports; it cannot pull water out of a phone. The monsoon-season routine…
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How to register a birth online in Bangladesh: the bdris.gov.bd form, the documents, the fees and the two things people get wrong
The application takes ten minutes at bdris.gov.bd, but the certificate still comes from your union or city office. Step by step, what to…
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Call dropped? You now get talk time back from the first drop: the new BTRC rule, the code to check, and how Grameenphone started early
30 seconds for each of the first two drops, 40 seconds for the third to seventh, credited within 24 hours and valid for 15 days…
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YouTube Shorts will run ads and pay creators: what the TikTok fight means for Bangladeshi channels
Shorts has 1.5 billion monthly viewers but paid creators only through a capped fund. Ads between clips and a revenue share change that, and…
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A father and son built a broadband ISP in a Gaibandha village: Tk 20 vouchers, 25 hotspots and a server room by the paddy field
Sajedul Islam and his son Muntasir Mamun learned networking from YouTube, founded Safal Telecom in 2020, and now serve 100 homes, five…
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Apple's "Far Out": iPhone 14 with a Dynamic Island, a Watch that takes your temperature, and satellite SOS
Watch Series 8 at $399, the rugged Watch Ultra at $799, AirPods Pro 2, iPhone 14 and 14 Plus, and a 14 Pro whose notch became a…
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Shikho is the only Bangladeshi name on Forbes Asia's 100 to Watch: what the edtech does and why it was picked
Eight lakh registered learners, classes 6 to university, all 64 districts: the Dhaka edtech founded in 2019 by Shahir Chowdhury and Zeeshan…
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Daraz at eight: 70 lakh customers, 41,000 sellers and the marketplace that outlived Evaly
Daraz started in Bangladesh in 2014 with five staff; it now employs 6,000. The numbers from its anniversary press conference, the model…
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Trishna Dio turned down a job in Australia to earn dollars from Kakorkandi village; load-shedding is her only rival
An MBA, a Dhaka HR job she hated, a graphics course in Mymensingh, an $86 first order, and now Tk 60,000-86,000 a month from a Garo village…
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CIRT warns of DDoS attacks on Bangladesh: what a denial-of-service attack is, and how even a small site can survive one
The government's incident response team saw a surge of SYN, UDP and fragment floods against critical infrastructure and asked operators to…
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WhatsApp's new Windows app works even when your phone is off: how to set it up
The native app from the Microsoft Store replaces the old Electron desktop client and no longer needs the phone online. Up to four linked…
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Fake and refurbished Gigabyte parts are being sold as new in Bangladesh: how to check before you pay
The official distributor says grey importers are passing off counterfeit and repaired motherboards and graphics cards as new, with no…