Mahbub Rabbani

Mahbub Rabbani covers consumer technology for Tech BD — phones, apps, operating systems and the platforms most of the country uses daily. He writes the site’s how-to guides, and tends to judge a product by what it costs to live with rather than what it costs to buy.

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Three iPhone settings a privacy author says you should switch off — and exactly where to find each one

Apple sells the iPhone on privacy, yet several defaults still share how you respond to ads and let Apple Intelligence learn from your apps…

11 Jan 2025

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WhatsApp is bringing group-style Events to one-to-one chats — a small change that replaces a lot of “so, when?” messages

Events — the dated, RSVP-able invitations WhatsApp added to groups — are being tested in personal chats, WABetaInfo reports. Create one…

10 Jan 2025

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Musk tells his followers to stop donating to Wikipedia over a “29% on DEI” claim — the Wikimedia budget says something different

Replying to a Libs of TikTok post claiming that 29% of Wikimedia’s $177 million budget goes to equity and “safety and inclusion”, Elon Musk…

28 Dec 2024

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Android 16 will draw moving dots on the edge of your screen so you can read on the bus without feeling sick — Google copies Apple’s best small idea

Motion sickness happens when your eyes say “still” and your inner ear says “moving”. Apple’s Vehicle Motion Cues in iOS 18 fixed it with…

25 Dec 2024

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WhatsApp will turn voice notes into text on your phone — no server, no Meta, and for now no Bangla

Long-press a voice message, tap Transcribe, and WhatsApp writes it out — using the phone’s own speech recognition, so the audio never…

25 Nov 2024

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Point Google Lens at a product on the shelf and it shows the price, reviews and whether the shop next door has it cheaper — in the US, for now

With location sharing on, Lens now recognises a product photographed in a physical shop and returns its details, buyer reviews, price and…

21 Nov 2024

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WhatsApp’s secret code: a second password that hides locked chats from anyone who has your phone unlocked — and how to set it in five taps

Chat Lock puts a conversation behind your fingerprint; the secret code goes further, removing the Locked Chats folder from view entirely so…

15 Nov 2024

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The couple whose price-comparison site vanished from Google in 2006 just won, fifteen years on: Europe’s €2.4bn Google Shopping fine is final

Shivaun and Adam Raff launched Foundem in 2006 and watched it disappear from Google’s results within days. Their 2010 complaint to Brussels…

29 Oct 2024

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WhatsApp will keep your contacts itself — saved in the app, encrypted, restored on a new phone, and invisible to the phone’s address book

Until now WhatsApp has only ever read the phone’s own contact list; lose the phone, lose the numbers. A new feature lets you add contacts…

25 Oct 2024

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Meta fired about two dozen Los Angeles staff for spending their $25 meal credits on toothpaste and wine glasses

Engineers on $400,000 salaries were among those dismissed after Meta found its Grubhub and Uber Eats meal allowance — $20 for breakfast…

21 Oct 2024

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Gmail’s new summary cards turn a shipping email into a tracking bar and a flight email into a boarding pass — and add a “Happening soon” shelf to the inbox

The cards Gmail has shown above shopping and travel emails for years are being rebuilt on Android and iOS: purchase cards with a product…

6 Oct 2024

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Microsoft is reopening Three Mile Island: a 20-year deal to power AI data centres from the site of America’s worst nuclear accident

Constellation Energy will spend $1.6 billion restarting Unit 1 at Three Mile Island, shut in 2019 for lack of money, and sell all of its…

28 Sep 2024