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Bangladesh’s biggest chip-design school opens in Dhaka: what UVTI teaches, and who should apply
Ulkasemi’s VLSI Training Institute has started classes in Niketan with about 50 students, industry EDA tools and 240-hour courses in IC…
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Huawei brings its LUNA2000 battery storage to Bangladesh — why factories, not homes, are the target
Huawei has launched its LUNA2000 series of solar energy storage systems for Bangladesh’s commercial and industrial users. With…
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WhatsApp is copying Messenger’s chat bubbles — the small Android change that fixes a big annoyance
A floating bubble that shows a new message and opens a mini chat window over whatever app you are using is coming to WhatsApp on Android…
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Photos and maps over satellite, no network needed: what Apple is rumoured to be planning for the iPhone
iPhones can already send an emergency SOS by satellite in some countries. Reports suggest Apple wants to go much further — sending photos…
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Gmail can now send end-to-end encrypted email from your phone — here is what that really protects
Gmail’s Android and iOS apps can now send end-to-end encrypted messages with a tap on the lock icon, no extra app required. What end-to-end…
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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…