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X makes parody accounts say so in the name — the design reason a label failed and a prefix works
A fake giveaway collected 428,000 likes. The fix is not better labelling; it is putting the disclosure somewhere that survives a…
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Google is selling its map as a database, not an API — and that single change is what makes it useful to city planners, and risky for them
Imagery, Roads and Places Insights land inside BigQuery, so a planner can join twenty years of traffic to their own data. The capability is…
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Starlink switched on in Bangladesh for the first time — 220 Mbps at the investment summit, and the question nobody at the stall could answer
Visitors to the Bangladesh Investment Summit at the InterContinental scanned a QR code at the satellite company’s stall and got their first…
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The breakthrough in brain-to-voice was not accuracy. It was cutting the delay from eight seconds to almost none
A UC Berkeley and UCSF team published a streaming neuroprosthesis in Nature Neuroscience. Older systems decoded a whole sentence, then…
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Saturn’s rings “vanished” on 23 March, and almost nobody could watch — because the planet was in the wrong part of the sky
A ring plane crossing happens every 13 to 16 years. This one fell when Saturn sat low in morning twilight, too close to the Sun to observe…
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Meta starts Community Notes on 18 March, replacing fact-checkers with users — what changes, what doesn’t, and why Bangla is not on the list
Facebook, Instagram and Threads begin testing X-style Community Notes in the US on 18 March, the first concrete step in Meta’s decision to…
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Beast Games cost $100 million and became Amazon’s most-watched unscripted show. Five contestants are suing over how it was made
A thousand contestants, a $5m prize, $14m spent on a purpose-built arena. A proposed class action alleges unpaid work, unsafe conditions…
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The Turing Award went to an idea from animal psychology — and it is now how every large language model gets its manners
Andrew Barto and Richard Sutton won the 2024 ACM Turing Award, announced in March 2025, for reinforcement learning. The theory predates the…
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The taste device worked across 3,000 km, on sixteen people, at about 70 per cent accuracy on one dimension of one flavour
Sensors detect glucose and glutamate; a pump mixes chemicals at the other end to approximate coffee, lemonade, cake, fried egg and fish…
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Before Starlink lands in Bangladesh: how other countries licensed it, banned it or made it wait — and what a dish actually costs
With the interim government courting SpaceX, Starlink is suddenly the most-discussed internet service in a country where it does not yet…
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Google is dropping SMS codes for Gmail. The reason it gave is not the reason most people assume
The security case against SMS — SIM swapping, interception, phishing — is real and well known. Google led instead with something else…
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Dhaka’s computer markets in late February: students are buying laptops, not desktops — and this is what the parts cost
A week of stable prices in Dhaka’s computer markets, with one clear trend: student buyers are choosing laptops over building desktops…