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Instagram now lets you put a friend’s photo of you on your own grid — without reposting it
A tagged post can now be pinned straight to your profile grid from the notification, with no copy made and no new upload. Removing it later…
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Tonight at 11pm Dhaka time: iPhone 18 Pro, a foldable "iPhone Ultra", and Apple’s first big event under a new CEO
Apple’s "Surprise and Shine" event starts at 11pm Bangladesh time on Wednesday. Expected: iPhone 18 Pro and Pro Max on a 2-nanometre A20…
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A Dhaka firm will build Timor-Leste’s national planning system for the UNDP — what the contract says about Bangladesh’s software exports
Dream71 Bangladesh has won the UNDP contract to build SPIMIS, the system Timor-Leste’s planning ministry will use to track its 2011–2030…
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WhatsApp calls by link, no account needed: the Zoom-style feature that fixes a real business problem
WhatsApp is building call links that anyone can open in a browser — no app, no account — the way Zoom and Google Meet work. It extends the…
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The robot that replaced the ducks: how a 6 kg machine weeds Japan’s organic rice paddies
Japanese organic farmers have long released ducklings into flooded paddies to eat weeds and pests. NewGreen’s Aigamo-Robo does the duck’s…
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Two hours a day, nothing after midnight: Meta’s new teen limits for Instagram and Facebook, explained
As part of settling a US lawsuit over social-media addiction, Meta will cap teenagers at two hours a day on Instagram and Facebook, lock…
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Prices flat, sales normal: a late-August build guide for Dhaka at three budgets
With almost every component unchanged week on week and sales back to normal, late August is a calm moment to build. Using this week’s Dhaka…
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Bezos on workplace stress: it comes from not acting, not from working hard — and the science mostly agrees
Jeff Bezos has said the same thing about stress for twenty-five years: it rarely comes from hard work, and usually from a problem within…
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Three bronzes in Astana: Bangladesh’s AI Olympiad team is improving every year — here is how the pipeline works
Bangladesh took three bronze medals at the third International Olympiad in Artificial Intelligence in Kazakhstan, up from two last year and…
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SSDs up again in Dhaka, by up to Tk 2,000 this time — what is driving the second storage rise of 2026
Specific SSD models have risen Tk 500–2,000 in Dhaka this week, the second storage jump this year, while CPUs, boards and graphics cards…
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Hega launches sensor lights in Bangladesh with an 80% saving claim — how to read that number
A new brand, Hega, has launched motion- and light-sensing lamps in Bangladesh, promising up to 80 per cent lower electricity use and a…
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X will pay the original creator when someone else’s repost goes viral — and Grok is the judge
Under X’s revised revenue-sharing policy, money earned by reposting someone else’s photo, video or text goes to the person who made it…