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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…
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…
Born in Bhanga, Faridpur, a graduate of IBA’s first batch, hired by IBM in 1968, S M Kamal turned down an international career to run…
Cloudflare’s year-end data shows Starlink usage more than tripled in 2024. SpaceX now has 6,764 satellites in orbit after launching 1,866…
The LinkedIn co-founder gave millions to Kamala Harris, funded E. Jean Carroll’s defamation case against Trump and made an ill-judged joke…
He learned some digital marketing in Mymensingh in 2011, came to Dhaka in 2013, paid for courses in Farmgate that taught nothing, and…
Long-press a voice message, tap Transcribe, and WhatsApp writes it out — using the phone’s own speech recognition, so the audio never…
With location sharing on, Lens now recognises a product photographed in a physical shop and returns its details, buyer reviews, price and…
Chat Lock puts a conversation behind your fingerprint; the secret code goes further, removing the Locked Chats folder from view entirely so…
A test build of the Google app, spotted by Mashable, lets users ask a question aloud, get results, and follow up with another spoken…
Shivaun and Adam Raff launched Foundem in 2006 and watched it disappear from Google’s results within days. Their 2010 complaint to Brussels…
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…
