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Programmers had saved two digits by writing years as “99”; when the clock turned to “00”, planes, banks and power plants might read it as…
Instagram has had a “take a break” reminder since 2021, but it is off by default and four menus deep. Profile → menu → Settings and privacy…
Since 2016 Messenger’s encryption has been an opt-in “secret conversation” almost nobody used. Meta is now making it the default for all…
The world’s richest man landed at 7:30 am with Melinda Gates, toured BRAC and icddr,b projects funded by their foundation, met Khaleda Zia…
In a test spotted by Android Police, the numbers under a video update in real time — views counted as people watch, likes appearing as they…
A survey of IDB Bhaban and Multiplan this week finds prices unchanged — 14th-gen Core i5 Tk36,000, i3 Tk13,500, Ryzen 5 Tk14,500, 8 GB DDR4…
At Madison Square Garden Nikola Tesla demonstrated a boat controlled by radio waves — the first wireless remote control, patented as a…
Elon Musk announced that Grok, built by xAI in two months of training, will roll out to X’s new $16-a-month Premium+ tier after a limited…
In 2002 the science and ICT ministry took seven floors of the BSRS building at 12 Karwan Bazar — 70,000 square feet, always-on power and…
With the Gmail extension switched on, Bard can now be asked to summarise the important points of several emails, find what a thread…
The Bangladesh System Administrators Forum’s day-long symposium at BRAC Inn brought ten technical sessions and a panel on cloud, security…
Born in Chicago on 22 October 1941, Mazor studied maths at San Francisco State, joined Fairchild as a programmer in 1964 and Intel in 1969…
