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Mark Zuckerberg announced that WhatsApp on Android will let you add a second account — a second number, on a second SIM or scanned from…
Mozilla bought Fakespot, the start-up that uses machine learning to spot bought and bot-written reviews, and is building it into Firefox as…
Open a photo, video or GIF someone sent and, in the Android beta 2.23.20.20, a reply field now sits beneath it — type, send, done, without…
Google is building auto-PiP into desktop Chrome: play a YouTube video, click to another tab, and the video shrinks into a corner window on…
On 16 September 1985 Jobs resigned from the company he had founded after losing a power struggle with John Sculley, and started NeXT, whose…
At 11 pm Bangladesh time on Tuesday Apple announced four iPhones with USB-C, forced by EU law after eleven years of Lightning: iPhone 15…
The Bangladesh Computer Samity’s annual show outgrew its venues; in 1998 it moved to the just-built IDB Bhaban in Agargaon, and the next…
Europe’s biggest electronics fair opened on Friday and runs to 5 September. The notable things: Lenovo’s first Windows gaming handheld, the…
Released on 29 August 2003 by Niklas Zennström, Janus Friis and four Estonian engineers, Skype turned the internet into a phone line, was…
From more than 600 undergraduate applicants, Huawei Bangladesh chose Mohammad Azmain and Arpon Saha (DU), Al Mumtahina and Sajid Ahmed…
After months of suspicion that Bard, Google’s ad tools and its writing assistants were learning from users’ documents, Google’s Workspace…
The translation that Gmail’s desktop site has offered since 2011 comes to Android and iOS by the end of August: a banner appears above a…
