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Dhaka PC prices, July: RAM down Tk 500–1,000, portable hard drives up — a mid-year reality check
Memory has fallen Tk 500–1,000 in Dhaka’s computer markets this week while portable hard disks rose by the same amount, both on supply…
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One fibre, three services: why Bangladesh still pays for a separate dish line it no longer needs
Most Bangladeshi ISPs already run GPON fibre to the home, the same infrastructure that delivers internet, IPTV and voice on a single line…
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Before we bred them: what watermelons, bananas and corn looked like in the wild
The watermelon in a 17th-century Italian painting is mostly white rind and swirls; wild bananas were packed with hard seeds; the ancestor…
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"Months, not years": the Five Eyes say frontier AI is about to change cyber-attacks — what that means for Bangladesh
The intelligence alliance of the US, UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand has issued an unusually blunt three-page statement: advanced AI…
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Gmail’s AI summaries are coming to everyone — how they work, and how to switch them off
Google is rolling out Gemini-powered "AI Overviews conversation summaries" to all Gmail users worldwide, on Android, iOS and the web. What…
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Google’s "Information Agents" watch the web for you — for $100 a month and up
Announced at I/O in May and now rolling out, Google’s Information Agents let you tell AI Mode "keep me updated on…" and get summaries…
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China approves a brain chip for sale before Neuralink — and it never touches the brain itself
Chinese regulators have cleared NEO, a coin-sized brain-computer interface from Neuracle and Tsinghua University, for commercial use in…
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Third in the world: how UIU’s Mars rover team built Bangladesh’s best robotics record
United International University’s rover team finished third at the Mars Society’s University Rover Challenge 2026 in Utah with 400.44…
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Buying your Qurbani cow online: how the digital haats work in 2026, and the checks that keep you safe
Traffic, heat and hours of haggling have pushed a growing number of Dhaka households to buy their Eid animal from a screen. Farms such as…
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WhatsApp Plus: a paid tier for the world’s free messenger — what £2.50 a month buys, and what it doesn’t
WhatsApp is testing a subscription called WhatsApp Plus with a small group of iPhone users in Europe, at £2.50 a month. It buys stickers…
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Apple will pay $250 million over the Siri that never shipped — who gets the money
Apple advertised a "more personal Siri" on the iPhone 16 that did not exist, then admitted the upgrade was delayed. A US class action over…
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Bangladesh’s biggest chip-design school opens in Dhaka: what UVTI teaches, and who should apply
Ulkasemi’s VLSI Training Institute has started classes in Niketan with about 50 students, industry EDA tools and 240-hour courses in IC…