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Freelancing 101: what it is, what it is not, and the five marketplaces that actually pay
Freelancing is a way of working, not a job title, and "outsourcing" is what your client does, not you. A plain-language primer from Prothom…
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Dyson Zone: headphones that filter the air you breathe, built for cities like Dhaka
After six years and 500 prototypes, Dyson's first wearable pairs noise-cancelling headphones with a visor that blows filtered air across…
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Operators buy Tk 10,646 crore of spectrum: what 190 MHz means for your 4G, and for 5G
Grameenphone and Robi took 60 MHz each in the 2.6 GHz band, Banglalink 40 and Teletalk 30 in 2.3 GHz, all for 15 years. Why it should mean…
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Redmi Note 11 is the first Note made in Bangladesh: Tk 16,499 for a 90 Hz AMOLED and 33 W charging
Xiaomi's Gazipur plant is now building its best-selling series. The Note 11 brings a Snapdragon 680, a 6.43-inch 90 Hz AMOLED, a 5,000 mAh…
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Three weeks after the report, Madhupur's Garo freelancers get 4G, and throw a festival
Grameenphone's chief executive read the story about modems tied to trees, put a temporary tower in Gaira, and on 12 March the villages of…
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Apple's "Peek Performance": a $429 5G iPhone SE, an M1 iPad Air and the Mac Studio
Apple's March 2022 event put the A15 chip in a $429 iPhone, the M1 in the iPad Air, and glued two M1 Max chips together to make the M1…
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Dhaka to host the ICPC World Finals: the "World Cup of programming" comes to Bangladesh in November
The 45th International Collegiate Programming Contest finals will be held at ICCB, Bashundhara, from 6 to 11 November 2022, with more than…
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Modems hung from lychee trees: the Garo freelancers of Madhupur forest working on 2G
Around 350 young Garo people trained at Nokrek IT Institute earn dollars from villages ten kilometres inside Tangail's Madhupur forest…
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Ukraine raises an "IT Army" on Telegram: the first war with a volunteer cyber front
Three days into the Russian invasion, Ukraine's digital minister asked hackers worldwide to join a Telegram channel listing Russian…
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Team Obhijatrik wins AI for Bangla with software that reads Bangla handwriting
161 projects, a jury led by Muhammed Zafar Iqbal and a Tk 1 lakh first prize: the Bangladesh Computer Council's first AI for Bangla contest…
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Every operator SMS must be in Bangla by June, minister orders; here is what stays in English
Launched on the eve of Ekushey, the BTRC programme has Banglalink at 95 per cent, Grameenphone 92, Teletalk 89 and Robi 85. OTPs, brand…
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Messenger will now tell the other person when you screenshot an encrypted chat
Mark Zuckerberg announced screenshot alerts, GIFs, stickers and reactions for Messenger's end-to-end encrypted chats. Here is exactly when…