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RR Auction of Boston is selling one of the roughly 200 boards Jobs and Wozniak assembled in 1976, still running after 46 years, with…
Five students from Daffodil International University and North South University beat 2,814 teams from 162 countries to take the Most…
End-to-end encryption expands from 14 to 23 categories of iCloud data, including backups, photos and notes. Mail, contacts and calendar…
A hacking-forum seller claims active numbers from 84 countries; WhatsApp says its systems were not breached. Either way, the risk is spam…
The five-year Bangladesh-China project that put optical fibre into union parishads ended on 22 November. What it built, why a Gaibandha ISP…
A week after cutting 13 per cent of its staff, Meta is ending its video-calling device and cancelling two watches, while keeping the Quest…
38 services, from savings certificates to a credit card, now need proof that you filed a return, even if you owe nothing. The thresholds…
The 45th ICPC World Finals, the first in South Asia, ended at ICCB with MIT ahead of Peking and Tokyo. BUET placed 51st and SUST 56th; six…
Six months after agreeing to buy Twitter, three months after trying to walk away, Elon Musk changed his bio to "Chief Twit" and told staff…
From about 1 pm Bangladesh time on 25 October, two and a half billion people could not send a message. Meta blamed a "technical error". A…
Windy, the Met Office's live map at live4.bmd.gov.bd, the BMD app and the free 1090 hotline: where the real forecasts are, how to read a…
Rice absorbs a little surface moisture and leaves starch dust in the ports; it cannot pull water out of a phone. The monsoon-season routine…
