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Two years after launching a paid call-recording feature for iPhone, Truecaller is dropping it, saying the workaround Apple’s rules forced…
Astronomers at the Université de Montréal have found a fifth planet around the red dwarf L 98-59, one of the nearest planetary systems to…
Every Ctrl+C on earth traces back to a text editor called Gypsy, built at Xerox PARC in the mid-1970s by Larry Tesler and Tim Mott. Tesler…
Japan’s NICT sent 1.02 petabits per second over 1,808 km using a 19-core optical fibre with the same 0.125 mm diameter as ordinary cable —…
In the iOS beta, replies to a message no longer scatter through the chat: a small arrow on the original opens every reply to it, in order…
Deligo follows a lane, finds its own charging station, checks the customer with an OTP or card swipe and hands over a one-foot box — built…
German researchers found three vulnerabilities in the Airoha chip used in 29 audio devices from ten brands. Within Bluetooth range, an…
Thirty local and international outsourcing firms, a job fair, an experience zone with drones and robots, and two days of seminars at Sena…
Hidden in a beta of the Google app: a clock button beside the music icon that opens “Recent song searches”, and a translate button that…
Pathao has operated in Nepal since 2018, and a reporter’s trip to Kathmandu found it doing what it does in Dhaka — bikes, cars, food and…
The draft Telecommunication Network Licensing Reform Policy 2025 would collapse a dozen licence types into three tiers. Critics say it…
For fifteen years the deal was simple: let Google copy your page and it sends you readers. Matthew Prince, whose company sees a fifth of…
