World
Thieves took the copper and a village lost broadband and phones for two days
The people hit hardest were the ones with no second option — elderly residents for whom a landline is the only link. The same economics…
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World
Britain’s regulator wants Apple to open its contactless chip — and to charge much less for it
Nearly three in five Britons use a digital wallet, and Apple’s is the most popular. The watchdog says its fees and rules are blocking…
Technology
Lost your phone? Your WhatsApp account comes back through the SIM, not through WhatsApp
The company cannot verify who owns a number, so it cannot shut an account down on your say-so. Everything therefore depends on getting a…
Technology
Tesla’s Roadster does not fly — it jumps on compressed air, and the difference is the whole story
The demo showed a car flipping, righting itself and leaping a row of parked cars. What it did not show is sustained flight — and Tesla has…
Bangladesh
Bangladesh ranks 56th in the world for grassroots crypto use — in a country where using it is illegal
The index measures what people do, not what the law allows — and it weights by GDP per head, which is why poorer countries rank high. The…
World
Microsoft walks away from Britain’s largest AI data centre — and the reason is the electricity grid, not the AI
The headline is a tech giant pulling out. The number underneath it is a grid connection slipping from December to the next decade — which…
Technology
Anthropic will put 5% of its shares into a “public benefit fund” — a promise priced against a listing that has not happened yet
Up to 7% of the company could end up in a fund barred from lobbying and political donations. What it is actually worth depends entirely on…
Bangladesh
Rejected four times by the Microsoft Store: what a 19-year-old chemistry student learned building DownGo
An interview with the developer of DownGo. The useful part is not that he succeeded — it is the exact sequence of four rejections, what…
Technology
Instagram pulled their adverts for the word “pregnancy” — ten months later the business had taken the hit
Automated moderation is catching women’s health content it was never meant to catch, and the appeal process is often automated too. The…
World
A suspect in the hack that disrupted London hospitals is in German custody — and British police are weighing an unlawful killing case
The Synnovis attack cancelled operations, diverted emergency patients and disrupted more than 10,000 appointments. If the unlawful killing…
Technology
6G has a name before it has a network: what IMT-2030 actually promises, and when it arrives
Why anyone is discussing the sixth generation while the fifth is still being rolled out, what the standard is actually for, and the…
Bangladesh
His office network is a phone tied to a bamboo pole: how Fazle Elahi freelances from a Kurigram village
A Jahangirnagar postgraduate who ties his phone to a bamboo pole for a hotspot is now a top-rated seller earning $1,500 to $2,000 a month…