Bangladesh
How to check your HSC result — and why the SMS number is not the one you used last year
Three official channels, one of them changed this week. The ministry, the boards and newspaper offices hold no results at all.
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Technology
Britain’s cyber agency says stop using passwords where you can — here is what a passkey actually is, and the one thing nobody mentions
A passkey stays on your device and is confirmed with your face, fingerprint or PIN. The question to settle before you switch is what…
Technology
A seven-day plan for learning AI at ten minutes a day — and the three things it leaves out
The plan is sound and the safety warning is the right one. Wednesday is the day that matters, and the article is too modest about why.
Bangladesh
Your site is on cPanel and you are not a sysadmin: here is exactly what to do about the PHP flaw
Most Bangladeshi sites sit on shared hosting where the owner cannot patch anything themselves. What they can do is check, ask precisely…
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
Feel sick reading your phone in a car? Android's Motion Assist is now on non-Pixel phones. Here is how to turn it on
Google's feature puts small moving dots at the edge of the screen that follow the car's movement, so your eyes and inner ear stop arguing…
Technology
Owning a password manager does not mean you have unique passwords — one study found 94% used one and still reused most of their passwords
Around 80% of people reuse passwords, and the average is reused 2.7 times. The uncomfortable finding is that installing a manager fixes…
Technology
Your Android phone can warn you before an earthquake arrives — how to switch it on, and the arithmetic that decides whether it reaches you in time
Every Android phone is an accelerometer. Google turned millions of them into a seismic network. The warning is real, and there is a zone…
Technology
Google Maps got a better way to search your location history, at the same time as it stopped holding that history
A “Your recent places” page makes Maps history usable. The larger change underneath it is that Timeline moved from Google’s servers to your…
Technology
Windows 10 updates stop on 14 October — here are the three ways to get one more year of security patches, one of them free
Microsoft will stop patching Windows 10 on 14 October. For a PC that cannot run Windows 11 — most of the machines in Bangladesh’s offices…
Technology
Truecaller is switching off call recording on iPhone after 30 September — why Apple made it so hard, and how to save your recordings before they are deleted
Two years after launching a paid call-recording feature for iPhone, Truecaller is dropping it, saying the workaround Apple’s rules forced…
Technology
Circle to Search gets a song history and one-tap translate — plus the thing nobody tells you about what the gesture actually sends
Two overdue fixes to the Android feature most people forget they have. Worth knowing first: triggering it captures what is on your screen…