World Suicide Prevention Month: Supporting a friend’s mental health

Recognize changing routines and social withdrawal during World Suicide Prevention Month, as Monobikash Foundation psychotherapist Abdul Hamid urges loved ones to ask direct questions, offer empathetic listening, break secrecy, and connect friends with professional care.
10 September 2026

How have we time-travelled to the 1980s?

Generative AI nostalgia trends allow social media users across Instagram and TikTok to transform modern portraits into romanticized 1980s retro photos, though blending virtual time travel with severe data privacy risks and massive environmental energy costs.
10 September 2026

China put scientists on billboards. Why can’t we?

Transforming public billboards into vibrant scientific tributes across China, like displays honoring Qian Xuesen and Yuan Longping, inspires Bangladesh to redefine local heroism in Dhaka, elevating STEM pioneers and visionary researchers as cultural role models.
10 September 2026

British Museum exhibition puts female Samurai in the spotlight

A British Museum exhibition reveals that women comprised roughly half of Japan's elite samurai class, challenging traditional gender stereotypes and proving that human capability, leadership, and skill have always transcended rigid historical boundaries.
10 September 2026

Apple CEO says the iPhone is the world's best AI device

Apple's new CEO John Ternus used the opening of Apple's 'Surprise and Shine' event on Wednesday to lay out his strategic vision for the company in the AI era.
10 September 2026

Hackers are stealing Claude tokens from subscribers

Hackers are hijacking the accounts of some paying users of Anthropic’s Claude artificial intelligence service, using stolen login sessions to consume subscribers’ usage allowances without their knowledge.
10 September 2026

What it takes to freelance today

As the market matures and technology advances, the strategies for success are changing.
10 September 2026

Teen reading scores fall to lowest level this century, study finds

Reading performance among teenagers has fallen to its lowest level this century as students spend more time on digital devices and less time reading for pleasure.
9 September 2026

A data centre vs Brick Lane: London’s Bangladeshi community fights back

In Brick Lane, the historic heart of London’s Bangladeshi community, residents oppose plans for a data centre in a disused brewery, citing the erosion of heritage and the need for social housing.
9 September 2026

Andrew Garfield plays Sam Altman in OpenAI film ‘Artificial’

Andrew Garfield will portray OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman in Artificial, a film dramatising the upheaval surrounding Altman’s brief removal from the artificial intelligence company in 2023.
9 September 2026

OpenAI says it solved a 90-year-old maths problem

OpenAI says an experimental artificial intelligence system has produced a major mathematical result on the Navier–Stokes equations after about 10,000 AI agents worked on the problem for 88 hours.
9 September 2026

How to watch Apple's foldable iPhone launch event tonight

Apple is preparing for one of its most closely watched product events in years, with the company widely expected to unveil its first foldable iPhone alongside new premium smartphones.
9 September 2026

Fitting a family into the new travel quota. Is $18000 enough?

Navigate family gift requests in Dhaka with ease as Bangladesh Bank increases the annual foreign exchange travel entitlement to $18,000. Treat yourself to high-end luxuries like an iPhone Pro without ruining your holiday budget.
8 September 2026

When phones were fun, and why folding screens want that back

Rediscover mobile nostalgia as retro flip phones like the Motorola Razr inspire Gen Z's foldable tech craze, blending classic personality, sleek designs, and cutting-edge smartphone innovation for today's tech-savvy consumers.
8 September 2026

Everything has a class system, except load shedding

Dhaka load shedding exposes stark urban inequality as daily power outages disrupt small businesses like Kalam's shop, test family patience, and reveal how unpredictable electricity cuts disrupt modern life, productivity, and essential daily survival routines.
8 September 2026

What to eat when you have dengue: Three stages of recovery

Rebuild health during Dengue infection by drinking electrolyte-rich coconut water and transitioning to nutrient-dense foods like khichuri, spinach, and papaya leaves, boosting platelet counts and restoring vital energy naturally.
8 September 2026

Australia proposes letting social media users choose their own feeds

Australia has proposed new laws that would require social media platforms to let users decide whether they want algorithmically recommended content in their feeds.
8 September 2026

IFA 2026 puts smarter and stranger consumer tech in the spotlight

Europe’s biggest consumer technology show has opened in Berlin with manufacturers displaying a new generation of experimental phones, robot cleaners, expandable laptops, and increasingly intelligent home devices.
7 September 2026

Google brings conversational AI voice tools to Gmail, Docs, and Keep

Google is rolling out new Gemini-powered voice features across Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Keep, allowing users to search, write, and organise information by speaking rather than typing.
7 September 2026

TikTok adds voice messages and polls to comment sections

TikTok is expanding its comment system with voice recordings, polls, and richer photo options as the platform seeks to make conversations beneath videos more interactive.
7 September 2026