Hands-on with the Robot Phone: What will you think of next, Honor?
30 September 2026
Honor’s Robot Phone brings a motorised gimbal camera to a smartphone in a way that feels both futuristic and surprisingly practical.
30 September 2026
Review / Hands-on with the Vivo X500: More camera than a smartphone
28 September 2026
We got our hands on Vivo’s new X500 series soon after its launch in Shanghai, spending most of our time with the flagship X500 Pro Max.
28 September 2026
A single digital ID can simplify life, but who will protect the data?
24 September 2026
There is something almost surreal about how cheap privacy, especially data privacy, has become in Bangladesh.
24 September 2026
Vivo unveils the X500 series, with a renewed focus on camera
22 September 2026
Vivo has launched three new smartphones in China, placing a strong emphasis on camera performance and video recording. The X500, X500 Pro and X500 Pro Max were unveiled at an event in Shanghai on September 21 and are expected to enter the Bangladesh market in December.
22 September 2026
Xuanzang’s travels to Bengal and beyond : The man, the pilgrim and the Monkey King
11 September 2026
Discover the journey of Xuanzang, the Chinese monk who documented ancient Bengal, Mahasthangarh, and the intellectual landscape of the 7th century.
11 September 2026
Views / The legacy Tim Cook leaves behind
2 September 2026
Tim Cook leaves behind a $4.6tn corporate machine, an unrivalled consumer ecosystem and a record of extraordinary political dexterity.
2 September 2026
We need to prioritise future-ready skills over freelancing
28 August 2026
The government wants to spend Tk 683 crore training more than 50,000 young people to become freelancers.
28 August 2026
Views / Bangladesh should learn from China’s technological rise, but not copy it
21 July 2026
We’ve all heard the phrase—“China is not living in the future. It is the future.” In many ways, it is a literal truth. The influx of robot taxis, the automation craze, and the skyscrapers in Shanghai racing each other to the clouds certainly point that way. For many economies in the Global South, it is also a blueprint. But the most tempting lesson to draw from China’s technological miracle is also the most misleading: build a few futuristic industrial parks, announce an artificial intelligence strategy, import advanced equipment and wait for transformation to follow.
21 July 2026
Power cuts, load-sheddings are hurting rural freelancers
Not too long ago, freelancing was deemed an exciting career prospect for thousands of skilled Bangladeshi youths. The rapid digitalisation of the country, combined with a rising number of skilled, educated, but unemployed workforce—and consistently low market wages—contributed to a freelancing boom in Bangladesh over the last decade.
29 September 2022
Making it into the big leagues
No matter how much it seems like one, this is not an advertisement. Welcome to a world where we influence you to become influencers.
23 June 2022
Internet’s greatest art war, and the fight to keep Bangladesh in it
A small community of Bangladeshis on Reddit spent three sleepless nights defending the Bangladeshi flag on a massive open digital canvas called r/place.
10 April 2022
Bangladeshis behind global far-right online movements: Here’s what we know
Over the past few weeks, growing protests against Covid-19 restrictions have been crippling Canada-US borders and downtown Ottawa.
24 February 2022
Facebook's promised free internet for low-income people was not free after all
Since 2013, Facebook, in collaboration with select carriers and operators, has been offering a free text-only version of its browser that–according to Facebook–wouldn’t use up mobile data. The services were targetted particularly towards developing countries with poor connectivity and as of last October, it has more than 300 million users. But recent internal documents reveal that users of the free version ended up being charged anyway. The worst part–Facebook has no idea how much.
1 February 2022
The never-ending streaming wars
Look, I took a break from binging my latest Netflix show to write this note. You see where this is going? Kidding. Anyway
2 December 2021
Metaverse again
It seems like we can’t stop talking about the Metaverse. This week, once again, we talk about the Metaverse but this time, it’s
18 November 2021
Exciting (?) times ahead
Ever since the Metaverse announcement, I couldn’t stop thinking about the movie Ready Player One.
11 November 2021
Sweet November
November starts on a good note for us. We finally get to take a new ride out for a spin after a zillion years and we’re so happy that we slammed it for the feature story this week. Turn to the centrefold to read us gushing over the new Honda Civic 2022 and drool over all the pretty pictures we took of the car.
4 November 2021
Oh, another digital marketing agency? Tell me about it
This week, we mainly talk about the career prospect of that fresh graduate kid whose planning to get into a marketing firm.
28 October 2021
Only ‘90s kids would remember
This issue is all about living the ‘90s dream. I mean, we feature a tribute to Grand Theft Auto in the centrefold. Need we say more?
21 October 2021
It’s 2021, can we rely on tech yet?
This week, we explore how reliable technology actually is when it comes to personal shopping and other duties.
14 October 2021
6 Bangladeshi militant groups, 1 individual in Facebook’s secret blacklist
Facebook has developed a secret blacklist of over 4000 individuals and organisations across the world that the social media giant considers “dangerous”, as a part of its Dangerous Individuals and Organizations (DIO) policy, according to internal Facebook documents, as revealed by The Intercept.
13 October 2021
A new day
October’s second issue begins as a new day as we, the toggle helm team, is reduced to a ragtag assembly of two. Quartermaster Nahaly Nafisa Khan jumped ship and it’s just me and the captain holding the deck for now.
7 October 2021
Inside the Facebook blackout: How the social media giant lost $7bn in a day
On Monday, around 10 PM BST, Facebook and its other services--including WhatsApp and Instagram--went completely down, in a massive outage that’s thought to be the worst since 2019. The websites were restored nearly 12 hours later, after an unprecedented interruption in global communications and the internet economy.
5 October 2021
Offline Siri, 3D maps, screen sharing: Here’s what’s new in Apple’s iOS 15
Apple has finally released the iOS 15 for the public and it’s available to download now in Bangladesh. We have received our first update and here are the key highlights:
30 September 2021
The future is now, old man!
The future is upon us. I mean, soon, as everything looks almost set for us to step into the EV era. So, this week, we explore where our electric future stands.
23 September 2021
Time to get back in the world
This new normal is here to stay, that much we know for sure. But as the world around us slowly starts to open up following mass vaccination drives and whatnot, it’s time to prepare ourselves to get back into the world. We, as much as you lot, missed
9 September 2021
All about living the good life
In the constantly shifting digital world, it gets tough to keep track of what’s new on the market every now and then. But as brands race each other to grab your attention, we are here to streamline that process for you.
2 September 2021
At long last, a ‘Foundation’
Originally published as a series of short stories in the 1940s, the Foundation series—expanded later with a string of prequels and sequels—became Asimov’s greatest contribution to the genre and remains, to this day, one of the greatest reads for any SF connoisseur.
30 August 2021