Zarif Faiaz

Bangladesh is changing radically. As the country leaps forward in the digital era, its people are embracing the smart, tech-savvy way of life, day in and day out. Today,

The digital transformation of Bangladesh over the past two decades has been fueled by the increasing convergence of technology with our everyday lives.

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. 

No matter how much it seems like one, this is not an advertisement. Welcome to a world where we influence you to become influencers.

A small community of Bangladeshis on Reddit spent three sleepless nights defending the Bangladeshi flag on a massive open digital canvas called r/place.

Over the past few weeks, growing protests against Covid-19 restrictions have been crippling Canada-US borders and downtown Ottawa.

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. 

Look, I took a break from binging my latest Netflix show to write this note. You see where this is going? Kidding. Anyway

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

Ever since the Metaverse announcement, I couldn’t stop thinking about the movie Ready Player One.

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.

This week, we mainly talk about the career prospect of that fresh graduate kid whose planning to get into a marketing firm.

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?

This week, we explore how reliable technology actually is when it comes to personal shopping and other duties.

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.

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.

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. 

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:

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.

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