[Originally written on 23rd February 2014, published on Jhalmoori] I love to keep track of the altitude and speed whenever I fly. I always take a window seat and place my phone directly facing the window and turn on the GPS tracker. Although many airliners now have the ‘flight-show’ thingy running on the inflight entertainment …
It might sound surprising, but AI does not have a universally accepted definition, yet. You might find some in the dictionary or Wikipedia, but in reality, we call something AI only if it feels ‘magical’. When a magic slowly becomes a ubiquitous product, we stop calling it an AI. Also, AI is an umbrella terminology, …
[Photo by: Kyla Duhamel, CC BY 2.0] Studio Ghibli, its creators, and the characters have a special place in hearts of people who grew up with their movies, as each one of them must have left deep impact in our psyche. The universe of Chihiro, Totoro and all have been etched into our thoughts and …
TL’DR: Here is the most accurate Hex codes for Bangladesh National Flag #006651 #DA291C That’s correct, officially the government has never specified the colours for digital format of the red-green national flag of Bangladesh. The only official specification for the two colours is this: (a) The green base of the flag will be of Procion …
Your Location Is Already Compromised—Thanks to Governments When most people think of privacy, they immediately focus on location information. But for me, location is the least of my concerns. Under normal circumstances, I don’t feel the need to hide it at all. Why? Because your location is already exposed to the worst possible entities—governments and …
এটা ২০২৪, অথচ, বাংলাদেশে স্পামিং বিরোধী, এবং ব্যক্তিগত তথ্যের গোপনীয়তা ও নিরাপত্তা বিষয়ক কোন আইন নাই এখনো! বিভিন্ন আইনে, প্রজ্ঞাপনে, এখানে ওখানে কিছু নিয়মকানুন কুড়িয়ে পাওয়া যায়, যা দিয়ে তেমন কোন কাজ হয় না। কয়েক বছর আগে বিভিন্ন বাণিজ্যিক প্রতিষ্ঠান ও ব্যাংকের ক্ষুদে বার্তার অত্যাচারের বিরুদ্ধে মাঠে নেমেছিলাম। প্রথমে তাদেরকে ফোন করে, ই-মেইল করে, ম্যাসেজ …
We not only need to scrap laws like DSA (or whatever they call it now), but also, need to find out and discard all the surveillance equipments and softwares that the government is using on us, everyday, still today. There is no conspiracy theory here, these are verifiable information made available to public in a …
Contrary to what the word “messy” generally mean, a chaos in the fintech scene can also be positive. An ongoing chaos means there is an ongoing healthy competition, and the drive for innovation is on. A stable fintech scene can either mean, someone has occupied it and turned into an impenetrable monopoly or things are …
During the early days of Bengal Institute, when we were brainstorming about initiating and starting everything from scratch; I realised we needed a title music for all the videos that we would publish from the Institute. I went to Luva Nahid Chowdhury asking if she had any suggestion for any music that we can use …
The Internet changes so fast that even the stories from a few years back sounds like coming out of a history book; it quickly becomes a matter of “archaeology.” If you are millennial, you probably have been through the evolution of the early days of the Internet; much of it is similar for all of …