Mercedes Readies Plants to Produce Electric Vehicles
BERLIN: Mercedes-Benz is adjusting its network of plants to manufacture a new range of luxury electric vehicles as it prepares to switch to electric by...
Netflix Lays off 300 Employees
Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) said it laid off 300 employees, or about 4% of its workforce, in the second round of job cuts aimed at lowering...
Internet Services in Country Affected Due to ‘Cut’ in fibre optic cable: PTA
Internet services in the northern region of the country have been affected due to a “cut” in the fibre optic cable, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority...
Bitcoin Slumps Under $25,000
LONDON: Bitcoin tumbled Monday to an 18-month low under $25,000 as investors shunned risky assets in the face of a global markets selloff. The world’s...
WhatsApp Soon To Get ‘undo’ Button for Deleted Messages
WhatsApp’s delete message feature is one of the handiest abilities of the instant messaging platform. However, if a user accidentally chooses the ‘Delete for me’...
EU Agrees All Mobile Phones And Tablets Must Have Common USB-C Charger In Blow To Apple
Brussels: Apple will have to change the connector on iPhones sold in Europe by 2024 after EU countries and lawmakers agreed on to a single...
Russia Opens Cases Against Google Over Data Storage
MOSCOW: Russia’s communications regulator Roskomnadzor said it had opened administrative cases against Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google and six other foreign technology companies for alleged violations...
Mobilephone, Transport Services To Remain Close in Punjab
LAHORE: The government has decided to partially shut down mobile phone and transport services across Punjab in view of the PTI’s long march. According to...
IT Ministry Thwarts Cyberattack Attempts
The Ministry of Information Technology (IT) has successfully thwarted an attempted cyberattack on its National Telecom Corporation (NTC) system. NTC is an official Telecom/ICT service...
Bitcoin Falls to Lowest Since January
Bitcoin fell to its lowest level since January as slumping equity markets continued to hurt cryptocurrencies, which are currently trading in line with so-called riskier...
WhatsApp Introduces New Feature Of Adding 32 People To One Voice Call
California: Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp keeps working to provide new features to its customers according to their needs so they can enjoy the messaging...
Twitter Set to Accept Musk’s Original $43 bln Offer
NEW YORK: Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) is poised to agree a sale to Elon Musk for around $43 billion in cash, the price the chief executive...
Meta Marks Ways To Connect And Take Action This Earth Day
Karachi: This Earth Day, global social media company Meta is announcing simple, yet impactful ways that people can learn more about climate change and take...
iPhone 14 Series Likely To Have Autofocus Front Camera
San Francisco: Tech giant Apple is likely planning to unveil its upcoming iPhone 14 series with upgraded front-facing camera with autofocus. According to GizmoChina, details...
Internet Speed To Remain Affected on April 21: PTA
ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) said the internet speed in the country will be slow on April 21 due to power reconfiguration. The PTA,...
China Sending Up Next Space Station Crew in June
BEIJING: China will launch three more astronauts to its newest space station in June after the latest crew returned this weekend following a six-month stay...
YouTube Back Online After Outage Disrupts Services
Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) YouTube said it has fixed issues that had disrupted certain features for several thousands of its users across the online video sharing...
Zuckerberg Money Won’t Be in Next Round of Aid For Elections
DENVER : The nonprofit that distributed most of the $350 million in donations from Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to election offices in 2020 said that...
Elon Musk Joins Twitter Board
Twitter Inc (TWTR.N) said it will offer Elon Musk a seat on its board of directors, a position the Tesla boss and entrepreneur plans to...
NASA Begins Critical Final Test on Mega Moon Rocket
WASHINGTON: NASA began a critical two-day-long test of its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket complete with a simulated countdown, as the agency gears up...
Apple Has Made it Harder to Steal iPhone
iPhone users will now be able to alert Apple Stores and Apple Authorised Service Providers if their iPhones go missing or are stolen, reported Mac Rumors....
Bitcoin Holds Ground After Touching Highest This Year
LONDON: Bitcoin on Tuesday held ground just below its highest this year, touched a day earlier, with gains for the original cryptocurrency topping 27% since...
Elon Musk Giving ‘Serious Thought’ To Build a New Social Media Platform
Tesla Inc TSLA.O Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk is giving “serious thought” to building a new social media platform, the billionaire said in a tweet....
Microsoft Confirms Its Data Has Been Stolen
Microsoft confirmed that a group it calls DEV-0537 broke into an account and stole some parts of source code for some of its products, The Verge reported....
Android Users Can Now Finally Erase Last 15 Minutes of History
Android users finally got the option to erase their last 15 minutes of search history from their phones, a feature iOS users had gotten their...
Whatsapp Releases New Audio Note Feature For web/Deskstop Version
Popular messaging platform WhatsApp is rolling out a new update in the voice notes feature of its web/desktop version. WABetainfo reported that the company has...
TikTok Suspends New Videos From Russia
TikTok is suspending new video uploads and livestreams on its app in Russia, citing the country’s newly-passed “fake news” law as the reason for the...
Russia Bans FB, Twitter and YouTube
Kyiv/Moscow: Moscow has blocked Facebook along with Twitter and YouTube in the country amid the Russo-Ukraine war. These social media platforms are accused of adopting a...
WhatsApp To Animate Message Reactions Option
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on a new feature, message reactions and WABetainfo has now reported that there is something more about this feature....
PM Announces 100pc Tax Exemption For IT Sector
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan announced huge concessions on various sectors. Imran Khan said that Overseas Pakistanis would be given tax exemption for five years...
WhatsApp Is Working on Reaction Button
Meta-owned messaging platform WhatsApp is working on sending message reactions by using a reaction button, WABetainfo reported. According to the WhatsApp news trackers, the feature is still...
Trump’s Social Media App To Be Released Today
Donald Trump’s “Truth Social app” is available for download on Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) app store late Sunday evening, according to witness accounts. The app was also automatically...
China Expresses Serious Concerns Over India Banning Chinese Apps
BEIJING: China on Thursday expressed serious concerns over India’s ban of Chinese apps over security reasons, adding that it hopes India would treat all foreign...
Elon Musk, Tesla Attack SEC for ‘Endless’ Probe
NEW YORK: Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) and its Chief Executive Elon Musk on Thursday accused the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission of improperly targeting them with...
TikTok Removes Six Million Videos in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: The video-sharing mobile application TikTok has removed more than 6 million videos from Pakistan for violating community guidelines during third quarter of 2021. With...
Google Says To Overhaul Ad Tracking System on Android Devices
WASHINGTON: Google announced plans Wednesday to limit ad tracking on its Android operating system, a sensitive privacy issue that rival Apple has already moved to...
Pakistan Wants Chinese Technology Company To Invest: Fawad
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information and Broadcasting Chaudhary Fawad Hussain says Pakistan desires to build a semiconductors zone with the help of China to make the...
Apple Watch Saves Another Life
The Apple Watch safety features have saved another life by automatically dialling the emergency helpline 911 after he fell electric bike in California, US. The...
Google To Work With Ford on Detroit Research
DETROIT: Ford Motor Co. announced that Google is joining the automaker’s effort to transform a once-dilapidated Detroit train station into a research hub focused on...
Hybrid Car Sales Equal To Diesel in Europe
PARIS: Sales of hybrid cars in Europe equalled those of diesel vehicles for the first time last year, while electric models also gained more ground,...
Apple Takes Smartphone Lead in China
Apple Inc.’s latest record holiday quarter came in part because of excitement for the iPhone 13 in China, where homegrown Huawei Technologies Co. has seen...
Huawei Takes Sweden To Court Following 5G Ban
STOCKHOLM: Huawei said that it has initiated arbitration proceedings against Sweden under the World Bank Group after the Nordic country banned the Chinese tech giant...
Pakistan Jumps 14 Points On Internet Network Residency Index
SLAMABAD: Pakistan has improved its ranking in the internet network residency index (NRI) after the country jumped 14 points on the global index in 2021....
Facebook Charged Pakistan The Most For Using “FREE” Internet
In an internal report viewed by the WSJ, Facebook reportedly knew users were getting charged for internet usage for months and calls the issue “leakage,”...
Google New Lawsuit Faces Due to Deceptive Tracking
WASHINGTON: The newest legal case against Google was filed on Monday in Washington, DC, Texas, Washington state, as well as Indiana, accusing that Google tricked...
WhatsApp Working On Major Update
SAN FRANSISCO: WhatsApp is reportedly working on a major update for desktop and web versions. The Meta-owned instant messaging app is developing the ability to...
Microsoft Muscles In on First Wave of The Metaverse
PARIS: US tech giant Microsoft’s $69 billion purchase of Activision this week rocked the video game sector, but the deal may come to be remembered...
Pioneering AI Technology Can Accurately Detect Covid-19 In A Few Minutes
Pioneering Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, developed by experts at University of the West of Scotland (UWS), is capable of accurately diagnosing Covid-19 in just a...
Bugatti’s First EV Is An 18mph Electric Scooter
WEB DESK: Bugatti, best known for speed barrier-breaking hypercars such as the 304mph Chiron Super Sport 300+, has revealed its first electric vehicle – an...
‘Smart’ Guns With Fingerprint Sensor Headed To US Market
Washington: “Smart” pistols designed to limit who can shoot them are poised to hit the booming US firearm market this year, taking aim at spiking gun...