Tesla inks Deal to Get Key Battery Component Outside China
LONDON: Tesla is turning to Mozambique for a key component in its electric car batteries in what analysts believe is a first-of-its-kind deal designed to...
Here’s How You Can Protect Your WhatsApp Account From Unauthorized Access
Meta-owned instant messaging app WhatsApp is introducing a new feature to improve user security and protect accounts from unauthorized access. According to WABetaInfo, this two-step verification...
China’s Detects Water on the Moon
BEIJING: China’s Chang’e-5 lunar lander has found evidence of hydroxyl (OH) on the Moon. Hydroxyl is a close chemical cousin of water, H2O. While several...
VP Huawei Technologies Call on FM Qureshi
ISLAMABAD: The Vice President of Huawei Technologies along with the delegation called on Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi at the Foreign Ministry. Issues of mutual...
TikTok Becomes Most Downloaded App of 2021
Apptopia has released its annual round-up of the year’s most downloaded apps, and TikTok reigns supreme, in both, the US and global charts. TikTok was...
WhatsApp Community Feature To Let You Link Multiple Groups Together
WhatsApp has been working on a new feature that will allow its users to link upto 10 groups in a single ‘Community’. The Community feature...
NASA’s Revolutionary Space Telescope Launched From French Guiana
NASA s James Webb Space Telescope, built to give the world a glimpse of the universe as it existed when the first galaxies formed, was launched...
Google Faces Fine of $98m Over Content Breach
MOSCOW: A Moscow court has said it was imposing a fine on Alphabet’s Google $98m for what it said was a repeated failure to delete...
Internet Speed Gets Slow In Pakistan Owing To Fault in Submarine Cable
A fault in the submarine cable Tuesday cut the internet speed by 1 terabyte in Pakistan after which the Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has...
China Begins Working On Hypersonic Jets
BEIJING: China has begun work on a hypersonic aircraft that will fly at five times the speed of sound, carrying ten passengers to the other...
Twitter Rolls Out Automatic Captions Feature For Videos
California: Twitter has rolled out a much-awaited automatic captions feature for videos, the company announced. The Twitter Support team tweeted about the new update. The...
Time Magazine Names Elon Musk Person of The Year
Time magazine has named Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as its Person of the Year, for an incredible 12 months of achievements in which...
Meta Launches Game of Tribes
After unveiling its first office in India following its rebranding to Meta, Facebook has announced its first-ever gaming community challenge in India. The aim is...
Facebook to Ban All Myanmar-Army Controlled Businesses From Platforms
Meta Platforms, formerly known as Facebook, said on Wednesday it would ban all Myanmar-military controlled businesses from having a presence on its platforms in an...
Scientific Interventions Imperative to Ensure Food Security: Shibli Faraz
FAISALABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Senator Syed Shibli Faraz Wednesday said that innovative, scientific interventions are imperative in agriculture sector to ensure food...
WhatsApp Announces To Introduce New Feature
WhatsApp is continuing to improve its Stories-like feature called Status. The company is now testing a new “undo” feature for users who have second thoughts...
Last Solar Eclipse of 2021 Begins
The last solar eclipse of the year has started but it will not be visible in Pakistan, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD). As...
Twitter Bars Sharing Pictures, VIdeos of Individuals Without Permission
Twitter has bannned the sharing of pictures and videos of private individuals without their permission, in a major policy move. The change will mean that people...
Twitter Co-Founder Jack Dorsey Steps Down as Chief Executive
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey is stepping down as chief executive of the company. He will be replaced by the current chief technical officer, Parag Agrawal,...
WhatsApp Launched A New Feature, Now You Can Create Stickers Yourself
WhatsApp has been in the headlines for the past one month due to its new features. Once again there is a lot of discussion about...
India To Block Most Cryptocurrencies
India is looking to bar most private cryptocurrencies when it introduces a new bill to regulate virtual currencies in the winter session of Parliament, the...
WhatsApp Introduces Message Reaction Notifications
WhatsApp has released the 2.21.24.8 update for its Android users on the beta channel, which reveals the company is working on message reaction notifications for...
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PTA Unblocks TikTok
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has restored the services of TikTok on assurances of the Platform to control immoral and indecent content. In a post...
President Stresses Need For The Promotion of Virtual Education
ISLAMABAD: President Dr Arif Alvi has stressed need for the promotion of virtual education in the country to increase the number of graduates of information...
US Denounces Russia Over Dangerous And Irresponsible Missile Test
WASHINGTON: The United States denounced Russia on Monday for conducting a “dangerous and irresponsible” missile strike that blew up one of its own satellites, creating...
Moon’s Top Layer Can Provide Enough Oxygen For 100,000 Years
Space research is one of the major fields of exploration today. Discoveries and speculations backed by technological advancements are opening up new vistas for human...
Country’s First Digital Studio Inaugurated At KPC
KARACHI: Federal Minister for Information and Technology Aminul Haque Saturday said that the federal government has planned to establish an IT Park in Karachi that...
Elon Musk Sells $5 bln in Tesla Shares
Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk sold about $5 billion in shares, the billionaire reported in filings on Wednesday, just days after he polled Twitter users about...
2000-Year-Old “Slave Room” Discovered In Ancient Italian City
Rome: Pompeii archaeologists said Saturday they have unearthed the remains of a “slave room” in an exceptionally rare find at a Roman villa destroyed by...
Whatsapp Introduces Two New Features For Desktop User
The popular instant messaging app WhatsApp is rolling out two new features for its desktop version that will allow people more control to manage call...
Tesla Recalls Nearly 12,000 Vehicles Over Software Fault
Tesla Inc is recalling nearly 12,000 US vehicles sold since 2017 because a communication error may cause a false forward-collision warning or unexpected activation of...
Introducing Meta: A Social Technology Company
Today at Connect 2021, CEO Mark Zuckerberg introduced Meta, which brings together our apps and technologies under one new company brand. Meta’s focus will be...
Whatsapp To Bring New Feature For Desktop User
The popular instant messaging app WhatsApp is reportedly working on a new feature that will allow users to make changes to their privacy setting from...
WhatsApp Security and Privacy Features That You Need To Activate Today
As the world shifted to the digital space and life including work related communications transmuted to virtual, key communication platforms like WhatsApp have taken the...
SHC Orders To Review Legal Status of CryptoCurrency
KARACHI: The Sindh High Court on Wednesday ordered the government to form a high-level committee to review the legal status of cryptocurrencies as it heard...
Facebook Announces Thousands of Job
PARIS: Facebook on Monday announced plans to hire 10,000 people in the European Union to build the “metaverse”, a virtual reality version of the internet...
Information Ministry Issues Social Media Rules 2021
Islamabad: The government on Thursday announced it will take action against any individual posting “immoral content” on social media platforms under the Social Media Rules...
Social Media Sites FB, Whatsapp, Instagram Restored After Nearly Six-hour
Facebook Inc blamed a “faulty configuration change” for the nearly six-hour outage on Monday that prevented the company’s 3.5 billion users from accessing its social...
FB Instagram, WhatsApp Down for Users Worldwide
Social networking services Facebook, Instagram and messaging service WhatsApp are all experiencing issues for users worldwide, including in Pakistan. According to the media reports, Facebook...
YouTube Blocks All Anti-Vaccine Content
YouTube will block all anti-vaccine content, moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content that contains misinformation about other...
Now You Can Purchase on WhatsApp Like Facebook
London: WhatsApp, the world’s largest instant messaging service, has launched a new feature to make it possible to search for businesses within its app for...
SpaceX Launches Four Civilians into Orbit on Historic Inspiration Flight
CALIFORNIA: SpaceX made history tonight as it launched a crew of private citizens on a jaunt around Earth. For an added bonus, the rocket landed...
No Restrictions On Social Media: PTA Chairman
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Chairman Amir Azeem Bajwa has said that there is no international standard for controlling social media content, therefore, it should...
Apple To Launch First iPhone With 1TB Storage on Tuesday
CALIFORNIA: A day before Apple’s California Streaming event on September 14 (tomorrow), a new investor report from analyst Ming-Chi Kuo says he expects the iPhone...
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ECP Writes Letter To Senate Body Chairman On EVM
ISLAMABAD: The electronic voting machine (EVM) can open up the possibility of “more sophisticated fraud” through the manipulation of software and hardware, the Election Commission...
Female Engineer Invents Robot To Harvest Dates From Palms With Solar Energy
Saudi Arabia’s citizen Nada Al-Bitar obtained a patent for a robot that can harvest dates from palms with solar energy. And she explained during her...
Apple Delays Important Security Features After Users’ Complaints
WASHINGTON: Apple has announced it is delaying the rollout of its controversial new anti-child pornography tools, following criticism that the feature would undermine user privacy....
China’s MingYang Launches World’s Largest Wind Turbine
Beijing: China’s MingYang Smart Energy has announced an offshore wind turbine even bigger than GE’s monstrous Haliade-X. The MySE 16.0-242 is a 16-megawatt, 242-meter-tall (794-ft)...
Facebook To Combat Online Child Exploitation In Pakistan
Facebook and Zindagi Trust launched a campaign in Pakistan to educate the public about the harm caused by sharing child abuse material online, and the...
Facebook Bans All Taliban-related Content On Its Platforms
California: Facebook says it has banned the Taliban and all content supporting it from its platforms as it considers the group to be a terrorist...