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...
Audi Unveils Futuristic, Sinister-looking EV Roadster Concept Car In New Direction For Automaker
Audi’s newest concept car is a sleek, sinister-looking electric convertible called Skysphere that blends Batmobile-like technologies and aggressive design characteristics with luxury amenities. Most notably,...
IHC Seeks Reply From Secretary IT On TikTok Ban
ISLAMABAD: The Islamabad High Court (IHC) on Friday has directed Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to justify ban on the video-sharing app TikTok. The case was...
Federal Cabinet Approves National Cyber Security Policy 2021
ISLAMABAD: The federal cabinet has approved National Cyber Security Policy 2021 for data protection and prevention of cybercrimes. This was announced by Minister for Information...
PTA Bans TikTok Again
Islamabad: The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority on Wednesday announced it had blocked ByteDance’s video-sharing platform TikTok in the country over “inappropriate content”. “In the light of...
Never Miss A Group Call Again
At a time when so many of us are apart, there’s nothing better than getting together on a group call with friends and family, and...
4G Broadband Services Launched In Multan and Khanewal Districts
ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi said inclusion of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) 2030 in Pakistan’s national development agenda was reflective of its...
IT Minister Calls on PM Khan
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Technology Syed Amin-ul-Haq and Member National Assembly Khalid Maqbool Siddiqui also called on Prime Minister Imran Khan in Islamabad today. Matters...
FB Launches Financial Education Initiative For Women-led Businesses In Pakistan
Facebook is expanding its women-empowerment focused initiative, ‘SheMeansBusiness’ to bolster financial inclusion and resiliency of women-led businesses in Pakistan. Implemented in partnership with State Bank...
Govt of Pakistan And Facebook Partner To Fight COVID Misinformation
The Government of Pakistan has partnered with Facebook in their fight against COVID-19. In Pakistan, over 32 million people received authoritative information regarding COVID prevention...
Construction Of China’s First Space Station Starts
HELSINKI: The Shenzhou-12 spacecraft docked with China’s space station module hours after launch from Jiuquan late Wednesday, marking the first crewed visit to the facility....
This World Blood Donors Day Let The Pulse Beat With Facebook
Facebook company is constantly iterating, solving problems and working together to connect people all over the world through our apps and technologies. Giving people the...
Solar Eclipse 2021: ‘Ring of Fire’ Sweeps Across the World
A solar eclipse is visible over the Earth’s northern hemisphere with parts of Canada and Siberia privy to the best view of the celestial event....
Media Websites Links Down As Fault Interrupts Internet Globally
Web Desk: Multiple outages hit social media, government and news websites across the globe on Tuesday morning, with some reports pointing to a glitch at...
Apple Brings New Update to AirTags After Stalking Fears
Tech giant Apple has released a software update for its AirTags following concerns they could be used to monitor someone’s real-time location secretly. According to...
NASA’s Venus Missions to Probe Divergent Fate of Earth’s Hothouse Sister Planet
LOS ANGELES: NASA announced plans on Wednesday to launch a pair of missions to Venus between 2028 and 2030 – its first in decades –...
Facebook Launches Resiliency Initiative To Combat Hate And Intolerance Online
Facebook has launched The Resiliency Initiative website in a partnership with The Asia Foundation to combat hate and intolerance online. The Resiliency Initiative aims to...
Facebook and Partners Connect With Industry On Urban Connectivity Solutions
Broadband and connectivity are becoming engines of economic growth in Pakistan as already proven in other parts of the world. The theme emerged from the...
IT Park Inaugurated in Islamabad
ISLAMABAD: Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Amin-ul-Haq Wednesday said that all business of the Parliament of Pakistan would be made paperless by January 2023....
Shibli Faraz Briefs PM About EVMs
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Shibli Faraz called on Prime Minister Imran Khan and briefed him about the progress made on the use...
Facebook Partnership With Largest News Agency To Launch Digital Journalism Course
Reuters, the world’s largest multimedia news provider, announced today the launch of the Reuters Digital Journalism Course, produced in partnership with the Facebook Journalism Project....
China’s Out of Control Rocket Heading Towards Earth
China’s rogue rocket is in an uncontrolled free-fall towards Earth and no one knows where or exactly when it will burn through Earth’s atmosphere, but...
Ethereum Breaks Past $3,000
SINGAPORE: Cryptocurrency ether hit a record high of $3,017 on Monday, extending last week’s rally in the wake of a report that the European Investment...
China Launches Heavenly Harmony Space Station Core Module
BEIJING: China has launched the core module for its first permanent space station this week in the latest big step forward for the country’s space...
Manufacturing Process of Electronic Voting Machine in Full Swing: Shibli
ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Science and Technology Senator Shibli Faraz has said the process of manufacturing Electronic Voting Machines (EVM) to make the elections transparent...
World Art Day: Private University Hosts Webinar With Facebook
A private university of Karachi related to Art and Architecture hosted a webinar targeting budding and professional artists to commemorate the World Art Day. The...
PAEC Develops First ICU Ventilator “I-LIVE” in Pakistan
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Atomic Energy Commission has indigenously developed its own Intensive Care Unit Ventilator named “i-LIVE”. According to a statement, the ventilator has been developed...