What happened? Internet services across Pakistan have been disrupted due to a fault developed in the submarine cable system near Abu Talat, Egypt. What you should know The Trans World Associates (TWA) communicated the service ...
What happened Karachi-based fintech Safepay received venture capital funding from the global financial technology platform Stripe. The startup didn’t reveal the exact size of the deal but mentioned to MenaBytes that it’s a seven-figure (USD) ...
What happened? In Australia, the tech giant, Google is threatening to unplug its homepage in a standoff with the government. Earlier In December, the government introduced “world-first” legislation which forced tech giants to pay local ...
Mobile data network operator Zong’s services shut down in major cities on Wednesday afternoon. The issue was highlighted after customers complained of slow browsing and being unable to make or receive calls on Twitter. Customers ...
Federal Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque announced that 5G services will be initiated in Pakistan in December 2022. He elaborated that the IT ministry is working with the prime minister to launch ...
What is this device? Chinese device-maker Xiaomi published a YouTube video where it revealed its “Mi Air Charge Technology” that is in development, showing off some vague details about its upcoming long-range wireless power system. ...
“The programme will work towards developing mentorship and connecting young Pakistani women to academic and professional networks for educational and career advancement” The Society for International Education, funded by the US Department of State, has ...
What happened: Federal Minister for Communications and Postal Services, Murad Saeed said that the federal government has decided to expose all social media accounts involved in spreading misinformation against Pakistan. He noted, while addressing an ...
Wearable ketamine either sounds like a fashion brand named by a teenager or a street name for ketamine cut with other drugs, but in fact it is neither of those things. Wearable ketamine is a ...
What happened: Officials from the American Department of Energy (DOE) and the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) notified congressional oversight, today, that they have evidence both the DOE and NNSA have been infiltrated by hackers. ...
On Thursday, 10 Dec, POCO Global dropped the brand-new entry-level smartphone, POCO M3, which comes with great specs but more importantly, a reasonable price tag. With its long battery life, FHD+ smartphone display and Qualcomm® ...
What happened: At Enrico Iori’s Italian factory and U.S. offices, about 150 employees wear bracelets, belt clips and lanyards that illuminate, vibrate and make irritating sounds whenever they get within six feet of each other. ...
What happened : Fixing mistakes on your iPhone is very easy. While the Mac has Command-Z, iPhone itself has its own feature that rectifies mistakes: Shake to Undo. With Shake to Undo turned on, iOS ...
What happened : More than 45 state prosecutors along with US federal regulators have sued Facebook, blaming the social media giants of taking illegitimate actions to buy up competitors and stifle competition. In recent years ...
What happened: On Wednesday, google unveiled its top trending searches of 2020. It says the trending results are searches that had a high spike in traffic over a sustained period in 2020. The ‘Year in ...
What happened : San Diego based Aptera has unveiled a new solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) which has a battery of 100 Kwh and can get up to 1000 miles of range. The new three-wheeled, two-person ...
Online dating has become a firm fixture of the Pakistani dating scene, despite some dating apps like Tinder and Grindr being banned. Far from decreasing the popularity of online dating the Pakistani government’s ban only ...
After both the Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5 launched last month. The new consoles are notoriously hard to get a hold of but one group of friends in Singapore found another way to level ...
What Happened: On Wednesday, The Federal Minister for Industries & Production Hammad Azhar announced on Twitter that the Chinese smartphone company Vivo has decided to establish a manufacturing plant in Pakistan. VIVO is one of ...
What happened: Singapore has approved lab grown chicken meat for human consumption. This is the world’s first regulatory approval for ‘clean’ lab grown meat, that does not come from animals. The Singapore Food Agency (SFA) ...
What happened: Fuel loading has started for the Karachi Nuclear Power Plant Unit-2 (K-2), on Tuesday. After a fuel load permit was obtained from the Pakistan Nuclear Regulatory Authority the process for loading fuel into ...
What happened: The Switzerland parliament released a bombshell report, which exposed Swiss-based tech company Crypto AG. This company was actually a front for the CIA and German secret service and have been providing crucial information ...
Smog season is upon us. And it has already made the air quality so bad that on some days the air quality in Lahore, especially, crossed unhealthy to become actually hazardous. So, if you want ...
What happened: Tom Moyer, Apple’s head of global security, has been indicted in a bribery scandal revolving around trading ipads for concealed carry gun permits. Two Santa Clara police officers are also involved in this ...
What happened: The Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry announced a government programme for video game and animation enthusiasts, via a tweet, on the 25th of November. In his tweet Fawad Chaudhry stated, ...
The Government of Pakistan has recently passed new laws to regulate social media. However, these laws been the subject of much criticism by digital activists and major social media companies. The Asia Internet Coalition (AIC) ...
What happened: On Thursday, the Government of Pakistan presented some rules that define how social media will be governed. After the decision came out many big tech companies announced that these regulations would make it ...
What happened: On Tuesday evening, a government website (https://sindhinvestment.gos.pk/) belonging to the investment department of the government of Sindh was hacked by Anonymous hackers as a result of a cyber-attack. Hacked By Anonymous. This is ...
If you’ve seen the video of Prime Minster Imran Khan and PML-N chief Nawaz Sharif singing the 80s hit ‘Video Killed the Radio Star’ then you know what deepfakes are. For everyone else, deepfakes encompass ...
The U.S military has been buying data on people’s everyday movements, which has been mined from popular apps on their phone. One of the sources of data is an extremely popular Muslim prayer app, Muslim ...
Player’s Unknown Battleground (PUBG Mobile) announced, via twitter, that they will be launching Urdu language voice packs for Pakistani players. The voice packs will make the gaming experience better for players as they will be ...
On the evening of the 15th of November Pakistani music lovers discovered a verified Instagram account for Spotify Pakistan. The account has no posts yet, and Spotify has not officially commented on their potential entry ...
Facebook as a social media app has expanded itself into every sphere of life dramatically. From political mobilization to cultural sensitivity, facebook has impacted our way of seeing and interpreting everything. There are two extremes ...
PG Exclusive: Pakistan’s entrepreneurs: The Viral Camper. Mansoor Mustafa, a 26 year old resident of Balakot, appeared in a video on the Facebook page ‘Survival Man’ four days ago. He came on to speak about ...
What Happened: A huge fire broke out at Lahore’s most famous tech bazaar, Hafeez Centre. The fire erupted on Sunday morning, October 18, and raged on until 9:00 PM. The Punjab Emergency Service, Rescue 1122, ...
Apple’s computers just never lose their appeal, despite the fact that there are other laptops out there capable of competing – and even beating – the MacBook in terms of performance. Whether it is their ...
TikTok has been blamed for a lot of things during its rise to the top. One of the greatest on-going grievances people raise is that it pollutes minds and encourages toxic behaviour. Created in 2016 ...
The Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence is the first of its kind: offering graduate level research-oriented Masters and PhD degrees in the up-and-coming field of AI. Although it was originally set to open ...
In Samsung’s unpacked event, streamed live from South Korea, the company unveiled more than 5 new devices, including the Galaxy Note 20 models, Galaxy Buds Live and the Galaxy Watch 3. While the majority of ...
It is amazingly tone-deaf that Pakistani authorities think that the best way to improve mental health in Pakistan is censorship and restricting freedom instead of actually investing in and reducing the stigma against mental healthcare. ...
The Supreme Court on Wednesday hinted at banning YouTube in Pakistan over ‘objectionable content’. This news comes a day after live-streaming app Bigo was banned and TikTok was issued a ‘final notice’ over ‘obscenity’. Earlier ...
An annular solar eclipse will be visible to Pakistanis on Sunday, June 21, according to the Pakistan Meteorological Department. Annular solar eclipse? A solar eclipse is when the moon covers the sun. An annular eclipse occurs ...
Indian-based cyber company BellTroX InfoTech Services helped clients spy on over 10,000 email accounts, reported Reuters. What did the cyber company do? The firm offered its hacking services to clients to spy on email accounts ...
Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) CEO Air Marshal Arshad Malik revealed in a meeting with Imran Khan that his company has been making a loss of Rs. 6 billion every month since the start of the ...
On Tuesday, Facebook announced that they shut down pages and accounts associated with alleged hate groups including American Guard. The group allegedly discussed bringing weapons to protests occurring nationwide against police brutality and racism. The ...
Video giant attributes automatic deletion of criticisms to an error in its systems. Upon receiving censorship complaints, YouTube is investigating the automatic deletion of comments criticising the Chinese Communist party. The company claimed that the ...
Almost 11 TV stations aired an identical propaganda piece written and produced by Amazon’s PR team. Local news stations across the U.S. aired the same segments that praise Amazon’s role in reaching necessary groceries and ...
The recent image could be the only existential evidence of a planet’s birth in interstellar space, according to study published in Astronomy & Astrophysics. AB Aurigae – a star found some 520 light years from ...
Hackers release the first public jailbreak for Apple’s iOS operating system that they claim works on all iOS devices. A hacker who worked on the jailbreak mentions that it works by capitalizing on a vulnerability ...
Even if greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were reduced, rates of climate change in the Earth’s sea could be seven times higher than current degrees by the second half of this century, says new research. Varied ...
A cafe in Daejeon, South Korea has hired a robot barista responsible for recording and serving orders to implement the South Korean government’s distancing protocols. As customers lean in to grab their drinks from the ...
A disk galaxy in the early universe, just 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang, somehow formed during a time of chaotic cosmic conditions. According to previous estimations, disk galaxies should take 6 billion years ...
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey told employees in an email that they would be allowed to work from home indefinitely, even after COVID-19 shutdowns end. Dorsey also said Twitter’s offices wouldn’t be reopened until September at ...
The Pentagon on Monday released three declassified videos that show US Navy pilots encountering what appear to be unidentified flying objects. The grainy videos, which the Pentagon says depict “unexplained aerial phenomena”, were previously leaked, ...
The pandemic is driving users to pirated movie websites in greater numbers than ever before, according to piracy tracking firms. Data provided to Vice by London-based Muso TNT show that between February 20 and March 20, visits ...
Facebook has added a wave of new video-calling features to WhatsApp, Messenger and its main app, following increased demand for social video calling. New Messenger Rooms will let people start group video chats that can ...
Nearly half the “people” talking about the coronavirus pandemic on Twitter are not actually people, but bots, according to new research from Carnegie Mellon University. And many of those bots are rapidly feeding Twitter with ...
In a world hit by Covid-19, bathroom breaks are to be determined by traffic lights in keeping with the requirements of social distancing and other protective measures. How it works A yellow and green traffic ...
More than a decade ago, the Hubble Space Telescope spotted a Jupiter-scale planet orbiting Fomalhaut, a star about 25 light years away from our solar system. The discovery marked the first time that an exoplanet, a world ...
Tokyo Electric Power Co (Tepco) is assessing a government report about the threat of another tsunami headed towards its wrecked Fukushima nuclear station. Tepco is in the process of cleaning up its Fukushima Daiichi plant ...
WhatsApp is planning to expands its group video chat function to allow up to 8 members. The app is currently in beta, but testers on iOS and Android can download it. Earlier this month, WhatsApp ...
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed an order allowing online marriages, as many weddings are cancelled under lockdown restrictions. From now on, people in the US state will be able to apply for marriage ...
According to a group of paranormal enthusiasts on Reddit, astral projection could be the vehicle we need to go out in the lockdown. Reddit’s /R/AstralArmy is a focal point for the psychically curious to embark on out-of-body ...
The new Facebook update has added a new “care” reaction to the existing six reactions as a means to show appreciation for loved ones. When can I “care” react? The new emoticon, to be ...
Many governments around the world have tapped into new data in smartphones that will allow them to track the spread of the virus. This tactic also allows governments to track whether social distancing measures are ...
A robotic delivery service in Milton Keynes could prove to be the future of locked-down Britain, as miniature autonomous vehicles bring food deliveries to almost 200,000 residents of the town. Starship Technologies, an autonomous delivery startup created ...
With more people than ever using zoom to work from home, users are finding new ways to spice up endless remote meetings and group hangs by looping videos of themselves looking engaged, adding wacky backgrounds, and now, ...
Apple is releasing a new iPhone that will be vastly cheaper than the models it rolled out last fall when the economy was booming and the pandemic had yet to force people to rethink their ...
While iPhone users can still unlock their phones by entering their six-digit passcode, that process is less convenient. Hence, people usually prefer using the Face ID. However, unlocking iPhone with Face ID during coronavirus times ...
NSO Group was implicated in the hacking and spying of activists in Mexico. Although the company strongly denies it, it’s alleged to have helped the Saudi government in its brutal operation to kill and behead Washington Post journalist ...
Astronomers have discovered the brightest supernova ever observed, which blasted out at least twice as much light as the next biggest star explosion on record. First spotted on February 22, 2016 by the Pan-STARRS observatory ...
Many smartphone makers are now hoping that sales in China can cushion declines in overseas markets in coming months. Sources report Apple Inc (AAPL.O) shipped roughly 2.5 million iPhones in China in March, a slight ...
Apple and Google announced Fridayan unprecedented collaboration to leverage smartphone technology to help trace and contain the spread of coronavirus. The collaboration will open up their mobile operating systems to allow for the creation of advanced “contact-tracing” ...
Particles carrying the coronavirus can remain in the air longer than previously thought, according to researchers. Scientists in Finland have released a 3D model showing how coronavirus is transported through extremely small airborne aerosol particles when a ...
The Aga Khan University has launched a new mobile application, ‘CoronaCheck’, enabling people to safely evaluate coronavirus symptoms with an in-home screening tool of the application. The application also provides guidelines for people to look ...
Digital service provider Jazz has pledged PKR 1.2 billion support towards coronavirus relief, a statement from the company said on Wednesday. The support will include short to mid-term initiatives aimed to limit the negative impact ...
To curb the spread of fake news through its platform, WhatsApp has added a new feature that will allow users to share frequently forwarded messages to only one chat at a time. Frequently forwarded messages are indicated with a ...
The coronavirus pandemic has not only changed the way we socialise but also the way we work. At the forefront of the change is Silicon Valley based video conferencing app Zoom. Zoom launched in 2013 ...
Popular video-conferencing Zoom is leaking personal information of at least thousands of users, including their email address and photo, and giving strangers the ability to attempt to start a video call with them through Zoom. ...
Zoom, a video conferencing app has become an essential for all businesses worldwide during the hard times of the ongoing pandemic. Video conferencing is how everyone is holding meetings these days. Be it official business ...
April Fools’ Day is one of the most annoying internet traditions, but this year Google — infamous for its numerous elaborate pranks that typically touch on nearly every major product the company makes — won’t be participating ...
Abbott Laboratories is unveiling a coronavirus test that can tell if someone is infected in as little as 5 minutes, and is so small and portable it can be used in almost any health-care setting. ...
A security firm has released a new app iVerify that promises to detect when your iPhone gets targeted by hackers, but the devil is in the details. Know more iVerify, now on the iPhone App ...
A billion Android devices are at risk of being hacked because they are no longer protected by security updates. The vulnerability could leave users around the world exposed to the danger of data theft, ransom ...
US Scientists have discovered the oldest and most distant “blazar,” Super massive black hole that spews out mind-boggling amounts of light, at the edge of space and time. It is said that the object is ...
Pakistan has the highest male-female gap in terms of cell-phone set ownership among 15 countries, said a report issued on Thursday by the GSMA, an organisation representing the interests of mobile operators worldwide. According to the report, ...
Twitter has announced that it will be “strongly encouraging” all of its employees around the world to work from home “if able,” as the company seeks to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus causing COVID-19. The ...
NASA has reached out to everyone — including school students — in a bid to make its Moon and Mars missions a success, tech website End Gadget reported. According to the publication, NASA commenced a new round ...
The secret is out of the bag and we have Director Rian Johnson to thank for it. During an interview with Vanity Fair discussing a scene from Knives Out, Johnson shared, “Bad guys cannot have ...
Pakistan is set to unveil the world’s first-generation contrail-free aircraft engine between mid-to-late 2020, the technological marvel’s inventor Dr Sarah Qureshi revealed on Tuesday. Qureshi has been working on the project since 2018 to eliminate ...
Dagmar Turner wasn’t just showing off when she played the violin during her brain surgery at King’s College Hospital in London Surgeons asked the 53-year-old to play her instrument to ensure that the professional violinist’s musical abilities ...
MRI scanners are always confined to specially built rooms to accommodate the massive components of these scanners. However, this is about to change altogether as a New York-based company called ‘Hyperfine’ has acquired 501(k) clearance ...
Larry Tesler, the inventor of ‘cut, copy and paste’ and a pioneer of early computing has died at the age of 74. Who was Tesler? Tesler, born in the Bronx (New York) in 1945, started ...
Sindh Governor Imran Ismail on Monday launched ‘Baytee’ (daughter), a mobile phone application meant to empower the women by helping them become aware of their rights and providing them other facilities. The inauguration ceremony was ...
Messaging app WhatsApp has hit 2 billion users, the company said in a blog post Wednesday. “We know that the more we connect, the more we have to protect,” the post said. “As we conduct more of our ...
China has launched an app that allows people to check whether they have been at risk of catching the coronavirus. The ‘close contact detector’ tells users if they have been near a person who has ...
Earlier this month, Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) called for regulating web television and over-the-top (OTT) content services in the country. However, recent reports suggest that the Senate Functional Committee on Human Rights has ...
Samsung revealed a new foldable smartphone in an ad during the Oscars on Sunday night. The new foldable wasn’t given a name during the ad, but it is rumored to be called the “Galaxy Z Flip.” The company will announce ...
Apple has been fined 25 million euros (£21m, $27m) for deliberately slowing down older iPhone models without making it clear to consumers. The fine was imposed by France’s competition and fraud watchdog DGCCRF, which said ...
Astronaut Christina Koch made the return trip from the International Space Station (ISS) early on Thursday, along with ESA astronaut Luca Parmitano and Russian cosmonaut Alexander Skvortsov. The three boarded a Soyuz capsule docked at the ISS at ...
A ban on selling new petrol, diesel or hybrid cars in the UK will be brought forward from 2040 to 2035 at the latest, under government plans. The change comes after experts said 2040 would ...
As reported by The Express Tribune, 20-year-old Sumail Hassan Syed has been listed as one of the top-earning players with around $3.6 million earnings to date. Hassan made history in 2015 when he helped his team, Evil Geniuses’, claim the Defense ...
A teacher and his student have contracted court marriage a week after they were both expelled from their college after an ‘improper’ video of them was posted to TikTok. According to The Express Tribune, Rafqat ...
Several Android and iPhone devices which only support outdated operating systems were no longer be able to run WhatsApp from February 1. If it is currently active on your iOS 8 device, you were only ...
Apple is set to roll out a new, lower-cost iPhone as the company looks to retain a competitive edge in the global smartphone marketplace, particularly against Android-enabled devices, with its suppliers already prepping to begin production. ...
A UN report published Wednesday places a secretive, billion-dollar Israeli spyware company at the center of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s alleged hack of Jeff Bezos’ personal phone. The UN report found that Crown Prince Mohammed ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday met with several heads of digital and technology firms, including Christian Klein, the chief operating officer of SAP — a European software cooperation, Susan Wojcicki, CEO of YouTube and ...
The southern Indian state of Telangana will use facial recognition software in local elections on Wednesday, authorities said, the first such use of the technology in the country despite growing concerns about privacy and surveillance. Facial ...
Future buildings may be teeming with bacteria, with scientists developing a hybrid construction material, made of microbes, that may be capable of repairing itself or even pulling carbon dioxide out of the air. Wil Srubar, ...
Zomato said Uber Eats in India will discontinue operations and direct restaurants, delivery partners and users to the Zomato platform from Tuesday Uber has sold its online food-ordering business in India to local rival Zomato in exchange for ...
A startup called Clearview AI has made it possible for anyone to find out your name through only one snapshot. The app is currently being used by hundreds of law enforcement agencies in the US, including the ...
WhatsApp has become the world’s most popular social media messaging app with over one billion users worldwide. Like most applications, WhatsApp goes through routine changes and updates to it’s features which can make it difficult ...
Social media giant Facebook said on Friday that it would be removing content posted in support of Iranian general Qasem Soleimani from their platforms in order to comply with United States sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary ...
Twitter is trying to crack down on its trolling problem. The social media firm announced it’s testing a way to let users block all replies to their tweets – one of four planned options aimed ...
The Japanese company, Sony, which is best known for its PlayStation games consoles and high-end televisions, revealed the Vision S concept saloon. The prototype boasts 33 sensors to monitor inside and outside of the car, ...
It was confirmed on Friday that Uber has officially completed it’s acquisition of Careem. According to a press release from Uber, “Careem Networks FZ-LLC has become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Uber, preserving its brand”. The ...
Elon Musk, Tesla’s CEO, unveiled an electric pickup truck and quad bike at an event in Los Angeles. “Trucks have been the same for like 100 years,” stated Musk. “We need something different and we ...
There is probably no other phone on the market that was as iconic as the Motorola Razr. It was the ultimate statement and the phone everyone wanted. Motorola Razr was to teens in the 2000s ...
The government will be using the services of an international company called ‘Sandvine’ to enforce a web monitoring system that will identify and block any content perceived as ‘unlawful’ According to Coda Story, the Canada ...
Efforts by new businesses in Pakistan seeking solutions to social problems have made the country one of the best performers in a global poll on social entrepreneurs Pakistan becomes one of three countries whose overall ...
Punjab Information Technology Board’s technology incubator Plan9 is accepting applications for Launchpad 14 The Launchpad is a legitimate platform for aspiring startups who have brilliant tech ideas to improve or introduce a service or a ...
A total fine of Rs. 50,000 was enforced on Careem this Monday, on the basis of ‘faulty service’ provided and ‘mental agony’ caused to a customer. Advocate Mehmood Ahmed Khan had filed complained to the ...
Facebook has finalized its charter for its Oversight Board, which is being set up to adjudicate appeals about whether to leave up or take down specific content independently of Zuckerberg or the rest of the Facebook ...
The winning team will attend the Global Startup Weekend Women by Techstars in March 2020, where other winners from all across the world will also be representing their respective countries. The event in Karachi was ...
LOCAL 1 woman killed while 7 injured in latest ‘unprovoked’ ceasefire violation by Indian troops across the Line of Control According to Muhammad Zaheer, a disaster management officer in Haveli, Indian forces began shelling and ...
The idea is to reveal how these companies match adverts to users. A new, special branch of the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is to carry out the work. The announcement came just days ...
The growing popularity of e-cigarettes, battery-powered devices that enable users to inhale addictive nicotine liquids, has raised fears among policymakers worldwide of a new gateway addiction for young people. While vaping exposes users to lower ...
The Duos half of the $30 million Fortnite World Cup has come to a close on July 27, with Cooler Esport’s Nyhrox and Aqua clinching first place and taking home a whopping $3 million. After five weeks of ...
The South Korean giant, Samsung has announced that it is expecting to launch the delayed Samsung Galaxy Fold in September. The foldable phone which was supposed to be released on April 26th faced a massive delay due ...
Your personal data including your browser history, online transactions, health care information, and credit scores is that kind of information that needs to stay anonymous. But according to this new research, re-identifying or unmasking these ...
Franky Zapata, a former jet-ski champion, had been hoping to cross from northern France to southern England in just 20 minutes. But the 40-year-old fell into the water halfway across as he tried to land ...
Mobile phones imports saw a decline of 10.87% in the last fiscal year (July-June) 2018-2019 and stayed at $755.545 million compared to $847.654 million during the same time period of 2017-2018. The cell phone imports ...
The hyperloop concept involves a pressurised pod with a vehicle carrying passengers or cargo up to 10 times faster than current rail. A 35km track will be built, alongside a research and development facility and ...
The Federal Trade Commission said the penalty was the largest ever imposed on any company for violating consumers’ privacy and one of the largest penalties ever assessed by the US government for any violation. “Despite ...
We know that Google has been storing our voice data via its Google Assistant. But it didn’t allow users to interact with their Android device when the screen is locked. Well, it may sound like ...
You thought that two leading tech giants, Apple and Intel would just part ways for 5G business and things will cool down eventually. Well, this is not the case, at least according to a new ...
The new feature was launched as regulators grapple with whether in-game wagers should be treated as gambling. In GTA Online, players can buy in-game “dollars” with real currency, and then convert their virtual dollars to ...
If you live in Pakistan, it’s very likely that you have booked a Careem for daily commutes or going out with friends. When you don’t feel like spending 15 minutes looking for parking, Careem is ...
The French army is to create a “red team” of sci-fi writers to imagine possible future threats. A new report by the Defence Innovation Agency (DIA) said the visionaries will “propose scenarios of disruption” that ...
Instagram introduced this change in a blog post, which is a notification process that will inform people if their account is at risk of being blocked. This notification will contain all those posts, comments, and ...
In order to better facilitate the pilgrims coming from far away places, the Saudi government has announced one million SIM cards and free internet facility as a gift for the Hajj pilgrims arriving at the King Abdulaziz ...
The Indian Space Research Organisation said that the Chandrayaan-2 launch is now rescheduled at 2:43pm on Monday. It said on Thursday that an expert committee identified the root cause of the previous technical snag and ...
The House of Commons Science and Technology committee added there should be no further trials of the tech until relevant regulations were in place. It raised accuracy and bias concerns And it warned that police ...
At the moment, Instagram users see a running total of people who have liked a post. In the trial, users will see a user name “and others” below posts. Instagrammers can still view the number ...
The project was reported to have ceased late last year but rumours that it remained active persisted. “We have terminated Project Dragonfly,” Google executive Karan Bhatia told the US Senate Judiciary Committee. Buzzfeed, which reported ...
According to a local cyber-security researcher, most adults in the country of seven million people are likely to have had some data compromised. Bulgarian authorities have arrested a 20-year-old man on suspicion of involvement in ...
Futurist entrepreneur Elon Musk revealed that his secretive Neuralink startup is making progress on an interface linking brains with computers and said they hope to begin testing on people next year. Musk has long contended ...
Tanya Gersh said that Mr Anglin had published 30 articles on the Daily Stormer website about her, some of which had included contact information. She and her family had then received more than 700 harassing ...
Bianca Devins was killed in Utica, New York, on Sunday morning. The images were posted on Brandon Clark’s account on messaging app Discord, where other users told police. They also appeared on his Instagram account ...
United States President Donald Trump said he wants his administration to “take a look” into whether Google has been working with the Chinese government — an allegation swiftly denied by the US internet giant. Trump ...
Dr Corbato introduced the basic security measure while developing methods that let more people use a computer at the same time. He developed a technique, called time-sharing, that divided up the processing power of a ...
According to reports from media outlets, the government will present the draft for the e-commerce policy in the cabinet meeting for consideration. The reports further reveal that the new policy contains the proposal to develop ...
Specifically pointing out Bitcoin and Libra, Facebook’s new cryptocurrency, the billionaire president insisted that not only are these cryptocurrencies extremely unpredictable, they are bound to encourage “unlawful behavior” if not regulated correctly. “I am not ...
Many people see Twitch as the go-to place to show off their gaming talents. The practice of live streaming, or broadcasting your play session in real time, is what the website is known for. Beyond ...
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has been investigating allegations that political consultancy Cambridge Analytica improperly obtained the data of up to 87 million Facebook users. The settlement was approved by the FTC in a 3-2 ...
Billionaire Richard Branson’s space-tourism venture, Virgin Galactic, plans to go public by the end of this year as part of a deal with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) created by venture-capital firms Social Capital ...
To further this project a consortium has been established which include six information and technology universities of Pakistan. Those universities include Comsats University Islamabad, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), University of Engineering Technology ...
The Walkie-Talkie app let two people who had accepted an invitation send and receive short audio messages. But Apple said it had been “made aware” of a flaw that “could allow somebody to listen through ...
The social media giant has launched Creator Shows, which are filmed in a vertical format. Schwarzenegger’s show is called Rules of Success and features him giving motivational advice. More series will premiere this summer from ...
It follows a case brought on behalf of seven individuals who had been blocked by the president. Officials using social media accounts were not allowed to silence people who disagreed with them, the judge said. ...
The influencer, Fie Laursen, posted the note on Instagram, where she has more than 336,000 followers. It remained online for two days before her family managed to take it down. The family confirmed in an ...
Dubbed Agent Smith, the malware replaces popular apps with fake ones and tricks the users, serving them advertisements according to cybersecurity researchers. Most of the victims are in India with more than 15 million users ...
If you weren’t already aware, The United States and China are racing to be the first country to acquire 5G technology. But why? In the past month, China and the United States have been in ...
Although bitcoin still sounds like a fantasy, a currency by the internet and for the internet, but its time we learn what it's all about.
News broke that American chip makers Intel, Qualcomm, Broadcom and Xilinx had told staff they wouldn’t supply Huawei with parts “till further notice,” leaving the Chinese tech giant without potentially vital components. This comes just ...
The 10 year challenge on Facebook has been making rounds over other social media applications as well where people post an old profile picture alongside the current one to see how much they have aged. ...
The mainstay of acclaimed hits including “House of Cards,” ‘’Orange Is The New Black,” and, latest film “Bird Box.”, Netflix dropped a bombshell of its fourth price hike . This is what the company had ...
Recently, Uk based firm, Bedford firm Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV) has been given Production Organisation Approval from the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA). It is hoped the new airship model will take to the skies by ...
Pakistan remembers its brightest mind in the field of science and technology. Arfa Karim held the accolade of Youngest Microsoft Professional at a tender age of 10. Reflecting upon her achievements in 2006 Arfa had ...
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How do you imagine the proceedings of science summits to take place? You would probably visualize getting caught into realms of a progressive science world and familiarizing yourself with the new technological advancements and scientific ...
For the first time in 16 years, Apple reduced its revenue expectation due to poor performance in Chinese consumer market.Tim Cook, CEO of Apple Inc, blamed the decline to the weakening of macroeconomic environment in ...
On Thursday, Facebook shut down a series of fake news pages spreading propaganda about the Bangladeshi opposition days before the national elections. Nine Facebook pages designed to mimic legitimate news outlets, as well as six ...
PewDiePie fans are doing all they can to beat T-Series and help PewDiePie to be the first one to reach 80 million subscribers on YouTube. Previously a fan hacked 50,000 printers to print out messages ...
On Friday, Facebook apologised for a “bug” that may have exposed unposted photos from as many as 6.8 million users over a 12-day period through third-party applications. In the latest string of incidents on data ...
Samsung has promised to unveil something entirely new for its next flagship smartphone, nicknamed Samsung Galaxy X. Its foldable, and here’s what you need to know: 1. Samsung said it can be folded hundreds of ...
Yet another industry-first for Telenor Pakistan as it launches cutting-edge 4.5G technology in Karachi, Lahore, Rawalpindi and Islamabad showing unrelenting commitment to empower Pakistan through a high speed data network that enhances customer experience. Sigve ...
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