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Dozens of Chinese-made humanoid robots showed off their fast-improving athleticism and autonomous navigation skills as they whizzed past human runners in a half-marathon race in Beijing on Sunday, highlighting the sector's rapid technical advances. The race's inaugural edition last year was r...
Posted on 19 April 2026 | 1:56 pm
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Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei visited US officials at the White House on Friday, where they struck a different tone from the recent dispute between the United States' government and the AI startup. US media reported Amodei met with Susie Wiles, President Donald Trump's chief of staff, as well as US...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 9:46 am
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LAHORE: Chief Minister Maryam Nawaz has approved free Google certification courses for more than 100,000 students across the province. Under the initiative, students will not be charged fees ranging from $400 to $1,000 for these courses. The chief minister also approved the provision of electric...
Posted on 18 April 2026 | 4:20 am
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India's government has decided not to go ahead with a proposal to require Apple, Samsung and others to pre-install the country's biometric identification app Aadhaar on phones, a move that had been opposed by the smartphone giants, a state body said on Friday. It was reported last month that the...
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 3:57 pm
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The astronauts who flew around the moon and back in NASA's landmark Artemis II mission said their re-entry into Earth's atmosphere was smooth, but the mission's commander described some charring on the Orion capsule's critical heat shield. The four Artemis II astronauts splashed down in the ...
Posted on 17 April 2026 | 6:23 am
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Japanese game studio Capcom is taking a big science fiction swing this week with moon-bound action title Pragmata, juiced by the success of hit franchises like Resident Evil. Following the adventures of an astronaut trapped on a moon base overrun by hostile robots, the new game set for release on Fr...
Posted on 15 April 2026 | 1:44 pm
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KARACHI: TikTok removed over 22 million videos in Pakistan for community guideline violations between October-December 2025. In its Q4 2025 Community Guidelines Enforcement Report, TikTok details the proactive steps it has taken to identify and remove content that violates its community guidelines, ...
Posted on 15 April 2026 | 7:28 am
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• SBP says strict AML/CFT rules apply for banks, VASPs• PVARA to oversee licensing, supervision KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) announced a significant policy change on Tuesday, legalising and encouraging the use of virtual assets through the enactment of the Virtual Assets Act 2026. �...
Posted on 15 April 2026 | 3:24 am
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The Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) on Tuesday said it had granted a Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL) licence to Alibaba-owned Koko Tech Pakistan Pvt. Ltd (KTPL). "The entry of Alibaba-backed KTPL marks a significant milestone for Pakistan's digital financial ecosystem," it said ...
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 3:02 pm
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A man who allegedly threw a Molotov cocktail at Sam Altman's luxury California home was trying to kill the boss of artificial intelligence giant OpenAI and in possession of an anti-AI document, US officials said on Monday. The claims came as prosecutors levied federal charges against Daniel Moreno...
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 6:56 am
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KARACHI: The government and Google have launched a joint initiative, 'AI Seekho 2026', to equip Pakistan's youth with artificial intelligence skills through vibe coding. To accelerate the country's transition into a global digital economy, Google for Developers, in strategic collaboration wi...
Posted on 14 April 2026 | 3:01 am
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Monday announced that one of its submarine cables would be undergoing a repair from April 14, and the maintenance work could last till April 20. The users may face service degradation in the evening during this time, PTCL said. ...
Posted on 13 April 2026 | 7:38 pm
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Posted on 12 April 2026 | 7:15 am
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's services exports rose by 18.38 per cent in the first eight months of the current fiscal year, largely driven by higher earnings from the information technology sector, according to official data. The steady expansion of services exports contrasts with mixed trends in commo...
Posted on 12 April 2026 | 12:23 am
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With Artemis II successfully completing its historic lunar mission on Friday, Nasa is banking on billionaires Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk for the next step: landing astronauts on the Moon. The Apollo program — which sent the first and only humans to the Moon's surface between 1969 and 1972 — was ...
Posted on 11 April 2026 | 11:25 am
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The Artemis II capsule and its four-member crew streaked through Earth's atmosphere and safely splashed down in the Pacific Ocean on Friday after nearly 10 days in space, capping the first voyage by humans to the vicinity of the moon in over half a century. Nasa's gumdrop-shaped Orion capsule, d...
Posted on 11 April 2026 | 11:18 am
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San Francisco police arrested a person for allegedly throwing a Molotov cocktail at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home and for making threats outside the artificial intelligence startup's headquarters, the company said on Friday. In a post on X, the San Francisco Police Department (SFPD) said an unkno...
Posted on 11 April 2026 | 10:03 am
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LAHORE: An initial draft of the Punjab Online Safety Act 2026, which is meant to address the issue of harassment and blackmail on social media, has been prepared and will soon be presented in the Punjab Assembly for approval. "The government will introduce strict legislation - the Punjab Online ...
Posted on 11 April 2026 | 4:59 am
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The US-Israel war with Iran has shifted conflict from battlefields to data centres, software engineers and civilian technologies — turning them into both enablers of military power and its most vulnerable targets. As the line between military and civilian infrastructures blurs, urgent questions em...
Posted on 10 April 2026 | 11:48 am
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The four Artemis II astronauts, returning from the world's first crewed moon voyage in over half a century, hurtled back toward Earth on Friday aboard their gumdrop-shaped Orion spacecraft, headed for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off Southern California. The finale to NASA's celebrated 10-d...
Posted on 10 April 2026 | 9:04 am
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TL;DR: Pros: Incredible gameplay and visuals, especially with modern controls Brilliant story with plenty of twists and charming characters (mostly) Satisfying stealth and action A replayable experience thanks to collectable titles and hidden secrets Cons: Cartoonish main villain with no...
Posted on 10 April 2026 | 5:30 am
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Four astronauts travelling back to Earth from the far side of the moon on Nasa's Artemis II mission spoke of their emotions as they wrapped up the unprecedented flight and prepared to re-enter the atmosphere in a "fireball", during their first press conference from space on Wednesday. The Arte...
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 8:50 am
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ATHENS: Greece will ban access to social media for children under 15 from January 1, 2027, Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said on Wednesday, the latest country to do so as concern grows over the platforms' impact. "We have decided to go ahead with a difficult but necessary measure: b...
Posted on 9 April 2026 | 3:30 am
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The Artemis II astronauts snapped a stunning shot of an 'Earthset' — the moment when the Earth dips below the Moon's horizon — on their long journey back home Tuesday after wrapping up a historic lunar flyby. Nasa released the photo of Earth dropping below the rugged lunar edge in a delibe...
Posted on 7 April 2026 | 5:17 pm
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Google on Tuesday announced updates to the mental health safeguards on its Gemini artificial intelligence chatbot, as the company faces a death lawsuit alleging the chatbot aided a user in his suicide. The tech giant said Gemini would now show a redesigned "Help is available" feature when conver...
Posted on 7 April 2026 | 2:45 pm
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The four astronauts of Nasa's Artemis II mission flew deeper into space on Monday than any humans before them, as they cruised through a rare flyby of the shadowed far side of the moon that revealed a lunar surface under cosmic bombardment. The six-hour survey of the normally hidden hemisphere of ...
Posted on 7 April 2026 | 6:41 am
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KARACHI: The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) on Monday introduced new measures to facilitate IT exporters and freelancers by introducing a set of reforms for these exports. "These reforms are designed to simplify the export realisation procedures, standardise documentation requirements, set transact...
Posted on 7 April 2026 | 3:20 am
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The four astronauts of Nasa's Artemis II mission entered the moon's gravitational sphere of influence early Monday morning as they cruised along a path that will soon take them over the shadowed, lunar far side to become the farthest-flying humans in history. The Artemis II crew, flying in their...
Posted on 6 April 2026 | 11:54 am
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A demonstration of the commercial flying car in Osaka last year.—Courtesy The Japan News The government has begun making arrangements to permit commercial flying car services carrying paying passengers as early as 2027 or 2028, according to multiple government sources. Operations are expected...
Posted on 6 April 2026 | 1:10 am
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WASHINGTON: A Pentagon AI programme called Project Maven is at the centre of the US strikes against Iran and potentially one of the most consequential transformations of modern warfare. What is it? Project Maven is the Pentagon's flagship artificial intelligence programme, launched in 2017 as a na...
Posted on 6 April 2026 | 1:10 am