Technology

WASHINGTON: TikTok and its Chinese parent company ByteDance sued in US federal court seeking to block a law signed by President Joe Biden that would force the divestiture of the short video app used or ban it. The companies filed their…
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ISLAMABAD: In a historic moment, Pakistan first satellite mission to the moon 'iCube Qamar' has been launched into the space. The satellite, being carried by China's Long March-5 rocket, took off for its visit to space on board the…
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Apple's smartphone shipments dropped about 10% in the first quarter of 2024, hurt by intensifying competition by Android smartphone makers aiming for the top spot, data from research firm IDC showed. Global smartphone shipments increased…
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WASHINGTON: The White House has directed NASA to establish a unified standard of time for the moon and other celestial bodies, as the United States aims to set international norms in space amid a growing lunar race among nations and private…
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OpenAI will start allowing users to access its free-to-use ChatGPT generative AI chatbot without needing to sign up for the service, the Microsoft-backed startup said. ChatGPT, which kickstarted the GenAI boom in late 2022, can mimic…
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Google Doodle released a doodle on Friday to mark 80th birthday of French Iranian photographer and journalist Abbas Attar. The doodle depicts the photographer with his camera in the foreground while the term ‘Google’ can be read in the…
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NEW YORK: Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced to 25 years in prison by a judge on Thursday for stealing $8 billion from customers of the now-bankrupt FTX cryptocurrency exchange he founded, the last step in the former billionaire wunderkind's…
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YouTube has deleted the channel of Pakistani data scientist, author, and computer science scholar Zeeshan-ul-Hassan Usmani with more than 3 million subscribers. Usmani has authored several books on technology, politics, and international…
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NEW DELHI: India has asked tech firms to seek its approval before the public release of artificial intelligence (AI) tools that are "unreliable" or under trial, noting they should also be labelled for the potential to return wrong answers…
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NEW DELHI: India introduced four crew members for its maiden 'Gaganyaan' space voyage, as it aims to become the world's fourth country to send a crewed mission into space just months after a historic landing on the south pole of the moon.…
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Google plans to relaunch in the next few weeks its AI tool that creates images of people, which it paused last week after inaccuracies in some historical depictions, Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis said. Google began offering image…
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WASHINGTON: A spacecraft built and flown by Texas-based company Intuitive Machines landed near the moon's south pole on Thursday, the first US touchdown on the lunar surface in more than half a century and the first ever achieved by the…
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Microsoft-backed OpenAI is working on a software that can generate minute-long videos based on text prompts, the company said. The software, called Sora, is currently available for red teaming, which helps identify flaws in the AI…
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The first human patient has received an implant from brain-chip startup Neuralink and is recovering well, the company's billionaire founder Elon Musk said. "Initial results show promising neuron spike detection," Musk said in a post on…
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LONDON: A teenage member of the Lapsus$ hacking group was sentenced to indefinite detention in hospital for hacking Uber and fintech firm Revolut, and for blackmailing the developers of best-selling video game "Grand Theft Auto". Arion…
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