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Several Media, government websites face temporary breakdown
NEW YORK: Several media, government, and social sites such as the UK government, the White House, and Reddit suffered temporary outages on Tuesday due to a glitch in cloud computing services provider Fastly.
Fastly said "the issue has been…
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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to take first Blue Origin flight into space
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos announced Monday he will fly into space next month on the first human flight launched by his Blue Origin rocket firm.
"Ever since I was five years old, I've dreamed of traveling to space. On July 20th, I will…
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PTA restores internet services in 6 Balochistan districts
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has allowed telecommunication operators to restore internet services in several districts of Balochistan and Khyber district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after five years.
This decision was made after…
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NASA announces two new missions to Venus
NASA announced two new missions to Venus on Wednesday that will launch at the end of the decade and are aimed at learning how Earth's nearest planetary neighbor became a hellscape while our own thrived.
"These two sister missions both…
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Twitter slams Indian police ‘intimidation’, new IT rules
The Indian government's battle with social media giants escalated Thursday with Twitter accusing the police of "intimidation" and slamming new IT rules that have also alarmed its peers and privacy campaigners.
Critics say that Prime…
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US embassy lauds award-winning Pakistani engineer
The US Embassy in Islamabad has recognized Pakistani engineer Ahmad Awais for contributing code to the software for Mars 2020 helicopter mission known as NASA’s Ingenuity Helicopter.
Awais was praised for his efforts by the…
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Govt orders temporary social media shutdown
The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has temporarily shut down all social media platforms in the country for a few hours.
The blocked social media websites and apps include Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok.
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Payments giant Stripe expands to Middle East with Dubai office
Digital payments giant Stripe on Tuesday announced the opening of an office in United Arab Emirates financial capital Dubai, its first expansion into the Middle East region.
Founded in 2010 by Irish brothers Patrick and John Collison,…
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US lawmakers grill CEOs of Facebook, Google and Twitter
In their first appearance before Congress since Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol, the chief executives of Facebook, Google and Twitter were asked by U.S. lawmakers whether their platforms bore some responsibility for the riot: “yes…
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Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram down for large numbers of users
Facebook Inc’s platforms including online messaging service WhatsApp and photo-sharing app Instagram were down for thousands of users on Friday, according to outage tracking website Downdetector.com.
Facebook did not immediately respond to…
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Pakistan blocks TikTok again after court order
Pakistan's telecom regulator blocked popular video-sharing social networking website Tiktok in the aftermath of a court order.
The development comes after the Peshawar High Court (PHC) ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority to…
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UN urges better protection for digital platform workers
The United Nations called Tuesday for urgent international regulations ensuring fair conditions for workers paid via digital platforms such as food delivery apps -- a form of employment that has rocketed during the pandemic.
The number…
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Twitter blocks accounts over India farm protests on gov’t order
Twitter on Monday temporarily blocked scores of accounts and tweets in India at the government's request, including those of a prominent news magazine and farmers staging mass protests in the capital.
An IT ministry source told AFP the…
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Facebook, Apple chiefs unleash barbs as App Store feud heats up
A feud between tech giants heated up Thursday as Apple's chief executive implied Facebook's business model promotes disinformation and violence, while the social network reportedly prepares an antitrust lawsuit against Apple.
The suit…
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Turkey slaps ad ban on Twitter under new social media law
Ankara has imposed advertising bans on Twitter, Periscope and Pinterest after they failed to appoint local representatives in Turkey under a new social media law, according to decisions published on Tuesday.
Under the law, which critics…
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