Technology

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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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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ISLAMABAD - Reference to on-going news threads by National Media and social media platforms regarding the change in privacy terms & conditions of WhatsApp, the Ministry of IT & Telecom is monitoring the current developments and…
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WhatsApp has finally addressed rumours about its latest policy update and concerns raised by users about the piracy. "We recently updated our Privacy Policy and we have received many thoughtful questions. With some of to rumors going…
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Twitter blocked Donald Trump on Wednesday and threatened a permanent ban for breaking platform rules as social media scrambled to respond to violence in the US capital blamed on the outgoing president's repeated claims of election fraud.…
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Facebook, Twitter and TikTok face fines of up to 10% of turnover if they fail to remove and limit the spread of illegal content under laws proposed by Britain on Tuesday. Tech platforms will also need to do more to protect children from…
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Many services from Alphabet Inc, including YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive, were down for thousands of users across the globe on Monday. The company’s video platform did not load for users and had an error message: “Something went…
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The US space agency NASA awarded contracts to four companies on Thursday to collect lunar samples for $1 to $15,000, rock-bottom prices that are intended to set a precedent for future exploitation of space resources by the private sector.…
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Twitter Inc on Wednesday expanded its policy barring hateful speech to include “language that dehumanizes people on the basis of race, ethnicity and national origin,” it said in a statement. The company banned speech that dehumanizes…
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has joined the Digital Cooperation Organisation (DCO) as a founding member. Established under an initiative of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, other countries that have been invited to join as founding members include…
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BioNTech, first in the race to produce evidence of a working COVID-19 vaccine, is planning to price the two-shot regimen below “typical market rates” and would differentiate pricing between countries or regions. Speaking at a Financial…
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NASA on Wednesday released its first images of a sampling operation carried out on the asteroid Bennu, which appeared to show successful recovery of rock and dust, or as one official put it, "the kind of mess we were hoping for." The US…
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Facebook on Monday unveiled software based on machine learning which the company said was the first to be able to translate from any of 100 languages without relying on English. The open-source artificial intelligence software was created…
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An NIC Islamabad startup has launched “ezBike”, Pakistan’s first electric bike sharing service, for connectivity and to revolutionize transportation in urban areas. The Islamabad-based startup Roamer Technologies, announced the news at a…
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While SHEIN has its origins in China it is one of the biggest shopping apps in the United States, SHAREit has been banned in India despite being massively popular elsewhere, and Likee is chasing TikTok -- but desperate to avoid a similar…
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