HOUSTON, Mar 16 (FP): Nasa and the private aerospace company Axiom Space unveiled a prototype on Wednesday of the next-generation spacesuit that astronauts will wear on the next mission to the Moon. The suit revealed at an event at the Johnson Space Centre in Houston features greater flexibility and thermal protection than those worn by the Apollo astronauts who …
TikTok recently announced new features to its video-sharing platform, including a feature that limits screen time for teenagers under 18 years of age. Though the company aims to secure the well-being of its young users, the feature has the ability to be turned off. The feature will be applied to every teen user by default in the coming weeks, …
SYDNEY, Feb 24 (EW): Facebook and Instagram began a week-long rollout of their first paid verification service on Friday, testing users’ willingness to pay for social media features that until now have been free. Facing a drop in advertising revenues, parent company Meta is piloting a subscription in Australia and New Zealand before it appears in larger markets. The service …
PARIS, Feb 23 (EW): Google scientists said on Wednesday they have passed a major milestone in their quest to develop effective quantum computing, with a new study showing they reduced the rate of errors — long an obstacle for the much-hyped technology. Quantum computing has been touted as a revolutionary advance that uses our growing scientific understanding of the …
DUBAI, Feb 15 (EW): Twitter boss Elon Musk said Wednesday that a new CEO might be running the online platform by the end of 2023, after a “rollercoaster” since he took full ownership last year. “I’m guessing probably towards the end of this year should be good timing to find someone else to run the company,” he told the …
The Meta-owned instant messaging platform WhatsApp will soon introduce a new feature that will allow users to transcribe their audio files into text. This feature will let the user transcribe the audio message and read the text instead of the audio. It is a simple yet very helpful feature. The transcription feature will first analyze what is said in …
WhatsApp, the world’s most widely used instant messaging app, has just made some exciting new changes to its status feature, giving users even more ways to express themselves. With over a billion active users, WhatsApp is constantly innovating to keep its users engaged and satisfied. The latest status updates include the addition of audio messages, which now join …
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8 (INP): Ministry of Science and Technology with support of Embassy of the People’s Republic of China in Pakistan, COMSTECH, International Center for Chemical and Biological Center held a ceremony to celebrate the landmark of China-Pakistan Space Science and Technology cooperation on the eve of the return of Pakistani Seeds from Chinese Space, at COMSTECH auditorium here …
Meta Platforms Inc’s social media apps appeared to be back up after facing a brief disruption in the United States on Wednesday, data on outage tracking website Downdetector.com showed. At the peak of the outage, more than 17,000 user reports had indicated issues with Instagram in the United States, as of 2352 GMT. Over 13,000 incidents were reported …
ISLAMABAD, Jan 24 (EW): A mobile device manufacturing summit will be held in Islamabad on Tuesday, under auspices of Ministry of Industries and Production in collaboration with Pakistan mobile phone manufacturers association. The summit aims at promoting export of mobile phones and ease of doing business in the country. An exhibition of technology and products will also be held …
