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Listen to article RAWALPINDI/LAHORE: Punjab declared rain emergency on Thursday, while army troops joined the rescue efforts in the wake of flooding in low-lying areas, as heavy monsoon downpours continued to pummel the province with Rawalpindi bearing the brunt of nature’s fury with 250 millimetres of rainfall. Punjab witnessed the deadliest day of the current monsoon season, … Read more
[U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.
[ Listen to article ISLAMABAD: In a historic first, Minister of State for Crypto and Blockchain and CEO of the Pakistan Crypto Council, Bilal Bin Saqib, met with El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele in San Salvador, marking the first official interaction between a Pakistani government representative and the Salvadoran Head of State. According to a press release … Read more
LONDON: The Facebook post shows a photo of a pretty curly-haired girl on a tricycle and says she is Hannelore Kaufmann, 13-year-old from Berlin who died in the Auschwitz concentration camp. But there is no such Holocaust victim and the photo is not real, but generated by AI. Content creators, often based in South Asia, … Read more
Minimalist gadgets like the new Light Phone III, a smartphone that barely does anything, promise to help us focus. The trade-offs are big.
President Trump wants to shutter the agency and shift responsibility and costs of emergency management to the states. In Texas, that process appears to already be underway.
Listen to article As watermelon season kicks off, consumers once again face the age-old challenge of selecting the ripest and juiciest fruit. A growing trend on social media, meanwhile, suggests that artificial intelligence (AI) can help solve the summer dilemma of selecting the sweetest watermelon by analyzing images to identify the best fruit. To test the claim, … Read more
Ari Aster returns with a dystopian western farce about a world gone mad that you definitely remember.
MONTREAL: World number one Aryna Sabalenka has withdrawn from the WTA Canadian Open tournament in Montreal due to fatigue, Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday. The 27-year-old from Belarus, runner-up at the Australian and French Opens, comes off semi-final runs at Wimbledon and Berlin and titles at Madrid and Miami. “I’m looking forward to kicking off … Read more
Listen to article ISLAMABAD: The Asian Development Bank’s (ADB) latest report has highlighted critical weaknesses in Pakistan’s digital infrastructure, warning that without urgent reform, the country risks falling further behind regional peers in broadband adoption and digital inclusion. Despite mobile broadband coverage exceeding 80% of the population, only 54% of Pakistanis are active mobile internet users. The … Read more
