Crucial Hurricane Monitoring Data Will Go Offline at the End of July
[U.S. officials said they would stop providing the satellite data online on July 31 rather at the end of June.
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Pakistan, El Salvador agree on Bitcoin cooperation
[ 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
Holocaust AI fakes spark alarm
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
After Texas Flooding, Questions About FEMA’s Role and Fate Under Trump
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.
Can AI really pick juiciest watermelon?
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
‘Eddington’ Review: Once Upon a Time in the Pandemic
Ari Aster returns with a dystopian western farce about a world gone mad that you definitely remember.
Sabalenka pulls out of Montreal event
MONTREAL: World number one Aryna Sabalenka has withdrawn from the WTA Canadian Open tournament in Montreal due to fatigue, Tennis Canada announced on Wednesday.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
Industry calls for fixing basics before adopting 5G
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
‘Late Show With Stephen Colbert’ Is Being Canceled by CBS
[The show will end in May, the network said, calling it “a purely financial decision.”
Musk Clears Final Hurdles for Tesla and Starlink in India
In the first tangible inroads Elon Musk has sought for years in India, Starlink passed a final regulatory hurdle and Tesla opened its first India store.
