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One of Pakistan’s online video streaming or OTT platforms, tapmad, has signed a partnership with Grameenphone, one of Bangladesh’s telecommunications operators, to offer sports content in the South Asian country. Tapmad’s sports lineup includes rights to major global events such as the English Premier League, Asia Cup, MMA, and PFL, alongside upcoming international cricket tours. … Read more
Drawn by local talent, cheap labor and state cash incentives, start-ups building the weapons of the future are revitalizing manufacturing in once-vibrant industrial towns.
Alphabet-owned Google (GOOGL.O) on Monday said it would be “extremely difficult” for Australia to enforce a law prohibiting people younger than 16 from using social media, warning that the government’s initiative would not make children safer online. Governments and tech firms around the world are closely watching Australia, which in December will become the first country to block the use of social media by people younger … Read more
Pakistan has introduced an ambitious National AI Policy aimed at building a $2.7 billion domestic AI market in five years. It is based on six main pillars: innovation, skills, secure and ethical use, sector transformation, infrastructure and international collaboration. Policymakers say they intend to prioritize public funding, clarify points on data usage, intellectual property (IP), taxation and … Read more
Silicon Valley is obsessed with “TBPN,” a streaming show on which no career move is too trivial to document.
The EU Friday demanded digital giants including Snapchat and YouTube explain how they are protecting children from online harm, as all but two member states signalled openness to restricting social media access for minors. The European Union has stringent rules regulating the digital space, including what children should be able to see, but there is … Read more
At DevDay, OpenAI signaled its ambition to take everything you can do on the internet and shove it inside ChatGPT.
Britain on Friday designated Google with “strategic market status” in online search, the first time it has deployed new powers to tackle the dominance of big tech and paving the way for interventions it deems necessary. The Competition and Markets Authority’s move enables it to compel the Alphabet-owned company to change the way it operates … Read more
In the Trump administration’s latest example of dialing back cryptocurrency enforcement, Roger Ver agreed to pay about $48 million to end a tax fraud case.
An executive of a Singaporean firm called Megaspeed socialized with Nvidia’s Jensen Huang. Now the company is being scrutinized by U.S. officials for its ties to China.