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An astronaut works outside the International Space Station (ISS) on November 19, 2009. – Reuters BEIJING: China will send a Pakistani astronaut on a short-term mission to its space station, state news agency reported Xinhua reported on Thursday. Under the plan, two Pakistani candidates will train alongside Chinese taikonauts, the China Manned Space Agency said…

Amazon’s logo is pictured at the company’s logistics center in Carquefou near Nantes, France, October 15, 2024. – Reuters SAN FRANCISCO: Amazon will lay off tens of thousands of office workers as the e-commerce and technology giant cuts costs amid ramped-up investment in artificial intelligence, according to US media reports. About 30,000 positions will be…

The Meta AI logo can be seen in this illustration. — Reuters/File Meta has rolled out an Urdu version of its artificial intelligence platform, Meta AI, to users in Pakistan, aimed at promoting digital inclusivity. The launch took place during the ‘Future in Focus: AI and Innovation’ event organized in collaboration with the Ministry of…

The image shows Anthropic written on a mobile phone screen. – AFP/file SAN FRANCISCO: Artificial intelligence giant Anthropic said Thursday it is expanding its use of Google cloud computing and specialized chips in a deal worth tens of billions of dollars. The deal includes Anthropic purchasing as many as one million Tensor Processing Units (TPUs),…

Words that read “Artificial Intelligence AI”, miniature of robot and toy hand are depicted in this illustration taken on December 14, 2023. – Reuters Artificial intelligence assistants distort or misrepresent information in almost half of their responses, according to research released on Wednesday by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and the BBC. The study assessed…

In this illustration, taken on February 21, 2023, a keyboard is placed in front of a displayed OpenAI logo. – Reuters OpenAI on Tuesday launched ChatGPT Atlas, an AI-powered web browser built around its chatbot that aims to loosen Google Chrome’s tight grip on the market. “This is an AI-powered web browser built around ChatGPT,”…

The Artemis 2 Orion crew and service modules are in the Operations & Checkoput Building during a NASA media day event at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, U.S., March 7, 2025. NASA’s top official said Monday that the US space agency opened the contract for the moon landing of its Artemis 3…

A logo for Amazon Web Services (AWS) is seen during KubeCon + CloudNativeCon Europe hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) in Paris, France, March 20, 2024. – Reuters A global outage hit Amazon’s cloud services on Monday, the subsidiary’s maintenance site said, disrupting many websites and services including Amazon Prime, Perplexity, Fortnite, Alexa,…

Pakistan launches its first hyperspectral satellite HS-1 from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, October 19, 2025. – Screengrab via Geo News KARACHI: Pakistan has launched its first hyperspectral satellite, HS-1, from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center (JSLC), with live scenes of the mission broadcast from the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) complex in…

Silhouettes of laptop and mobile device users are seen next to a screen projection of the WhatsApp logo in this photo taken on March 28, 2018. – Reuters A US judge on Friday issued an order banning Israeli spyware maker NSO Group from targeting WhatsApp users, but reduced a $168 million damages award to just…

This file photo shows Pakistan’s first electro-optical (EO-1) satellite before launch. — Facebook/@SUPARCOPakistan Pakistan will launch its first hyperspectral satellite (HS-1) from China’s Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center on October 19, the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco) announced on Wednesday. The HS-1 mission marks a quantum leap in the country’s space travel and will…

A network of submarine communications cables. — V1 fiber optic Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) on Wednesday announced the successful completion of repair work on a repeater installed in a submarine cable. The maintenance operation began on the morning of October 14, led by the International Cable Consortium. Following the repair, internet speed and connectivity…