Friday, July 5, 2024

Technology

Facebook launches its much-anticipated news alerts app Notify

Facebook is already dominating peoples’ phone time, and now it wants a crack at your lock screen, too. Facebook has rolled out a new app for iPhone owners called Notify that gathers news and entertainment stories into one regularly updated...

Self-driving delivery robot soon coming to sidewalks

A new delivery robot could help reduce the price paid for deliveries - and possibly make them free in the future. The robot, developed by one of the original founders of Skype, drives autonomously to the shopper's doorway and then...

Uber all set to launch in Pakistan

Uber - world's popular taxi-hailing smartphone app - is all set to bring its services for Pakistanis. As Uber's job listings page suggests that the company is looking to fill some vacancies for a General Manager, Marketing Manager, and Operations...

Google launches ‘Person Finder’ after South Asia earthquake

Google has launched its Person Finder service after a 7.5-magnitute earthquake ripped through Hindukush region, striking Pakistan, Afghanistan while also rattling people India and Tajikistan. The powerful earthquake has reportedly killed more than 200 in Pakistan and Afghanistan and...

Boeing says it has created ‘lightest metal ever’

Boeing says it's created the lightest metal ever, a microlattice material which it describes as 99.99% air. A new video released by Boeing this week claims that the company has invented a metal that’s “99.99 percent air” for future use...

Now you can also upload profile videos on Facebook!

LONDON – Facebook has announced a profile video feature as part of a set of new, mobile-friendly updates. It means you’ll be able to film a short, looping video – essentially a GIF – that will play for anyone who...

Twitter may expand its 140-character Tweet limit

SAN FRANCISCO– Twitter is reportedly finally expanding the 140 character-per-tweet limit, which could fundamentally change how Twitter works, reported Forbes. Re/Code has it on good authority that Twitter is set to roll out a “new product” to allow for longer tweets. That...

NASA : Liquid water exists on Mars

WASHINGTON – Liquid water has been observed on the planet Mars, the US space agency NASA. “Mars is not the dry, arid planet we thought of in the past,” Jim Green, NASA´s planetary science director, told a press conference. “Under certain...

First Ever Internet SIM, Zong brings big news for Pakistanis

ISLAMABAD – Zong took another step in world of cyber by introducing first Internet SIM in Pakistan.  According to details, customers will enjoy the Zong’s 3G and 4G packages that are offered with devices only, such as with Zong’s 3G wingle...

Australian sceintists develop device that can un-boil the boiled egg

SYDNEY: Australian scientists have been awarded the Ig Nobel prize in chemistry for making a device that can un-boil the boiled egg. According to details, researchers team led by Colin Raston from Flinder University, Australia, has created a device named, Vortex...

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Storms cause flooding in Switzerland, Italy and France as wildfires rage in Turkey and Greece

Extreme weather across Europe has caused four deaths in storms in Switzerland and northern Italy, while wildfires have forced evacuations in Greece and Turkey.