Wednesday, July 3, 2024

Technology

Forget Wi-Fi, new technology Li-Fi offers 100 times faster speed

A new type of wireless internet technology has been developed that could provide a connection that's 100 times faster than traditional Wi-Fi. Li-Fi (Light Fidelity) has proved capable of sending data at speeds of up to 1GBps, around 100 times...

Google Live Traffic updates now available in Pakistan

ISLAMABAD - Pakistanis can now utilize the live traffic data on Google maps. The map indicates in green color routes where the traffic is moderate while heavy traffic is indicated by red color. The Google map displays construction zones...

Pakistan has the potential to become Internet transit hub for region: ISOC study

ISLAMABAD (Pakistan) - Despite having the lowest Internet user density of 13.8% in the region, Pakistan has the potential to become the Internet transit hub for Central and South Asia, according a new study. Pakistan’s geostrategic location and access to...

Gogoro’s electric scooter will launch in Europe next year

Gogoro, the all-electric, Bluetooth-connected scooter designed in large part by former HTC staff, has announced its first launch beyond its home market of Taiwan: Amsterdam, a city well known for its love of two-wheeled things. The machine — and...

Apple to power Singapore stores with solar energy

Apple on Sunday announced a deal that will see its Singapore operations fully powered by solar energy SINGAPORE - Tech giant Apple is going all out to tackle climate change, turning to solar power to run its entire Singapore operations,...

Driverless buses will soon hit the road in Switzerland

Driverless post buses will soon be operating in the canton of Valais after a collaboration between PostBus and a Swiss startup founded by recent graduates from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL) in Lausanne. The Swiss city of Sion will...

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...

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...

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South Korea’s KAI signs $1.4 billion deal to launch mass production of homegrown KF-21 fighter jets

Nine years after the development of South Korea’s KF-21 Boramae began, the Korean government finalized a significant deal with Korea Aerospace Industries for the production of 20 fighter jets