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For a successful startup ecosystem, Pakistan needs to learn to celebrate failure


March 19, 2021

Earlier this month, SpaceX’s Starship SN9 spacecraft blew itself to pieces around eight minutes after a successful touchdown. The failure must have cost tens of millions of dollars – yet it was celebrated. That’s because failure is a necessary station on the path to success. Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and now the richest man in the world, said if things …

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Coronavirus variants found to be deadlier, more contagious


March 18, 2021

Antibodies induced by the Moderna and Pfizer-BioNTech vaccines are dramatically less effective at neutralizing some of the most worrying coronavirus variants, a new study suggests. Researchers obtained blood samples from 99 individuals who had received one or two doses of either vaccine and tested their vaccine-induced antibodies against virus replicas engineered to mimic 10 globally circulating variants. Five of the …

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Mars long ago was wet. You may be surprised where the water went


March 18, 2021

WASHINGTON: Mars was once a wet world, with abundant bodies of water on its surface. But this changed dramatically billions of years ago, leaving behind the desolate landscape known today. So what happened to the water? Scientists have a new hypothesis. Researchers said this week that somewhere between about 30% and 99% of it may now be trapped within minerals …

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TikTok considers introducing group chat feature this year


March 18, 2021

Video-sharing platform TikTok may launch a group messaging feature this year, people with knowledge of the discussions told Reuters, putting the Chinese-owned app in more direct competition with social media rivals such as Facebook. Group messaging is part of owner ByteDance’s plan to develop TikTok into more of a “social interactions app”, one of the sources said. The feature has …

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Moscow gives Twitter 30 days to remove ‘banned’ content


March 17, 2021

MOSCOW: Russia’s media regulator Roskomnadzor on Tuesday gave Twitter a one-month ultimatum to remove “banned” content, threatening to consider blocking the social media platform within the country if it does not comply. Last week Roskomnadzor started disrupting Twitter’s services in Russia, saying the US platform failed to comply with its requests to delete content related to child pornography, drug use …

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TikTok banned until filtering mechanism in place: PHC


March 17, 2021

PESHAWAR: The Peshawar High Court has ruled that indecent and objectionable material is being uploaded on the popular video-sharing application TikTok without restriction in violation of Islamic moral values and ethics, so the ban will continue in the country until a mechanism is in place to filter such content. In the detailed order on a petition against TikTok, a bench …

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China blocks messaging app Signal


March 16, 2021

BEIJING:  In a major blow, encrypted messaging app signal has been blocked in China that was one of the last US social media platforms still freely available in the country. Users of the free app, which has surged in popularity globally after rising privacy concerns, were unable to access it without a virtual private network (VPN). China has deployed a …

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Musk crowned ‘Technoking’


March 16, 2021

Tesla Inc added “Technoking of Tesla” to billionaire Chief Executive Elon Musk’s list of official titles on Monday in a regulatory filing that also named finance chief Zachary Kirkhorn “Master of Coin”. The electric-car maker did not elaborate on the reasons for the cryptic new titles. Last month, Tesla revealed it had purchased $1.5 billion of bitcoin and would soon …

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Bitcoin ATMs are coming to a gas station near you


March 15, 2021

A new feature has appeared at smoke shops in Montana, gas stations in the Carolinas and delis in far-flung corners of New York City: a brightly-lit bitcoin ATM, where customers can buy or sell digital currency, and sometimes extract hard cash. The machines have multiplied quickly through the United States over the past year, fueled by a frenzy in crypto …

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