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WASHINGTON: Just a week after its first images were shown to the world, the James Webb Space Telescope may have found a galaxy that existed 13.5 billion years ago, a scientist who analysed the data said on Wednesday. Known as GLASS-z13, the galaxy dates back to 300 million years after the Big Bang, about 100 million years earlier than anything …

Scientists have answered a longstanding question about mammalian evolution, examining the ear anatomy of living and extinct mammals and their close relatives to determine when warm-bloodedness – a trait integral to the lineage’s success – first emerged. Researchers said on Wednesday that the reduced size of inner ear structures called semicircular canals – small, fluid-filled tubes that help in keeping …

After years of requests, beta testing, and limited smartphone model compatibility, the social media giant, WhatsApp has finally let its users to transfer their entire chat history from Android to iOS and vice versa. The last time 9to5Mac reported on this, WhatsApp was integrating this feature through the Move to iOS app, but in beta. A month after the company rolled …

Microsoft’s MS Teams was back up for most users, the company said on Thursday, after an hours-long outage that disrupted the chat application for tens of thousands of customers globally. The company cited a disruption on a recent software update that “contained a broken connection to an internal storage service”. “We’re addressing any residual impact related to this event. Additionally, …

WASHINGTON: Mark your calendars: Nasa’s Artemis programme to return to the Moon could launch its first uncrewed test flight as soon as August 29, the agency said on Wednesday. Artemis-1 is the first in a series of missions as the United States seeks to return humans to the Moon, build a sustained presence there, and use the lessons gained to …

Popular video-sharing platform TikTok has said that it removed nearly 12.5 million videos from Pakistan in the first quarter (January to March) of 2022 for violating community guidelines, placing the country second on the list of largest volume of videos removed. In a press release, TikTok said as per the latest “Community Guidelines Enforcement Report”, Pakistan had a removal rate …

Google on Tuesday announced the launch of its Earthquake Alerts System in Pakistan which is aimed at detecting seismic activities that could help people prepare for an impending emergency. “Android Earthquake Alerts System is a no-cost, helpful android feature that detects earthquakes around the world and alerts people. It uses sensors in Android smartphones,” the search engine giant said in …

WASHINGTON: Twitter and Elon Musk were ordered on Tuesday to trial in October over whether the Tesla chief can be forced to complete his $44 billion deal to buy the social network, an early win for the uncertainty-wracked platform. A judge in the eastern US state of Delaware ruled against Musk’s push for a February date, while hewing closely to …

ISLAMABAD: PTCL Group president and chief executive Hatem Bamatraf on Monday said that Ufone was not interested to participate in the upcoming spectrum auction but demanded the government not to ease the conditions. “We have no plans to participate in the new spectrum auction but the terms and conditions should be the same as they were during the last auction,” …

PARIS: A team of astrophysicists known for debunking previous supposed black holes announced a discovery of their own on Monday: the first “dormant” stellar-mass black hole spotted orbiting a star in a nearby galaxy. While these black holes are thought to be common throughout the universe, they have proved difficult to find, and they have themselves rejected several possible candidates …