Technology

Tesla chief executive Elon Musk has a “super bad feeling” about the economy and needs to cut about 10 per cent of jobs at the electric carmaker, he said in an email to executives seen by Reuters. The message, sent on Thursday and titled “pause all hiring worldwide”, came two days after the billionaire told staff to return to the workplace or …

ISLAMABAD: Days after a woman was gang-raped on Bahauddin Zakariya Express by railway staff, the federal government has decided to deploy of Lady Railway Police Force (LRPF) at railway stations to ensure the safety of women passengers. According to details, in line with the directions of Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, the PM’s Strategic Reforms unit has proposed a number of …

Google in a major announcement has said that it is combining two of its video-calling apps, Duo and Meet, into a single platform. By bringing them both together, Google’s hoping it can solve some of what ails modern communication tools. “What’s been really important is understanding how people choose what tool they’re going to use, for what purpose, in what …

A life-changing spacebar trick has taken social media by storm as it could help people struggling to place the cursor of their smartphone before a particular alphabet while trying to rectify the error. The video shared on social media began with the text: “How old were you when you discovered the spacebar on your phone isn’t just for spaces!” It’s a …

Advisers to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration are due to meet this month to decide on whether to recommend authorizing Moderna’s vaccine for children below 6 years old, and Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine for children below 5 years old. Here is a look at some of the factors expected to be considered in this decision concerning the last …

Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) is launching the 3rd Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport 2023, a first-of-its-kind event in the field of self-driving transport. Submissions to this edition of the challenge will focus on self-driving buses. RTA opened registration for the challenge as of Monday May 30, 2022 through the designated website www.sdcongress.com. Finalists will be announced in October …

The popular messaging platform, WhatsApp in another significant change to its minimum requirements has announced that the app will not support iOS 10 or iOS 11 starting from October. WaBetaInfo, a prominent WhatsApp leaker, revealed the notification that will appear on devices running iOS versions older than iOS 12. A WhatsApp support document also notes the iOS 12 requirement. That …

KARACHI: The people in this country are on edge following the recent rise in the cost of fuel. And amid fears of further rise in fuel prices they are looking at all kinds of transportation alternatives. With a shortage of CNG anyway, the only option left for those wanting to own their own cars is the electric vehicle or EV. …

Israel’s traffic congestion ranks near the worst among developed economies but an algorithm can help, says one of the country’s IT firms engaged in the auto and mobility sector. ITC, or Intelligent Traffic Control, was one of the artificial intelligence players at Tel Aviv’s recent EcoMotion showcase where high-tech and AI firms hope to make transport more efficient and cleaner. …

Meta Platforms Inc’s image-sharing platform Instagram was down for thousands of users on Thursday, according to outage-tracking website Downdetector.com. More than 6,000 users reported issues with Instagram on Downdetector, which tracks outages by collating status reports from several sources including user-submitted errors on its platform. The outage may be affecting a larger number of users. According to the website, 84 per …