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CAPE CANAVERAL: Boeing’s new Starliner capsule was launched on Thursday on a do-over uncrewed test flight bound for the International Space Station, aiming to deliver the company a much-needed success after more than two years of delays and costly engineering setbacks. The gumdrop-shaped CST-100 Starliner blasted off shortly before 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT) from the Cape Canaveral US Space …

Researchers tracked 6,729 volunteers ages 18 to 69, who got two shots of either AstraZeneca’s viral vector vaccine or an mRNA vaccine from Pfizer/BioNTech or Moderna after recovering from an infection with the coronavirus and who reported long COVID symptoms of any severity at least once between February and September 2021. The odds of reporting long COVID – symptoms lasting …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecomm­u­nication Syed Aminul Haque has said that the telecom sector needed to upgrade its infrastructure to improve the quality of its services in the country. Talking to a delegation of Telenor, a Norwegian state-owned multinational telecommunications company, led by its executive vice president Jorgen C. Arentz Rostrup, the minister said the telecom companies …

Billionaire Elon Musk took to Twitter late on Thursday to denounce as “utterly untrue” claims in a news report that he had sexually harassed a flight attendant on a private jet in 2016.   Business Insider reported earlier on Thursday that Musk’s SpaceX paid $250,000 in 2018 to settle a sexual harassment claim from an unnamed private jet flight attendant who accused …

Twitter announced it is rolling out a feature called Super Follows Spaces which will allow the creator to converse with their super subscribers.  The Super Follows Spaces will allow creators to “offer an extra layer of conversation to their biggest supporters.” It is pertinent to mention that Android and iOS users to communicate in Super Follows Spaces. Those who are …

DUBAI: A specialised medical team at Dubai Hospital has performed the first successful surgery using the Da Vinci Xi Surgical Robot on a 22-year-old Emirati patient suffering from a blockage in the upper part of the ureter. The complaint made the patient suffer from enlarged kidneys and its complications. Dr. Yasser Ahmad Al Saeedi, Consultant, Robotic Surgeon and Head of …

Russia is not planning to block Alphabet’s YouTube, the minister for digital development said on Tuesday, acknowledging that such a move would likely see Russian users suffer and should therefore be avoided. Russia has blocked other foreign social media platforms, but despite months of fines and threats against YouTube for failing to delete content Moscow deems illegal and for restricting …

Uber Technologies Inc on Monday said it launched pilot food delivery services with autonomous vehicles in two California cities and said it was adding electric vehicle charging stations into its global driver app. The announcements are part of Uber’s annual product event where the ride-hail and food delivery company showcases the latest updates to its app. Uber announced one food …

Apple has released iOS 15.5 (for iPhones) and iPadOS 15.5 (for iPads), respectively. Though this one isn’t a big update, but it still manages to pack in a couple of new features. The update should already have been announced by your iPhone or iPad, but if not, you can always head into Settings and manually grab it. Apple’s rollouts thankfully …

Online articles shared hundreds of thousands of times on social media claim the global outbreak of severe hepatitis in children is linked to Covid-19 vaccines, citing an April 2022 study as evidence. But health authorities and independent experts dismissed the idea that the shots are to blame, saying most of those affected were too young to be vaccinated and that …