Technology

Not only is 9-year-old Ryan Kaji unboxing and reviewing toys and games on YouTube, but he’s also having loads of fun and bagging a whole new title because of it. The child influencer, whose YouTube channel goes by the name of Ryan’s World, is an interactive space for children to get their hands on some cool science experiments, music videos, skits, …

Popular for its dubbing, remakes and minimal acting clips, video-sharing platform TikTok has become a household name all around the globe. And it’s not just the youngsters using it. One of the most recent and well-known users are Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid, the ruler of Dubai and vice president of the United Arab Emirates, who has announced officially joining the …

ISLAMABAD: Chief Justice of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Justice Athar Minallah on Friday admitted the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) petition for regular hearing against the recently enforced social media rules. While the counsel for Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Ahmar Bilal Soofi received the court notice after the very first hearing inside the courtroom, the deputy attorney general …

WASHINGTON: The United States on Friday announced it has imposed export controls on 77 Chinese companies including the country’s biggest chipmaker, SMIC, restricting its access to US technology over its alleged ties to China’s military. The announcement in the final weeks of President Donald Trump’s term comes after relations between Washington and Beijing soured under his administration, which saw the …

CAPE CANAVERAL: Jupiter and Saturn will merge in the night sky on Monday, appearing closer to one another than they have since Galileos time in the 17th century. Astronomers say so-called conjunctions between the two largest planets in our solar system aren’t particularly rare. Jupiter passes its neighbor Saturn in their respective laps around the sun every 20 years. But …

WASHINGTON: A devastating cyberattack on US government agencies has also hit targets worldwide with the list of victims still growing, according to researchers, heightening fears over computer security and espionage. Microsoft said late on Thursday that it had notified more than 40 customers hit by the malware which security experts say came from hackers linked to the Russian government and …

ISLAMABAD: The government is working on promoting manufacturing of electric vehicles in the country, said Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Husain at the 23rd Sustainable Development Conference organised by the Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) here on Thursday. He said the government has three top priorities — agriculture, electronics, and manufacturing of electric vehicles. He added that the electric …

When India banned the hit PUBG mobile game over its diplomatic row with China, Zeyan Shafiq’s eSports team was suddenly left without players. So Shafiq, who is based in Indian occupied Kashmir, did something very unusual: he reached across the border to Pakistan. Shafiq, 18, feared reprisals over his move, but none came. It resulted in an unheard-of alliance between …

Acknowledged for her groundbreaking cell-biological work on the mechanisms of epigenetic gene regulation, Pakistan-born Asifa Akhtar has been selected as a recipient of Germany’s Leibniz Prize — one of the most prestigious awards of the country. Germany’s Max Planc society — a fundamental research and science organization, where Akhtar is also serving as the first international female Vice President — shared the …

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Tuesday it had resolved a problem with Gmail due to which some of its users had faced issues with the mailing platform, just a day after a global outage affected YouTube, Gmail and Google Drive. Downdetector.com, a website that tracks outages, showed there were more than 13,000 incidents of people reporting issues with Gmail.   …