Technology

KARACHI – January 8, 2019: Telenor Microfinance Bank, in partnership with Valyou of Malaysia, has introduced Pakistan’s first blockchain-based cross-border remittance service, powered by industry-leading blockchain technology developed by Alipay, the online payment platform operated by Ant Financial Services Group (“Ant Financial”). The blockchain remittance service is provided by Telenor’s Easypaisa and Valyou, a financial technology company that provides remittances …

Las Vegas: The same technology used in self-driving cars is being touted as a potential high-tech solution to the US border wall conundrum — with some added benefits. At least one startup at the Consumer Electronics show is showcasing how Lidar, a laser-based detection system widely used in autonomous vehicles, could be deployed along the US-Mexico border at a far …

WhatsApp Gold has turned out to be a hoax message, which tricks users into downloading a virus, and is circulating once again. The message claims a video will come out tomorrow called “Martinelli”, which will hack your phone. “If you know anyone using WhatsApp you might pass on this. An IT colleague has advised that a video comes out tomorrow …

Tesla boss Elon Musk presided Monday over the ground-breaking for a Shanghai factory that will allow the electric-car manufacturer to dodge the China-US tariff crossfire and sell directly to the world´s biggest market for “green” vehicles. The plant in a Shanghai suburb is Musk´s biggest overseas move yet and will eventually have an annual production capacity of 500,000 vehicles, Tesla …

BERLIN: US chipmaker Qualcomm said Thursday it had fulfilled the requirements set out by a court in a patent dispute case against Apple to ban the sale of older iPhone models in Germany. The court in the German city of Munich had ruled in favour of Qualcomm last month but said an injunction banning sales of affected iPhones could only …

WASHINGTON: Four billion miles from the sun floats Ultima Thule, an icy celestial body that NASA scientists announced Wednesday is aptly shaped like a giant snowman. The first detailed images beamed back from the US agency´s New Horizons mission allowed scientists to confidently determine the body was formed when two spheres, or “lobes,” slowly gravitated towards each other until they …

BEIJING: China’s Chang’e-4 probe touched down on the far side of the moon Thursday, becoming the first spacecraft soft-landing on the moon’s uncharted side never visible from Earth. The probe, comprising a lander and a rover, landed at the preselected landing area at 177.6 degrees east longitude and 45.5 degrees south latitude on the far side of the moon at …

Apple acknowledged that demand for iPhones is waning, confirming investor fears that the company’s most profitable product has lost some of its lustre. The reckoning came in a letter from Apple CEO Tim Cook to the company’s shareholders released after the stock market closed on Wednesday. Cook said Apple’s revenue for the October-December quarter including the crucial holiday shopping season …

KARACHI: Facebook and WhatsApp have the worst track record when it comes to cases of online harassment and misuse of data in Pakistan, according to a report released by the Digital Rights Foundation (DRF) on Wednesday. The report highlights data collected by the DRF cyber harassment helpline during the last two years and contains recommendations for public bodies to improve their institutional …

Twitter on Thursday sent a notice to senior journalist Mubashir Zaidi, informing him that it has received a complaint through ‘official correspondence’ that one of his tweets regarding the murders of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa SP Tahir Dawar and MQM leader Ali Raza Abidi was “in violation of Pakistani law”. Former MNA Abidi was gunned down outside his residence in Karachi’s DHA on December …