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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 …

The smartphone makers are engaged in fierce competition to keep the users intact with new and advanced features. Nokia, which re-entered the market, is making hectic efforts to establish itself as a brand to reckon with where Chinese companies are flooding global markets with new and advanced products. With its latest, ‘seven-camera’ Nokia 9 Pureview, HMD has taken on Samsung …

Tampa: An unmanned NASA spacecraft sent a signal back to Earth Tuesday that it successfully made it through a risky flyby past the most distant planetary object ever studied, the US space agency said. “We have a healthy spacecraft,” said Alice Bowman, missions operations manager for the New Horizons spacecraft, which zipped by Ultima Thule at 12:33 am (0533 GMT) …

TAMPA: NASA rang in the New Year on Tuesday with a historic flyby of the farthest, and quite possibly the oldest, cosmic body ever explored by humankind — a tiny, distant world called Ultima Thule — in the hopes of learning more about how planets took shape. A series of anxiously awaited “phone home” signals arrived after 10:30 am (1530 …

Netflix confirmed Tuesday that it removed an episode of a satirical comedy show that criticizes Saudi Arabia, after officials in the kingdom reportedly complained. The move raises new questions about the limits of free online expression. In the episode of Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, the American-born Muslim lashed Saudi Arabia after the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in …