The US has urged states to get ready for a potential Covid-19 vaccine rollout two days before the presidential election, it emerged Wednesday, as France prepared to present a mammoth spending plan for its virus-hit economy. Across the world, governments are hoping to announce a vaccine as soon as possible to reopen economies shuttered to contain an illness that has …

TOKYO: Outgoing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may have made himself  Japan’s longest-serving leader, but he leaves behind a myriad of problems that his successor will have to deal with. As the ruling Liberal Democratic Party announces a September 14 vote on a replacement for Abe, who is resigning for health reasons, here are some of the issues Japan’s next prime …

NEW DELHI: Facebook has banned a member of India’s ruling party BJP for violating its policies covering violence and hate, as Mark Zuckerberg’s company finds itself caught in a debate over how it handles political content in its biggest market. The company said on Thursday it had banned politician Raja Singh from Facebook and Instagram under its “dangerous individuals and …

LAHORE: Punjab on Thursday reported two new cases of dengue fever, taking the number of total case to 49 in the province, thus so far.  According to the spokesperson of the Primary and Secondary Healthcare Department Punjab, the patients are under treatment. The spokesperson said no deaths have been reported in the ongoing year due to dengue virus. Last week, …

ISLAMABAD: The head of National Emergency Operations Centre (NEOC) for Polio Eradication Dr Rana Safdar said that the authorities have set a target of vaccinating 40 million children during the anti-polio drive this month. Dr Rana Safdar gave a briefing to the participants of the meeting chaired by Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Health Dr Faisal Sultan today for …

ISLAMABAD: Ministry of Information, Technology and Telecommunication in collaboration with Byonyks (medical devices company) has developed Pakistan’s first bloodless risk-free kidney dialysis machine. Founder of Byonyks, Farrukh Usma, met with the Minister for IT and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque in Islamabad on Wednesday. During the meeting, Farrukh apprised the IT minister that multiple patients have used the painless dialysis …

PARIS: An artificial intelligence (AI) technology developed by a firm co-founded by billionaire Elon Musk has won praise for its ability to generate coherent stories, novels and even computer code but it remains blind to racism or sexism. GPT-3, as Californian company OpenAI’s latest AI language model is known, is capable of completing a dialogue between two people, continuing a …

ISLAMABAD: A meeting between the Internet Service Providers (ISPs) and the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) ended in a deadlock on Wednesday as both sides remained at odds over procedures to contain ‘indecent content’ on the internet. The ISPs claimed that the PTA wanted to regulate political voices in the garb of containing indecent content, alleging that actions against the Content …

PARIS: Scientists announced on Wednesday the discovery of a black hole — the oldest ever detected — that shouldn’t even exist according to the current understanding of cosmic monsters so dense not even light can escape their gravitational pull. Born of a merger between two other black holes, GW190521 weighs in at 142 times the mass of our Sun and …

KARACHI: Stocks were on fire for the third day of the trading week with the KSE-100 index pushing its way up by 458 points (1.11 per cent) to settle at eight-month high of 41,835. All of that added Rs92 billion to market capitalisation in a single day. The index opened on a positive note and remained bullish thro­ughout the session …