Beijing: China landed its first-ever Mars space rover on the Red Plant. The lander carrying “Zhurong” completed the treacherous descent through the Martian atmosphere using a parachute to navigate the “seven minutes of terror” as it is known, aiming for a vast northern lava plain known as the Utopia Planitia.It “successfully landed in the pre-selected […]
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Nowadays, social media and instant messaging platforms such as WhatsApp itself, may not be 100% safe for users.Hence, we decided to come up with a few tips on how you can ensure your WhatsApp account remains safe from hacks and other problems. These points, by the way, are applicable on both iOS and Android phones. […]
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NASA’s newest six-wheeled robot on the surface of Mars, includes converting some of the Red Planet’s thin, carbon dioxide-rich atmosphere into oxygen.NASA in its statement said that a toaster-size, experimental instrument aboard Perseverance called the Mars Oxygen In-Situ Resource Utilization Experiment (MOXIE) accomplished the task.For rockets or astronauts, oxygen is key, said MOXIE’s principal investigator, […]
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Amazon said it is rolling out biometric technology at its Whole Foods stores around Seattle starting on Wednesday, letting shoppers pay for items with a scan of their palm.The move shows how Amazon is bringing some of the technology already in use at its namesake brick-and-mortar Go and Books stores to the grocery chain it […]
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Instagram is launching a small global test where users can choose whether to hide like counts on their own posts or other people’s posts, a Facebook spokeswoman said.The photo-sharing site, which is owned by Facebook Inc, said this latest test came after seeing mixed responses to its experiments in which it removed likes, commonly used […]
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SINGAPORE: Hoping to capitalise on a surge in demand for home deliveries, a Singapore technology company has deployed a pair of robots to bring residents their groceries in one part of the city state. Developed by OTSAW Digital and both named “Camello”, the robots’ services have been offered to 700 households in a one-year trial.Users […]
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STOCKHOLM: Nokia has settled a multi-year patent fight with China’s Lenovo, the world’s biggest PC maker, resolving all pending litigation across all jurisdictions, the companies said on Wednesday.While terms of the cross-license agreement remain confidential, Lenovo will make a net balancing payment to Nokia, the Finnish telecom equipment maker said.A Nokia spokesman declined to disclose […]
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PALO ALTO: Fake news and claims about coronavirus vaccines debunked by public health experts around the world will now be removed by Facebook, the social media giant said Thursday. Facebook’s move came after a similar announcement in October by Alphabet Inc’s YouTube. It also expands the social media network’s current rules against falsehoods and conspiracy […]
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The widely-used messaging application WhatsApp has recently rolled out its much-anticipated message disappearing feature which is now available for all users in Pakistan as well. With this feature, you can send messages that disappear on WhatsApp by turning the ‘disappearing messages’ on. “Once enabled, new messages sent in the chat will disappear after seven days. […]
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A Swedish court has suspended a decision banning Huawei equipment from the country’s 5G network while it considers the merits of the case against the Chinese telecoms giant. The ruling by the Stockholm administrative court forced the Swedish Post and Telecom Authority (PTS) to announce late Monday that it would postpone an auction of 5G […]
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