Iranian the first woman to snare maths prize

Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhan is among four recipients of mathematics’ top prize, the Fields Medal. Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to be awarded the Fields Medal, mathematics’ equivalent... Read more »

Fishermen drag dead whale to Karachi shore

KARACHI: The body of what fishermen say is an estimated 70-foot whale washed up on the coast of Karachi on Tuesday morning. Local fishermen in the locality of Ghas Bandar area along... Read more »

Online passwords could be replaced by photos

CYBER security has never been so important so can a typical password cut it anymore? Now that we’re all well and truly quaking from the news Russians have stolen over a billion... Read more »

Microsoft sues Samsung over breach of contract

NEW YORK: Microsoft on Friday fired a legal salvo at long-time partner Samsung, accusing the South Korean giant of breaching a contract over licensing of technology used in the competitive smartphone market.... Read more »

Robots to take over many jobs done by people, for good and bad

WASHINGTON: Robots and artificially intelligent devices will take over many jobs now done by people, and experts are divided as to whether their spread will do human society more good than harm.... Read more »

Brief Facebook outage prompts complaints on Twitter

WASHINGTON: A brief Facebook outage on Friday prompted a flurry of complaints and comments on Twitter less than two months after a similar incident affected users worldwide. According to the website downdetector.com,... Read more »

Microsoft to cut 18,000 jobs worldwide

US firm to lay off thousands of staff, including nearly half of Nokia employees who joined in April after acquisition. Microsoft has announced the biggest layoffs in its 39-year history, outlining plans... Read more »

Etiquette gets reboot for digital age

WASHINGTON: The digital age has created a host of new etiquette dilemmas. What should you do when your boss sends a Facebook friend request? Is it OK to take and share smartphone... Read more »

Scientists criticise EU’s Human Brain Project

Almost 200 neuro-scientists say $1.6b bid to recreate human-brain function on supercomputers will waste too much money. Almost 200 neuro-scientists are protesting Europe’s $1.6bn attempt to recreate the functioning of the human... Read more »

Google Skybox to have 24 satellites for updating global images

GOOGLE Earth sometimes feels like an interesting but pointless toy. The images are dated and once you’ve checked out your own roof or neighbourhood, you may exit the site with an empty... Read more »

Voicemail falls by wayside in world of texts

Confession: I have 140 unlistened-to-voice-mail messages on my cellphone. They stretch from the present day all the way back to Oct 15, 2012 (my mother, 26 seconds. Sorry, Mom! Hope it wasn’t... Read more »

At E3, signs that virtual reality’s time may finally be coming

LOS ANGELES: In 2013, Oculus VR’s booth at Electronic Entertainment Expo, the gaming industry’s biggest annual convention, was relegated to a far corner of the show floor near the restrooms. What a... Read more »

Startup launches ‘first wearable health record’ for Google Glass

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc’s futuristic eyeglasses are finding their way into hospitals and clinics throughout the United States. To meet the growing demand for Google Glass from physicians, Drchrono, a Mountain View,... Read more »

‘Education for life’

‘Education for life…’, this is the mission statement of Unique International College which has successfully been providing technical and academic education to international and local students for the 7 years.  Unique International... Read more »

Geo News to sue ISI for defamation

ISLAMABAD: Geo News is suing the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) for defamation over accusations of being anti-state, it said on Friday. Geo News, part of the privately-owned Jang Group, has also given the... Read more »

Twitter in talks to buy online music firm SoundCloud

Twitter Inc has been in talks with Berlin-based online music platform SoundCloud in its efforts to add a music service to its offering, the Financial Times reported citing people familiar with the... Read more »

Volume of encrypted email rising amid spying fears

SAN FRANCISCO: The volume of email cloaked in encryption technology is rapidly rising as Google, Yahoo, Facebook and other major Internet companies try to shield their users’ online communications from government spies... Read more »

Samsung to sell first Tizen phone in 3rd Quarter

SEOUL: Samsung Electronics Co. said Monday it will begin selling a smartphone that runs on its Tizen operating system in the third quarter of this year, advancing the company’s plans to reduce... Read more »

eBay tells users to change passwords

Online giant asks users to reset passwords after hackers broke its database containing clients’ information. US online giant eBay has asked its users to change their passwords after the company announced that... Read more »

Microsoft rescues XP users with emergency browser fix

BOSTON: Microsoft is helping the estimated hundreds of millions of customers still running Windows XP, which it stopped supporting earlier this month, by providing an emergency update to fix a critical bug... Read more »

BlackBerry launches another “Porsche Design” smartphone

The elite, new, all-touch Porsche Design P’9982 Smartphone from BlackBerry is uniquely designed and expertly crafted. The P’9982 is exquisitely fashioned from high-quality materials and features a customized version of the BlackBerry 10.2... Read more »

Microsoft raises cloud pitch, targets Dropbox, Box

Microsoft Corp said it will increase its cloud storage offering for business users by 40-fold as the world’s largest software company makes a case for businesses buying an all-in-one product from itself... Read more »

Saudi body studying regulating YouTube production

BOSTON: Saudi Arabia is studying ways to regulate locally-produced YouTube content, including the possibility of requiring government-issued licenses for some users, said an official on Sunday. Riyadh Najm, the president of The... Read more »

WhatsApp says it now has half billion users

WASHINGTON: WhatsApp now has 500 million regular, active users around the world, the free mobile messaging service being acquired by Facebook said. That is up from an estimated 450m as of late... Read more »