A BRITISH defence company is working on a military plane of the future that is covered by a ‘human skin’. Okay, sorry. If you’re imagining a big, fleshy aircraft flapping through the... Read more »
DON’T look down. An extreme selfie captured on top of a Hong Kong skyscraper could be the scariest one ever snapped. When a man with quest for the ultimate selfie (and a... Read more »
A BABY boy is in hospital after a circus camel bit him on the head. The incident happened in France on Saturday as the four-month-old and his mother visited the circus in... Read more »
KARACHI: A young Pakistani scientist, Dr Saima Rasheed of the HEJ Research Institute of Chemistry, Karachi University, attended the 64th Nobel Laureate Meeting of Physiology and Medicine, held in Germany recently. An... Read more »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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…’, 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 »
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 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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »