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Samsung takes back smartphone crown from Apple
Samsung shipped 76.5 million smartphones in the quarter to grab a 22% share of the market
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India’s IT companies scramble to handle Covid-19 surge
Workers are working 13-14 hours daily, struggling to deliver on projects as staff call in sick
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China launches first module for new space station
This is a milestone in Beijing's ambitious plan to establish a permanent human presence in space
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Facebook profit nearly doubles as user ranks grow
Facebook reported that its profit doubled to $9.5 billion on sharp gains in digital advertising
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Covid-19 may cause heart failure in some patients
Covid-19 patients may develop heart failure even if they do not have a previous history of heart disease
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Tete-a-tete with Jadon Niu – CEO realme Pakistan
CEO Jadon Niu shares his insights on what makes realme the fastest-growing smartphone brand in Pakistan
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These are all the new emojis you'll find in iOS 14.5
Apple's recently released iOS 14.5 update comes with over 400 new emojis
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Spotify counters Apple with podcast subscriptions
Spotify has been growing, its podcasting service is on track to have more listeners in the US than Apple Podcasts
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Russia fines Apple $12 million for 'abusing' dominant position
The move comes as Russia ratchets up pressure against Western tech companies
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Musk trolls Bezos as space race between world’s richest men heats up
The two billionaires were competing for a contract to build a spaceship to deliver astronauts to the moon
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Facebook reveals new features for creators to earn money from e-commerce sales
Facebook will build an affiliate program that will let creators earn a cut of sales from the products they recommend
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Samsung's Lee family to pay more than $10.8b tax, donate art
Samsung Electronics chairman Lee died on October 25 with an estate valued at around 26 trillion won
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KP Assembly adopts resolution to allow Facebook’s monetisation
The resolution pointed out that the speaker of the National Assembly has held a meeting with Facebook officials
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Here's what Apple's new iPhone privacy changes mean for consumers and businesses
Apple will begin rolling out new privacy controls designed to limit digital advertisers from tracking iPhone users
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Apple iPhone privacy update seen hurting Facebook revenue in Q2
Facebook faces up to a 7% decline in second-quarter revenue if users block the company from tracking them on iPhones
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Blue Origin protests NASA’s awarding of moon lander contract to SpaceX
NASA awarded SpaceX the contract to build a spaceship to deliver astronauts to the moon as early as 2024
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Tesla's Elon Musk qualifies for $11 billion options payout
Tesla's shares have receded from record highs in 2021 after jumping more than eight-fold last year
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Facebook, Spotify team up to allow in-app music listening
Spotify subscribers will be able to listen to audio content including full music tracks and podcasts on Facebook
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‘Homemade ventilators not useful’, Shibli refutes Fawad’s claim
There are 16 functions in ventilators but locally made has only four, says new sci-tech minister
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Costa Rica unveils radar that tracks space objects from a farm
The Costa Rica Space Radar can monitor objects that transit in low Earth orbit near the planet's equator
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Apple moving forward on app privacy, despite pushback
Apple privacy update has sparked a major rift with Facebook and other tech rivals
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French astronaut Thomas Pesquet takes 'blobs' to space
Blobs are strange single-celled organisms that are neither plants nor animals nor funghi
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China fines online education firms for false advertising
Education ministry also forbade online education firms from offering minors live-streamed courses and games at night
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China digital currency trials show threat to Alipay, WeChat duopoly
Banks are persuading clients to download digital wallets so that transactions can be made directly in digital yuan
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Facial recognition should be banned, says EU privacy watchdog
The EC proposed draft rules that would allow facial recognition to be used in cases of terrorist attacks
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Honda aims for 100% electric vehicles by 2040, says new CEO
The company expects EVs and FCVs to account for 40% of sales by 2030 and 80% by 2035 in all major markets
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'Landmark' advance as malaria vaccine first to hit WHO goal
A new malaria vaccine has proven 77 per cent effective in trials on infants
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Pfizer vaccine effective in those with chronic illnesses
Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine is effective at preventing severe disease in people who have diabetes and heart condition
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Bitcoin tumbles below $50,000, other cryptos sink over Biden tax plans
Bitcoin posted sharp losses on concern that US President Joe Biden plans to raise capital gains taxes
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China could rule world's technology, says UK cyber spy chief
West must urgently act to ensure China does not dominate important emerging technologies, said Fleming
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'Creative' genes gave Homo sapiens edge over Neanderthals, says study
Findings suggest that genes played a role in the evolution of creativity, self-awareness and cooperative behavior
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SpaceX rocketship launches astronauts on NASA mission to space station
NASA and Elon Musk's SpaceX launched a new four-astronaut team on a flight to the International Space Station
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LUMS students develop tourism app 'Lahori Khoji'
LUMS students have developed a smartphone application called ‘Lahori Khoji’ as part of their senior year project
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Turkey detains dozens over alleged cryptocurrency fraud
Istanbul-based cryptocurrency exchange founder fled with a reported $2 billion in investors' assets
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NASA-SpaceX set to launch next 4-member crew to International Space Station
The mission marks the second 'operational' space station team to be launched by NASA
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Fears of Biden tax blow leave cryptocurrencies Ether, Bitcoin on the ropes
Cryptocurrency Ether pulled back sharply from a record high and rival Bitcoin also fell on Friday
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Biden's climate summit zeroes in on technology to help fight global warming
Thursday's Earth Day kickoff sought to rally world ambition to reduce global warming
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Death by Zoom: Covid-19-hit Indonesia orders death penalties online
Three Iranians and a Pakistani learned via video that they would be shot for smuggling drugs into Indonesia
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A black hole dubbed 'the Unicorn' may be galaxy's smallest one
The researchers said the black hole is roughly three times the mass of our sun
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Woman loses life savings, sues casino-style app
Wilkinson spent $50,000 on the app, which she said ruined her life
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In first, Perseverance Mars rover makes oxygen on another planet
The six-wheeled robot has converted some carbon dioxide from the Martian atmosphere into oxygen
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Facebook says Palestinian spies behind hacking campaign
Facebook says it has disrupted a long-running cyberespionage campaign run by Palestinian intelligence
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Tesla comes under growing China pressure after customer complaint
Tesla came under pressure from regulators and state media after protest by a customer about malfunctioning brakes
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Johnson & Johnson jab may cause unusual blood clotting
According to the EU agency, over 7 million people received the product of the Johnson & Johnson pharma company
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UK spy agency MI5 to join Instagram
MI5 plans to host online Q&As with serving intelligence officers and promote career opportunities on the platform
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Twitter becomes platform of hope amid the despair of India's Covid crisis
India is reporting more than 250,000 new Covid-19 cases a day in its worst phase of the pandemic
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Instagram launches feature to tackle hate speech, abuse
Facebook's Instagram is rolling out a feature to prevent users from viewing possibly abusive messages
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China plans $3b supercomputing centre to analyse data from space
China’s southern space port of Wenchang will build a $3 billion supercomputing centre by year-end
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Netflix subscriber growth slows after pandemic boom
Roughly 3.98 million people signed up for Netflix, below the 6.25 million average projection of analysts
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Apple packs iPad Pros with faster chips, slims iMacs and jumps into tracking tags
Apple announced a range of new computers, a paid podcasting service, and devices for finding lost items