Web archive - August 16, 2022

Technology

China creates world's strongest magnetic field

China breaks the record for the world's strongest magnetic field with 45.22 tesla, by passing the previous US record

Technology

Google Meet gets better background and visual effects with cloud processing

Google is introducing new updates for better background visual effects, improved video quality and cloud processing

Pakistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

Two cops killed in attack on polio team in Tank

Bodies of officials have been taken to hospital; security forces begin investigation

Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

‘Black Day’: Kashmiris protest outside Indian consulate in Birmingham

Tehreek-e-Kashmir (TeK) UK along with their allies also held demonstrations and a digital campaign in London

Pakistan

IHC orders local court to decide on Gill's physical remand today

Declares AGI's plea challenging dismissal by sessions court as maintainable; asks latter to hear matter again

Pakistan

Fuel stations in Karachi closed sans strike, shortage

OMCs create man-made crisis after not receiving greater profit among fuel price hikes

Technology

Tencent stops sales on its NFT platform Huanhe a year after launch as scrutiny mounts

Tencent Holdings' Huanhe will no longer release digital collectibles to public as regulatory scrutiny of NFTs mounts

Technology

Judge orders Twitter to give Elon Musk former executive's documents

Twitter needs to give Musk documents from former executive who Musk said was key figure in calculating fake accounts

Technology

Bionic hand can be updated with new gestures, anytime, anywhere

Bionic hands convert electrical impulses from muscles in arm into movement powered by motors in hand to hold anything

Music

You, Nusrat, touched countless lives even after your death: Rahat Fateh Ali Khan

Honouring the Shahenshah-e-qawwali on his 25th death anniversary