Category: Technology

TikTok on Sunday said that it is “in the process of restoring service” in the United States, after briefly going dark as a law banning it in the name of national security came into effect. In a statement on X posted after Donald Trump promised to delay implementation of the ban, TikTok thanked the incoming president for “providing the necessary clarity and assurance” that service providers would not be penalized for allowing Americans to access the app. TikTok stopped working for US users late on Saturday before a law shutting…

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WASHINGTON: TikTok disconnected access to its users in the United States late Saturday shortly before a national ban on the app was to take effect, with President-elect Donald Trump unable to intervene until he takes office. “A law banning TikTok has been enacted in the US,” said a message to users attempting to use the app. “Unfortunately, that means you can’t use TikTok for now.” “We are fortunate that President Trump has indicated that he will work with us on a solution to reinstate TikTok once he takes office,” the…

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The social media is flooded with posts and videos about an upcoming astronomical event on January 25, quoting it as a “one in 396 billion years” and a planetary alignment. Turns out people do not have to wait for the 25th to see it as it happens all the time. Four planets in the solar system are easily visible to the naked eye this month and in February, there will be five planets to see in the sky. The planetary alignment is not something out of the ordinary, nor is…

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The US Supreme Court on Friday upheld a law that will ban TikTok in the United States, potentially denying the video-sharing app to 170 million users in two days. In a major defeat for TikTok, the court ruled that the law does not violate free speech rights and that the US government had demonstrated legitimate national security concerns about a Chinese company owning the app. The Supreme Court last week heard arguments from the company, ByteDance, that the law should be stopped because it was a violation of free speech.…

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The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Ltd (PTCL) has announced that it has swiftly tackled the fault in the international submarine cable in record time, resolving the issue of browsing slowdown. “We are pleased to inform you that the slow browsing issue caused by the international submarine cable AAE-1 outage has been resolved in record time,” the telecom firm said in a statement on Thursday. It said the teams worked tirelessly to restore services, and “we sincerely appreciate your patience and understanding during this time”.     Last week, the Pakistan Telecommunication…

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WASHINGTON: Hours after Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin nailed its first-ever orbital mission, SpaceX seized back the spotlight on Thursday as its latest test of Starship, its gargantuan next-generation megarocket, ended with the upper stage dramatically disintegrating over the Atlantic. In terms of sheer excitement, Elon Musk’s company didn’t disappoint, underscoring its technical prowess by catching the first stage booster in the “chopstick” arms of its launch tower for a second time. But the triumph was short-lived when teams lost contact with the upper stage vehicle. SpaceX later confirmed it had…

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One of the most distant and, thus, earliest star-killing supernovas ever seen has been discovered by astronomers with the help of the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). After the Big Bang, around 2 billion years, this blast which rocked the cosmos marked the death of just such a monster star, reported Space.com. This supernova, which was detected as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) programme, could help scientists add more detail to the cosmic picture of stellar life and death they are currently building. Designated AT 2023adsv, the…

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BENGALURU: India docked two satellites in space Thursday, a key milestone for the country’s dreams of a space station and manned Moon mission, the space agency said. The satellites, weighing 220-kilogrammes (485 pounds) each, blasted off in December on a single rocket from India’s Sriharikota launch site. Later they separated. On Thursday, the two satellites were manoeuvered back together in a “precision” process resulting in a “successful spacecraft capture”, the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, calling it a “historic moment”. India became the fourth country to achieve the feat…

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Archaeologists have said in a new study that the intricate details of tattoos on centuries-old mummies in Peru have been revealed by a new laser-based technique. According to Live Science, however, not everyone thinks that the new technique is better than existing methods for analysing historical tattoos. Researchers looked at more than 100 mummified human remains from the Chancay culture, which inhabited Peru from about AD 900 to 1533 in the study, which was published on Monday (January 13) in the journal PNAS. “Only 3 of these individuals were found to…

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