Category: Technology

SOUTH PADRE ISLAND: SpaceX’s massive Starship rocket soared through Texas’s golden-hour skies Monday before splashing down successfully, as the US company vies to silence critics who doubt Elon Musk’s startup can deliver Nasa’s lunar projects on time. In its 11th test voyage, the enormous rocket took off Monday from SpaceX’s south Texas launch facilities just after 6:25pm local time (2325 GMT), according to a live video feed which also featured resounding applause from engineering teams. Its rocket booster, known as Super Heavy, landed in Gulf waters as planned, while the…

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Netizens in Pakistan have taken to social media platforms expressing concern over the purported internet shutdown amid widespread rumours claiming an 18-hour-long suspension, which has left Pakistanis worried. Various users on X are claiming that internet services in Pakistan will be suspended for 18 hours starting from 11am on Tuesday (today).   The rumour mill didn’t stop here as another user claimed an 18-hour internet shutdown in the country. “Nationwide Internet Shutdown for 18 Hours Starting 11 AM Tomorrow,” wrote another user — with the post having an uncanny similarity…

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ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Telecommunication Company Limited (PTCL) has announced that internet services may experience degradation or partial disruption due to maintenance work on one of its submarine cables. In a statement on Monday, the PTCL spokesperson said that an international cable consortium has scheduled the repair of a faulty repeater installed within the submarine cable system. The maintenance activity is set to begin on October 14, around 11am PST, and could last for up to 18 hours. During this period, users across Pakistan may face slow internet speeds or intermittent…

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STOCKHOLM: Hungarian writer Laszlo Krasznahorkai won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Literature, the award-giving body said on Thursday, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art”. “Laszlo Krasznahorkai is a great epic writer in the Central European tradition that extends through Kafka to Thomas Bernhard, and is characterised by absurdism and grotesque excess,” the Academy said in a statement. “But there are more strings to his bow, and he also looks to the East in adopting a more contemplative, finely…

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Three scientists won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry on Wednesday for developing a method of designing molecular structures whose multiple uses include tackling climate change by capturing carbon dioxide and harvesting water from desert air. Japan’s Susumu Kitagawa, UK-born Richard Robson and American-Jordanian Omar Yaghi were honoured for their groundbreaking discoveries dating from the late 1980s to the early 2000s. Thanks to the trio’s discoveries, said the jury, chemists had been able to build tens of thousands of so called metal-organic frameworks (MOFs). “Some of these may contribute to solving…

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US-based scientists John Clarke, Michel Devoret and John Martinis won the 2025 Nobel Prize in Physics for “experiments that revealed quantum physics in action”, the award-giving body said on Tuesday. “This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics has provided opportunities for developing the next generation of quantum technology, including quantum cryptography, quantum computers, and quantum sensors,” the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said in a statement. The Nobel winners carried out experiments in the mid-1980s with an electronic circuit built of superconductors and demonstrated that quantum mechanical properties could be made…

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STOCKHOLM: A mathematical theory behind computer image compression, research on an “invisibility cloak,” and the science underpinning the James Webb Space Telescope are among the discoveries expected to be in contention when the Nobel Prize in Physics is announced on Tuesday. The award, set to be revealed at 11:45 am (0945 GMT) in Stockholm, is the second of this year’s Nobel season, following Monday’s Medicine Prize, which went to a US-Japanese trio for breakthroughs in immunology. Americans Mary Brunkow and Fred Ramsdell, along with Japan’s Shimon Sakaguchi, were honoured for…

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ChatGPT, OpenAI’s generative AI with 800 million weekly users, can now engage with common apps like Spotify and Booking.com, the company announced Monday. Chief Executive Sam Altman announced the new tool to a crowd of enthusiastic developers gathered in San Francisco for the company’s annual “Developer Day.” The new feature, Apps SDK, allows ChatGPT to interact with various apps to select music, search for real estate or explore hotel and flight booking sites. Initial partners, including Booking.com, Canva, Coursera, Figma, Expedia, Spotify and Zillow, launched Monday in markets where their…

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OpenAI’s newly released video generation model, Sora 2, has quickly gained popularity, with users creating strikingly realistic clips inspired by well-known cartoons and video games such as South Park and Pokémon. But the US tech giant is giving more power to the companies that hold the copyright for such characters to put a stop to these artificial intelligence copies, boss Sam Altman said. OpenAI, which also runs ChatGPT, is facing many lawsuits over copyright infringements, including one major case with the New York Times. The issue made headlines in March when…

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Amazon founder Jeff Bezos said on Friday that massive, gigawatt-scale data centres could be operating in space within the next 10 to 20 years, powered by constant solar energy that would eventually give them an edge over those on Earth. Speaking at the Italian Tech Week in Turin, Bezos also compared the surge in artificial intelligence to the internet boom of the early 2000s, urging optimism despite the risk of speculative bubbles. The concept of orbital data centres has gained traction among tech giants as those on Earth have driven…

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