ISLAMABAD: To enhance the ability of Pakistani enterprises’ capacity to produce, distribute and sell products and services more efficiently than competitors, the Federal Cabinet on Tuesday approved the Strategic Trade Policy Framework (STPF) till 2025. Priority sectors have been identified under the STPF after studying the international demand trends, on the one hand, and the…
PARIS, Dec 18, 2021 (AFP) – The much-delayed launch of the James Webb space telescope will go ahead on December 24, NASA and the company overseeing the launch confirmed on Saturday. The project, begun in 1989, was originally expected to deploy the instrument — which will be the largest and most powerful telescope ever to be…
Spider-Man: No Way Home, the latest Marvel superhero film, is smashing pandemic-era box office records throughout the world. According to Deadline, the picture had already earned $302.9 million globally by Saturday and is expected to surpass the half-billion-dollar mark by Sunday. The Jon Watts-directed film had the second-largest opening day of all time in the…
BEIJING: China stands ready to work with Pakistan to promote the high-quality development of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) so that it will drive growth and benefit people’s livelihood and play a bigger role in promoting regional connectivity and economic integration, a Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesperson said. “The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC) is a pilot project of…
WhatsApp has been discovered to be testing the ability of group admins to remove certain messages for the entire group. Despite years of debate and harsh criticism, this appears to provide group leaders more flexibility to limit spam and misinformation that is frequent within ordinary WhatsApp groups. WhatsApp developed many features in his update, as reported by…
Time magazine on Monday named Tesla chief and space entrepreneur Elon Musk as its person of the year 2021, citing his embodiment of the technological shifts but also troubling trends reshaping people’s lives. Musk — who overtook Amazon founder Jeff Bezos this year to become the world’s wealthiest person — wields impact on Earth with…
Instagram announced new protections on Tuesday for young users, a day before the photo-sharing app’s CEO faces a grilling from US lawmakers on whether the platform is “toxic” for children. The app will be stricter about what it recommends to teen users and will suggest a break if they have been spending a lot of…
Chinese researchers have developed a planar photonic chip with tailored angular transmission to obtain high-contrast optical microscopic images. Researchers from the University of Science and Technology of China have discovered that using a planar photonic chip with tailored angular transmission as the sample substrate, a standard bright-field microscopy can provide both darkfield and total internal reflection…
After the release of numerous new features earlier this year, Twitter is apparently preparing additional features for iOS users, including reactions, downvotes, and sorted replies. According to reverse engineer Nima Owji, the Reactions feature, which began testing a few months ago, is set to arrive soon. This feature is aimed to enable users the option to better…
Instagram has verified the presence of two new features that are considered to be fresh additions to the app. The first is named ‘Finally,’ and the second is called ‘Rage Shake’; Instagram’s Head of Product, Adam Mosseri, shared a brief video on his Twitter account that explains the features. The first is a ‘Finally’ tool, which will…