Science and Technology

Elon Musk, the billionaire entrepreneur, launched his long-teased artificial intelligence startup xAI on Wednesday, unveiling a team comprised of engineers from the same big US technology firms that he hopes to challenge in his bid to build an alternative to ChatGPT. The startup will be led by Musk, already the …

PTI general secretary and former federal minister Asad Umar’s Twitter account has been hacked, confirmed PTI early Wednesday.

The timely rollout of 5G mobile phone connectivity is contingent on political stability in the country, which has already wasted two months and may delay the launch of services. This was confirmed by top officials in the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication (MoITT) while talking exclusively with a media …

A US medical team said Thursday they had reconstructed a human ear using the patient’s own tissue to create a 3D bioimplant, a pioneering procedure they hope can be used to treat people with a rare birth defect. The surgery was performed as part of an early-stage clinical trial to …

The Special Technology Zones Authority (STZA) plans to set up 14 technology zones across the country in 2022–23. According to the STZA report, the STZA is currently implementing its national roll-out plan under which 5 Special Technology Zones (STZs) have already been rolled out in Islamabad, Punjab, and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. …

Update: The Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has denied reports of Facebook opening a local office in Pakistan. In a press release issued late on Tuesday, the FIA spokesperson said that the story is baseless and published without confirmation from the agency.

Following the recent change of government in Pakistan, the local freelancer population took to Twitter to demand PayPal for Pakistan. It quickly became a trend on Twitter last month and now it is happening once again with thousands of people reminding the government on PayPal. According to our sources, the …

After releasing the ability to react to messages as a new messaging feature, WhatsApp is now working on letting users edit their text messages for a future update of the app! WhatsApp is developing a new option that will let the user edit text messages, so the user will finally …

ISLAMABAD, May 30 :Minister for IT & Telecommunications Syed Amin-Ul-Haque on Monday said that Pakistan would surpass $3 billion IT exports target this year due to export boosting steps taken by the ministry. Addressing a graduation ceremony held at incubation centre of Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), he said …

Islamabad-The government is considering a proposal to remove the sales tax on laptops and Information Technology (IT) equipment in the Finance Bill 2022-23. Among other proposals, the government is considering duties and tax exemption for the establishment of Cloud Infrastructure and rationalization of Advance Income Tax (AIT) on telecom services …