Jack Ma, the co-founder of Alibaba, the Chinese tech giant, made a surprise visit to Pakistan on Thursday, according to a tweet by Azfar Ahsan, former Minister of State and Chairman Board of Investment, as well as the Founder of Nutshell Group. Accompanying Jack Ma were a team of seven individuals, including five Chinese nationals, one American citizen, and one Danish citizen. Azfar revealed that Jack Ma’s visit to Pakistan was purely for personal reasons, and he opted to stay in Lahore during his time in the country. Notably, even the China Embassy appeared to be unaware of the purpose…
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The ‘bioinspired’ robot can change its shape on its own to best suit its surroundings. Caltech has a new RC car-sized robot that can change its shape to drive, fly, and walk to meet the needs of the moment. In its press release, the university compares the M4 — short for Multi-Modal Mobility Morphobot, which sounds like a rejected pitch for a ’90s kids’ show — to a Transformer, and it’s not too far from the truth. The robot is packed with electronics, motors, and a small computer that lets it decide what form it should take to get around. The team…
If you want to browse tweets, user profiles, and comment threads on the web, then you need to be signed in to a Twitter account. If you currently try to access Twitter without logging in to your user account, you’ll be unable to see any of the content that was previously available to the public without any account login. Now you are required to either sign in to the platform or create a new account, effectively blocking you from viewing tweets and user profiles or browsing through threads unless you’re a registered Twitter user. Twitter didn’t immediately make a public…
Microsoft today announced a slew of new AI-powered shopping tools for its new Bing search engine and the Bing AI chatbot in the Edge sidebar. While a lot of the shopping features that Microsoft built into Edge over the years aren’t exactly fan favorites, this new set of tools actually looks useful. Microsoft will now, for example, use Bing’s GPT-powered AI capabilities to automatically generate buying guides when you use a query like “college supplies.” It will automatically aggregate products in each category it comes up with, list their specs so you can compare similar items and, of course, tell you…
WhatsApp announced a new and quicker way to transfer chat from your old phone to a new phone through a QR code-based method. The company said that users migrating to another phone with the same operating system will be able to transfer WhatsApp data using a local Wi-Fi connection. To transfer your chat history, make sure both devices are turned on and connected to the same Wi-Fi network. The company said this method is more secure than third-party solutions as the data is encrypted and only shared between the two devices over your local network. Until now, WhatsApp relied on…
Following the deprecation of the desktop app, the users who open it will see an expiration message and will be prompted to switch to the new native app to keep using the messaging app on their devices. The Electron-based desktop app of WhatsApp is no longer available to users as the messaging platform has officially “deprecated” the version on Windows. Since the WhatsApp Desktop app built with the Electron framework is expired, users need to download the native desktop app for Windows from the Microsoft Store. The transition drew reactions of dissatisfaction from some users as the native app lacks…
The new insights about the planet 8 UMi-b and named Halla after its first discovery — a gaseous Jupiter-like — were published in the journal Nature. It is located at a distance of 520 light-years from Earth and was first discovered in 2015 by astronomers from Korea. Researchers have detected an unseen activity in deep space in which an exoplanet has survived the violent transformation of its hot star — larger than our sun which was being fuelled by a supply of helium after running out of hydrogen. Orbiting star is named Baekdu, located in the Ursa Minor, or “Little…
Nanjing University of Information Sciences and Technology (NUIST) is taking steps to support Pakistani students in developing their research capabilities to address the climate crisis. They are offering fully funded scholarships in Climate Change and Environmental Governance. Professor Dr. Tong Jiang, Executive Director of the Research Institute of Climatic and Environmental Governance at NUIST, confirmed the news and expressed the university’s commitment to providing these scholarships to Pakistani students. NUIST has partnered with NUST (National University of Sciences and Technology) through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to facilitate collaboration in scientific research and student and faculty exchanges. Additionally, research…
Top Chinese Firm Claims Its AI Chatbot is Better Than ChatGPT. “Ernie 3.5 has made significant strides in beta testing, surpassing ChatGPT (3.5) in comprehensive ability scores and outperforming GPT-4 in several Chinese language capabilities,” says Baidu Announcing the news in a recent blogpost, Baidu revealed that “Ernie 3.5 has made significant strides in beta testing, surpassing ChatGPT (3.5) in comprehensive ability scores and outperforming GPT-4 in several Chinese language capabilities.” Dr Haifeng Wang, CTO of Baidu says that these new improvements are evident in the creative writing, Q&A, reasoning, and code generation being done by the Ernie 3.5. “Any…
t this year’s summer edition of the DEFCON conference, which is scheduled for mid-August in Las Vegas, security professionals and white hat hackers will have the chance to try the security defenses of an actual satellite in space. As space capabilities are increasingly pivotal for digital applications, the importance of cybersecurity in this field continues to grow.. The DEFCON hacker convention is usually the place where analysts and code tinkerers assemble to try and defeat security defenses on computers, vehicles or other “terrestrial” technologies. This year, however, the Las Vegas event will provide eight teams of white hat hackers with…