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Ferrari falls 1% after CEO Camilleri’s sudden exit

Shares in Ferrari fell more than 1% on Friday after the sudden departure of CEO Louis Camilleri, once again raising questions about leadership and future strategy at the luxury carmaker. Camilleri, 65, retired citing personal reasons and Chairman John Elkann, the scion of Italy’s Agnelli family, will lead the company on an interim basis, Ferrari […]

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Twitter users can now share tweets to Snapchat

Twitter Inc launched a new feature on its mobile app on Thursday that would allow users to share tweets directly to Snap Inc’s photo messaging app Snapchat, in a bid for cross-media engagement to get more users. Users on the iOS platform can now post tweets on stories, or send them as individual messages on […]

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Facebook faces U.S. lawsuits that could force sale of Instagram, WhatsApp

Facebook Inc could be forced to sell its prized assets WhatsApp and Instagram after the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and nearly every U.S. state filed lawsuits against the social media company. With the filing of the twin lawsuits on Wednesday, Facebook becomes the second big tech company to face a major legal challenge this year […]

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Scientists clarify origins of pterosaurs, the dinosaur era’s flying reptiles

Scientists may have solved one of paleontology’s enduring mysteries – the evolutionary origins of the flying reptiles called pterosaurs that ruled the skies at the same time that dinosaurs dominated the land. Researchers said on Wednesday a poorly understood Triassic Period reptile group called lagerpetids, known from a few partial skeletons from the United States, […]

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Apple is replacing iPhone screens for free: Check if your model is eligible

Having trouble with your iPhone 11 screen? Apple has thus, launched a display module replacement program free of charge. Apple on Friday announced that it was launching a new Replacement Program for affected iPhone 11 units. iPhone 11 units produced between September 2019 and May 2020 are eligible for this issue, which will address touch […]

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PayPal ‘reward’ email rapped for misleading

An email sent by payment giant PayPal which promised customers a reward of £10 for using their account did not make it clear enough that not everyone would receive it, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) has ruled. It upheld a complaint from a recipient of the email, an offer limited to the first 28,527 people […]

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Encrypted messaging puts children at risk, commissioner warns

Encryption of online messages could make it harder to police child abuse and grooming online, the children’s commissioner for England has warned. End-to-end encryption is a privacy feature that makes it impossible for anyone except the sender and recipient to read messages sent online. Commissioner Anne Longfield said it also prevented police from gathering evidence […]

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LG shakes up loss-making phone business

LG Electronics said on Monday it had reorganised its mobile phone division to increase outsourcing of its low to mid-end smartphones, which analysts said represented an attempt to cut costs and compete with Chinese rivals. LG’s mobile communications business, which has reported an operating loss for 22 consecutive quarters, has created a new management title […]

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Google removes some IAC browser extensions for ‘policy violations’

Alphabet Inc’s Google said on Sunday it has removed a number of browser extensions of online conglomerate IAC/InterActive Corp for “policy violations” and is reviewing “enforcement options.” “We continue to have conversations with IAC related to Chrome Web Store policies and we have already removed a number of their extensions for violating our policies”, a […]

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Uber in advanced talks to sell air taxi unit

Uber Technologies is in advanced talks to sell its air taxi business, “Uber Elevate”, to aerospace firm Joby Aviation, news website Axios reported on Wednesday, citing sources.   Hyundai Motor Co, which in January announced a partnership with Uber Elevate to develop electric air taxis, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. With […]

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Xiaomi’s profit jumps as smartphone shipments surge

Xiaomi on Tuesday reported a 19% jump in third-quarter net profit, beating estimates, as the Chinese smartphone maker’s shipments over the quarter surged by 45.3% on a year earlier. Xiaomi has grabbed market share in China and Europe as its rival Huawei Technologies has faced U.S. sanctions that have hit its supply chain. The company […]

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‘Animation, video gaming programme going to be a game-changer: Fawad Ch

Federal Minister of Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry has announced the plan for introducing animation and video gaming certification programme for youth which will be a ‘game-changer’ for Pakistan,on Tuesday Fawad Chaudhry said in his Twitter message that the youth should be readied for an innovative programme of the federal government if the video games […]

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Critics cry foul over govt’s sweeping rules to control social media

The federal government’s new “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight, and Safeguards) Rules, 2020” under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016 (PECA) have invited strong criticism from internet service providers, digital rights activities, and tech giants alike. Originally named the “Citizens’ Protection (Against Online Harm) Rules, 2020”, the rules were devised […]

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Stakeholders up in arms as social media rules notified

The Ministry of Information Technology on Wednesday notified social media rules that all other stakeholders, including internet service providers as well as digital rights activists, have rejected, terming them draconian and violation of cyber laws of the country. The rules titled, “Removal and Blocking of Unlawful Online Content (Procedure, Oversight and Safeguards) Rules 2020,” have […]

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Halloween: PUBG announces spooky surprises for players via new gameplay

Popular multiplayer game, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, has announced multiple “spooky” surprises for its loyal players via a new themed gameplay on the mobile version as the Halloween season starts with a shriek! Introducing a new “Halloweeks Mode,” a new themed gameplay mode on the classic Erangel map, the company also launched themed outfits to amp up […]

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Govt plans to launch electric train from Islamabad airport to Murree

Federal Minister for Science and Technology, Fawad Chaudhry, announced on Monday that the government is studying a proposal to run an “electric automatic train from Islamabad airport to Murree”. Taking to Twitter, the federal minister said that with the electric buses project for Islamabad reaching EOI level, a plan to launch an electric train from […]

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Car transforms into flying vehicle ‘in less than three minutes’

A company, Klein Vision, has managed to transform a car into an aeroplane in Slovakia after 30 years of research and development on a prototype, called ‘AirCar’. The company run by Professor Stefan Klein made the announcement for the completion of successful test flights of the two-seat AirCar that weighs 1,100 kg and can carry […]