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Twitter takes over the group chat application Sphere

According to the reports, the group chat application Sphere has recently been acquired by the micro-blogging application, Twitter. The Sphere app founders sold their previous news summary app, by the name Summly, to Yahoo, for around $30 million, back in 2013. The exact figure of the amount exchanged for Summly was not disclosed by either … Read more

You can now customize your own Galaxy Z Flip 3

Samsung’s Galaxy Z Flip 3 was launched into the market in various colors, in August 2021. But not everybody likes the colors Samsung gave its Flip designed phone. Thanks to the Samsung Bespoke Edition, one can easily design its own Galaxy Z Flip 3 now. The great news was announced in Samsung’s recent event Unpacked … Read more

Russia reports highest number of new infections as Covid cases soar

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Moscow: It has been reported that the country is seeing a high number of coronavirus cases in the recent days. The country has seen a recent upsurge in the coronavirus infections, which is approximately more than 70% of the cases last month. 1,028 new deaths have been reported today, with total deaths around 226,353. Russian … Read more

How to diagnose breast cancer through self-examination

The most common type of cancer, breast cancer is increasingly spreading worldwide, and one of the biggest reasons why, is its unawareness. According to the WHO study, 1 out of every 8 women has breast cancer and most of them are unaware of the fact that they are suffering from such morbidity. It is widely … Read more

Panic attack and its common signs

Panic attacks normally take place in stressful situations when a person is struggling to fight for mental peace, while anxiety leaves the person’s heart racing instead. Every person faces panic attacks at least once in a lifetime; however, frequent attacks could indicate harm for the mental well-being. The most common signs of panic include nervous … Read more

Fight inflammation and oxidative stress with the help of orange juice, says research

The recent study about effects of orange juice was published in the journal ‘Advances in Nutrition’. The study focuses on its amazing benefits and how it treats brain by reducing stress and cutting down inflammation. The study further covers that consuming orange juice cuts down many markers of stress and inflammation, including interlukin 6, the … Read more

Facebook to change its name for ‘metaverse’

Facebook grapples with another global outage

The social media leader, Facebook has decided to rename the company to get a better focus on building ‘metaverse’, according to a report by The Verge. The tech giant’s founder and CEO, Mark Zuckerberg will make an announcement in the annual conference Connect on 28th of October. Facebook is also aiming to put on board … Read more

Canon gets sued for $5 Million over non-functional printer issue

Canon is currently in legal trouble as it is entangled in a lawsuit filed by a customer for its non-functional all-in-one printer. A customer recently took a legal action against Canon after his all-in-one (printer, scanner and photocopier) stopped functioning as soon as the ink cartridge started running out of ink. The customer named David … Read more

Facebook rejects claims regarding weak supervision system

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Facebook, the leading social media application has an automated system that identifies and censors all of its hateful speech and content that goes against the community guidelines. The Wall Street Journal reported that the system removes only a handful of offensive content. However, Facebook, in its defense claimed that it has recently observed its system … Read more

Apple, Samsung and Google gearing up for the huge events of the year 2021

All 3 hardware trend setters are bucking up for their respective events that are to be held in the coming week. The whole world is in a buzz and throwing wild guesses to what the mega events are going to hold for them. Both the tech companies, Apple and Samsung are cooking something big as … Read more

Watch: This is where you can enjoy Apple’s ‘Unleashed’ event tonight

Apple is holding a live event tonight, October 18, 2021. The tech giant is all set to announce a new hardware in its event ‘Unleashed’. Audience can enjoy it here as the event will be live streamed at 10.00 AM. People are guessing that Apple will be launching new macs during the event, manufactured with … Read more

NASA’S new Lucy mission all set to explore fossil from Solar System

Recently, the US Space Agency, NASA commenced its ambitious journey to explore the Solar System. The weather conditions were much favorable when the spacecraft jetted off into the space, this morning, i.e. Saturday. Lucy is aiming to seek Jupiter’s Trojan asteroids to observe them closely, within its 12-year mission duration. The mission has been started … Read more

Apple fires employee working as the leader of #AppleToo movement

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Janneke Parrish, the founder of #AppleToo movement has recently been laid off by the organization. The woman was found deleting applications including Robinhood, Pokémon GO and Google Drive, during an internal investigation. However, many employees of Apple consider this an act of retaliation by the company for leading a group of labor union. Another employee … Read more

Meteorite crashes into a Canadian woman’s home; lands on a pillow next to her

A woman in Western Canada, named Ruth Hamliton, had a spine-chilling yet, once-in-a-lifetime encounter with a meteorite this week. Hamilton was asleep when a 3-pound rock pierced through her roof and landed next to her in bed. Fortunately, it didn’t do any harm to the woman and she was left intact. The rock was lent … Read more

LinkedIn to shut down in China over censorship issues

According to the reports, Microsoft’s LinkedIn is all set to exit China this year. Due to the recent censorship pressure in the country, Microsoft’s LinkedIn is leaving the Chinese market by the end of 2021. The order came after the company blocked some of the famous Chinese journalists’ profiles on the job finding app. In … Read more

Netflix lays off employee for planning a protest in solidarity with trans employees

Netflix must face 'Queen's Gambit' lawsuit, US judge rules

Netflix recently fired an employee for organizing a walkout against the streaming service with the trans community, according to the sources. The protest was organized after Ted Sarandos, the co-CEO Netflix made disturbing comments about the TV series ‘The Closer’. However, the company says that it fired the employee after he was accused of leaking … Read more

Apple removes Holy Quran application in China

Recently, Apple deleted one of the most used Holy Quran applications in China. The app ‘Quran Majeed’ had 35 million users and around 150k reviews on the App Store. However, Chinese government has not made a comment on the recent news as of yet. China, already known for human rights violations and genocides against Uyghur … Read more

Punjab Board to announce Matriculation results today

BISE Rawalpindi Board 12th class result recent updates

Punjab Board of Examination will be announcing the results for Matriculation 2021 today on October 16, 2021. Students enrolled in the Matric examination have been eagerly waiting for the results of the academic year 2021. Students can check their respective academic performance on matricresult2020.pk, around 5 pm. Candidates can obtain their marksheets by logging in with … Read more

Cisco terminates employee urging TikTok followers to report strippers

Ethan Keiser, a TikTok influencer working at Cisco has reportedly been terminated from his job, according to the company. The TikTok user had been allegedly encouraging his vast fan following to report strippers to IRS so as to make large sums of money. Keiser previously raised $60,000 by snitching on certain exotic dancers showing their … Read more

Punjab Board announces result date for Matriculation 2021

Matric class 2021 result

Punjab Board of Examination has announced that the results for Matriculation 2021 will be out on October 16, 2021. Students enrolled in the Matric examination have been eagerly waiting for the results of the academic year 2021. Students can check their respective academic performance on matricresult2020.pk, around 5 pm. Candidates can obtain their marksheets by … Read more

“Congrats, was cool to send William Shatner to space”, Musk congratulates Bezos on Blue Origin’s spaceflight

Elon Musk, the famous founder of Tesla, recently congratulated his rival Jeff Bezos, the founder to Amazon, on his aerospace company, Blue Origin’s successful flight into space. Blue Origin sent 4 passengers to space on a trip that lasted approximately 11 minutes. The passengers included employees of NASA and Blue Origin, and none other than … Read more

Google improvises its browsing tool for US mobile users

Google unveils surprising search trends of Pakistan

Google’s recent changes in its search engine is expected to help mobile users in US big time. The modernized search feature is to be tested in United States as of now; however, it will be available all across the world very soon, said sources. The change will help users to continue scrolling without switching through … Read more

Spotify: ‘Car Thing’ to be more broadly available from now

Spotify introduced an in-car music technology this spring for its users to readily enjoy music during road trips. According to the reports, the audio streaming service has recently announced to offer its music device for $79.99 in United States. At the time of testing, Spotify offered its new music device at the shipping costs, so … Read more

Thanks to Tinder’s ‘Plus One’ feature, you can now easily find a wedding date

The famous dating application, Tinder, is now giving people a chance to find a wedding date or even be one at weddings. The new ‘Plus One’ feature is the new addition to Tinder’s list of ‘Explore’ so as to help single people out. As the wedding season is approaching, Tinder searches are constantly showing the … Read more

Instagram to launch new tools for live creators

Addressing the requirements of its content creators, the photo and video sharing giant, Instagram has announced to roll out a new feature for those who want to schedule their livestreams ahead of time. Instagram has taken this step to simplify the need of scheduling new meetings or live events that are due in 90 days … Read more

TikTok removes 81 million videos violating community guidelines in Q2

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The video sharing application, TikTok recently announced in its transparency update that it has removed a large number of videos between months April and September, 2021. Videos violating the community guidelines by the social media application were exceeding 81.5 million in number, and so TikTok decided to remove it from the platform. TikTok came up … Read more

Hyundai to produce its own chips from now

The South Korean automotive manufacturer, Hyundai Motors has recently announced to manufacture its semiconductor chips from now onwards. The company has taken this decision so as to become more self-reliant and least dependent on various chipmakers. The automobile manufacturers halted their production as the demand for cars dropped during pandemic, while simultaneously electronics manufacturers began … Read more