Technology

ESRANGE SPACE CENTRE, Sweden, Jan 13 (AFP/APP): As the mercury drops to minus 20 Celsius, a research rocket lifts off from one of the world’s northernmost space centres, its burner aglow in the twilight of Sweden’s snowy Arctic forests. Hopes are high that a rocket […]

ISLAMABAD, Jan 12 (APP): Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) blocked 175,000 International Mobile Equipment Identity (IMEI) devices to prevent the use of stolen mobile phones under the Device Identification Registration & Blocking System (DIRBS) during the last fiscal year. Besides, the DIRBS identified and suspended around […]

Paris, Jan 11 (AFP/APP):Russia is scrambling to bring home three astronauts — two Russians and one American — who are stuck aboard the International Space Station after a meteorite damaged the spacecraft that was due to return them to Earth. Here are some key facts […]

Las Vegas, Jan 5 (AFP/APP):The annual CES consumer electronics extravaganza threw open its doors in Las Vegas on Thursday as the industry looks to the latest innovations to help cure the pain from an ailing global economy. High inflation, lingering supply chain troubles and tech […]

Paris, Jan 4 (AFP/APP):France’s data regulator said Wednesday that it had fined Apple eight million euros ($8.5 million) for breaching privacy laws on its App Store. The CNIL said the US tech giant had installed trackers on the devices of French users without directly asking […]

QUETTA, Dec 27 (APP):Chairman of Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education (BBISE) Ejaz Baloch on Tuesday inaugurated an automatic digital system to develop the examination system on modern lines. Under the Digital Attendance and Monitoring System (DAMS) real-time online attendance of the examination staff […]

Kourou, Dec 21 (AFP/APP):Flights of the new European Vega-C rocket have been suspended pending an investigation into an overnight launch failure, French firm Arianespace said Wednesday, leaving Europe with few avenues into space. Just minutes after the Vega-C rocket lifted off from Europe’s spaceport in […]

LOS ANGELES, Dec 17 (XINHUA/APP):The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched the newest Earth science satellite on Friday to track nearly all the water on Earth surface. The Surface Water and Ocean Topography (SWOT) spacecraft was launched atop a SpaceX rocket at 3:46 […]

ISLAMABAD, Dec 16 (APP): China on Friday launched a Long March-11 rocket, placing a satellite in space. The rocket blasted off at 2:17 p.m. (Beijing Time) from the Xichang Satellite Launch Center in southwest China and sent the satellite Shiyan-21 into preset orbit. Shiyan means […]

Washington, Dec 15 (AFP/APP): Russian and NASA engineers were assessing a coolant leak on Thursday from a Soyuz crew capsule docked with the International Space Station (ISS) that may have been caused by a micrometeorite strike. The coolant leak forced the last-minute cancellation of a […]