EU nears deal on massive tech services regulation

Brussels, April 21 (AFP/APP): The European Union could agree on Friday a new regulation imposing unprecedented curbs on online content, the second part of its massive project to regulate tech companies. The Digital Services Act (DSA) aims to ensure tougher consequences for platforms and websites […]

Twitter to test longed-for edit button

San Francisco, April 6 (AFP/APP): Twitter announced Tuesday it will soon start experimenting with an edit button, but only on its monthly subscription service at first. The inability to tweak tweets after firing them off has been a key complaint among users of the one-to-many […]

Russian trio blast off for ISS in shadow of Ukraine war

Almaty, Kazakhstan, March 18 (AFP/APP): Three Russian cosmonauts blasted off to the International Space Station Friday, as Moscow’s military intervention in Ukraine brought the Kremlin’s relations with the West to their lowest point since the Soviet era. Russian space veteran Oleg Artemyev and rookies Denis […]

First issue of Science Diplomacy Journal launched

ISLAMABAD, Mar 15 (APP): The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in collaboration with the OIC Standing Committee on Scientific and Technological Collaboration (COMSTECH), on Tuesday held the launch of the first issue of its Science Diplomacy Journal, ‘Science Diplomacy Perspectives’. Foreign Secretary Sohail Mahmood, in his […]

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