Two scientists win China’s top science award

BEIJING, Nov. 3 (Xinhua/APP):Two Chinese scientists, aircraft designer Gu Songfen and nuclear expert Wang Dazhong, won China’s top science award Wednesday for their outstanding contributions to scientific and technological innovation. […]

TikTok delegation meets PTA Chairman

ISLAMABAD, Nov 3 (APP):A delegation of the TikTok (short video-sharing platform) held a detailed meeting with Chairman Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) Major General (R) Amir Azeem Bajwa here on Wednesday to have meaningful engagement with the authority on content moderation in line with local laws […]

Netflix launches mobile games for members worldwide

San Francisco, Nov 2 (AFP/APP):Netflix on Tuesday released a set of mobile games playable for free by subscribers of the global streaming service as it strives to be the go-to venue for entertainment. Two of the games are based on the hit Netflix horror series […]

EU inches towards big tech clampdown

Brussels, Oct 28 (AFP/APP):The European push to curb the power of big tech and radically transform the way Facebook, Apple or Google do business is gaining traction though efforts could still be derailed. The European Union is currently negotiating landmark laws that once agreed could […]

NASA sending four astronauts to ISS on Sunday

Washington, Oct 27 (AFP/APP):NASA is teaming up with SpaceX once more to send four astronauts to the International Space Station on Sunday, including three first-timers. The crew of mission “Crew-3” will spend six months on the orbital outpost, conducting research in areas including material sciences, […]

Pakistani student contributes to successful launch of satellite in China

BEIJING, Oct 26 (APP):APSCO-SSS-1, a student satellite designed and developed by China’s Beihang University in collaboration with student researchers from countries including Pakistan, blasted off aboard a Long March-2D rocket in north Chin’s Taiyuan city. “I had the unique opportunity to study and analyse the […]

China achieves quantum computational advantage in two mainstream technical routes

HEFEI, Oct. 26 (Xinhua/APP):A Chinese research team has successfully designed a 66-qubit programmable superconducting quantum computing system named “Zuchongzhi 2.1,” significantly enhancing the quantum computational advantage. The achievement marks that China has become the first country to achieve quantum computational advantage in two mainstream technical […]

China’s 5G phone shipments top 70 pct in Jan.-Sept.

BEIJING, Oct. 24 (Xinhua/APP) –:Shipments of 5G phones in China surged 70.4 percent year on year to around 183 million units in the first nine months of this year, data from the China Academy of Information and Communications Technology (CAICT) showed. The volume accounted for […]

US targeting Feb. 2022 to launch new lunar program Artemis

Washington, Oct 23 (AFP/APP):NASA is aiming to launch its uncrewed lunar mission Artemis 1 in February next year, the space agency said Friday, the first step in America’s plan to return humans to the Moon. The agency had initially hoped to launch the test flight […]