KARACHI: The Iranian rial (IRR) continues to generate significant buzz in Pakistan’s informal open currency market as of Monday, May 4, 2026, with steady demand supporting the local premium. Currency dealers in Karachi, Quetta, and Lahore report that a standard bundle of 1 crore Iranian Rials (10 million IRR) is currently trading in the range…
The tech industry has spent the last decade asking whether self-driving cars need lidar sensors, cameras, or all of the above. Lidar company Ouster says it has a new answer: put them both in the same sensor. On Monday, the San Francisco-based company announced a new lineup of lidar sensors it calls “Rev8,” all of…
Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure The crypto industry is seriously under attack following a recent surge in exploit incidents. According to that market analyst Ali Martinezdata from DeFiLlama shows that April was particularly bad for digital asset firms and protocols, with 29 attacks recorded, the highest ever…
Inside this old skydiving plane, a crew of Ukrainian volunteers is hunting down Russian drones. Russia is sending thousands of its one-way attack drones into Ukraine every month. Many are shot down, but the country’s air defenses can’t stop them all. On the side of the fuselage here, they’ve mounted this American-made machine gun that’s…
After five years and billions of dollars in payments, the Samsung dynasty has officially settled South Korea’s largest-ever inheritance tax bill. The family behind Samsung has completed payment of a historic inheritance tax worth 12 trillion won (approximately $8 billion), marking the biggest such settlement in the country’s history. The obligation originated from the estate…
Every time institutional buying has hit 500% of daily miner output before, BTC averaged 24% gains over the following month. Institutions are buying Bitcoin (BTC) at more than five times the rate miners are producing it, and according to Capriole Investments founder Charles Edwards, that gap has historically come right before huge price gains. In…
Chinese consular officials met with a Vancouver city hall employee last month and urged her to cancel an arts event that highlighted communist party repression, sources told Global News. At the meeting, representatives of China’s consulate told a staff member of the city’s civic theatres branch that they wanted a series of performances by the Shen…
The United Arab Emirates’ shocking decision to leave Saudi-dominated Opec was not targeted at anyone, the UAE minister who heads the state oil giant said on Monday. The move aimed at focusing on national priorities and the UAE economy, said Sultan Al Jaber, who is CEO of state-owned Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (Adnoc) and…
Bitcoin breached $80,000 on Monday, rising 2.7% over a three-hour span as Asian equities began trading, marking its highest price since Jan. 31, 2026. The Bitcoin rally began at 1:25 am UTC, rising from $78,415 to break the $80,000 level about 75 minutes later before climbing to $80,515 by 4:20 am UTC, according to TradingView…
Take-Two Interactive CEO Strauss Zelnick has confirmed that Grand Theft Auto (GTA 6) will not include real-world brand partnerships or product placements. During the Icon conference in Las Vegas, Zelnick told IGN that this decision is not a concern because all brands within the GTA universe are fictional. “It’s a fictional world, and everything in…
