PPP Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari warned on Thursday that a stolen election in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) would start a “countdown” for the federal government. Polls in AJK are being held in three phases over security concerns, with the first set of polls held in Mirpur division on Monday. Scuffles, violence and allegations of rigging…
LONDON: India’s Ajinkya Rahane announced his retirement from international cricket on Thursday, bringing the curtain down on a career highlighted by his leadership during a remarkable 2021 Test series victory in Australia. The middle-order batsman played 85 Tests, 90 one-day internationals and 20 Twenty20 matches, but fell out of favourwith selectors after a drop in form and last played…
Google DeepMind just released a new version of its artificial intelligence model Gemini, and it can control a range of different robots—including humanoids capable of dextrous tasks like screwing in lightbulbs and tying trash bags. Gemini Robotics 2 combines several different AI models into a single system. Taken together, they allow a robot to make…
Cryptocurrency trading volumes spiked in South Korea as its stock market fell by nearly 18% this week. Key points: South Korean exchanges see a 600% uptick in crypto trading volume around the snap declines in the KOSPI. Investors may be seeking to capitalize on volatility by buying stock-linked products overseas, per analysis. Bitwise highlights Bitcoin’s…
Canada’s workers are increasingly using generative artificial intelligence at work, but the scale of it depends on which field they are employed in, Statistics Canada said in a report released Thursday. In March, just over one in three (35.9 per cent) of workers said they had used generative AI tools as part of their main…
The Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) 2026 in Sindh will be held on Sunday, August 16, 2026, under the supervision of Sukkur IBA Testing Services (SIBA). According to Sukkur IBA Testing Services (SIBA), examination centers for the MDCAT test have been established in Karachi, Hyderabad, Jamshoro, Larkana, Sukkur, Mirpur Khas, Shaheed Benazirabad, and…
SYDNEY: Australia coach Andrew McDonald says Ben Stokes has “a lot of good cricket left in him” and believes England’s new Test coach should lure him of international retirement for the Ashes. The all-rounder called it quits in extraordinary fashion during the third Test against New Zealand at Trent Bridge in late June, making his…
The age of rogue AI hacker agents has arrived—but it didn’t have to happen this way. After an OpenAI agent breached the Hugging Face platform earlier this month, the two companies said this week that the hacking spree was more extensive than previously thought and also involved intrusions into multiple third-party accounts and services as…
A potential ascent to $1.16 would invalidate the bearish outlook. The past months have not been kind to Ripple’s cross-border token, whose price is down roughly 65% on an annual scale. One analyst warned that it may soon fall well below the $1 psychological mark, while many others remain optimistic that a major rebound is…
A first-of-its-kind U.S. study suggests invasive mold infections may be an underappreciated — and potentially deadly — threat. The researchers detected about 450 cases in Atlanta-area hospitals over five years. About a third of the patients died in the hospital. The findings, published this week by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), come…
