Pakistan power generation plunges 9.6% in April amid RLNG shortages

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s power generation fell sharply in April, dropping 9.6% year-over-year to 9,499 gigawatt-hours, official data shows. Analysts say government-led austerity, fuel supply disruptions and rising distributed generation suppressed demand. The decline came despite lower electricity tariffs, incentive packages for industrial and agricultural users, and a 6.5% year-over-year rise in large-scale manufacturing in the first…

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Google Makes It Easy to Deepfake Yourself

One of the most immediately noticeable changes to Flow is the new video-generation model powering the experience: Omni Flash, succeeding Veo. Similar to how Google’s Nano Banana model brought more context about the world into the AI image-creation process, the Omni Flash model overhauls video generation with richer detail throughout clips. Flow users can generate…

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Chainlink’s Nazarov Reveals 3 Trends He’s Watching Closely

Trusted Editorial content, reviewed by leading industry experts and seasoned editors. Ad Disclosure Chainlink co-founder Sergey Nazarov said he is increasingly encouraged by three trends reshaping crypto infrastructure: a stronger industry focus on security, continued product development during quieter markets, and the growth of real-world assets and tokenized finance beyond crypto price cycles. 3 Reasons…

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‘I have led a spotless life’: PPP’s Raja Pervez reacts after purportedly being named by ‘drug baroness’ Pinky – Pakistan

ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister and PPP leader Raja Pervez Ashraf on Wednesday reacted to alleged drug baroness Anmol alias Pinky purportedly naming him as a client, saying that he had led a “spotless life”. A recent video of the suspect during a court appearance had gone viral on social media, in which she can be…

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Alibaba Qwen Team Introduces Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash: Real-Time Multimodal Interpretation Across 60 Languages at 2.8-Second Latency

Simultaneous interpretation is one of the harder problems in applied AI. You’re asking a model to translate speech before the speaker has finished a sentence. Every extra second of delay breaks the illusion of real-time communication. Alibaba’s Qwen team has been chipping away at this with each release. Their latest model, Qwen3.5-LiveTranslate-Flash, brings that latency…

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Massive tunnel-boring machine begins drilling Montreal’s blue line metro extension – Montreal

Descrease article font size Increase article font size A major step is underway to extend Montreal’s metro blue line east to Anjou, with excavation now officially in progress. A massive tunnel-boring machine has begun drilling eastbound, launching what will be a two-year effort to carve out roughly five kilometres of tunnel and make way for…

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Putin, Xi Jinping sign 21 cooperation agreements in Beijing

BEIJING: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Wednesday signed 21 bilateral agreements covering trade, technology, energy, and strategic cooperation during talks in Beijing. The two leaders met at the Great Hall of the People, where they reaffirmed their strategic partnership, including declarations on a multipolar world order, expanded cooperation treaties, and…

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