A representational image shows a syringe filled with a dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. — AFP/File Two suspects apprehended in Lahore raid: official. Urges public to buy vaccines from licensed pharmacies. Vaccines by multinational firms unavailable: official. LAHORE: Authorities in Lahore have seized a large stock of suspected counterfeit flu vaccines amid a nationwide shortage…
Election night in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) delivered some upsets, with several incumbent mayors losing their bids for re-election. Former Ontario NDP leader Andrea Horwath, who became Hamilton’s mayor in 2022 after her party’s provincial defeat, was in a distant third place at 14 per cent with 177 of 207 polls reporting as…
Edge0 has released Audio8-TTS-Realistic, an open-weight text-to-speech model for zero-shot voice cloning. Audio8-TTS-Realistic is a 0.6B-parameter model that clones a voice from 1 reference clip and transcript. It supports 23 languages, 12 more than its predecessor. The weights and code ship under Apache 2.0. For developers, the catch is competitive multilingual accuracy at a size…
The fast bowler steps in for injured Nortje ahead of the series decider against Australia Gerald Coetzee will replace the injured Anrich Nortje in the South Africa team for the series decider. Photo: AFP CAPE TOWN: Fast bowler Gerald Coetzee will replace injured fellow paceman Anrich Nortje in the South African team for the series-deciding…
UEFA seeks answers to 42 governance questions by November 2 ahead of FIFA’s 2027 presidential election.
Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PM&DC) building can be seen in this image. — PMDC website/File Pakistan Medical and Dental Council (PMDC) on Monday announced it would revert the Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) programme to four years after extending it to five years two years ago. The PMDC officials told the Senate Standing Committee…
For queries where there’s lots of information online, like San Francisco restaurants, AI web search can feel incredibly useful. For less popular destinations and more specific requests (“dining tables shaped like stars”), you need to be more careful with the results, as the way that AI joins the dots then becomes less reliable. So, with…
MiniMax has open-sourced MCode Stack, the workflows and agent skills its team uses to build MiniMax Code. The MiniMax MCode Stack agent skills went public on October 28, 2026 under the MIT license. It is not a prompt collection. Each piece is a SKILL.md skill or checklist that installs directly…
Startups have never been under more pressure to grow quickly. To do that, many of them must land large enterprises, the deep-pockets of the IT world, as customers. But as any company that sells to enterprises will tell you, it’s not easy to win such contracts. One critical mistake most younger startups make is believing…
AssemblyAI has released AssemblyAI-TTS-1, its first text-to-speech model, now generally available. The AssemblyAI-TTS-1 text-to-speech API targets voice agents running on live phone calls. In that setting, latency and pronunciation decide whether a caller stays on the line. Pricing is $15 per 1M characters, with no annual contract and no concurrency tier to buy. For developers…
