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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has launched a new automated system for the blocking of lost, stolen and snatched mobile phones. Titled ‘Lost & Stolen Device System (LSDS)’, the new system will provide ease and facilitation to the users who want to get a mobile phone blocked in case it …

The attached sensors help control how the building moves forward. It’s like giving the building crutches so it can stand up and then walk. A timelapse shot shows the school inching laboriously along, one small step at a time. https://cdn.cnn.com/cnn/.e/interactive/html5-video-media/2020/10/29/DESKTOP_02_moving_building_opt2.mp4 You might have stumbled upon an unusual sight in the …

If entire pieces of content on a site are duplicates then Google will rank one, not the other. However, multiple copies of the same page do not send negative ranking signals. Google’s John Mueller during Google Search Central SEO office-hours made it clear that the duplicate content does not count …

There are reports in the media that the Drug Enforcement Agency of Pakistan is considering approving the emergency use of the Russian-made Sputnik V vaccine. DRAP spokesperson Akhtar Abbas Khan told Independent Urdu correspondent Mona Khan that the approval notice has not been issued yet, but it will be issued …

Musk doesn’t expect to be rich till his old age. He thinks most of his money will be spent on building a base on Mars, and he wouldn’t be surprised if all his savings were spent on the project. Don’t just run after making money Elon Musk is not against …

Before 2020 comes to a close, Jupiter and Saturn will be so close that they will appear to form a “double planet.” The great conjunction, as the planetary alignment hasn’t occurred in nearly 800 years. When their orbits align every 20 years, Jupiter and Saturn get extremely close to one …

In an attempt to reduce the air pollution and to address the climate challenges by reducing the vehicular exhaust, Pakistan has installed its first electric vehicle charging unit in Islamabad’s Jinnah Avenue. The development came after the policy to shift the country’s vehicles to electric power was approved last month. …

China successfully launched its first Mars probe. China’s successful launch of the mission heralds new era of deep-space probes. Recent mars mission marks nation’s official start of interplanetary probe era. Photo credit: Guo Wenbin/Our Space. China successfully launched its first Mars probe, named Tianwen-1, via a Long March-5 Y4 carrier …

  Asteroid 2020 ND will be almost 50% bigger than the famous London Eye will move past Earth on July 24. According to NASA, asteroid 2020 ND will be as close as 0.034 astronomical units (5,086,328 kilometres) to our planet. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has issued a warning …

Up to three planets, potentially rocky like Earth, have been spotted around a star (Gliese) located relatively near our solar system. The researchers said that the planets orbit Gliese 887, a so-called red dwarf star half the sun’s mass located 11 light-years from Earth. A light-year is the distance light …