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An aerial drone photo taken on Feb. 1, 2023 shows the construction site of the main bridge tower of the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Ou Dongqu)ZHENFENG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — The world’s tallest bridge opened to traffic Sunday morning in southwest China’s Guizhou, slashing travel time across a deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes after three years of construction.The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou’s mountainous terrain, is nearly nine times as tall as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge.With a main span of 1,420 meters,…

PUBLISHED September 28, 2025 They used to fight over oil. Now they fight over feeds. The long-running fight over TikTok has finally ended in Washington’s favour — at least on paper. ByteDance, under unrelenting US pressure, ceded its American operations to an Oracle-led consortium, with a government-approved trustee installed at the top. A Chinese platform has done what no foreign challenger ever managed: outpace Silicon Valley on its own turf. TikTok, owned by ByteDance, cracked the monopoly of American tech by outclassing its rivals. With 170 million US users, its algorithm left Facebook’s Reels and YouTube’s Shorts scrambling to catch…

Jessica Guistolise, Megan Hurley and Molly Kelley talk with CNBC in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on July 11, 2025, about fake pornographic images and videos depicting their faces made by their mutual friend Ben using AI site DeepSwap.Jordan Wyatt | CNBCIn the summer of 2024, a group of women in the Minneapolis area learned that a male friend used their Facebook photos mixed with artificial intelligence to create sexualized images and videos.   Using an AI site called DeepSwap, the man secretly created deepfakes of the friends and over 80 women in the Twin Cities region. The discovery created emotional trauma and led…

Laila Lockhart Kraner stars as Gabby in Universal and Dreamworks Animations’ “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie.”Universal | Dreamworks AnimationA young girl named Gabby, alongside her menagerie of animated cat friends, is making the leap from streaming to the big screen.Universal and DreamWorks Animation’s “Gabby’s Dollhouse: The Movie” is the latest kid’s TV show to head to the box office, following in the footsteps of Paramount’s Paw Patrol and SpongeBob SquarePants franchises.”We felt like the franchise had gotten to the point where there was enough fandom to justify a theatrical event, and we wanted to expand the world,” Margie Cohn, president of…

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks to media following a Q&A at the OpenAI data center in Abilene, Texas, U.S., Sept. 23, 2025. Shelby Tauber | ReutersOpenAI CEO Sam Altman is everywhere.His artificial intelligence startup, now valued at $500 billion, has been inking deals valued in the tens to hundreds of billions of dollars with infrastructure partners, even as it continues to burn mounds of cash.Those expenditures are driving the market.The Nasdaq and S&P 500 rose to record highs this week after Nvidia agreed to invest up to $100 billion in OpenAI. That followed a $300 billion deal between OpenAI and…

PUBLISHED September 28, 2025 KARACHI: Have you ever imagined yourself making Pakistan proud, representing the country on a world stage? If you are a sportsman, that thought must have crossed your mind at some point. With the same dream in his heart, Faisal Shafi, a 43-year-old fitness trainer and entrepreneur, began his journey in 2019. The start was not easy. Before running, Shafi was deeply into fitness and strength training until a severe knee injury threatened to end it all. A meniscus tear and an ACL tear left him facing the doctor’s grim words that his days of running and…

Pakistan will be facing India for a third time today at 7:30pm PST as the arch-rivals clash in a potentially testy Men’s Asia Cup 2025 final at the Dubai International Stadium. Pakistan were beaten comprehensively twice, first in the group stage and then in Super Fours, by the Indian team. The Indian juggernaut has crushed every opposition on its path before swaggering into the final of the eight-team tournament looking every inch the reigning 20-over world champions. India survived a scare in Friday’s dead rubber when they edged out Sri Lanka via Super Over after Sri Lanka managed to tie…

The 2025 Sanxingdui Forum is held in Deyang, southwest China’s Sichuan Province, Sept. 27, 2025.(Xinhua/Bao Feifei)CHENGDU, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — New archaeological findings have revealed a significant number of painted bronze artifacts at the Sanxingdui Ruins in southwest China’s Sichuan Province. This amazing discovery has extended the timeline for the emergence of painted bronze items in China by nearly a thousand years.The findings were unveiled at the 2025 Sanxingdui Forum held on Saturday in Deyang City of Sichuan by the Sichuan provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute.Spanning 12 square kilometers, the Sanxingdui Ruins are believed to be the remnants…

PUBLISHED September 28, 2025 In the first week of September 2025, Nepal staged one of the fastest political collapses in recent memory. A government decision abruptly suspended about two dozen social media platforms — from Facebook and X to YouTube and Snapchat — for allegedly failing to register under new rules. Within hours, Kathmandu’s streets began to buzz, then swell. By the week’s end, the prime minister was gone. The speed of the government’s downfall startled observers of South Asian politics, where regimes usually decay through slow erosion. This was more than a protest against censorship. Nepal’s collapse was networked…

An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 28, 2025 shows the Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge in southwest China’s Guizhou Province. (Xinhua/Liu Xu)GUIYANG, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) — The world’s tallest bridge opened to traffic Sunday morning in southwest China’s Guizhou Province, slashing travel time across a deep canyon from two hours to just two minutes after three years of construction. The Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge, soaring 625 meters above the Beipan River in Guizhou’s mountainous terrain, is nearly nine times as tall as San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge. With a main span of 1,420 meters, the project has become the world’s longest-span steel…