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An aerial drone photo shows Xiaomi’s first smart home appliance factory in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, Oct. 28, 2025. Chinese tech firm Xiaomi launched its first smart home appliance factory in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on Tuesday, marking a major expansion of the tech giant’s manufacturing footprint beyond smartphones and vehicles. (Xinhua/Pan Zhiwei)WUHAN, Oct. 28 (Xinhua) — Chinese tech firm Xiaomi launched its first smart home appliance factory in Wuhan, central China’s Hubei Province, on Tuesday, marking a major expansion of the tech giant’s manufacturing footprint beyond smartphones and vehicles.This new factory, focusing on air conditioner production, is…
University departments safe; makeshift shelters near fire site evacuated as precaution, officials sayUniversity of Karachi. Photo: File A fire that broke out in the bushes behind the University of Karachi on Tuesday evening intensified rapidly before being brought under control after several hours of firefighting. One person died from suffocation during the incident, rescue officials said. The victim, identified as 51-year-old Muhammad Rafiq, was a father of four and worked as a welder, according to initial reports. According to Rescue 1122, the fire erupted near Gulshan Noor Apartments behind the university. Fire and rescue teams, along with ambulances and fire tenders,…
A visitor looks at a model of SK hynix’s high-bandwidth memory (HBM) technology during the 2025 World IT Show in Seoul on April 24, 2025. Jung Yeon-je | Afp | Getty ImagesSouth Korea’s SK Hynix on Wednesday posted record quarterly revenue and profit, boosted by a strong demand for its high bandwidth memory used in generative AI chipsets.Here are SK Hynix’s third-quarter results versus LSEG SmartEstimates, which are weighted toward forecasts from analysts who are more consistently accurate:Revenue: 24.45 trillion won ($17.13 billion) vs. 24.73 trillion wonOperating profit: 11.38 trillion won vs. 11.39 trillion wonRevenue rose about 39% in the…
PTI Secretary General Salman Akram Raja calls move ‘political game’ aimed at undermining public representation The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf has announced that it will disassociate itself from the opposition alliance’s no-confidence motion against the Azad Jammu and Kashmir prime minister and the subsequent process to elect a new premier, calling the move a “political game” aimed at undermining public representation. PTI’s top leadership attended a high-level meeting at the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa House in Islamabad on Tuesday to discuss the political situation. The party decided to remain detached from the no-confidence and election process but vowed to continue representing the public in the assembly and…
Elon Musk’s Wikipedia rival Grokipedia got off to a “rocky start” in its public debut, but Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales didn’t even have to take a look at the AI’s output to know what he expected.”I’m not optimistic he will create anything very useful right now,” Wales said at the CNBC Technology Executive Council Summit in New York City on Tuesday.Wales had plenty of choice words for Musk, notably in response to allegations that there is “woke bias” on Wikipedia. “He is mistaken about that,” Wales said. “His complaints about Wiki are that we focus on mainstream sources and I…
Emission testing system launched in July 2024 to regulate vehicular pollution ahead of smog seasonSmog in Lahore. Photo File: REUTERS The Punjab Environmental Protection Agency has announced that vehicles without “Green Stickers” will be banned from the roads after November 15. Dr Imran Hamid Sheikh, Director General of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), said exhaust testing has been made mandatory for all vehicles in Lahore. As part of the EPA, a strict crackdown on vehicles causing air pollution in the city. “From November 15, any vehicle found on the road without an Exhaust Testing System (ETS) certificate or a green sticker…
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang speaks during the Live Keynote Pregame during the Nvidia GTC (GPU Technology Conference) in Washington, DC, on Oct. 28, 2025.Jim Watson | AFP | Getty ImagesNvidia CEO Jensen Huang said at the company’s GTC conference on Tuesday that its Blackwell graphics processing units — the company’s fastest AI chips — are now in full production in Arizona.Previously, Nvidia’s fastest GPUs were solely manufactured in Taiwan.Huang said that President Donald Trump had asked him nine months ago to bring manufacturing back to U.S. shores.”The first thing that President Trump asked me for is bring manufacturing back,” Huang…
Hamas says it remains committed to truce, citing challenges in recovering Israeli captives’ bodiesThis picture taken from Rafah shows smoke rising over buildings in Khan Yunis during Israeli bombardment, Gaza Strip, Palestine, Feb. 1, 2024. PHOTO: AFP Gaza’s civil defence agency said an Israeli air strike on a vehicle in the south of the territory killed five people on Tuesday. “At least five (were killed) in an Israeli strike on a civilian vehicle on Al-Qassam Street in Khan Yunis, south of the Gaza Strip,” Mahmud Bassal, spokesman for the agency, which operates as a rescue force under Hamas, told AFP.…
CleanSpark, a Las Vegas based bitcoin miner, is moving into artificial intelligence, beginning to develop AI data centers alongside its crypto-mining business. The company’s CEO laid out details of the recently announced strategy on CNBC’s “Crypto World” this week, and why it’s likely to become core to the business models of more crypto mining companies.One key example of why bitcoin miners can win in the booming data center market: CleanSpark recently won a 100-megawatt site in Cheyenne, Wyoming, and beat out the tech giant Microsoft for the contract, according to its CEO.How did a company with a market cap under…
A traffic light shows red in front of the US Capitol, in Washington DC , October 14, 2025.Celal Gunes/ | Anadolu | Getty ImagesA federal judge on Tuesday extended a temporary order blocking the Trump administration’s plans to fire thousands of federal employees during the government shutdown.The order, called a preliminary injunction, prohibits the administration from issuing reduction-in-force, or RIF, notices until the government reopens, Judge Susan Illston said during a hearing in U.S. District Court in San Francisco.Illston had imposed a short-term firing freeze, known as a temporary restraining order or TRO, on Oct. 15.The American Federation of State,…