Technology

CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): Apple might be done with launching products for 2025, but new reports indicate it is preparing at least a few more lower-cost devices for early 2026. According to GFHK Securities analyst Jeff Pu, the company is working on releasing an affordable iPhone, iPad, and Mac line-up in the coming year. Pu mentions

  LOS ANGELES (Kashmir English): TikTok has said it is updating its screen time management page with new features to restrict the duration of time teens spend scrolling, whether it is disturbing content or not. The social networking platform is targeting teens by adding a “Time and Well-Being” section. This new feature includes over 120

  SYDNEY (Kashmir English): Technology giant Meta has announced a two-week time for young Australians to download their digital histories and delete their accounts. The company has started sending messages to its thousands of ‘underage’ users to save data. The announcement comes ahead of a world-first social media ban on children younger than 16, taking

BEIJING (Kashmir English): The tech giant Honor is going to unveil the Honor 500 series, including its pro model, on November 24 in China. The design of both smartphones has already been teased, and now the company has confirmed a major feature upgrade for the Pro model. Honor announced that the Honor 500 Pro will

CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): YouTube, the largest video-sharing platform, is testing the return of its in-app messaging feature six years after retiring it. It started rolling out this new tool to users in Ireland and Poland who are over 18 years old, thus enabling them to share videos and be able to have real-time chats directly

CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): WhatsApp has introduced a new feature for iPhone users, through which accounts with two separate phone numbers can now be easily operated on the same device. According to WhatsApp, under this new feature, each account will have its own chat history, notifications, profile settings and privacy, and users will be able to

  CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): WhatsApp is about to roll out its own version of a status update feature, similar to Instagram ‘Notes’. Just as on Instagram, the new WhatsApp feature lets users of the Meta-owned messaging app post a short text update that others can view. In this space, one could let people know what

ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): At the closing of the year 2025, Google announced the best Android apps of 2025 and the winners for this year’s Best of Google Play Awards, showcasing remarkable apps from developers all over the world. The awards recognize apps that deliver strong user experiences, boost productivity and creativity, and offer meaningful everyday

ISLAMABAD (Kashmir English): Pakistan has successfully developed the first-ever fully secure mobile, intended for government officials. The device has been developed under a pilot project of the NTC, whose hardware and software have been entirely engineered within the country. According to the officials at NTC, the secure handset runs on a specially developed operating system

CALIFORNIA (Kashmir English): Google has introduced its most powerful artificial intelligence (AI) model, Gemini 3. This new AI model is available to users in the Gemini app and AI search engine interface. Gemini 2.5 was released 7 months ago, and now an even more advanced and powerful large language model has been introduced. This new