Meta has announced a significant update to its AI-powered smart glasses, introducing new features that enhance both auditory assistance and entertainment integration. The updated device now includes a “hearing aid” style functionality, which leverages advanced audio processing to amplify environmental sounds, making it easier for users to hear conversations, ambient noise, and other important

Pakistan is set to launch BEEP, a homegrown communication app designed specifically for government officials, aiming to replace WhatsApp for official use. Modeled on China’s WeChat, BEEP provides end-to-end encryption for messages, voice calls, and video calls, ensuring secure communication across federal ministries.

Pakistani students from Islamabad have gained international recognition by winning second place at the World Artificial Intelligence Championship for the Youth 2025. The team from Roots IVY Gandhara H-8 Campus earned a silver medal in the LLM Prompt Engineering category, competing against participants from 103 countries.

Apple has unveiled its annual list of the most downloaded apps and games, highlighting major trends in mobile usage for 2025. In a notable development, ChatGPT claimed the top position as the most downloaded free iPhone app in the U.S., marking a significant milestone for AI-driven applications. Following ChatGPT in the rankings were Threads, Google, TikTok, WhatsApp, Instagram, YouTube, Google

Marshall Trout, a post-doctoral researcher, and Professor Jacob George, director of the Utah Neurorobotics Lab, modified a commercially available bionic hand by integrating optical and touch sensors. These sensors allow the hand to automatically move its fingers toward objects, stopping precisely at the point of contact. The system also interprets electrical signals from the wearer’s muscles,

China’s Hebei Juhang Energy Technology Group has announced plans to establish a large-scale solar panel manufacturing facility in Pakistan, aiming to meet growing domestic demand while also targeting export markets. The development underscores the growing interest of Chinese investors in Pakistan’s renewable energy and high-tech sectors.

A team of researchers from Pakistan and China has jointly developed a next-generation solar-assisted heat pump system that could significantly advance clean heating in colder regions and support both countries’ low-carbon transition. The work, published in the peer-reviewed journal Energy (Elsevier), Volume 340, 2025, highlights a technology that uses concentrated solar power to deliver higher

Nineteen-year-old Pakistani student Muhammad Ahtasham Ul Haq has achieved a remarkable milestone by securing third place globally in the MIT IT Squared Informatics Coding Competition, hosted by MIT University, Cambridge, USA. The competition initially saw participation from over 300 teams representing countries worldwide. After the standard disqualification process, more than 270 teams remained

Chinese researchers have unveiled a groundbreaking glasses-free 3D display technology that brings highly immersive, three-dimensional visuals to desktop-sized screens. The system, called EyeReal, allows viewers to experience 3D effects that appear to extend into their real environment—such as a car race where vehicles seem to jump off the screen—without the need for special headsets or 3D

The Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication has announced a major initiative to ensure that all internet users in Pakistan have access to a minimum fixed broadband speed of 100mbps as part of a nationwide digital infrastructure upgrade. The project will be carried out under the World Bank-supported Digital Economy Enhancement Project, aimed at expanding fiber networks, enhancing