OpenAI launched on Tuesday a new scientific workspace program called Prism that is available for free to anyone with a ChatGPT account. Designed as an AI-enhanced word processor and research tool for scientific papers, Prism is deeply integrated with GPT-5.2, which can be used to assess claims, revise prose, or search for prior research. Prism isn’t designed to conduct research …

Google on Tuesday announced its more affordable Google AI Plus plan is now available in all markets where its AI plans are available. This includes the U.S, where it will cost $7.99 per month. The expansion brings the lower-cost plan to 35 new countries and territories, after earlier launches in dozens of global markets, which began with Indonesia last September. …

actress’s cousin shared several throwback photographs from Hania’s school, college, and university days. Web Desk January 27, 2026 KARACHI: Popular Pakistani actress Hania Aamir’s cousin has clarified the reality behind the actress’s much-admired dimples, dismissing recent claims of cosmetic surgery circulating on social media. A few days earlier, a dermatologist had alleged online that Hania Aamir underwent “dimpleplasty,” sparking widespread …

Imagine a world where your credit card no longer works, your Amazon account is shut down, and using U.S. tech companies is no longer an option. It’s almost impossible to shop online, wire bank transfers to an overseas family member, or rely on anything that involves the United States, including the U.S. dollar. For one Canadian, this is now her …

Group14 is producing next-gen battery materials at its factory in South Korea. (Group14 Photo) Next-gen battery materials company Group14 Technologies last week furloughed an undisclosed number of employees at its yet-to-be-finished facility in Moses Lake, Wash., as neighboring rival Sila expects to start production for customers this spring. “We are still moving forward but at a measured pace,” CEO Rick …

A trip in a Waymo robotaxi still costs more, on average, than a comparable ride in a human-driven Uber or a Lyft. But that gap is narrowing, according to new data published Tuesday by Obi, a company that aggregates real-time pricing and pick-up times across multiple ride-hailing services. Two factors, working together, are behind the change. Waymo has lowered its …

Meta’s WhatsApp just introduced , a tool “that further protects your account from highly sophisticated cyber attacks.” This is a one-click button in the settings that automatically initiates a series of defenses. So what does it do? It blocks media and attachments from unknown senders, disables link previews and silences calls from unknown senders. This results in a more restrictive …

PESHAWAR: The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Health Department’s Human Capital Investment Project (HCIP), launched with World Bank support to strengthen basic healthcare services, has reportedly failed amid serious financial, administrative and governance lapses, with alleged irregularities amounting to nearly Rs16 billion in a project worth Rs24 billion, official audit documents reveal. The project was initiated in March 2021, following approval by the …

Aylo, the parent company to some of the most popular tube sites like Pornhub, announced on Tuesday that it will restrict access to its platforms in the United Kingdom, effective February 2. Since last year, Pornhub and other Aylo sites had complied with the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA), which mandated — among other provisions — that websites with pornographic …

Ai2 Image The Allen Institute for AI (Ai2) is open-sourcing the recipe and ingredients for advanced coding agents, making them trainable on an organization’s own code base at low cost — a move that could loosen the grip of tech giants on artificial intelligence for software development. Ai2’s newly released model, called SERA (Soft-Verified Efficient Repository Agents), is the first …

TikTok says it’s making progress on recovering its U.S. infrastructure after an unfortunately timed data center outage, which affected the region shortly after the TikTok U.S. deal went through. Last week, TikTok announced the creation of a separate U.S. entity with American investors to avoid a nationwide ban. Around the time of the transition, users reported issues with TikTok searches, …

Yahoo has a new AI-powered “answer engine”, dubbed Yahoo Scout. The new tool is available now in beta and is powered by Anthropic’s . The company says Scout “synthesizes” info from the web, as well as Yahoo’s own data and content when constructing responses to user’s natural-language search queries. Yahoo says the interface will include interactive digital media, structured lists …

Days after Meta was sued over alleged false privacy claims surrounding its chat app WhatsApp, the company has rolled out a new setting to protect users against cyber attacks. The feature, called Strict Account Settings, adds restrictions like automatically blocking media and attachments from unknown senders, and silencing calls from unknown numbers. Under this setting, link previews are turned off, and the …

Dar Al-Ifta emphasized that interpretation of the Holy Quran must be based on authentic classical commentaries. Web Desk January 27, 2026 Cairo: Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta has declared the use of artificial intelligence(AI) applications for interpreting the Holy Quran to be religiously impermissible, warning that reliance on such tools may lead to misinformation and doctrinal misunderstandings. According to Arab media reports, …

England produced a dominant all-round performance to defeat Sri Lanka by 53 runs in the third ODI at the R. Premadasa Stadium, sealing the series in emphatic fashion. A breathtaking unbeaten century from Harry Brook and a masterful knock by Joe Root powered England to a formidable total of 357 for 3, which proved beyond Sri Lanka’s reach despite a …