YouTube on Thursday laid out goals for the year that included making the lives of creators easier and boosting shorts-a popular format that rivals TikTok. The video-sharing platform is investing in short-form and live video, along with tools to help creators make money and produce fresh content, according to chief product officer Neal Mohan. “YouTube creators are the heart and soul of the platform, and we want them to always be able to fulfill their most ambitious creative goals,” Mohan said in a blog post. “To give them every opportunity possible, we’ll continue to invest across our multiple formats.” Short-form…
Author: Hasnain Abid Khanzada
Android 13’s first developer preview has just been released and it included new features of upgraded theming options and privacy, new language controls, and, back-end updates. However, these early previews are meant for developers rather than end-users. Android 13 is expanding the dynamic app icons to all apps rather than just Google’s and the themed icons feature lets app icons take on a colour tint that compliments your wallpaper so long as app developers supply a compatible monochromatic app icon. The feature is coming first to Pixel devices, but Google says it’s working with other manufacturers to release it more widely. Changes…
BEIJING: Nathan Chen soared effortlessly and nearly perfectly five times during his “Rocketman” performance. When his skates touched down for the final time in a historic arena in Beijing, he was an Olympic gold medallist. Up at Genting Snow Park, Chloe Kim nailed all five jumps on her first run through the Secret Garden Olympic halfpipe, enough for her to easily defend her Olympic title on Thursday. It was the United States’ best day yet at the Beijing Games. The United States also won gold in the Olympics first mixed team aerials event, giving them a total of four gold…
ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a webinar on Thursday said China had promoted peace, development and shared prosperity through sports diplomacy during the Winter Olympics 2022. The webinar on: “Beijing Winter Olympics: Sports Diplomacy for Shared Future” was organised by Friends of BRI Forum. They said as world leaders and sports teams came together to support China’s Winter Olympic Games, peace and friendship have been strengthened, and all the false politicisation has been neutralised. They noted there was a greater chance for countries to collaborate and build a shared future. They said Pakistan and China’s strong partnership was essential for regional peace…
SYDNEY: Australia will look to move on from the polarising departure of coach Justin Langer when they line-up for their Twenty20 International clash against Sri Lanka on Friday. Langer was always going to miss the five-match series, opting to rest after a long stint on the road, during which he led Australia to the T20 World Cup title and a 4-0 Ashes Test hammering of England. But his shock exit last weekend after unsuccessful talks with Cricket Australia over a contract extension has cast a dark shadow over the opening match in Sydney. In his absence, Andrew McDonald — among…
ISLAMABAD: The Steering Committee for holding the 2023 South Asian Games in Pakistan on Thursday vowed to hold the multi-nation regional event in a befitting manner. Chaired by Minister for Planning and Development Asad Umar, the meeting discussed various issues related to the said games. Federal Minister of Inter-provincial Coordination (IPC) Dr Fehmida Mirza also attended the meeting as vice-chairman of the steering committee. The 14th edition of the Games, to be held during March, will feature athletes from Pakistan, India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. Pakistan last hosted the regional sports gala in Islamabad back in…
LAHORE: Needing a victory to reignite their faltering campaign, Peshawar Zalmi were never in the chase. Multan Sultans’ Zimbabwean pacer Blessing Muzarabani had them on the ropes by the end of the second over, sending back both openers in the space of five deliveries in their HBL Pakistan Super League match at the Gaddafi Stadium on Thursday. The target of 183 at that point looked like a mountain to scale. The scale of their task got even bigger when star batter Liam Livingstone was sen trudging back by Abbas Afridi on the final ball of the powerplay, leaving Zalmi at…
KARACHI: Pakistan is now eligible for MSCI’s Frontier Market (FM) 100 and FM 15 per cent country-capped indices, the global investment index provider said on Thursday. As a result, companies from Pakistan are now qualified to become part of the two indices in MSCI’s May 2022 Semi-Annual Index Review. “This can attract limited foreign inflows. However, the market will continue to be driven by local investors,” said Fahad Rauf of Ismail Iqbal Securities. Indices by MSCI help passive investors allocate their funds in a variety of equity markets around the world. MSCI has not yet notified Pakistan’s weight in FM…
ISLAMABAD: The Central Development Working Party (CDWP) on Thursday cleared a total of three development projects with a cumulative estimated cost of about Rs280 billion, including the Karachi Circular Railway (KCR). The meeting presided over by Deputy Chairman Planning Commission Dr Jahanzeb Khan finalised at Rs273.071bn the cost of KCR as a modern urban railway project and requested the Executive Committee of the National Economic Council (Ecnec) to approve its implementation in the Public-Private Partnership (PPP) mode on a build-operate-transfer basis. A meeting of the board of Public-Private Partnership Authority (P3A) presided over by Planning Minister Asad Umar on Jan…
ISLAMABAD: The Federal Board of Revenue has notified a lower rate of general sales tax on petroleum products to keep its prices competitive for consumers. A sales tax SRO 183(I) of 2022 released on Thursday said the lowest GST rates were notified to pass minimum increase to consumers. The standard GST rate is 17pc. “In exercise of the powers conferred by clause (b) of sub-section (2) of section 3 of the Sales Tax Act, 1990, the federal government is pleased to direct that the following further amendment shall be made [with effect from] Jan 16, 2022, in its notification no.…
