For as long as there has been technology, there have been attempts to let ordinary people shape stories with it. The proto-interactive 1960s project The Sumerian Game allowed users to make choices in an ancient setting that a system could then react to and incorporate. During the 1990s, developers began working on Facade, in which…
North Korea is expected to remain largely impervious to Western diplomatic overtures for the foreseeable future as it rails against its rivals’ “hostile” policies. On Tuesday, North Korean state media denounced last month’s summit between US President Donald Trump and South Korean President Lee Jae-myung as proof of the “confrontational will” of its adversaries to…
. Kabul’s quest to reach out to Delhi by antagonising Islamabad is myopic in essence. It is a pity that the landlocked country is behaving in quite an unnatural manner, and is bent upon snubbing all the largesse Pakistan has exhibited all long. The gesture on the part of Pakistan to open trade routes with…
The Kenyan authorities paid a network of trolls to threaten and intimidate young protesters during recent anti-government demonstrations, Amnesty International has said. A new report by the human rights organisation said government agencies also employed surveillance and disinformation to target organisers of the mass protests, which swept Kenya across 2024 and 2025. The demonstrations were…
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Richard Blumenthal sent a letter late last night to President Trump’s top antitrust enforcer, Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Abigail Slater, raising concerns about a potential sale of Warner Bros. Discovery and demanding that any deal review be “conducted transparently, independently, and in accordance with federal antitrust and…
MIAMI — Golden State Warriors star Stephen Curry will miss Wednesday night’s game in Miami with ankle soreness. The team’s other headliners, Jimmy Butler (back) and Draymond Green (illness), also are out for the game. Curry initially tweaked his right ankle last Friday night during a 49-point performance in San Antonio and then tweaked it…
China’s political tightrope with Japan has lurched into a sharper and more confrontational posture this week after Chinese pundits urged Beijing to ban exports of rare earths to Japan andhalt imports of Japanese seafood and farm goodsin response to Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi’s pro-Taiwan remarks. “I suggest banning rare earth exports to Japan, halting imports…
. The recent disclosure that Mayo Hospital in Lahore alone received 1,796 dog bite cases in 14 months has caused justifiable public alarm and is representative of a trend in every large and mid-sized city in the country, due to city managers’ failure to control stray dog populations. What makes this doubly unfortunate is that…
TheInternational Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam(IDFA) on Wednesday unveiled the IDFA Forum Awards 2025. All Fixed Up by Hao Zhou won the IDFA Forum Award for the best pitch project. “After struggling to ‘straighten out’ their heir, a family pursues a dramatic masquerade that pushes the boundaries of care, identity, and cross-generational understanding,” reads a logline…
Chip giant Nvidia beat Wall Street’s expectations for revenue and upcoming sales, easing investor concerns about heavy artificial intelligence (AI) spending that have unsettled markets. In its quarterly earnings report on Wednesday, the firm said revenue for the three months to October jumped 62% to $57bn, driven by demand for its chips used in AI…
