Category: Emerging Tech

WORLD Apple Inc is planning to use artificial intelligence technology to address a frequent source of customer frustration: the iPhone’s battery life. The company is planning an AI-powered battery management mode for iOS 19, an iPhone software update due in September, according to people with knowledge of the matter. The enhancement will analyze how a…

WORLD Tariffs weren’t on the agenda of this week’s Robotics Summit, where thousands of tech industry workers mingled with humanoid and other robot varieties and talked about how to build and sell a new generation of increasingly autonomous machines. Not on the official agenda, at least. “Jump up to the microphones,” said keynote speaker Aaron…

PAKISTAN In a landmark step toward advancing its digital transformation agenda, Pakistan inaugurated the first-ever Digital Foreign Direct Investment (DFDI) Forum 2025 today. The event, held under the patronage of Prime Minister Muhammad Shehbaz Sharif, marked a bold statement of Pakistan’s readiness to become a regional digital investment hub. The Forum, hosted by the Ministry…

WORLD Google’s contract with Lenovo Group Ltd’s Motorola blocked the smartphone maker from setting Perplexity AI as the default assistant on its new devices, an executive of the startup testified at the search giant’s antitrust trial. Perplexity’s chief business officer Dmitry Shevelenko said on April 23 that the company’s efforts to obtain preferential distribution on…