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Red Dead Redemption arrives on Netflix Games, marking franchise’s mobile debut
Netflix has added Red Dead Redemption to its gaming catalogue, making the acclaimed Rockstar Games title available on iOS and Android for the first time. The game is accessible to all Netflix subscribers and can be downloaded through the platform’s mobile app. The release features mobile-optimized controls, including touch-based shooting and movement. However, the title does not include a multiplayer mode, and an active internet connection is required at all times.
Google to retire Assistant in March 2026 as Gemini takes over Original
Google has confirmed it will phase out Google Assistant, with full retirement scheduled for March 2026. The company disclosed the timeline through notices appearing on its support forums, stating that the service will continue operating until that date before being gradually wound down. Google Assistant was introduced in 2016 at Google I/O as the successor to Google Now, launching later that year on the first Pixel phones and the Google Home speaker.
Applying for UK fast-track residency: a step by step guide for high-earners and innovators
The UK government has recently unveiled a new fast-track pathway to residency, specifically designed for high earners, as Prime Minister Keir Starmer seeks to retain skilled workers within the City of London and other key sectors amid a broader clampdown on migration. This move enables certain highly paid professionals and entrepreneurs to significantly reduce the time required to apply for indefinite leave to remain (ILR), the primary step toward British citizenship.
Google rolls out Gemini 3, its most advanced AI model yet
Google began rolling out its next generation of artificial intelligence models on Monday, introducing Gemini 3 as the company’s “most intelligent” and “factually accurate” system to date. The launch marks a significant step in Google’s bid to regain momentum in the AI race after OpenAI’s troubled debut of GPT-5. For the first time, Google is making its flagship model, Gemini 3 Pro, available to all users on day one through the Gemini app.
Bugs go bionic while Pakistan plugs into AI
Pakistan’s future is in data Mari Energies Limited (MARI), one of Pakistan’s top oil and gas explorers, has created a new subsidiary dubbed Mari Technologies. They plan to make a 5MW data centre in Islamabad and plan to make another one in Karachi. It’s definitely an exciting time to be a Pakistani. We’ve got the new National AI Policy of 2025 and last year’s decision to invest Rs10 billion in tech ventures.
Kojima's OD and AI's cultural incapability
AI has little concept of other cultures Source: REUTERS Much like people after COVID, AI is unable to pick up on social cues. Specifically, social cues and cultural contexts of non-Western societies when using it to translate another language. Say you host someone at your house and ask them if they want chai, and then they (for whatever strange reason) say they don’t want any, you won’t just leave it at that, right? You’d ask if they want anything else.
When Steam robs you, Konami bores you, and Doom smokes you out Original
BlockBlasters wasn’t a game. It was a $150K crypto heist hiding on Steam Source: X (@rastalandTV) Steam’s latest disaster shows how fast “fun little indie” can turn into “crypto-draining nightmare.” The game was called BlockBlasters. It dropped on Steam in July looking like harmless retro fluff. But on August 30, a sneaky update laced with malware went live. The payload? Scripts that laughed at your antivirus, raided your browser, and looted your crypto wallets.
Samsung’s VR missile, autism as evolution’s trade-off, and unlocking your brain years
Samsung’s Project Moohan: The VR missile aimed squarely at Apple’s Vision Pro Image created using Gemini Samsung’s long-whispered Project Moohan is about to crash Apple’s Vision Pro party, and it’s bringing some serious firepower.
Nano Banana: Google’s new favorite fruit
When Google launched Nano Banana (also known as Gemini 2.5 Flash Image) via Gemini and DeepMind, the hype had already reached a fever pitch. Personally, I have been using the software relentlessly. It promised a slew of features that sounded like the next frontier: image generation and editing via text prompts, preservation of identity (people, pets, objects staying recognizable across edits), design/style mixing, multi-turn editing, and even claims about turning 2D images into 3D models.
The breakneck pace of AI and a breakthrough with micro gears, which might be broken by that solar flare.
Nanomachines, son! Photo Illustration: Google Gemini I confess, the title is misleading, and I apologize for that, but we are inching ever closer to making microbots and one day, nanomachines. Scientists at the University of Gothenburg have made light-powered gears that can fit inside a human hair. For reference, a human hair can range from 0.017 to 0.186 millimeters (mm) in diameter. If you tried to straighten out your hair and examine it head-on, you likely wouldn’t be able to see anything.
Seas of weeds, AI predicted earthquakes, and Big Tech's endless appetite for energy and water Original
Seas of weeds Source: REUTERS Something wicked this way comes, in the form of brown seaweed (well really it's a type of algae). Sargassum was once presumed to only exist in the nutrient-poor waters of the Sargasso Sea. However, recent research reveals the journey of sargassum from nutrient-rich coastal areas to the open ocean via oceanic currents, such as the Loop Current and the Gulf Stream.
From time-bending crystals to group streaks and alarms you can’t escape
Time crystals: from impossible physics to pocket security Artwork by Affan Qasim, created using Gemini Pro Imagine pulling out a 1000 Rupee bill and watching its security stripe pulse like a heartbeat, shifting, shimmering, and repeating in patterns no counterfeiter could fake. That’s the strange promise of time crystals, a form of matter physicists once thought impossible. At the University of Colorado Boulder, researchers have just made the first visible time crystals.
iPhone 17, AirPods Pro 3 & New Watches
Apple staged its annual hardware event on September 9, 2025, this time branded “Awe-Dropping.” CEO Tim Cook opened with Apple’s familiar design narrative—emphasising aesthetics as both functional and emotional—before rolling out updates to AirPods, Watches, and the full iPhone 17 lineup. AirPods Pro 3: Subtle but useful upgrades Apple’s third-generation AirPods Pro introduced features that lean heavily on travel and fitness use cases.
Editorial for the Special Issue on Micro Air Vehicles
Open AccessEditorial by Syed Agha Hassnain Mohsan 1,*, Muhammad Asghar Khan 2,* and Mumtaz Karatas 3 1 Optical Communication Laboratory, Ocean College, Zhejiang University, Zheda Road 1, Zhoushan 316021, China 2 Department of Electrical Engineering, Hamdard Institute of Engineering & Technology, Islamabad 44000, Pakistan 3 Department of Industrial Engineering, Turkish Naval Academy, National Defense University, 34940 Istanbul, Turkey * Authors to whom correspondence should be addressed.
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