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US trade officials rejected Tesla Inc’s bid for relief from President Donald Trump’s 25-per cent tariffs on the Chinese-made Autopilot “brain” of its Model 3 and other electric vehicles, one of more than 1,000 product denials linked to China’s industrial development plans. According to documents filed by the US Trade Representative’s office (USTR) and reviewed by Reuters, exclusion requests from Tesla and others for Chinese-made products from aircraft parts to biotechnology instruments were denied because they were deemed “strategically important” to the “Made in China 2025” program. Tesla declined to comment. The company has separate pending tariff exclusion requests for duties on the Chinese-made Model 3 Centre Screen and for the Model 3 Car Computer before USTR. Tesla is a victim of US-Sino Trade war which has effected its cost of production and hurt its sales. This is not first time that US has put tariffs in a nation. US accuses China for stealing cutting edge Ameri...

Firefox users may have noticed that some of their add-ons/extensions have suddenly stopped working today. Under the extensions tab Firefox displays “could not be verified for use in Firefox and has been disabled”. According to Mozilla’s bug tracker, this is actually a bug and is explained as “all add-ons are disabled due to the expiration of intermediate signing certificate”. This issue occurred at 5 AM (local time) or 12 AM GMT/UTC, all thanks to the above mentioned bug. The affected extensions include LastPass, Ghostery, Download Manager (S3), Dark Mode, Honey, uBlock Origin, Greasemonkey, NoScript, and others. The affected extensions have completely stopped working and cannot be re-downloaded from the store. Temporary Fix Currently, the only solution to this issue is to either find a replacement or just remove the affected extensions. However, if you use the Firefox developer or Nightly Build, there is a temporary solution. Look under about:config and set the ...

In June 2018, the honorable Supreme Court suspended withholding tax, sales tax, and service charges on prepaid recharge cards. The Cellular Mobile Operators (CMOs) complied with it in letter and spirit and a balance of Rs. 100 was received on a recharge of Rs. 100. It is imperative to mention that Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) is not regulating prices of CMOs except for Significant Market Power (SMP) operator as the mobile market is competitive. As a result of the suspension of taxes and service charges, CMOs adjusted the prices of standard prepaid tariff packages. In the case of hybrid bundles/monthly cards, additional incentives were provided to the subscribers in the form of voice, SMS, and data. On 24th April 2019, the Supreme Court of Pakistan passed the following order: "For reason to be recorded later this Human Rights Case is disposed of without interference in the collection of public revenues and all the interim orders." After the restoratio...

For a long period Huawei is facing some difficulties due to US-China trade war, but apart from all these things, Huawei is not footing back in terms of expanding its product range. Recently Huawei aimed to add a new thing in its product line by bringing something differing; big screen Huawei TVs . Huawei has taken a new approach in this regard, while other companies are also focusing on improving features of their TVs. It can be said that this TV will be a party time for entertainment lovers as it will essentially be a smart speaker with a big display, like a media hub. There will be two models of Huawei TV; 55 inches and 65 inches. The 55-inch screen supplier is BOE, while the 65-inch is manufactured by Huaxing Optoelectronics. For the time being, it seems like Huawei ordered the displays of its TVs to different manufacturers. So we can surely say that the first bunch of Huawei television equipment is made by BOE. Previously it was expected that Huawei will launch i...

On Thursday, Huawei made several announcements regarding its new products in Shanghai. Tow notebooks Matebook Pro and Matebook 14 were announced, and these were earlier showcase in Barcelona at MWC 2019. MateBook 14: There are two colors of Huawei MateBook 14; Dark Grand and Moon Silver. And three configurations as it boast some top-notch features in line with the world’s best brands.  The MateBook 14 will be available in market at Tmall, Suning, and Vmall on April 30. Some of its features include: ·         3:2 aspect ratio and 90% screen-to-body ratio ·         14-inch display – 2160 x 1440 resolution ·         A fingerprint scanner on the power button ·         8 th generation Core-i7, 8565U processor ·         Webcam hidden between the keys ·     ...

After the official launch of Galaxy S10+ and Galaxy S10 on 13 th March in Pakistan, these smartphones vibrated the smartphone market in the country because of their specs and mostly due to their prices. Only after a month of launch, Samsung deemed to decrease prices of Galaxy S10 from Rs.164,999 ($1160) to Rs. 139,999 ($988) . If we come to Galaxy S10+, it’s now being sold at Rs.159,999 ($1130) down from Rs.179,999 ($1270). Keep in mind that these prices are for the 128GB versions of both models. Reports argue that Samsung reduced prices of Galaxy S10 for second time in the month of March, as it earlier decreased its price to Rs.142,999 ($1000) on 29 th March. So we can expect that Samsung is making people able to enjoy Galaxy S10 in trembling situation of the country. The official confirmation was made by Samsung through its Facebook page. As we noticed speculation around the pricing, by attributing high prices to the updated tax regime, the sudden downfal...