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Interior Minister and Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) Chairman Mohsin Naqvi on Wednesday met with the Sri Lankan envoy to Pakistan to review security arrangements for the visiting cricket team in Rawalpindi following yesterday’s deadly blast in Islamabad. Twelve people were killed and 36 were injured in a suicide blast outside the district and sessions court building in Islamabad’s G-11 area. The incident occurred as international events were being hosted in the capital, including the Inter-Parliamentary Speakers’ Conference and the 6th Margalla Dialogue, as well as the first ODI between Pakistan and Sri Lanka being held in Rawalpindi. Sri Lankan High…

While there are lots of great Black Friday sales on cheaper devices, it’s the big ticket items that really make a world of difference. Take Apple’s 2024 Mac mini M4, which has dropped to $499 from $599 as part of early Black Friday deals. The 17 percent discount brings Apple’s mini desktop computer with 16GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD to only $30 more than its all-time low.We gave the Mac mini M4 a 90 in our review, in part, because it packs an incredible amount of power into such a small design. It also has front facing USB-C…

(AFP) — It has become nearly impossible for people to tell the difference between music generated by artificial intelligence and that created by humans, according to a survey released Wednesday. The polling firm Ipsos asked 9,000 people to listen to two clips of AI-generated music and one of human-made music in a survey conducted for France-based streaming platform Deezer. “Ninety-seven percent could not distinguish between music entirely generated by AI and human-created music,” said Deezer. The survey came out as a country music song featuring a male singer’s voice generated by AI reached the top of the US charts for the…

The outlook for 2026 includes continued growth and higher profit margins with IT spending expected to grow 9.8% to more than $6 trillion.AFP via Getty ImagesThe three best tech stocks to buy in 2026 are companies you may never have heard of. They include Vertiv, an Ohio-based provider of technology for removing heat from and providing power to data centers; chipmaker Taiwan Semiconductor; and Datadog, which provides cloud monitoring and security services. I picked these three companies based on their revenue growth, profitability and odds of beating investor expectations next year. I listed the companies below based on their stock…

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Virginia Democrat who helped investigate the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol is making a comeback bid after last week’s sweeping election wins as her party looks to break President Donald Trump’s grip on federal power in the 2026 midterms.Former U.S. Rep. Elaine Luria, a military veteran who co-presented the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s findings after Trump’s first term, told The Associated Press she will seek the Democratic nomination in Virginia’s 2nd Congressional District. Her bid sets up a potential rematch with Republican Rep. Jennifer Kiggans, another military veteran who ousted her in 2022.The Hampton…

Former chairman and co-founder of CoinRoutes and now president of BetterTrade.digital Dave Weisberger used a November 11 video to restate Bitcoin’s long-term bull case, arguing that the market’s “morose” sentiment and technician-driven calls for downside are missing the structural shift underway on both fundamentals and market microstructure. He framed his analysis in two parts—why Bitcoin is being bought and what the current market structure implies—contending that the thesis toward seven-figure pricing remains intact even without an obvious near-term catalyst. The Path To $1 Million Per Bitcoin On fundamentals, he drew a direct comparison with gold’s monetary role and size. Citing…

Chinese swimming prodigy Yu Zidi sent shockwaves through the swimming world again with a blistering Asian record time at China’s National Games in Shenzhen. Yu, who turned 13 in October, swam an impressive 2:07:41 to claim gold in the women’s 200 metre individual medley on Tuesday. The schoolgirl from northern Hebei province beat the 2:07:57 her compatriot Ye Shiwen swam at the 2012 London Olympics, months before Yu was even born. Yu’s time, met with huge cheers and gaping jaws from shocked spectators in Shenzhen, was the ninth fastest of all time. It also made her the second fastest woman…

Barcelona all-time great Lionel Messi returning to the Catalan giants is “unrealistic”, the club’s president Joan Laporta said Wednesday. The 38-year-old Argentine superstar made a surprise appearance at Barca’s Camp Nou stadium on Sunday night and said he hoped “one day I can return, and not just to say goodbye as a player, as I never got to do”. Eight-time Ballon d’Or winner Messi, Barca’s record goalscorer and appearance maker, left for Paris Saint-Germain in 2021 after two decades there because their precarious financial position meant they could not afford to keep him. “Out of the utmost respect for Messi,…

Some analysts expect XRP to climb sharply from its current price of $2.39. According to posts on X by a popular analyst known as Egrag Crypto, the coin is trading at the bottom of a descending triangle and could stage a strong rally in the coming weeks. Related Reading Analysts Point To Historical Setups According to Egrag, two earlier runs give the pattern some weight. He compared the present chart to moves in 2017 and 2021. Back then, XRP went from $0.097 to $3.84 across a roughly three-month span around 2017–2018. In 2021, it rose from below $0.45 to above…

Funstrat co-founder Tom Lee says Ethereum could be the crypto market’s near-term leader, targeting a move to $12,000 by January on the back of Wall Street’s tokenization push and rising growth expectations for smart-contract platforms. In an interview released Nov. 10 with Tom Nash, Lee emphasized that while Bitcoin remains under-owned, “there’s a bigger move in Ethereum” over the next several weeks as capital reallocates toward the rails that power stablecoins and tokenized assets. Why Ethereum Is Poised To Rally Soon Lee anchored his call to a blend of technical and fundamental drivers. Citing Funstrat’s head of technical strategy, he…