A new step to make KPK Pakistan’s Silicon Valley, Peshawar will get Pakistan’s first Innovation Park

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

KPK’s advisor to Chief Minister on Science & Technology, Zia Ullah Bangash, announced Thursday that Pakistan’s first innovation park is being established in Peshawar as…

After Turkey, Germany wants to stop WhatsApp from implementing new Privacy Policy

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

WhatsApp has been facing a considerable backlash ever since it announced to update its privacy policy with changes that would allow Facebook to aggregate all of its…

Hackers are using “Steam” invites to hijack computers of ‘Counter Strike’ players

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

According to a bug report, hackers can take control of victims’ computers just by tricking them into clicking on a Steam invite to play Counter-Strike:…

End malpractices in 30 days or suffer the same fate as Alibaba, Chinese companies warned

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

China’s tech companies have been given a month to fix anti-competitive practices and publicly pledge to follow the rules or risk suffering the same fate…

KPK’s property tax collection reaches 2581 million, up by 71% over the previous year

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Special Assistant for Excise & Tax, Ghazi Ghazan Jamal, announced Wednesday that the property tax collection in the province had reached 2581 million,…

3-month Silicon Valley exchange program announced for female entrepreneurs

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Ejad Labs has announced a 12-week exchange program for female entrepreneurs in collaboration with TiE Islamabad & Change Mechanics, supported and funded by the US Department…

China launches army of robots sparking renewed fears of the rise of machines

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Chinese robotics firm Unitree recently shared a video on Twitter that made many people believe that a robot takeover might soon be happening. The Star…

US Senator fed up of Big Tech, proposes to ban Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Google & Microsoft

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

US Senator Josh Hawley, a staunch critic of Big Tech, unveiled an antitrust bill on Monday that would ban all mergers and acquisitions by companies…

Robots take over another human job. Dominos starts delivering Pizza through self-driving robot cars

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Domino’s Pizza will start delivering pizzas via Nuro driverless cars this week as part of a pilot program, the company announced Monday. The company says…

Small room-like pods could be the future of remote work in a post pandemic world

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A Singaporean company called Switch has created small room-like pods, which cost less than four Singapore dollars ($3; £2.15) per hour and have been installed…

Israel & Iran squaring off once again after Israel’s cyberattack disrupts Iran’s nuclear facility

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Months after the dramatic assassination of Iran’s chief nuclear scientist who was identified via artificial intelligence while travelling and killed with a remotely operated weapon…

IT-related exports will surge to five billion dollars, Prime Minister Imran Khan informed

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In a high-level meeting on Information Technology Roadmap that Prime Minister Imran Khan was chairing, the premier was informed that since the government’s policies are…

Facebook’s ad algorithms still excluding women from seeing jobs, study reveals

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

According to the latest audit of its ad service, Facebook withholds certain job ads from women because of their gender. An audit conducted by independent…

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