Hamza Zakir
Platonist. Humanist. Unusually edgy sometimes.
Newly confirmed WhatsApp update will allow you to shop directly via chats
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Facebook clearly wants you to be able to shop no matter which of its apps you’re using. Following on the heels of Messenger and Instagram,…
Pakistani tech company develops drones to plant thousands of trees in multiple cities
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Islamabad-based tech company ForresOn specializes in developing large self-navigating drones for forestation and precision-agriculture purposes. It has now collaborated with SAARC and the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa…
Pakistan’s IT exports record impressive 44% growth rate in first three months of FY21
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Pakistan’s IT industry continues to boom as it accomplishes yet another massive feat. According to the Pakistan Software Export Board Performance Report, the nation’s IT…
Pakistan contributes significantly to CERN’s Large Hadron Collider
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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We are all familiar with CERN to some extent, especially its infamous Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that gets our minds whizzing with particle physics and…
Ministry of HR launches app to help differently-abled children in Pakistan
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Earlier this week, Minister of Human Rights Dr. Shireen Mazari announced the launch of an application for the differently-abled children in the country. Designed by…
Users can now issue content removal appeals to Facebook’s Oversight Board
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Facebook’s Oversight Board has announced that users can now submit appeals related to the removal of content to them for an independent review. With 40…
Pakistan has witnessed a 63% increase in venture capital funding between 2019 and 2020
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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The current age of COVID-19 has made it difficult for venture capital activity to keep up at its usual pace, but an interesting exception to…
PTA confronts Twitter over fake news and anti-Pakistan propaganda
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) has approached the Twitter administration to immediately sensitize its moderation teams and ensure that the platform is not used as a…
Investor of Pakistani origin invests $125M in a company whose founder also has Pakistani roots
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Lux Capital, an investment firm that counts Pakistani-origin Bilal Zuberi as a VC partner, just led a $125 million Series C financing round of Applied…
Harvard professor launches startup to help companies protect their AI systems from hackers
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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It is one thing to climb the academic ladder at one of the world’s most prestigious universities and gain full professorship in just seven years,…
Corporate spending on AI is set to pass $50b this year, but there’s little to show for it
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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It can be hard to believe that massive investments in any form of technology could be money down the drain, let alone for a buzzword…
Microsoft creates a portable data center with Elon Musk as one of the first partners
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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Imagine being able to access the power of cloud computing even within a remote, far flung region. This is about to become a very real…
JavaScript remains the most popular programming language among developers, according to survey
By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐
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According to analyst firm SlashData’s latest survey of developers, JavaScript is the most popular programming language in the world for 2020, with Python and Java…
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