You don’t need a PC to use Facebook’s latest Oculus headset, base version priced at $300

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Facebook made a bevy of announcements yesterday during its Connect conference regarding its latest VR headset. The Oculus Quest 2 will not only be the…

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Sony’s PlayStation 5 will arrive on November 12 with a price tag of $500

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

We witnessed Microsoft’s unveiling of the long-awaited Xbox Series S earlier this month. Now it’s time for Sony to shine, and today the company did…

PTA drafts new regulations to promote local manufacturing of smartphones

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) drafted the “Mobile Device Manufacturing Regulations and Authorization” on Tuesday. This new set of regulations aims to encourage local production…

Apple launches redesigned iPad Air with A14 chip

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

During its online launch event yesterday, Apple launched the renovated iPad Air with a price tag of $599. This new device not only features an…

Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

When the very first iPad was unveiled to the world back in 2010, it generated a lot of noise. Some of it was positive, but…

Spotify calls out Apple’s “anti-competitive behavior”

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

A battle between two of the tech world’s biggest names may well be on the cards. With Apple having recently announced Apple One, its bundle…

TechOne Incubator NUST launches Student Startup Business Center Challenge 2020

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

TechOne Incubator NUST has officially opened up applications for the second batch of startups interested in joining the Student Startup Business Center (SSBC). In order…

Microsoft’s DeepSpeed library can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Microsoft released an upgraded version of its DeepSpeed library for training highly complex AI models. The company claims that the new approach being used, known…

Deep Dive: What is a Neural Network?

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

What do speech recognizers, automatic translators, and AlphaGo have in common? They are all based on neural networks. If you have ever heard of “deep…

Internet usage rose 25% during lockdown, more submarine cable companies to enter the market

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Unsurprisingly, the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in Internet usage all over the world. In Pakistan, there has been a similar…

Deep Dive – Gradient Descent in Machine Learning

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

We know that machine learning exists to create programs that can learn to do something, be it distinguishing between simple cat and dog images or…

Local startup Mauqa Online aims to empower those at the bottom of the social ladder

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

As Muhammad Mustafa, co-founder of Mauqa Online, explains in this video, a lot of applications and digital tools all around the world are typically made…

This eerily eloquent essay written by a robot tells us why we shouldn’t fear robots

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

GPT-3 is an incredible work of unsupervised learning in artificial intelligence. Having been fed the entirety of the Internet, from Reddit posts to Wikipedia articles,…

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