Hamza Zakir

Platonist. Humanist. Unusually edgy sometimes.

 

1174   stories by Hamza Zakir

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

Facebook made a bevy of announcements yesterday during its Connect conference regarding its latest VR headset. The Oculus Quest...

in News
Sep 17 · >

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

We witnessed Microsoft’s unveiling of the long-awaited Xbox Series S earlier this month. Now it’s time for Sony to...

in Gaming, News
Sep 17 · >

PTA drafts new regulations to promote local manufacturing of smartphones

The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) drafted the “Mobile Device Manufacturing Regulations and Authorization” on Tuesday. This new set of...

in News
Sep 17 · >

Apple launches redesigned iPad Air with A14 chip

During its online launch event yesterday, Apple launched the renovated iPad Air with a price tag of $599. This...

in News
Sep 16 · >

Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads

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

in News
Sep 16 · >

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

A battle between two of the tech world’s biggest names may well be on the cards. With Apple having...

in News
Sep 16 · >

TechOne Incubator NUST launches Student Startup Business Center Challenge 2020

TechOne Incubator NUST has officially opened up applications for the second batch of startups interested in joining the Student...

in News
Sep 15 · >

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

Microsoft released an upgraded version of its DeepSpeed library for training highly complex AI models. The company claims that...

in News
Sep 15 · >

Deep Dive: What is a Neural Network?

What do speech recognizers, automatic translators, and AlphaGo have in common? They are all based on neural networks. If...

Sep 15 · >

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

Unsurprisingly, the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in Internet usage all over the world. In...

in News
Sep 14 · >

Deep Dive – Gradient Descent in Machine Learning

We know that machine learning exists to create programs that can learn to do something, be it distinguishing between...

Sep 11 · >

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

As Muhammad Mustafa, co-founder of Mauqa Online, explains in this video, a lot of applications and digital tools all...

in News
Sep 11 · >

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

GPT-3 is an incredible work of unsupervised learning in artificial intelligence. Having been fed the entirety of the Internet,...

in News
Sep 10 · >