Pakistani baby products startup Baby Planet raises $250k in latest seed round

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

Baby Planet, a Lahore-based ecommerce platform for baby products, has raised $250,000 in a seed round led by Singapore-based High Output Ventures. VC Karavan, a…

Pakistani startup GrocerApp secures $1 million seed investment round

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

A Pakistani grocery delivery startup has raised $1 million in a seed round led by Dubai’s Jabbar Internet Group. Based in Lahore, GrocerApp also happens…

Nvidia announces new RTX 3080 GPU with a price tag of $699

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

Having teased its new series of graphics cards for weeks on end, Nvidia has finally revealed its GeForce RTX 3080 today. In fact, there have…

Uber will now require some riders to take mask selfies

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

Yes, you got that right: Uber is dead serious about following SOPs during these difficult times. With its ride-sharing business floundering as a result of…

Samsung heir found guilty of “unfair transactions”, charged with fraud

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

In a dramatic development for Samsung, South Korean prosecutors indicted the company’s vice-chairman, and the person expected to lead the company in the future, over…

Deep Dive – What is the difference between Supervised and Unsupervised Learning?

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 6 min read

At this point in time, artificial intelligence needs little to no introduction. Over here in Pakistan, investment and interest in AI has only increased in…

Twitter complied with 35pc of content removal requests from Pakistan in 2019

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

The latest biannual transparency report released by Twitter is an eye-opening one. It reveals that the microblogging platform has complied with a fair percentage of…

Qualcomm announces Snapdragon 732G with 100 MHz CPU cores, 15% faster GPU

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

The Snapdragon 730G made waves earlier this month when it was launched with the Google Pixel 4a. And now, Qualcomm has just announced a successor…

The Galaxy M51 will have the biggest battery of any Samsung smartphone yet

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

The latest alluring product in Samsung’s flagship M series, the M51, has been the talk of the town lately. This is a result of various…

Apple reportedly working on its own search engine

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

Could Apple be trying to give Google a run for its money? If recent reports coming in from website developers are anything to go by,…

Lahore-based startup invents the nation’s first bloodless and affordable dialysis machine

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

An exciting American startup based in Lahore has invented a one-of-a-kind dialysis machine for the masses. In a first for Pakistan, the machine is bloodless…

London-based researchers make history by recording fastest Internet speeds ever

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

A team of researchers at University College London has done something truly groundbreaking. It has created the fastest-ever Internet connection in recorded history, beating the…

Sony plans to enter the auto industry, currently testing a self-driving electric car

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

At this point in time, it shouldn’t be surprising that an electronics manufacturer with no prior affiliation to automobiles is trying to come up with…

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