Uber secures a billion dollar investment for its self-driving unit

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Having already filed for an initial public offering (IPO) a week ago, Uber Technologies Inc. has now taken yet another massive step by obtaining a…

Facebook to rival Apple and Google by introducing its own AI voice assistant for AR/VR products

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

With Google, Apple and Amazon having dominated the market for artificial intelligence-based voice assistants in the form of Google Assistant, Siri and Alexa, it makes…

IT sub-committee intends to increase pensions for all PTCL employees

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Pakistan’s national telephone and internet services provider, Pakistan Telecommunications Company Limited (PTCL) holds an important status as the backbone of the nation’s telecom infrastructure. Its…

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Govt invites global smartphone giants to set up manufacturing plants in Haripur

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

With the national economy barely up to the mark in recent months, the Pakistani government has decided to take concrete steps in the direction of…

LinkedIn introduces reaction options on its platform

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Facebook may have brought reactions to the fore, but there is no reason why any other social network can’t follow its lead in order to…

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Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp are finally back after experiencing global outages

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

You know social media means a lot to us humans when related apps manage to make the headlines just because they failed to work for…

Israeli spacecraft crashes in a failed attempt to land on the Moon

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

With only three countries, having achieved the feat of sending a mission to the Moon – the USA, the former Soviet Union, and China –…

We have the first ever photo of an actual black hole, thanks to this female scientist

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

It has been almost a century since Albert Einstein first made the historic prediction of the existence of black holes in his theory of gravity.…

Apple has “lost confidence” in Intel, Huawei happy to serve 5G modems

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Having made a name for itself as a pioneer of 5G technology, Huawei has an important role to play for the future. Understandably, they have…

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Hackers managed to keep their complex spyware hidden for five years

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Spyware is inherently intriguing primarily because of the complexity that allows it to carry out its malicious plans, and breaking them down is something that…

Samsung considers offering the Galaxy Note 10 in two different sizes

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The world’s largest smartphone manufacturer is not shy of releasing its flagship phones with an interesting twist, be it in terms of aesthetics, performance, or…

YouTube’s picture-in-picture mode to be released for non-premium users outside the US

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The best thing about streaming YouTube videos on your desktop instead of on your mobile device is the ability to resize that window, open it…

Samsung Galaxy S10 fingerprint sensor fooled by 3D printed fingerprint

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 7 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

While smartphone companies have been diligently implementing the best security measures in order to make their systems infallible, there are always fixes and hacks available…

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