Protests and Mobile Service outages – We are hampering our own growth

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

Regardless of the motivation behind them, protests are undoubtedly powerful. A large group of people gathering together over a single, unified cause to create the…

Top 10 emerging technologies of 2020

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 6 min read

As 2020 comes to an end, people everywhere have been reflecting and pondering upon what has- and hasn’t happened this year. There is no doubt…

Aftermath of the Hafeez Center Fire – Will the mobile market owners be able to recover?

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

Reports say that no lives were lost because of the massive fire at Lahore’s Hafeez Center on Sunday; but how many livelihoods were lost? How…

AI in the future could turn animals against us

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

This might sound like a bite from Black Mirror, but it’s actually a very interesting conclusion made by The Next Web in a recent story…

Female fitness start-up AimFit raises $1m to scale across Pakistan

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

Female fitness studio chain AimFit has raised a seed round of $1 million to become the first VC-backed fitness start-up out of Pakistan. The oversubscribed…

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…

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…

Applications for NIC Cohort 9 are open: Apply Now!

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

The National Incubation Center has officially launched Cohort 9 for businesses and startups. If you want to scale up and commercialize your business in a…

This app is perfect for teaching programming to your kids

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

Have you ever considered teaching your kids how to program? Or if you’re a primary school teacher, have you ever wondered what it would be…

Deep Dive – What is GPT-3, and why is it becoming so popular?

By Hamza Zakir ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 7 min read

  A famous artificial intelligence researcher once said, “No matter how good our computers get at winning games like Go or Jeopardy, we don’t live…

Deep Dive – What is Linear Regression in Machine Learning?

By Hamnah Khalid ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 6 min read

For nearly seventy years now, machine learning has had this crude definition attached to it: that it is a way to give computers and machines…

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…

5 steps to overcome RPA Implementation Challenges

By Naima Rabbie ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 3 min read

Robotic process automation (RPA) is today’s technology of choice to enable streamlined business operations and reduced costs. However, when organizations start their RPA implementation journey,…

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