Twitter announces major new upcoming features for the platform

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Twitter, one of the world’s most popular social media platforms, has announced new upcoming features for its platform. This includes the ability for users to…

Microsoft’s Xbox Live service goes down for more than five hours globally

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Recently, Microsoft’s famous online gaming service Xbox Live goes down for more than five hours. This outage in the service prevented users from signing into…

Zoom will be adding close captions for all free accounts

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Zoom is officially releasing support for all its free accounts this fall to enhance accessibility within the service. Primarily, this feature will allow users to…

Steam’s new multiplayer game streaming allows users to play games without Steam accounts

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In 2019, Steam had introduced its ‘Remote Play Together’ feature which allows users to play multiplayer games over the internet. With the latest update, the…

Pakistan’s foreign borrowing surges to $6.7bn

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

The Government of Pakistan has now received $6.7 billion in gross foreign loans over the course of the first seven months of the current fiscal…

Businesses in Lahore are complaining about poor cellular service

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

The Lahore Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) on Wednesday urged the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to look into the poor quality of services provided…

Facebook to invest $1 billion in news and journalism industry

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

Facebook Inc on Wednesday pledged to invest at least $1 billion in the news industry over the next three years, days after a high-profile stand-off…

Ransomware hack delays Cyberpunk patch 1.2 update

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

CD Projekt SA’s developer team of Cyberpunk 2077 had recently been locked out of their own workstations for the past two weeks due to a…

Pakistanis suffering from load shedding despite having more electricity than they need

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The CPEC drive power production projects have led to a drastic rise in the electricity being produced in Pakistan, much more than Pakistanis need. But,…

Oppo provides a demo of their latest ‘Air Charging’ technology

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

In June 2020, Oppo had introduced its Air Charging technology which was demoed a year later at MWC Shanghai. The technology was showcased with their…

NITB encoruages Islamabad citizens to report kidnapping with the “City Islamabad” app’s E-police feature

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Launched in March 2020 last year by the National Information Technology Board, the “City Islamabad” is an e-portal that aims to empower the citizens by…

YouTube is adding ‘supervised experiences’ to help parents decide what their kids can watch

By Usman Aslam ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

YouTube is adding new parental controls on its application called ‘supervised experiences’ which will allow parents to place certain restrictions on what kind of content…

Mastercard discusses collaboration with PITB to explore digital payment solutions

By Ahsan Zafeer ⏐ 5 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

On Wednesday, the DG IT-operations for PITB (Punjab Information Technology Board) discussed fintech opportunities in a meeting with Mastercard’s country manager for Pakistan, Atyab Tahir.…

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