Companies banned from using “dark patterns” that trick users in California

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

If you’ve encountered mazes when opting out of a subscription or deleting an account, these are “dark patterns” — user interfaces that are designed to…

DDR5 benchmark results show that next-gen RAM will be 53% faster than DDR4

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

Chinese memory manufacturer Longsys has released test results of its DDR5 memory modules which were evaluated on an Intel Alder Lake Desktop platform comprising of…

NUST team ‘Bfreeze’ selected to receive $100K seed award by the The Hult Foundation

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

A team of recent NUST graduates and their startup ‘Bfreeze’ has been selected amongst 11 other teams by The Hult Prize Foundation to receive $100K…

TikTok to force personalized ads on its users soon

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

You might enjoy watching and sharing the content shared by your favorite TikTok celebrities, but are you ready to be bombarded with ads from the…

Top 30 Pakistani startups to pitch at the IT Ministry’s PAKImpactInvest competition

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

Top 30 selected startups from all over Pakistan will be pitching at the IT Ministry’s PAKImpactInvest competition and competing for grand prizes; it was announced…

Nokia to slash up to 10,000 jobs

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

Nokia on Tuesday announced plans to cut up to 10,000 jobs within two years to trim costs and invest more in research capabilities, as the…

Russian scientists sank a neutrino observatory into the world’s deepest lake

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

Recently Russian scientists lowered a series of detectors between 2,500 and 4,300 feet below the surface of Lake Baikal. These sensors formed the Baikal-Gigaton Volume…

Microsoft’s recent cloud outage affects Teams, Azure and Xbox Live

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

In recent news, numerous Microsoft products which are dependent on cloud infrastructure are currently facing issues. This is said to be a result of a…

Pakistan’s economy reaches its peak production levels, record growth of 9.1% reported

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

The Minister for Industries and Production, Hammad Azhar, has announced that large scale manufacturing, including automobiles, textile, sugar, and medicine, in Pakistan has grown by…

Pakistani youth wins the ‘Commonwealth Youth Covid-19 Hero’ award for his healthcare startup called ‘InstaCare’

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

Bilal Amjad, a Pakistani youth from Lahore, has bagged the coveted ‘Commonwealth Youth Covid-19 Hero Award’ in recognition of his healthcare startup InstaCare. The solution…

KPK launches Pakistan’s first ever crypto advisory committee, Waqar Zaka claims credit

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

The science and technology advisor to Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Ziaullah Bangash, has announced that the inaugurating meeting of Pakistan’s first advisory committee for Cryptocurrency…

Twitter will soon release two-factor authentication for user accounts

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

With security and user privacy becoming a paramount requirement, many companies have been looking to improve the security part of their platforms. Hence, Twitter is…

A new Windows 10 update fixes issues where printers would crash computers

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

Recently many users have complained about one of Windows recent updates which caused numerous problems when they connected their computer to a printer. Users reported…

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