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Pak Govt to Digitize Services Under $77M World Bank Project
The Pak Govt has decided to hire a consultancy firm for the $77.73 million Digital Economy Enhancement Project (DEEP). This initiative, run by the Ministry of Information Technology and Telecommunication with World Bank support, aims to improve citizen-centric digital services…
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Sony’s PlayStation 5 will arrive on November 12 with a price tag of $500
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We witnessed Microsoft’s unveiling of the long-awaited Xbox Series S earlier this month. Now it’s time for Sony to shine, and today the company did…
PTA drafts new regulations to promote local manufacturing of smartphones
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The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) drafted the “Mobile Device Manufacturing Regulations and Authorization” on Tuesday. This new set of regulations aims to encourage local production…
Apple launches redesigned iPad Air with A14 chip
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During its online launch event yesterday, Apple launched the renovated iPad Air with a price tag of $599. This new device not only features an…
Apple has sold more than 500 million iPads
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When the very first iPad was unveiled to the world back in 2010, it generated a lot of noise. Some of it was positive, but…
Spotify calls out Apple’s “anti-competitive behavior”
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A battle between two of the tech world’s biggest names may well be on the cards. With Apple having recently announced Apple One, its bundle…
TechOne Incubator NUST launches Student Startup Business Center Challenge 2020
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TechOne Incubator NUST has officially opened up applications for the second batch of startups interested in joining the Student Startup Business Center (SSBC). In order…
Microsoft’s DeepSpeed library can train trillion-parameter AI models with fewer GPUs
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Microsoft released an upgraded version of its DeepSpeed library for training highly complex AI models. The company claims that the new approach being used, known…
Internet usage rose 25% during lockdown, more submarine cable companies to enter the market
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Unsurprisingly, the lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic caused a spike in Internet usage all over the world. In Pakistan, there has been a similar…
Local startup Mauqa Online aims to empower those at the bottom of the social ladder
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As Muhammad Mustafa, co-founder of Mauqa Online, explains in this video, a lot of applications and digital tools all around the world are typically made…
This eerily eloquent essay written by a robot tells us why we shouldn’t fear robots
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GPT-3 is an incredible work of unsupervised learning in artificial intelligence. Having been fed the entirety of the Internet, from Reddit posts to Wikipedia articles,…
This NIC-based startup is detecting brain tumors through AI
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Slosh AI Solutions, a startup currently based in National Incubation Center (NIC), is working on an ingenious system for the effective diagnosis of brain tumors.…
Local startup DetectNow is using AI to detect COVID-19 through cough audios
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There has been no dearth of efforts made by startups, innovators, and healthcare experts around the world to identify COVID-19 and tackle its consequences. A…
NIC’s Pitch Perfect Platform now open for everyone
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The National Incubation Centre, Islamabad, has made their Pitch Perfect platform available for anyone in Pakistan; the announcement came on the NIC’s social media platforms…
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