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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…
Huawei and HEC are offering free week long training to undergrad students in Pakistan
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Huawei and HEC are going to offer free training in ICT skills to 30 undergraduate students across the country as part of Huawei Seeds For…
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…
Facebook software engineer Ashok Chandwaney resigns, says company “is choosing to be on the wrong side of history”
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Ashok Chandwaney, a software engineer who has worked at Facebook for more than 5 years now, has officially resigned from the company. However, what…
NUTECH’s indigenously developed ventilators ready for commercialisation
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The National University of Technology (NUTECH) has recently developed an indigenous ventilator to help our country’s fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. It was showcased earlier…
PPSC’s website crashes amidst huge load on servers
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Punjab Public Service Commission’s website crashed due to huge load on servers as applicants rushed to apply for lecturer jobs on the portal. At the…
Applications for NIC Cohort 9 are open: Apply Now!
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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…
Government has launched an automated jobs portal to tackle unemployment
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In light with the vision of Digital Pakistan, the Federal Government has launched a new jobs portal to tackle unemployment in the country and for…
Twitter starts adding headlines and descriptions to its Trending section
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Let’s be honest: Twitter’s real-time Trending section isn’t always obvious. Sure, some trends like #BlackLivesMatter are very self-explanatory. But there are always some trends that…
UVAS tops Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2020 in Pakistan
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Times Higher Education has been releasing Impact Rankings every year since 2019. These rankings determine and assess the world’s universities against the Sustainable Development Goals…
This app is perfect for teaching programming to your kids
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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…