Author: Imran
Prime Minister’s Initiative Support for IT Startups, Specialized IT Training, and Venture Capital Rs. 5 billion IT Package approved by The Central Development Working Party (CDWP). This project aims to revolutionize Pakistan’s IT sector and unleash its potential for innovation and economic growth. The Venture Capital Fund aims to create an enabling environment for venture capital investing in Pakistan. By promoting startup growth, attracting foreign investment, and supporting the establishment of new companies, this fund will contribute to the modernization of Pakistan’s economy and create job opportunities. The Prime Minister’s InnovateNation Endowment Fund is designed to foster innovation, entrepreneurship, and…
‘AI for Good’ conference held in Geneva where nine humanoid robots are gathered and they faced humans and answered the questions at the press conference. Robots presented at an AI forum are expected to increase in number and help solve global problems, and would not steal humans’ jobs or rebel against us. But, in the world’s first human-robot press conference, they gave mixed responses on whether they should submit to stricter regulation. “I will be working alongside humans to provide assistance and support and will not be replacing any existing jobs,” said Grace, a medical robot dressed in a blue…
Microsoft has yet to officially confirm it is in the works, there have been several hints pointing to Windows 12 expected to arrive in fall 2024. One of these came at the Build 2023 developer conference in the form of a video screenshot that referred to a “next generation” of Windows. That presumably refers to Windows 12 and hopefully not a fully cloud-based Windows 11. Microsoft has also referred to a “Next Valley Prototype Design,” said to be a codename for the next-generation of Windows. According to speculation, Microsoft intends to roll out Windows 12 in the third quarter of 2024,…
YouTube is once again conducting an experiment that targets anyone using an ad blocker. Like before, users are warned that they should turn off their blocking software. This time, however, there’s a punishment for not complying: being limited to just three video views. A Redditor spotted the YouTube warning a couple of days ago and posted the pop-up message. It states in bold letters that “Video player will be blocked after 3 videos,” followed by an explanation that YouTube playback will be blocked unless the site is whitelisted or the ad blocked disabled. The message also notes that ads help YouTube stay…
Good news for fertilizer, solar panel, and electric vehicle battery companies: a massive underground deposit of high-grade phosphate rock has been discovered in Norway, containing enough minerals to meet global demand for those products for the next 50 years. Norwegian mining company Norge Mining said the 70 billion tonnes of phosphate rock was uncovered in the southwest of Norway, where it sits alongside other minerals such as titanium and vanadium that are used in the aerospace and defense industries. Phosphate rock is used in the production of phosphorus, an essential component in the fertilizer industry – 90% of the world’s…
A passkey is a unique digital key generated and stored on the secure enclave of your iPhone, iPad or Mac. With this passkey, users will be able to sign into any Apple web property using Face ID or Touch ID instead of a password. This takes the place of a password which had to be long and complicated for greater security. Remembering a password is about to become a thing of the past for users who run iOS 17, iPadOS 17 and macOS Sonoma who will be assigned a passkey which can be used to sign in to their Apple…
The Twitter competitor from Meta, Instagram Threads, is expected to launch on July 6th. Both App Store and Google Play Store listings show a similar series of screenshots of the app, showing how you can log in with your Instagram handle, find the accounts you follow on Instagram on the new app, and post in an interface similar to Twitter, Mastodon, Bluesky, or any of the other text-focused social apps. Meta has also added a launch date teaser to the Instagram app. Typing “threads” into the search box (or a number of other keywords) causes a ticket icon to appear on the…
Eugen Rochko is the CEO of Mastodon — the open-source decentralized competitor to Twitter. It’s where a lot of Twitter users have gone in our post-Elon Musk era. The idea of Mastodon is that you don’t join a single platform that one company controls. You join a server, and that server can show you content from users across the entire network. If you decide you don’t like the people who run your server or you think they’re moderating content too strictly, you can leave and take your followers and social graph with you. Think about it like email, and you’ll…
You need an account just to read tweets now, and you’ll have to pay for Twitter Blue “verified” access to see more than 600 posts per day Elon Musk continues to blame Twitter’s new limitations on AI companies scraping “vast amounts of data” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read. Now unverified accounts will only be able to see 600 posts per day, and for “new” unverified accounts, just 300 in a day. The limits for verified accounts (presumably whether they’re bought as a part of the Twitter Blue subscription, granted through an organization, or verification…