Technology

In order to increase Pakistan’s testing capacity for the novel coronavirus, Future Trust and Opencell UK collaborated to launch the country’s first robot-operated Covid-19 testing laboratory in Islamabad on Wednesday. The Future Labs, which can conduct up to 2,000 tests per day, was inaugurated by British High Commissioner Christian Turner. Future Trust — a non-profit organisation (NPO) set up by …

India’s federal government will regulate content on video streaming platforms, including global services such as Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Walt Disney’s Hotstar, as part of rules announced this week. India’s ministry of information and broadcasting will oversee streaming video content, which was previously unregulated, a brief government circular said on Tuesday, without providing further details. Earlier this year, more …

Following the rapid increase in COVID-19 cases across the globe, a USA-based electronic firm, Dynamics has unveiled a coronavirus killing machine that sucks up germs and blasts them with high-intensity ultraviolet light. Called Nanowave, the technology is capable of eliminating 99 percent of the virus in less than two thousandths of a second. The device is available for purchase in …

The PUBG Corporation comes up with new updates time and again and this time, it has announced the arrival of patch 1.1, and this update brings with it a slew of changes, including a new Metro-themed crossover that offers a brand new game mode called Metro Royale. Players can also expect a new underground world to explore as well as Metro-themed …

MOSCOW: Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine is 92% effective at protecting people from COVID-19 according to interim trial results, the country’s sovereign wealth fund said on Wednesday, as Moscow rushes to keep pace with Western drugmakers in the race for a shot. The initial results are only the second to be published from a late-stage human trial in the global race …

FRANKFURT: BioNTech, first in the race to produce evidence of a working COVID-19 vaccine, is planning to price the two-shot regimen below “typical market rates” and would differentiate pricing between countries or regions. Speaking at a Financial Times online event, the German biotech firm’s strategy head Ryan Richardson said the price tag of the vaccine, which is co-developed with Pfizer …

Huawei Technologies is expected to release its beta version of smartphones for developers on ‘December 18’ as per the announcement the company made in September this year during the launch of a distributed operating system for all scenarios HarmonyOS 2.0. The company unveiled its plan for releasing the smartphones for developers at the Huawei Developers Conference HDC2020 held in September …

A vaccine jointly developed by Pfizer and BioNTech was 90 percent effective in preventing Covid-19 infections in ongoing Phase 3 trials, the companies announced Monday. Protection in patients was achieved seven days after the second of two doses, and 28 days after the first, according to preliminary findings. “The first set of results from our Phase 3 Covid-19 vaccine trial …

Any discussion on the state of technology and its adoption in Pakistan eventually finds a way back to the structural issues and rightly so. Indeed, what the sarkari babus do (or don’t) ends up shaping the sector’s growth trajectory for better or worse. At the structural level, first is the regulatory aspect where the government tries to encourage or discourage …

SINGAPORE:  Facebook FB.O on Friday said it has dismantled seven separate networks of fake accounts and pages on its platform that were active in Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt, Turkey, Morocco, Myanmar, Georgia, and Ukraine due to “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”. The social media platform announced it had taken down the new networks as part of its monthly report into “coordinated inauthentic behaviour”, …