Technology

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”, …

The famous game Call of Duty: Black Ops – Cold War will reportedly require drastically less disk space as it was previously told. In a new blog post unfolding preload times and download sizes, Activision the gaming company to produce CoD, has sneaked in a big amendment to the space required on PC. It has dropped it about half the …

NEW YORK: Drugmakers and research centers around the world are working on COVID-19 vaccines, with large global trials of several of the candidates involving tens of thousands of participants well underway. Some companies had suggested early trial data could be ready for release in October, but have since pushed that back to November and December. The following is what we …

WhatsApp on Thursday finally launched its much-awaited “Disappearing Messages’ feature with a time limit of seven days before the message gets automatically deleted. In a blog post, WhatsApp said the disappearing messages function is now official and will be rolled out during this month to its 2-billion plus users. The feature is available for individual as well as group chats. …

Sahabettin Ozcelik from Turkey, who started repairing phones as a profession two decades ago, has a large collection of 1,000 old cellphones. According to Anadolu Agency, Sahabettin Ozcelik from Turkey’s eastern province of Van started repairing phones as a profession two decades ago and his interest is collecting rare models of old cellphones. The repairman has a collection of 1,000 phones, …

Ahead of the election, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube promised to clamp down on election misinformation, including unsubstantiated charges of fraud and premature declarations of victory by candidates. And they mostly did just that — though not without a few hiccups. But overall their measures still didn’t really address the problems exposed by the 2020 US presidential contest, critics of the social platforms …

ISLAMABAD: Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunications Syed Aminul Haq said on Thursday that he would never support closure of any social media platform, but no relaxation could be allowed on matters of national security. Presiding over a meeting of the Prime Minister’s Task Force on Information Technology and Telecom, he said temporary suspension of TikTok application was not …

WASHINGTON/BRUSSELS: The United States formally exited the Paris Agreement on Wednesday, fulfilling an old promise by President Donald Trump to withdraw the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter from the global pact to fight climate change. But the outcome of the tight U.S. election contest will determine for how long. Trump’s Democratic rival, Joe Biden, has promised to rejoin the agreement …

ISLAMABAD: The First-ever fastest 5G video call experiment has been carried out successfully in Pakistan. Federal Minister of IT and Telecommunication Syed Aminul Haque using high-speed internet made a 5G video call to Beijing and enjoyed the best quality of video and audio. The Inauguration ceremony of experimental 5G video call was held here at Zong Headquarter Islamabad. While speaking …