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Walking through the buzzing halls of Karachi’s Expo Centre, dodging eager exhibitors and the occasional drone demo gone rogue, ITCN Asia 2025 felt less like a tech expo and more like a portal to Pakistan’s digital future. Over 67,000 attendees converged to explore 300+ global brands showcasing innovations in AI, cybersecurity, fintech, and more. Let … Read more
KARACHI: The Pakistan Stock Exchange Limited (PSX) and the Securities and Exchange Commission of Pakistan (SECP) have entered a strategic partnership to enhance oversight of the capital markets through a signed Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The agreement, formalised at a ceremony at PSX on September 23, 2025, grants SECP direct access to PSX’s New Surveillance … Read more
Meta said Thursday it was activating so-called "teen accounts" with additional protections for adolescent Facebook and Messenger users worldwide, months after their deployment in major English-speaking countries. "We've placed hundreds of millions of teens in Teen Accounts across Instagram, Facebook, and Messenger, and now we're expanding them to teens around the world on Facebook and … Read more
Microsoft said it found that Israel was violating some terms of service for its products and that it does “not provide technology to facilitate mass surveillance of civilians.”
The case could rewrite the rules on how businesses make money on Google’s smartphone operating system.
The settlement is one of the largest in the history of the Federal Trade Commission, which sued Amazon two years ago.
The billionaire’s artificial intelligence company, xAI, has secured a deal with the government that will allow federal agencies to use the chatbot Grok for a small fee.
The Silicon Valley chipmaker has held talks with Apple about bolstering its finances as it looks to turn around its ailing business.
If you’re an engineer completing your four-year bachelor’s programme and enter the industry, companies are frustrated you have no experience. But now, Huawei and the Pakistan government are trying to fill this gap by training 300,000 young people.“If even one million youth earn an average of $10,000 annually, the economic impact would be massive,” an … Read more
AI has little concept of other cultures Source: REUTERS Much like people after COVID, AI is unable to pick up on social cues. Specifically, social cues and cultural contexts of non-Western societies when using it to translate another language. Say you host someone at your house and ask them if they want chai, and then … Read more