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Google Turned 23 years old and world is celebrating

28Sep

By Aqsa Azam1 Comment

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Google Turned 23 years old and world is celebrating

World's most used search engine completes its 23 years in full glory. Google has seen so many phases in its life span and failure was never the one. SILICON VALLEY, USA - Google's motto is "Our mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful". While looking at now it is safe to say that they have provided to all. Just imagine a day without using Google or its attributes. It is just impossible now to operate without using this search engine. World is shrunken in google and its universe. So on 23rd Birthday of Google Inc, we pay our heartiest congratulations to the mighty engine of all time. Google congratulated itself with a two tier chocolate cake with letter L as a candle in it. https://twitter.c...

Switzerland is funding world’s largest solar power plant

25Aug

By Aqsa Azam3 Comments

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Switzerland is funding world’s largest solar power plant

Switzerland has begun a world biggest project of solar energy to fulfil its yearly needs. Energy crises are increasing rapidly in the world. Countries are trying new methods to increase electricity efficiency. Climate change is causing major setbacks in energy layouts. Scientists are trying to find new way of energy. Solar energy is one of the famous ways these days. Switzerland has begun building largest solar energy power plant. On the remote location of LAKE MUTTSEE, 2500 meters ( 8200 fts) above sea level, expected to produce 2.2 Megawatt of electricity. It is one of the unique power plant. Panels placed diagonally in order to get more sunlight on that height. Total capacity of this plant supposed to be around 5,000 solar units to power 740 four-person households and 3.3 million ...

Tesla Autopilot is being formally investigated by the US

18Aug

By Abdullah2 Comments

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Tesla Autopilot is being formally investigated by the US

After a series of Tesla car crashes with parked vehicles causing causalities. The US government has set up a formal inquiry against Tesla Autopilot system. UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - On Monday August 16th, the US government 'Auto Safety Regulators' started an open formal investigation against the Tesla Autopilot. This happened after around 11 Tesla vehicles in the last 3 years crashed into many parked emergency vehicles. The US National Highway Traffic Safety Agency claimed that Tesla crashes reported to have injured more than 17 people while also killing one. In all the 11 crashes, Tesla vehicles were on the Autopilot or the Cruise Control Mode. While the Tesla Autopilot and cruise control both work perfectly in traffic, they seem to be failing in front of parked emergency vehicl...

Apple will scan users iPhone to check for child abuse images

6Aug

By AbdullahNo Comments

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Apple will scan users iPhone to check for child abuse images

Apple has revealed details about the system that scans users iPhones for Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM). Once a device is found to contain CSAM, it will be assessed by a human and get reported to authorities. CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - The tech industry giant 'Apple' recently announced that it will run a scan on all iPhone devices in the United States. The scan will check the devices for any kind of child sexual abuse images. Apple will run this scan through its tool named 'neuralMatch' which will scan every photo that is uploaded to Apple's cloud. Once neuralMatch finds a child abuse image, it will notify Apple. Apple would then physically examine the photo. Upon confirming that the photo contains child abuse, it would be reported to the National Center for Missin...

Pakistani President Dr Arif Alvi suggests proactive steps for IT

29Jul

By Abdullah1 Comment

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Pakistani President Dr Arif Alvi suggests proactive steps for IT

President Dr Arif Alvi stressed the importance of IT and said that the IT sector could enormously contribute to Pakistan’s economic and scientific development ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - On Tuesday July 27th in a meeting at the President House, President, Dr Arif Alvi discussed the importance of IT Development in Pakistan. The president stressed upon the growth of IT sector saying that it can enormously contribute to Pakistan’s economic and scientific development. A briefing on (NUCES) National University of Computer and Emerging Sciences was done in the meeting. NUCES’s Rector, Dr. Ayub Alvi gave the briefing. President, Arif Alvi during the briefing on NUCES stated, “Globally, the focus of development policies is shifting from brick-and-mortar projects to the intellectual developme...