MoST To Provide Loans For Execution Of Technology Based Business Ideas: Chaudhry Fawad Hussain
In a tweet on his account, he said anybody who had such a plan should register it with MoST for the evaluation in the month of . He said the ministry would sponsor your ideas 70 percent to 100 percent if our experts would satisfied your ideas.
LED light can damage eyes, health authority warns
MAISONS-ALFORT (AFP) - The "blue light" in LED lighting can damage the eye?s retina and disturb natural sleep rhythms, France?s government-run health watchdog said this week. New findings confirm earlier concerns that "exposure to an intense and powerful light is ?photo-toxic? and can lead to irreversible loss of retinal cells and diminished sharpness of vision," the French Agency for ...
Facebook to curb livestreaming amid pressure over Christchurch massacre
Facebook announced on Wednesday it would tighten access to its livestreaming feature as New Zealand's premier Jacinda Ardern and French leader Emmanuel Macron prepared to launch the global ?Christchurch Call? initiative to tackle the spread of extremism online. ?Following the horrific recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand, we've been reviewing what more we can do to limit our services ...
San Francisco bans facial recognition use by police and govt
SAN FRANCISCO: San Francisco has banned the use of facial recognition by police and government agencies, the first US city to take such a step as privacy fears mount in the country's technology capital. "The propensity for facial recognition technology to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits," read the legislation passed Tuesday. "It shall ...
$10m XPRIZE for software that teaches illiterate to read
LOS ANGELES (AP) ? The challenge was to develop software that could easily be downloaded onto tablets that poor children around the world could use to teach themselves to read, write and do simple arithmetic. Nearly 200 teams from 40 countries around the world jumped at the chance to become the latest winner of an XPRIZE, a coveted international ...
Facebook To Curb Live Streaming Amid Pressure Over Christchurch Massacre
Paris, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th May, 2019 ):Facebook announced Wednesday it would tighten access to its live streaming feature as New Zealand's premier Jacinda Ardern and French leader Emmanuel Macron prepared to launch the global "Christchurch Call" initiative to tackle the spread of extremism online. Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has been under intense pressure since March ...
China blocks all language editions of Wikipedia
BEIJING (AFP) - Beijing has broadened its block of online encyclopedia Wikipedia to include all language editions, reported an internet censorship research group, ahead of the country?s most politically explosive anniversary. Previously, most editions of Wikipedia -- besides the Chinese language version, which was reportedly blocked in 2015 -- were available, OONI said in their report. The expanded ...
Gree Wins 6 International Awards In Geneva
Lahore (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th May, 2019) GREE, Pakistan?s premier consumer electronics brand, has won six awards, including three gold awards, one silver award, and two special awards, at the 47th International Exhibition of Inventions of Geneva. GREE AI multi VRF unit GMV6 got a gold award and Saudi Arabia Outstanding Innovation Award, and the high-precision ...
Malaysian Teen Took Own Life After Instagram Poll
Kuala Lumpur, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 15th May, 2019 ) :A Malaysian teenager who posted an poll asking if she should live or die took her own life after a majority of respondents voted for the latter, sparking calls for an investigation. "Really Important, Help Me Choose D/L," she wrote, according to a report on the ...
Facebook Tightens Live Streaming Rules After New Zealand Mosque Mass Shooting
MOSCOW (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 15th May, 2019) has announced that following the horrific terror attacks in , which were livestreamed through its platform, it will tighten restrictions against people who violate its community standards with hateful content. now on, anyone who violates our most serious policies will be restricted using Live for set periods ...
Huawei Chairman Says Ready To Sign 'no-spy' Deal With UK
London, (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 14th May, 2019 ):Chinese telecom giant Huawei is willing to sign a "no-spy" agreement with countries including Britain, the firm's chairman said on Tuesday, as the head of NATO said Britain must preserve secure mobile networks. NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, who was also visiting Britain, said network security remained of utmost ...
Huawei Offers To Sign 'No-Spy' Contracts With Western States To Refute Surveillance Claims
LONDON (UrduPoint News / Sputnik - 14th May, 2019) Chinese Huawei telecom giant said on Tuesday that it was willing to sign a "no-spy" agreement with governments of Western states, including the United Kingdom, amid concerns that the company's telecom technologies were being used to spy for the Chinese government.
Facebook tightens live-streaming in crackdown on violence
People who have broken certain rules, including those against "dangerous organisations and individuals," will be restricted from using the Facebook Live streaming feature, said the vice president of integrity Guy Rosen. "Following the horrific recent terrorist attacks in New Zealand, we've been reviewing what more we can do to limit our services from being used to cause harm or ...
San Francisco bans facial recognition use by police
"The propensity for facial recognition technology to endanger civil rights and civil liberties substantially outweighs its purported benefits, and the technology will exacerbate racial injustice and threaten our ability to live free of continuous government monitoring," read the legislation passed Tuesday. "Facial recognition can be used for general surveillance in combination with public video cameras, and it can ...
Now you can explore a cave without actually going into a cave
CHYNOVSKA JESKYNE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - Czech speleologists have come up with a way to explore flooded cave systems without strapping on scuba gear, wet suits, helmets and water-proof lamps: 3D mapping. Geo-CZ used their system in Chynovska jeskyne, a cave about 100 kilometers (62 miles) south of Prague, that was discovered in 1863 and opened to the public ...
NASA selects female astronaut for 2024 moon landing
For starters, there will be a seat on the 2024 lunar mission specially reserved for a woman, the first to ever walk on the Moon. The program itself makes a sort-of bow to gender equality: it?s named for the Greek goddess and twin sister of Apollo, the venerable Artemis. "Fifty years after Apollo, the Artemis program will carry the ...
Facebook restricts Live feature, citing New Zealand shooting
Facebook said in a statement it was introducing a ?one-strike? policy for use of Facebook Live, temporarily restricting access for people who have faced disciplinary action for breaking the company?s most serious rules anywhere on its site. Facebook did not specify which offences were eligible for the one-strike policy or how long suspensions would last, but a spokeswoman said ...
WhatsApp security breach may have targeted human rights groups
The company said it was still investigating the breach but believed only a ?select number of users were targeted through this vulnerability by an advanced cyber actor.? But its advice to all users to update came ?out of an abundance of caution? and a recommendation by Citizen Lab, a research group at the University of Toronto. A WhatsApp spokesman said ...
OnePlus 7 Pro 'Flagship Killer' unveiled with king specs
OnePlus has always sort of been a niche enthusiast?s smartphone brand which may not be as popular as the majors, but it?s carved a pretty nice niche for itself by delivering great smartphone hardware at equally great price points as GSMarena reported. The company released their first smartphone less than five years ago but today, with the experience gained ...
UPDATE - Strong Magnetic Storm May Cause Satellites To Deorbit - Russian Academy Of Sciences
"In accordance with the developed scale of magnetic storms, level three storms have a noticeable impact on , especially in space, including causing [space] to deorbit and creating problems with maintaining their orientation," the LPI RAS Laboratory of X-ray Astronomy of the Sun said in a statement.
