Reviews Archive
19 Jan 2016
Robots may soon steal your job and that’s a good thing
Robots may soon steal your job and that’s a good thing According to the latest World Economic Forum report (PDF), roughly 7 million jobs are expected to be lost in the next five years thanks to automation and the use of robots. Does that sound like doomsday on the horizon? It’s really not all bad. In
19 Jan 2016
Everyone knows what your password is
Everyone knows what your password is We all know it’s important to create strong passwords to stop cyber criminals hacking into our digital lives and there are plenty of companies offering ways to make it easier for you to create or remember them. But we laugh in the face of danger, right? Security firm Splash Data
19 Jan 2016
Frustrated developers from the Web’s biggest projects say GitHub isn’t listening
Frustrated developers from the Web’s biggest projects say GitHub isn’t listening In an open letter published Friday, developers and maintainers of some of the Web’s largest code libraries and languages, complained that GitHub isn’t listening to them — and is almost impossible to reach. The letter, Dear GitHub, says that “many of us are frustrated” because the
19 Jan 2016
Why you may want to include password retrieval instructions in your will
Why you may want to include password retrieval instructions in your will CBC reports that when 72-year old widow Peggy Bush wanted to retrieve her late husband’s Apple ID password to play card games on her iPad, she was told that she’d need to produce a court order to have the company share it with
19 Jan 2016
Give your photos and videos a dose of weird with Hyperspektiv’s amazing effects
Give your photos and videos a dose of weird with Hyperspektiv’s amazing effects When it comes to being creative with photos and video, app developers are starting to go way beyond the limitations of Instagram-style filters. High quality, real-time algorithmic effects are the order of the day with apps likeGeometriCam, which recently impressed us, and
19 Jan 2016
Telenor Proposes Action Items for Realizing Digital Pakistan
Telenor Proposes Action Items for Realizing Digital Pakistan Reduce restrictive legislation or heavy taxation on sector Reduce or eliminate device and data taxes Develop data centers to support cloud computing More mentoring and funding for budding entrepreneurs and technology developers for achieving the dream of digitizing Pakistan effectively. Pakistan can achieve digital connectivity indicators similar
19 Jan 2016
Future Processors Will Only Support Windows 10
Future Processors Will Only Support Windows 10 As it turns out, the AMD, Intel and Qualcomm processors of the future will only support Windows 10 to get enterprise support. This news will allow Microsoft to further add reluctant business users who have stuck faithfully to older OS iterations. What about Windows 7, 8 and 8.1?
19 Jan 2016
Twitter Experiences A Brief Outage for Most Users Worldwide
Twitter Experiences A Brief Outage for Most Users Worldwide Twitter is down for most users worldwide. A recent fix has enabled the social network for some users but most are still incapable of accessing the service. Web visitors are facing error pages while mobile users can’t seem to access to read or tweet anything as
18 Jan 2016
YouTube Blocks Blasphemous Content in Pakistan
YouTube Blocks Blasphemous Content in Pakistan YouTube, after resisting for years, has finally blocked the access of blasphemous videos in Pakistan, we have checked. The move is aimed at aligning YouTube’s content policy with Pakistan’s demand for blocking the access of blasphemous videos in the country. An agreement, regarding this, between YouTube and Government of
15 Jan 2016
Government to Establish COMSATS University Campus in Quetta
Government to Establish COMSATS University Campus in Quetta Rana Tanveer Hussain, the Minister for Science and Technology, revealed that the government will be funding the development of a COMSATS University campus in Quetta. He was addressing the Senators from the Upper House about the measure that’s designed to facilitate the people of the area and promote