NASA has released its most detailed and comprehensive mission catalog of planets detected by its Kepler telescope. The telescope team has discovered 219 new planets, 10 of which are alike in size to Earth and orbit in the habitable zone of a …Continue reading
Pakistani Cleantech Startup Wins Global Award
A Pakistani startup has won an award in the “Waste to Energy” category at a global competition for innovators of clean technology. The competition was held in Silicon Valley on 9th February, 2017 during Cleantech Week in San Francisco. Innovators and entrepreneurs …Continue reading
Silicon Valley Can’t Be Copied
By 1960, Silicon Valley had already captured the attention of the world as a teeming technology center. It had spawned the microwave electronics industry and set a pattern for industry-academic partnerships. French president Charles de Gaulle paid a visit and marveled at …Continue reading
Can Pakistan be the next Silicon Valley?
By Hassan Baig ADOLPH Schwimmer — who preferred ‘Al’ over Adolph — sat next to the Shimon Peres, who became Israeli president half a century later, in a plane flying over the Arctic tundra. They were heading for Israel. This was 1953. …Continue reading
Technology and Inequality
The signs of the gap—really, a chasm—between the poor and the super-rich are hard to miss in Silicon Valley. On a bustling morning in downtown Palo Alto, the center of today’s technology boom, apparently homeless people and their meager belongings occupy almost …Continue reading