Apple’s 2018 Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) kicked off on June 4, 2018, in San Jose, California, with a keynote by Tim Cook, the chief executive officer. Given the major announcements made during Google I/O, there was a lot riding on the line …Continue reading
Edu-Aid Application Makes Sign Language Accessible
A 23-year old Pakistani entrepreneur has developed an application for people with hearing disabilities. The application, known as Edu-Aid, translates sign language into spoken language. The software of the application developed by Syed Faizan Hussain makes use of computer vision, natural language …Continue reading
Smart Cop on the Beat
Dr. Haider Ashraf is the deputy inspector general (DIG) operations, Lahore. He also serves as a commander of the Punjab Police’s Integrated Command, Control and Communication (PPIC3) system recently established under the Punjab Safe Cities Authority. He is credited with pioneering technological …Continue reading
Google Can Help Detect Breast Cancer Using Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence, also known as AI, has been making leaps and bounds especially in the healthcare domain. Now Google is using AI to review patients biological tissue samples in order to detect breast cancer. The results of this technology have been revealed …Continue reading
Introducing Smart Policing
Technology for safe cities in Pakistan: the beginning of a new era. A man enters a hotel and approaches the front desk to book a room. The front desk agent asks for his identity. While his room is being processed and keys …Continue reading
The Pakistani Programming Prodigy
Mohammad Raza is not your everyday 11 year old boy. While his peers go to school, play cricket and scrape the occasional knee, Raza sits in front of a computer and codes. He builds softwares that can help catch most wanted criminals …Continue reading
The Coming Age of Machine Intelligence
Marc Andreessen once said that software was eating the world. The point he was trying to make was that software increasingly represents the value in most economic processes. In this sense, where software was previously one small component of a complex process …Continue reading