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09/12/2021

The Omicron variant can partially evade protection from two doses of Pfizer (PFE.N) and partner BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine, the against research head of a laboratory at the Africa Health Research Institute in South Africa said on Tuesday. But the study showed that blood from people who had received two doses of the vaccine and had a prior infection was mostly able to neutralize the variant, suggesting that booster doses of the vaccine could help to fend off infection....

09/12/2021

Coca-Cola Beverages Pakistan Limited (CCI Pakistan) installed a state-of-the-art water filtration plant for the residents of Haripur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) under its flagship CSR project- PAANI. The plant is situated close to the location of CCI Pakistan’s 7th production plant which is currently being constructed in the Haripur district. The inauguration of CCI’s 30th water filtration plant in Pakistan was virtually marked during a special ceremony hosted at the office of Mr....

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09/12/2021

Transparency International Pakistan (TIP) published the National Corruption Perception Survey (NCPS) 2021 earlier today. From the highest inflation in the current government’s tenure to police as the most corrupt public department, the NCPS 2021 showed how Pakistanis perceive important issues of governance. However, it has come to light that the methodology employed by the TIP for NCPS is deeply flawed and requires a number of authenticity and scientific validity checks to reflect the true perception of the entire nation....

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09/12/2021

Twitter Spaces is getting a Podcast-like feature that allows users to listen to a recording of the discussions on the platform. With the latest update, all users on Android, iOS, and Web can listen to recordings of Twitter Spaces. Previously, this was limited to iOS users. Additionally, the platform will allow hosts on both iOS and Android to record a Space....

09/12/2021

Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 1 benchmark results are out and the SoC performs better than its predecessor, Qualcomm Snapdragon 888, as per a report. Additionally, the benchmarking results show that it has beaten Samsung Exynos 2100 but is still behind Apple's A15 Bionic silicon on CPU performance. The benchmarks were conducted on Geekbench 5, PCMark Work 3.0, GFXBench 5, and Basemark Web....

08/12/2021

An international coalition of scholars and a number of influential signatories have sent an open letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. The group, consisting of more than 300 scientists has asked Meta to open its doors to outside researchers and do its part in understanding mental health of children and adolescents. The letter, penned in response to internal documents leaked to…...

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07/12/2021

The national winners of the fifth edition of the Huawei Middle East ICT Competition in Pakistan have been announced, with winning teams qualifying for the regional finals later in December. Held in partnership with HEC, Huawei Authorized Learning Partners, Huawei Academy Support Centers, and Huawei ICT Academies, the 2021 edition of the competition attracted more than 10,000 students from 137 universities out of which 50 qualified for national finals and the most talented 6 have qualified for regional finals, nurturing and empowering a future generation of local ICT talent to effectively contribute to Pakistan national digitization plans and visions....

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07/12/2021

realme is the world’s fastest-growing smartphone brand – and that’s not it. It is also Pakistan’s fastest-growing smartphone brand, and there is a good reason for that. The brand gives true value-for-money coupled with top-quality products that speak well with its Gen-Z target market. This time around, realme has brought another C-Series superstar to end the year on a high note....

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07/12/2021

An Indian-origin CEO of a US-based homeownership company has abruptly fired more than 900 employees, about 9 per cent of its workforce, on a Zoom webinar, citing market efficiency, performance and productivity as the reasons behind the move. On a Zoom webinar last Wednesday, Better.com CEO Vishal Garg abruptly announced that the mortgage company is laying off about 9 per cent of its workforce, …...

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07/12/2021

We see a lot of premium flagship smartphones arrive in India soon after they go on sale in international markets, which only goes to show that India is an important market for most smartphone brands. However, there are some manufacturers that have held back on some models in 2021 despite everyone expecting them to launch. These are devices that appeared promising, and in some cases, seemed like it would be a perfect fit, but for reasons best known to manufacturers, never showed up....

07/12/2021

China recently altered the weather ahead of a political event according to a Beijing university study. A research paper from Tsinghua University has revealed that extensive cloud-seeding operation was carried out on July 1, 2021 to ensure clear skies and low air pollution. The government launched the large-scale operation – lacing clouds with chemicals to bring on rainfall – over suburban Beijing and some neighbouring areas hours before the Communist Party marked its centenary on July 1, reported…...

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07/12/2021

Careem, the Super App for the greater Middle East and Pakistan, partners with Educative, an online platform to learn coding and software development, to provide its employees with a safe and convenient everyday commute. The collaboration will provide Educative’s more than 600 employees in Pakistan with a quick and hassle-free commute service at subsidised rates. The partnership is kicking off in Lahore with plans to further proliferate to other cities in Pakistan....

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