The NFT support on Instagram was previously just available to a few creators in the United States but later on, the company planned to expand it worldwide. The social network’s initial Non-Fungible Tokens test was carried out in May. After the success and complete satisfaction, the company is now rolling out the NFT expansion in more than 100 countries in Asia-Pacific, Africa, the Middle East, and America. Countries will now be able to share their NFTs on Instagram and luckily Pakistan is also in the list....

Because of the pandemic Microsoft will not take the same financial pounding as many of its peers. Revenue soared 15 percent in the first quarter of 2020, members of Microsoft Teams rose more than 70 percent in April, and stock price of the firm is up 14 percent this year. Nadella warned of the implications of actively embracing telecommuting; “What feels like Burnout? What do you make about mental health?...

Microsoft’s New Family Safety App is Live Now This family safety app is highly useful for parents who can efficiently manage app usage and overall screen time on this app. Parents can also set app time limits with the ability for children to request extensions. This Microsoft app is available for Windows, Xbox, and Android, which means that the time limits for games and apps will be synchronized on multiple devices....

Minecraft: Education Edition will launch on Chrome OS in collaboration with the Google Education team and will provide the same functionality as the Windows , Mac, and iPad versions, including cross-platform support, according to a blog post on the official website of the project. Based on Minecraft, the highly known block-building game, Minecraft: Education Edition aims at providing students with an educational environment with hundreds of lessons, design challenges, and STEM curricula (science , technology , engineering, and math) while offering models that enable teachers to develop their own activities....

Minister Fawad Censures High Court’s Verdict of Banning TikTok On Monday, the Sindh high court issued a verdict to suspend the video-sharing app TikTok across the country, and the reason they quote was the presence of ‘obscene and immoral’ content. Minister Fawad Chaudary turned to Twitter to condemn the decision of the court and warn of consequences that the country will face in the future in case it did not carry out any judicial reforms....

Pakistani users are shifting their Internet into a new gear in 2014, which will be the year mobile Internet overtakes desktop Internet, according to a new survey sponsored by Google. While a desktop does dominant with 91% own a PC at home 45% also own a smartphone or tablet 18% cite the latter as their primary device 86% use PCs to access the Internet daily 77% use smartphones 73% use feature phones 59% use tablets daily....

Shoaib Ahmad Siddique, Secretary IT & Telecommunication and Minà Dowlatchahi, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Representative virtually signed framework collaboration agreement while sitting in Pakistan and Rome, Italy respectively. MoITT and UN Signed Agreement to Develop Agriculture in Pakistan As to control the spread of Coronavirus social distancing is imperative, Ministry of IT is performing all its function through the use of ICT. Online signing of a collaboration agreement with FAO is an example of performing official duty while ensuring social distancing....

The consensuses were reached at during a high-level meeting chaired by Shoaib Ahmad Siddiqui, Federal Secretary for IT & Telecom which was attended by different stakeholders. MoITT to Propose Major Incentives for Smartphones Manufacturing in Pakistan Talking to this scribe Siddiqui said that the consensuses have been reached at and the summary after the approval of Federal Minister for Information Technology and Telecommunication Syed Amin Ul Haque, would be submitted to the ECC....

Multi-Device Support will use End-to-End Encryption: WhatsApp The multi-device support or the ability to use WhatsApp on multiple devices simultaneously has been launched in the beta version of the app. Amid the new update, a number of users are now asking if the conversations that will take place between these multiple devices are readable by third parties or more simply, will the company provide end-to-end encryption. According to the WABetainfo, the details offered in WhatsApp Beta version 2....

Musk Warns Users Twitter Employees to Work Long Hours or Leave Furthermore, Elon Musk said, Workers were instructed to click on a link if they wished to “be a part of the new Twitter.” After acquiring Twitter for $44 billion (£38.7 billion), Musk has already stated that half of its employees will be laid off. Mr. Musk stated that he had “no option” but to implement the layoffs, as the firm was losing $4 million each day....

In wake of the declaration of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO), the Government of Pakistan (GoP) has declared a National Health Emergency of Public Concern on 13 March 2020. With the growing number of confirmed cases of coronavirus patients every day, situation warrants a high level of preparedness and preemptive measures to control the spread of virus. NDRMF Extends Grant Financing worth US$ 50 Million to NDMA In order to supplement GoP efforts, NDRMF has approved project aimed to ‘enhance Pakistan’s capacity for preparedness and response for Covid-19 ‘with a total project cost of PKR 7,899....

Netflix’s Squid Game to Generate a Staggering $900 Million in Value: Report According to a report of Bloomberg, If we see the production cost of Squid games, it’s estimated around $21.4 million, as compared to the $900 million dollars revenue that it would generate. Furthermore, according to the report, nearly 132 million people had watched at least two minutes of the show in its first 4 weeks. So it easily broke records easily including a record set by English costume drama Bridgerton....

Notice that a leak appeared last year that the iPhone 12 series could be equipped with a fingerprint sensor under the display but a source inside Apple at the time admitted that this feature would probably be used in the iPhone 13 Series. Recommended: iPhone 12: Company clears why accessories are missing This information has also been supported by the Twitter account L0vetodream, which has certified the minute information is given on the iPhone 12, HomePod mini, and Apple Watch 6....

New Xperia Phones Ready to be Unveiled Sony is yet again preparing to release the latest generation of these smartphones. The company’s mobile business has stated that an event will be held on May 11 to unveil the latest generation of this series. The promotional video makes it apparent that we’ll be getting an Xperia 1 IV (mark four), however, new Xperia 5 and 10 phones are also possible. Also interested in: realme 9 Pro+ Strikes the Right Balance of Power, Efficiency and Fluidity with its MediaTek Dimensity 920 5G Chipset...

Bank Alfalah will perform settlement services for NIFT’s Digital Financial Services Platform called “NIFT ePay” Karachi – November 25, 2019: In an effort to promote Digital Financial Services (DFS) in Pakistan, National Institutional Facilitation Technologies (NIFT), an existing Payment System Operator/Provider (PSO/PSP) offering nation-wide cheque clearing services, has signed an agreement with Bank Alfalah, one of Pakistan’s leading and progressive banks, to facilitate settlement services for mobile/electronic commerce payments (Digital Commerce Payments) through NIFT’s DFS platform under the brand name “NIFT ePay” using bank accounts....

The Nike Dunk Genesis Cryptokicks, a series of 20,000 NFT sneakers, was released over the weekend by RTFKT and Nike. Crypto gamblers have been buying virtual footwear for between $7,500 and $9,000 since their inception (2.5 to 3 ether). Digital vials, which cost at least $2,500 each, can be used to modify their appearance (0.8 ether). Nike’s NFT Investments Pay off with 20K Virtual Sneakers Released over the Weekend Some vials are more frequent than others, and Cryptokicks with uncommon skins have sold for astronomically high prices....

Nintendo’s lovable half-vegetable, half-animal Pikmin characters will star in their first collaboration, which is set to debut later this year. Images and animations can be overlaid on the real-world view captured by a smartphone’s rear camera using augmented reality (AR) technology. “We’re excited to work together to shape the future of AR without elaborating on which other Nintendo characters might be in the works for AR games“, said Nintendo CEO It was crucial to the success of Niantic’s Pokémon Go, which delighted users all over the world by allowing them to see Pokemon characters in their own neighborhoods....

No Plans to Sell Mobile Business – Huawei Confirms Check Also: Top 3 free messaging apps alternatives that you can download from HUAWEI AppGallery right now! Huawei has not revealed any other information about how that will happen. Currently, the company has no source of chipsets for its flagship models. TSMC has banned to manufacture the HiSilicon chipset for Huawei. Similarly, Qualcomm and MediaTek are not allowed to sell chips to Huawei....

Nokia 7.2 Renders Confirms Circular Camera Design at the back The render images reveal a circular and sleek design of the camera. From the images, we can say that the phone will have a circular camera module with a triple camera set up at the back. The previous rumours reveal that it will have an octa-core Qualcomm chipset clocked at 1.84GHz. Moreover, it will have 6GB RAM and will run Android 9 Pie out of the box....

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