Peace & Pakistan First
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Microsoft has announced that Office 2021 will be launching alongside Windows 11 with the company already set the new operating system’s launch date for October 5.
Office 2021 will be available in the following versions:
The company has not yet released much information about features the new version of Office will have. But, it has confirmed that Office 2021 will have a new standard font, XLOOKUP, Dynamic arrays and Instant Search, among other changes.
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Pakistani singer Falak Shabir shared a glimpse of his baby’s room as he and Sarah Khan are all set to welcome their first child any time now. Taking to Instagram, the Lagay Pyari singer posted a video, showcasing the baby’s room.
Tagging the wifey, Falak Shabir captioned the video, “Arriving soon INSHALLAH!” followed by heart emoticons.
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Commenting on the post, Sarah said, “InshaAllah” followed by a heart emoji.
The video showcases a tiny baby closet full of baby clothes. The child’s room also has a little bed with pink pillows and a big teddy bear on it.
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Ali Zafar has officially dropped his first-ever Pashto song and it is everything fans had wished for. The beautiful cultural song reached at no 1 on youtube trending in Pakistan and Ali Zafar shared a special post on Insta handle regarding it.
Ahead of Pashtun culture day, the 41-year-old singer has blessed his fanbase up North with a new version of Larsha Pekhawar.
Joined by Gul Panra and Fortitude Pakhtun Core, Ali Zafar has added unique energy into his upbeat track.
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“Here it is! LARSHA PEKHAWAR- Click on the link in bio to watch full video. Go and subscribe to my channel now and let me know how you liked it !? Poora dekh ke bataana!,” the singer wrote on his Instagram handle on Wednesday.
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Famed Pakistani singer and social worker Shehzad Roy expressed his joy over sending musical instruments to a talented young group of Hunza boys, who were seen playing a tune of the national song in a viral video.
Shehzad Roy, who is the founder of Zindagi Trust, took twitter and Instagram to tell the world that he did what he pledged to. “Mission accomplished!!!!Instruments delivered to young talented Hunza boys,” said Shehzad Roy in his tweet.
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Roy has posted a video on the social media platform in which he thanked the people who helped him accomplish his mission. In the video, the singer begins by reminiscing over a childhood memory about needing a distortion pedal for his guitar. “The distortion pedal was not available in Pakistan then. When I received it for the first time, I was extremely happy and I still remember how I felt that joy,” he said.
“So when I saw these children playing music with the help of plastic drums and tin cans, I remembered the time when I needed the distortion pedal.”
The singer said he then asked his manager to trace these children and got the musical instruments dispatched to them. The manager, he said, at last succeeded in locating the children in Hunza.
“We came to know that these children made this video ten years ago. Now, all of them have grown up,” he continued. “I asked them if they have all the required instruments. They said they don’t. I asked my manager Richard to make available all the instruments they want.”
The singer said he collected the musical instruments with the help of a few friends and then dispatched them to the Hunza boys.
Shehzad Roy said he requested the boys to play the same tune with the help of new instruments and they complied.
The latter part of the video shows the Hunza musicians playing the music of the national song ‘Aao Bacho Sayr Karaen Tum Ko Pakistan Ki‘. The children in the viral video are now adults with beards.
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Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Samsung is all set to establish its TV line-up plant in Pakistan according to a tweet by advisor to the prime minister on commerce and investment, Abdul Razak Dawood. The plant will be collaboration with R&R Industries in Karachi which will produce the TV sets for the South Korean company which has established itself as a global leader.
The plant “will become functional in Q4 of 2021 and is expected to produce 50,000 units annually,” tweeted Dawood. “This is a vindication of MOC’s “Make-in-Pakistan” policy for industrialization via rationalization of input costs and other incentives,” he added.
In July, the South Korean company had signed an agreement with Lucky Motor Corporation to begin manufacturing its phones in Pakistan. Samsung’s decision to assemble phones in Pakistan was an indication of the success of the Mobile Device Manufacturing Policy (MDMP) launched by the government in June 2020.
The vision of the policy was clear that by 2022, 80% of all mobile phones sold in Pakistan should be locally manufactured. Last year in August, Prime Minister Imran Khan had declared that the government was vigorously pursuing a Make-in-Pakistan policy to promote export-oriented industrialization in the country.
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Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Facebook has announced two new models of its Portal video calling devices, including its first portable version. The social media company also said it was testing with several U.S. companies a service for businesses to remotely manage Portal work accounts and devices.
Facebook has not provided specific sales numbers on Portal, but a spokeswoman said there had been increased sales and usage during the COVID-19 pandemic, through which many companies shifted to remote working and more people stayed at home under lockdown measures. Facebook makes the vast majority of its money from digital ads.
The company, which is under scrutiny from global regulators and lawmakers over its approach to user safety, privacy and content across its services, launched its first line of Portals in 2018. The smart-display devices, one of Facebook’s forays into selling hardware, let users make video calls, with cameras that automatically follow users around a room.
Updates in the new models announced on Tuesday included a “household mode,” allowing users to share a Portal and control others’ access to their contacts and apps, and a way to watch TV through the product with others who are not using a Portal device.
Facebook said the portable Portal Go will cost $199 and the large-screen Portal+, the latest generation of the product, will cost $349. Both will begin shipping on Oct. 19.
Facebook also said it would start adding support for Microsoft Teams in Portal in December.
The company reported $497 million in non-advertising revenue in the second quarter of 2021, which it attributed mainly to sales of its Oculus Quest 2 virtual reality headsets. Facebook last month launched a test of a VR remote work app where Quest 2 users can hold meetings as avatar versions of themselves.
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Facebook fired back after a series of withering Wall Street Journal reports that the company failed to keep users safe, with the social media giant noting an increase in staff and spending on battling abuses. The company has been under relentless pressure to guard against being a platform where misinformation and hate can spread, while at the same time remain a forum for people to speak freely. It has struggled to respond.
A series of recent Wall Street Journal reports said the company knew its Instagram photo-sharing tool was hurting teenage girls’ mental health, and that its moderation system had a double standard allowing VIPs to skirt rules. One of the articles, citing Facebook’s own research, said a 2018 change to its software ended up promoting political outrage and division.
But Facebook said Tuesday it has spent more than $13 billion in the past five years on teams and technology devoted to fighting abuses.Some 40,000 people now work on safety and security for the California-based tech giant, quadruple the number in the year 2016, according to Facebook.
“How technology companies grapple with complex issues is being heavily scrutinized, and often, without important context,” Facebook contended in a blog post.
The social network launched an about.facebook.com/progress website to showcase work done to counter abuses. Facebook’s Nick Clegg also attacked the reporting in a blog post on Saturday, saying the articles were unfair.
“At the heart of this series is an allegation that is just plain false: that Facebook conducts research and then systematically and willfully ignores it if the findings are inconvenient for the company,” he wrote. The Journal stories cited, in part, studies commissioned by the company and which contained disturbing revelations like: “We make body image issues worse for one in three teen girls.”
Clegg said the stories selectively employed quotes in a way that offered a deliberately lop-sided view of the company’s work.
“We will continue to ask ourselves the hard questions. And we will continue to improve our products and services as a result,” he said in the closing lines of his post.
Facebook recently launched an effort targeting users working together on the platform to promote real-world violence or conspiracy theories, beginning by taking down a German network spreading Covid misinformation. The new tool is meant to detect organized, malicious efforts that are a threat but fall short of the social media giant’s existing rules against hate groups, said Facebook’s head of security policy Nathaniel Gleicher.
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Ayeza Khan, who is the most followed Pakistani celebrity on Instagram, took the internet by storm with her dance moves on Lata Mangeshkar’s song Mere Haathon Mein.
Ayeza recreated the dance moves of late Bollywood star Sridevi on Mere Haathon Mein and the video of it has gone viral on social media.
The Tum Kon Piya actor took to Instagram and shared her video wherein she can be seen dancing her heart out on the lyrics of Mere Haathon Mein, from film Chandni, featuring Sridevi and Rishi Kapoor.
Ayeza posted the video and wrote, “Up next Geeti ki shadi……Are you ready??”.
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The video has won the hearts of the fans on social media.
Recently, Ayeza had revealed that late Bollywood star Sridevi has and will always be on the top among her ‘favourite’ actresses and that she is an ‘inspiration’ for her as an actress and a mother.
Ayeza had said, “Amongst so many of my favourite actresses, Sridevi has and will always be on the top. It’s a pity that she left us so soon. An inspiration for me, as an actress and a mother.”
Lahore (NUT-DESK)
Renowned sports presenter Zainab Abbas on Tuesday announced that she is pregnant with her first child with husband Hamza Kardar.
Zainab Abbas turned to Instagram late on Tuesday and shared pictures of herself cradling her burgeoning baby bump with a stadium in the background. “My travel partner this past year,” she said in the caption.
“Feels more like a test match rather than a T20, but managed to weather the storm and carry on working through out,” quipped Zainab, furter adding, “Hoping this new journey is as rewarding as the previous one.”
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Zainab, who has previously served as the official presenter for the ICC World Cup 2019 and the Pakistan Super League, also shared a selfie from the same day later on Wednesay, jokingly sharing, “The effort required to get ready in life has doubled.” The 33-year-old tied the knot with Hamza Kardar in November 2019 in a stunning Nikkah ceremony in Lahore.
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