Category: Technology

WASHINGTON (NUT Desk) – Facebook-owned Instagram unveiled technology Tuesday aimed at preventing underage children from creating accounts and blocking adults from contacting young users they don´t know.

It was the latest move responding to concerns about inappropriate contact between adults and children on the platform, which like most services sets an age minimum of 13.

Instagram will begin using artificial intelligence to determine a user´s age at signup in an effort to find underage users.

“While many people are honest about their age, we know that young people can lie about their date of birth. We want to do more to stop this from happening, but verifying people´s age online is complex and something many in our industry are grappling with,” a blog post said.

“To address this challenge, we´re developing new artificial intelligence and machine learning technology to help us keep teens safer and apply new age-appropriate features.” Additionally, the California giant said it would introduce a new feature that prevents adults from sending messages to people under 18 who don´t follow them, to prevent unwanted contact.

“This feature relies on our work to predict peoples´ ages using machine learning technology, and the age people give us when they sign up,” Instagram said.

Instagram is also looking at ways to make it more difficult for adults who have been exhibiting “potentially suspicious behavior” to interact with teens, including restricting these adults from seeing suggested teen accounts.

The image-focused network indicated it will alert teens to potentially suspect behavior by adults, including the sending of large numbers of private messages.

“We´ll use this tool to alert the recipients… and give them an option to end the conversation, or block, report, or restrict the adult,” Instagram said.

NUT (DESK) –  About 1,500 rice seeds have sprouted and grown leaves in a greenhouse in south China after returning from a journey to the moon last year. The seeds were planted in the greenhouse of the National Engineering Research Center of Plant Space Breeding of South China Agricultural University (SCAU). They are expected to be transplanted to fields at the end of this month. These rice seeds traveled more than 760,000 kilometers to the moon last November and returned to Earth on Dec. 17 after 23 days of flight aboard China’s Chang’e 5 lunar probe. The seeds were second-generation space-bred ones because their “parents” were also space-bred seeds. But the experiment on the Chang’e 5 probe is different from previous ones. It was the first such experiment conducted in a deep space environment. The space flight time was longer, and the probe encountered radiation in the Van Allen Belts and from sunspot activity, according to the center’s director Chen Zhiqiang. Stronger hereditary effects are expected to be produced in this experiment, as a deep space environment is more similar to a real space extreme environment, according to the center’s deputy director Guo Tao. It will help researchers learn how hereditary effects induced in deep space and a low-Earth orbit environment differ and provide important experimental samples and data for further research on mutation rules in space breeding, Guo said. The space-bred rice is expected to be harvested at the end of June.

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) OPPO, the leading smart device brand ropes in Maya Ali in the OPPO Family. The power icon will be representing the OPPO F19 Series that is soon to be launched in Pakistan. With this partnership, OPPO aims to tap into a large pool of young audiences Who love to connect with their beloved ones and eager to stand out from the cloud.

OPPO’s philosophy focuses on providing an integrated life to the youth. Working with Maya Ali and Asim Azhar reflects the brand’s vision through their dedication and creativity. Both the youth icons are accomplished artists who are popular for their passion and talent making them a perfect match to preserve the spirit of the youth. 

Expressing his contentment with the new partnership, George Long, CEO OPPO Pakistan, AED said, “OPPO stands for trendsetting design, innovation, and excellence. We believe these are also the qualities epitomized by Maya Ali and Asim Azhar, whose spirit of pursuing their passion resonates well with our brand. We are delighted to add Maya Ali to our OPPO Family”. 

“It gives me immense pleasure to be working with the most exciting technologically innovative brand in Pakistan, OPPO, a truly disruptive technology company known for its premium quality and craftsmanship,” Maya Ali said in a statement.

The OPPO F19 Pro’s Users can flaunt Dual-View Video and AI Color Portrait Video powered by Quad cameras. The F19 Pro comes in a flowing light design that sports a 7.8mm thin profile, 3D curved back cover in trendy color options.  Like all the editions of the F series, F19 Pro is also equipped with a 30W VOOC Flash Charge 4.0, MediaTek Octa-core Processor, and system performance optimizer for a fast-paced lifestyle. 

As a youth-centric brand, OPPO has strategically crafted its products to meet the growing needs of the youth who are passionate about innovation. With a new smartphone launch after every few months, OPPO has established itself as a trendsetter in the smart device industry while providing an integrated ecosystem with its IoT product – smartwatches, TWS, and bands.  OPPO aims to provide an integrated lifestyle to consumers by providing them smart devices that makes them stand out.

OPPO F19 Pro will soon be available online and in the market for purchase. Till then keep an eye on OPPO’s social media pages for more details about the phone and enjoy fun with every shoot with Maya Ali and Asim Azhar. 

Lahore (Muhammad Yasir) Trade Foresight has entered into an agreement with Dun & Bradstreet Pakistan (D&B), the world’s leading source of business information and insights. Under the agreement, D&B will power Trade Foresight with D&B Verified Company and Business Profiles.

Integrating D&B’s Verified and Globally recognized Business Profiles will allow Trade Foresight’s customers to have access to the largest corporate database and make more confident business decisions by viewing verified Business Profiles and D&B Ratings. D&B shall power Tarde Foresight by enabling state-of-the-art API integration tools (Direct+), completely automating the data and information sharing process between both Companies.

Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), with a presence of over 179 years & operating in over 200 countries, is a global Information Services and Risk Management Company. D&B, which possesses over 400 million business records worldwide, provides robust data and compliance solutions to millions of businesses, including over 90% of fortune 500 companies.

On the occasion of the signing, Mr. Nauman Lakhani, County Head for Dun & Bradstreet in Pakistan, said, “Dun & Bradstreet is delighted to empower Trade Foresight/Inseyab with the world’s largest database as well as insights. We are confident that clients of Trade Foresight/Inseyab will surely benefit from this arrangement. For the last 2 years, our presence in Pakistan has seen us working with Financial Service Providers and Corporates alike. This collaboration has the potential to reach a large pool of local businesses for the facilitation of their data needs.”

Speaking on occasion, Dr. Muhammad Ehsan Khan, CEO & Founder of Trade Foresight/Inseyab, said, “Trade Foresight is currently being used by the Traders and Trade Associations of more than 30 countries, and the platform is helping them make effective trade decisions. One of the key challenges that we were facing was around Trader’s Data validation, and having Dun & Bradstreet as our partner helps us solve this issue. We look forward to supporting our traders by helping them connect with verified local/international trade partners and grow their businesses globally. Our vision is to help Pakistan balance its trade deficit, and we believe that digitally equipping Pakistani traders with the verified data and tools can have a positive impact in the achievement of this vision.”

Trade Foresight is the World’s First Data and Analytics-Driven Trade Platform that provides companies trade insights that facilitate informed decisions. With offices across 5 countries, the platform enables this by highlighting potential risks via integrated/correlated trade data from verified sources. Trade Foresight helps identify opportunities that can support businesses in increasing their export market share and ensuring a resilient import supply chain.

realme promises to promote a trendier lifestyle for its young audience with its cutting-edge smartphones AIoT products

With the ‘Dare to Leap’ vision realme has come forward as the fastest-growing smartphone brand in Pakistan. The youth brand has been providing not just smartphones, but also trendy AIoT and Category N products to promote an easier and trendier lifestyle of its young audience. It had the same strategy for realme 7 pro and 7i to come along with smartwatches, air buds, and other smart lifestyle products. 

Each device and gadget from the brand has been unique and trendy. realme 7 Pro came as the first 65W SuperDart Charging phone that could charge the phone battery to 100% in only 34 minutes. With Qualcomm Snapdragon 720G Mobile Platform, a 6.4-inch Super AMOLED display, a 64MP Quad Camera with the Sony IMX682 sensor, and a 32MP In-display Selfie Camera is upgraded with 64MP Pro Nightscape Mode to give ultra-Nightscape videos, the phone took the market by a storm. 

realme 7 Pro came with realme watch S and realme Buds Air Pro. realme watch S is a trendy yet economical smartwatch with a 1.3” touch screen round dial equipped with auto-brightness. It supported 16 sports modes making it a favorite among people who like to monitor health, are workaholics, and/or gym users. It also gives a real-time heart and oxygen monitor which expands into the smart lifestyle category. The realme Buds Air Pro with noise cancellation ability and water-resistance was a hot seller, becoming a daily necessity.  

The number series successor realme 7i was then released as the best camera phone under PKR 40,000. The phone came with a high-resolution 64MP AI Quad Camera, a 90 Hz Ultra Smooth Display and a 5000mAh Massive Battery. It was a great seller due to its trendy design and youth-centric specifications. As realme believes in creating a smart life for young people, it launched Buds Wireless Pro and Smart scale along with realme 7i. 

realme Buds Wireless Pro features Hybrid Active Noise Cancellation up to 35dB, supports a 13.6mm Bass Boost Driver, and high-quality wireless listening with SONY LDAC Hi-Res Audio. To Scale-up Your Fitness, realme also launched the ‘Smart Scale’ that comes with 50g High-precision, 360-day Long Standby, and 16 Types of Health Measurements including Weight, Fat Rate, Body Shape, BMI, Muscle Mass, Bone Mass, Heart Rate, and many more. 

After the success of realme 7 Pro and realme 7i, the brand is focusing on more of these trendy products for its youth. realme’s Narzo series latest successor, Narzo 30A, featuring MediaTek Helio G85 processor with 12nm Octa-core 64bits Processor and 200000+ Antutu Benchmark is expected to launch in Pakistan real soon. With a 6000mAh Mega battery, larger display and other amazing features this phone will be the ultimate choice for the smoothest gameplay and entertainment needs of the youth. 

The brand has also become very well known for its flash sales, selling loads of devices in every go. We are optimistic that realme shall be bringing more combinations of smartphones and smart AIoT products to promote the young and trendy lifestyle.