Islamabad, Pakistan – On Wednesday evening, as Pakistan grappled with the aftermath of a wave of missile strikes from India that hit at least six cities, killing 31 people, the country's military spokesperson took to a microphone with a chilling warning. "When Pakistan strikes India, it will come at a time and place of its own choosing," Lieutenant General Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry said in a media briefing. "The whole world will come to know, and its reverberation will be heard everywhere." Two days later, India and Pakistan have moved even closer to the brink of war. On Thursday, May 8, Pakistan accused India of flooding its airspace with kamikaze drones that were brought down over major cities, including Lahore and Karachi.

Pakistan's military says it brought down 25 Indian drones over cities including Karachi and Lahore. India says Pakistan had targeted India and Indian-administered Kashmir with drones and missiles that were shot down. The exchanges are fueling fears of a new phase in the ongoing tensions between the nuclear-armed neighbours.

The project's ultimate goal is to meet the country's need for improved telecommunications. On the second day of the mammoth event at the Expo Centre in Karachi, attendees of the International Defence Exhibition and Seminar 2022 (IDEAS-22) showed great enthusiasm for the'One Network' initiative of the Frontier Works Organization (FWO). In a cutting-edge communication initiative called "One Network," workers in Pakistan's highway tunnels are laying 3,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable underneath. Once the project is finished, it will fulfill all of Pakistan's communication needs. The COO of One Network claims that 2,000 kilometers of fiber optic cable have been deployed under the communication backbone of major highways.

KARACHI: More than 25,000 students from different parts of Sindh participated in the Presidential Initiative for Artificial Intelligence and Computing (PIAIC) grand entrance test 2022 here at the National Stadium Karachi (NSK) on Sunday. The initiative is launched to empower youth through training and providing them financial support to become entrepreneurs. Organised by the Saylani Welfare International Trust (SWIT), the test was witnessed by President Dr Arif Alvi, who also addressed the participants and advised them to work hard and focus on information technology. President Alvi asks youth to avail PTI govt's loans scheme to become entrepreneur "Once you complete your education and training, you would avail thousands of opportunities in this sector across the world," he said in his address before the test. "The government is extending all kinds of support to the IT sector and laws have been made to facilitate the growth of this sector," he said.

Researchers are using artificial intelligence (AI) to detect behavioural signs of anxiety with more than 90 per cent accuracy, and suggest that AI could have future applications for addressing mental health and wellbeing. Their research is published in the journal Pervasive and Mobile Computing. "In the two years since the onset of COVID-19, and one climate disaster after another, more and more people are experiencing anxiety," says Simon Fraser University visiting professor and social psychologist Gulnaz Anjum. "Our research appears to show that AI could provide a highly reliable measurement for recognizing the signs that someone is anxious." Anjum and collaborators Nida Saddaf Khan and Sayeed Ghani from the Institute of Business Administration in Karachi, Pakistan collected an extensive range of data from adult participants for their Human Activity Recognition (HAR) study.

After his mother got dementia, Bari became forgetful. It was little things, like hanging up the wet laundry on time so it wouldn't stink; spraying pesticide on their patch of sea wall against the adventures of crabs and mutant fish; checking the AQI meter before leading his mother out for her evening walk along New Karachi's polluted shoreline. Did something break in your brain, too, when you took care of people who once held you on their lap, helped you count the last straggling trees in the mohalla courtyard? Overwhelmed by their needs and your grief, perhaps you were split into two halves, each perpetually being run into the ground. It wasn't like he had a sibling or a spouse to lean on.

Augmented Intelligence (AI) is the combination of Artificial Intelligence and Human Intuition. The evolved version of AI is effectively used to increase the data literacy of the stakeholders at an organization. The combination of AI & Human intuition creates a one of a kind relationship in which the technology finds and highlights the insights for users to explore. Subsequently the human beings are being left with the final decision of accepting, modifying or completely discarding the insights generated by the system. The best thing is that the Augmented Intelligence focuses on the notion that Cognitive Technology has been introduced to enhance Human Intelligence rather than replace it.

Workshops such as Natural Language processing along with Data Scrapping & Machine Learning to name a few. Along with awesome national speakers from around Pakistan, this year's pyconPK proud to have an international speaker Van Lindberg, Director Python Software Foundation. Furthermore, You can check full list of agenda on pyconPK official website. If you still haven't booked your tickets for pyconPK 2019, do it while you can at happening.pk Core objective of PyCon is to pass on technical skills and knowledge to enable non-Python developers and industry outsiders to explore the language. You can follow their Facebook Page and Facebook event for daily updates. See ya at the conference fellas.

KARACHI: Pakistan has introduced the first-ever business robot journalist, Dante, who writes and publishes a comprehensive report on stocks traded at the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) within a few seconds after the market's closure. "The Pakistan Stock Exchange is closed at 3:30pm (from Monday to Thursday and at 4:30pm on Friday) and it gets the daily report published before it is 3:31pm," said the award-winning tech startup, baseH Technologies, Founder and CEO Anisuddin Sheikh. TheRoboJournalist, also called Dante, had been writing the reports for the past few days, he said at a signing ceremony to get seed money from the Elahi Group of Companies for the project at the National Incubation Centre (NIC) at NED University on Saturday. Simultaneously, the artificial intelligence (AI)-based content writing software develops a video on share trading and gets it uploaded at YouTube, Sheikh said. The robot journalist is capable of doing sports and weather reporting as well.

Dr. Shafiq Rab, CIO of Rush University Medical Center in Chicago, uses his background in public health to inform his IT vision. Dr. Rab, who completed his medical degree and internal medicine residency at Karachi, Pakistan-based Dow Medical College, had his interest in public health piqued during one of his first physician jobs. While treating an urban squatters settlement in Pakistan, he worked with non-governmental organizations to address the infant mortality rate, mainly by bringing clean drinking water to its residents. "That's how I got involved in healthcare," he says. "And I remain committed to healthcare.