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SINGAPORE: An Indian game industry veteran has recounted his interaction with young Pakistani entrepreneurs at Google’s “Indie Games Accelerator” programme, saying he found them “polite, professional and absolutely driven”. Alok Kejriwal, CEO and Co-founder of Games2win, mentored a team of young Pakistani studio here in Singapore at Google’s Asia HQ during a session and was “honoured and surprised” by the “sweet” response from them. Alok Kejriwal, CEO and Co-founder of Games2win “Yesterday, the moment I sat down for my first mentoring session, I saw the Pakistan Flag. I was mentoring a team from Pakistan! The moment we looked at each, we burst into a smile and chatted in Hindi. (Their Hindi was so polished compared to my 'Mumbaiya' Hinglish). I came across folks that were so polite, professional and absolutely driven. They had an awesome game that IS destined to do well. I gave them my best...,” he stated in his LinkedIn post. The US tech giant ...

San Francisco: Facebook announced Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached in a security flaw exploited by hackers. The large social network said it learned this week of the attack that allowed hackers to steal "access tokens," the equivalent of digital keys that enable them to access their accounts. "It´s clear that attackers exploited a vulnerability in Facebook´s code," vice president of product management Guy Rosen said in a blog post. "We´ve fixed the vulnerability and informed law enforcement." Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said engineers discovered the breach on Tuesday, and patched it on Thursday night. "We don´t know if any accounts were actually misused," Zuckerberg said. "This is a serious issue." As a precaution, Facebook is temporarily taking down the "view as" feature -- described as a privacy tool to let user see how their own profiles would look to othe...

WASHINGTON: Leading internet search engine Google will acknowledge that it has made "mistakes" on privacy issues in testimony an executive of the Alphabet Inc unit will deliver to a US Senate committee on Wednesday.  "We acknowledge that we have made mistakes in the past, from which we have learned, and improved our robust privacy program," Google chief privacy officer Keith Enright will say in written testimony before the Senate Commerce Committee. Google will testify alongside AT&T Inc, Amazon. com Inc, Apple Inc and other companies amid growing concerns about data privacy. Google's written testimony did not identify specific prior mistakes but the company has come under fire for privacy issues. In 2012, Google agreed to pay a then record $22.5 million civil penalty to settle Federal Trade Commission charges that it misrepresented to Apple Safari Internet browser users that it would not place tracking "cookies" or serve t...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google unveiled changes Monday aimed at making the leading search engine more visual and intuitive to the point it can answer questions before being asked. Artificial intelligence and machine learning are core drivers of how Google will pursue its 20-year-old mission to organize the world´s information and make it accessible to anyone, search vice president Ben Gomes said at an event in San Francisco. The search engine focused strongly on mobile use and appeared to be growing more like Facebook, encouraging users to linger and explore topics, interests or stories with increasingly emphasis on photos and videos. Results will be increasingly personalized. "Search is not perfect, and we are under no illusions it is," Gomes said. "But, you have our commitment that we will make it better every day." He described the latest changes as shifting from answers to journeys, providing ways to target queries without knowing what words...

A man looks for celestial bodies through a telescope.—White Star file photo KARACHI: Pakistan’s Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (Suparco), which is often criticised by Pakistani scientific community for not being on par with its Indian or Chinese counterparts, sent two satellites in space from a launching facility in China this July. A surprise as it may be, one of the satellites launched the PakTES-1A, which was indigenously designed and developed by Pakistani engineers. Primarily aimed at remote sensing, the satellite is providing promising results, meeting or even exceeding expectations, a senior official of Suparco says. Talking about the development phase of the satellite, the official says that it was a tough task to complete it on time because the launch date had already been fixed and a delay of not even a day could be afforded. “The other satellite, PRSS-1, developed by China and Pakistan in collaboration, was due to launch on July 9, and PakT...

CEO Sibtain Jiwani banks on addressing information asymmetry to help consumers find the smartest choice. SmartChoice is a supermarket for financial products. Whether you want to decide which credit card is suitable for you or what insurance policy best fits your needs, this startup claims to be your one-stop shop. The way it works is you go to their website, select the financial product — currently includes credit cards, car loans, insurance, takaful plan, broadband — and select your filters. Let’s say you want a car loan, all you have to do is enter the vehicle model, installment tenure and down payment, and bam! The system will show you a list of plans which you can apply for directly through the website. Obviously you will have to fill in your identification, contact and income details after which a SmartChoice.pk agent will contact you for proof of income and other documents. Once all of this is done, they will forward the application to the bank that will then...

Apple on Friday released iPhone XS and XS Max. As the fans queued up for the launch in Singapore, Huawei offered them power banks for the iPhone XS that carried a message suggesting Apple phones don't have a long battery life. According to reports, as many as 200 power bans were handed out to iPhone fans in Singapore. “Here’s a power bank. You’ll need it. Courtesy of Huawei,” read the message on the front of the power banks. Recently launched iPhones-File photo As part of another promotion stunt, the Chinese manufacturer offered fruit juice and charging stations. The Huawei van carrying the fruit juices had "no traces of apple" written over them. According to CNET, the company said it handed out the power banks to “offer respite from the weather and grueling wait.”