Category: Tech

A private company will be establishing a state-of-the-art technology park in Karachi to boost Information Technology (IT) sector in Pakistan.

The park will have high-end technological facilities for local software houses and companies, and it will be the first technology park in the port city, the commercial hub of Sindh.

According to the official notification to the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX), the company has acquired 10,002 square yards of land in the Korangi Industrial Area.

The IT park is likely to be completed within two years, inclusive of the planning and designing phases.

According to the reports, the purpose of establishing technology parks is to boost their productivity by creating a helpful environment and available facilities.

A special technological zone was recently set up in Islamabad to promote Pakistan’s IT sector. The government is working to promote the IT industry and services while catering to both the local and international markets.

The sector had a remarkable performance over the last six months in terms of exports and the development of e-commerce at the local level while pushing the limits of the innovation of products and services.

One of the reasons why the IT sector boomed in India and the Philippines is that many IT parks have been established in these countries, which resulted in a robust increase in productivity and exports in this sector.

The scientists have cloned the first endangered species, a black-footed ferret duplicated from the genes of an animal that died over 30 years ago.

The scientists have named the slinky predators Elizabeth Ann. These species look cute, but they are quite wild.

Elizabeth Ann was born and raised at a Fish and Wildlife breeding facility in Colorado.

She is a copy of a ferret named Willa who died in 1988, and its remains where frozen in the early days of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) technology.

Cloning is a promising technology to bring back extinct or endangered species such as the passenger pigeon. Last years in Texas, scientists have cloned an endangered Mongolian wild horse in the United States.

“Biotechnology and genomic data can make a difference on the ground with conservation efforts,” said Ben Novak, lead scientist at biotechnology-focused conservation nonprofit that coordinated the ferret and horse clonings.

Scientists around the world gathered the population for a captive, breeding program that has released thousands of ferrets on many sites in the United States (US), Canada and Mexico since the 1990s.

Cloning makes a new plant or animal by copying the genes of an existing animal. Texas-based Viagen, a company that clones pet cats for $35,000 and dogs for $50,000, cloned a Przewalski’s horse, a wild horse species from Mongolia born last summer.

Sony’s PlayStation 5 has been very popular since its launch last fall, but not all customers who managed to buy one are satisfied.

Recently, one such customer, namely Turner, filed a lawsuit accusing Sony of violating the warranty agreement after experiencing defects in the PS5 DualSense wireless controllers.

The filing comes soon after a law firm, Chimicles Schwartz Kriner & Donaldson-Smith, set up a web page soliciting reports of issues with the controller.

The class action suit alleges that the DualSense controllers released in November along with the new PS5 console suffer from a defect known as “drift”. It means that the game characters or other elements on screen move without the user actually operating the joystick.

“This defect significantly interferes with gameplay and thus compromises the DualSense controller’s core functionality,” the complainant says.

While Sony has not yet commented on the lawsuit, the complainant claims that he has been experiencing drift issue since the day he purchased PS5 in early February.

Turner says he contacted customer service and followed their troubleshooting instructions.

Given that his experience with contacting Sony did not satisfactorily addressed the issue, Turner opted to purchase another DualSense controller for $69.99.

“If I had been aware of the defect prior to purchasing PS5, I would not have purchased it, or would have paid substantially less for it.”

The suit also alleges that Sony has been aware of the drift issue because of “online consumer complaints, complaints made by consumers directly to it, and through its own pre-release testing”.

One user reported the issue 10 days after receiving the PS5 console, stating that they tried every possible fix, like power-cycling the console, turning Bluetooth on and off, resetting the controller, and charging it fully overnight, but nothing worked.

The suit alleges that customers seeking help with their devices have run into a backlog on Sony’s dedicated portal for issues with PS5 hardware, and face long wait times to speak with customer service agents.

It claims that when consumers return the controllers for in-warranty repairs related to drift, they “have to pay for shipping the controller to a Sony repair center, and Sony does not reimburse customers for these shipping costs.”

“Recent software and firmware updates did not ameliorate or address the defect in any way,” says the complaint.

The lawsuit seeks to make Sony implement a recall or free replacement programme to address the issue for all class members, in addition to other relief such as damage payments to compensate consumers for out of pocket expenses to fix the alleged defect.

Sony said earlier this month that it sold 4.5 million units of PS5 hardware between its launch and December 31.