Kamoto.AI, the trailblazing platform in artificial intelligence, revealed Sunny Leone’s AI clone at an exclusive event hosted at Koel Cafe Karachi on January 15, 2024.
This milestone showcased Kamoto.AI’s commitment to advancing AI capabilities, providing users with a revolutionary platform to create, train, and monetize bespoke AI characters. The event offered an immersive experience for attendees, featuring live demonstrations of the new AI cloning technology, its extraordinary functionalities, and its diverse range of applications. The clone, an AI replica of Bollywood Superstar Sunny Leone, was interactive, trained on her voice, and personal data (with agreed consent).
This landmark event in Pakistan signified a transformative step in the nation’s technological landscape, hosting the unveiling of Kamoto.AI’s cutting-edge AI clone of Sunny Leone. It marked a pioneering moment in Pakistan’s journey toward becoming a global AI hub, showcasing the country’s commitment to innovation. The event elevated Pakistan’s status on the world stage and highlighted the potential for significant contributions to the ever-evolving field of artificial intelligence.
On January 15, 2024, at Koel Cafe Karachi, the event invited AI enthusiasts, developers, influencers, and businesses to be a part of this first step into the future. The live demonstrations illustrated the adaptability and potential applications of the new AI clone, offering a glimpse into the future of AI technology.
Kamoto.AI had consistently been at the forefront of AI innovation, earning acclaim for its user-friendly interface and dedication to pushing the boundaries of AI. The event also provided a platform for attendees to gain insights from industry experts who discussed the transformative impact of Kamoto.AI’s latest innovation on the AI landscape.
Dr. TM Roh, President & Head of MX Business, Samsung Electronics addressed on July 19, 2023 “Last year, I expanded my responsibilities as head of Samsung’s MX Business, to lead our Corporate Design Center. My career as an engineer taught me that the most sublime designs are intertwined with technological innovation. This new responsibility allows me to delve deeper into how the synergy of design, engineering and R&D can yield transformative experiences. With my fellow designers, I’ve embarked on a deep exploration of Samsung’s design strategy to understand our roots and envision our growth.
Different Times, Unchanged Commitment
In 1996, Samsung committed to a philosophy: “Inspired by Humans, Creating the Future.” It means our creations are conceived with a deep understanding of you, the user, and we hold an unwavering belief that a user-centric approach is the key to the future.
We feel this even more keenly nearly 30 years on, as we contemplate the fluid nature of human interaction. Users value experiences over mere achievements and meaningful connections over raw technological prowess. We have distilled the Samsung design philosophy into three Design Identities, each one with you at the center: our products must be Essential, Innovative and Harmonious.
Essential design prioritizes clarity of purpose and ease of daily use. Innovative design emphasizes originality, reflecting purpose in new and distinct ways. Harmonious design ensures all elements work together for a holistic purpose, aligning with societal, environmental, and ethical values.
Inspired by Humans, Creating the Future
These three Design Identities are exemplified by our latest hardware and software ecosystem.
Take, for instance, the act of folding and unfolding a smartphone. It seems simple. However, that simplicity users feel is only achieved through a rigorous focus on what is most essential and intuitive. The minimal, sleek appearance housing specialized hinge functionality emphasizes our commitment and the inherent beauty of essential design.
We’ve raised the standards for foldable smartphone ergonomics. A difference of millimeter in a device’s thickness may not sound like a big change, but every gram and millimeter in a foldable device requires an engineering breakthrough. It demands craftsmanship with passion. When done well, the benefit to users is huge. That’s why we’ve invented to make our latest foldables slimmer and lighter than our previous generations.
Samsung Galaxy foldable is completed by its users, with its personalized experience. With our Galaxy foldables, your self-expression reaches new levels with, literally, the most flexible camera experience in Samsung Galaxy. You can capture the perfect angle, hands-free. The enhanced multitasking experience like a PC also raises the bar for productivity. You can work, collaborate, or game on-the-go.
Samsung Galaxy Tab and Wearables are designed in the same spirit. They work with each other harmoniously in an ecosystem that opens a powerful connected experience, serving as a seamless extension of your needs, priorities, and unique personality.
Whatever the Samsung Galaxy experience is, when we say, “Inspired by Humans,” we don’t just mean people. We also mean their communities, their environment, and their planet. Samsung Galaxy devices are designed with sustainability for the future in mind, because even the smallest actions could contribute to a large impact — such as protecting our planet. When we say, “Creating the Future,” that includes our responsibility today to ensure a sustainable tomorrow for the future generation.
Our Shared Journey to a Better Tomorrow
When design comes together with technological innovation, it brings forth new possibilities. With innovative technologies, people can make the most of today, and ultimately, create the best possible tomorrow. We invite you to join us at Unpacked, where we’ll pull back the curtain on our latest devices and experiences — inspired by you, created for you.
In a way, they were nearly 30 years in the making, a culmination of decades of human-inspired design. But this is also just the beginning. Seeing the ways our innovations blend into your lives, enabling new possibilities for creativity, productivity, or self-expression, will inspire the next steps of our journey. So, let’s navigate this journey together, harnessing design and technology to create a future that truly reflects you.
Every year, mobile technology increasingly becomes the very core of our daily lives and the epicenter of innovation.
With these essential devices, we create and consume content that connects, inspires and entertains us. We stay immersed in the world of an epic game, even on the go. We keep up with colleagues and deadlines when we’re away from our desks. And we manage every part of our lives in one convenient place — from health and wellness habits to appointments, purchases, travel and more.
Our days revolve around these experiences, so people want devices they can depend on from brands they can trust. At the same time, global challenges like the climate crisis are making us rethink how we live. We have a responsibility to help create a better world now while working toward a more equitable and sustainable future. We believe mobile technology can be the catalyst to enrich people’s lives and help create that future we envision. And this is the reason why we do what we do in Samsung Electronics.
Setting New Performance Standards
There’s no better example of Samsung delivering on this vision than the Galaxy S series. This year, Galaxy S series has extended our innovation heritage by doubling down on our fundamentals.
That’s why our pro-grade camera system is getting smarter, offering the best photos and videos in any light among our Galaxy smartphones. Along with the hardware and software optimization, our newest chipset, born out of Samsung’s open partnership philosophy, enables the fastest and most powerful Galaxy performance. Our ecosystem connectivity is also getting easier and more seamless than ever.
At the top of the Galaxy S series is our Galaxy S Ultra. It’s the product you can trust to give you the best of the best with redefined performance and quality.
We fully merged the most beloved Galaxy Note experiences into Ultra, pioneering a smartphone with the power, performance and creative capabilities of two leading Galaxy innovations in one.
The Galaxy S Ultra has truly become the pinnacle of Samsung Mobile’s innovation, a marque that stands out against everything else, and soon we’ll show you what Ultra can do in even more device categories.
Innovation That Lasts
Performance is not just about more power. It’s also about innovation that lasts with less environmental impact.
We are committed to combatting climate change, and we are guided by our new environmental strategy that strives to make the technology we depend on more sustainable. That’s why we consider every phase of the product lifecycle with sustainability top of mind.
This means building devices that last longer with enhanced durability and reliability. This means incorporating more recycled materials into more components. This means collaborating with like-minded partners to bring people closer together and deliver positive change for people and the planet while setting new benchmarks for our industry.
Premium Experience Without Compromise
On February 1 at Unpacked, we’ll show how innovation and sustainability working together bring the ultimate premium experience.
At a time when the stakes are higher than ever, we’ve raised the bar by pushing boundaries for the mobile experience — delivering our most powerful mobile experiences you’ll continue to love for years to come.
The world’s fastest growing smartphone brand realme has made leaps and bounds by bringing flagship level products at affordable price points. This time, realme is bringing yet another smartphone for the masses. A newer version of their fan-favourite realme C21 (3GB + 32GB) has hit the market costing PKR 18,999/- and promising the same hard hitting, top quality features that the realme C21 is known for. Previously, realme C21 was a masterstroke of quality by realme, being the world’s first smartphone to be certified by TÜV Rheinland for reliability and quality.
realme C21 is truly an entry-level powerhouse. With a 5,000 mAh battery and Helio G35’s processing prowess, this smartphone goes for long and gives you the best performance at this price point. The screen space also offers you views that you would expect on a flagship smartphone. With a 6.5-inch Mini-drop Fullscreen, the display is immersive and encapsulates you with its vivid colours.
While realme C21 is the perfect entry-level smartphone to have, it does not compromise on any of its features. For photography lovers, it has a 13MP Triple Camera with f/2.2 large aperture letting you take brighter and sharper photos. And while one would want to take spectacular pictures on the go, realme C21 has a Super Power Saving Mode that gives your battery a boost at times of need.
realme C21 is crafted for the entry-level market, therefore it resonates with all the best features that the entry-level consumer demands. It doesn’t get better than the realme C21 now for PKR 18,999/- bringing 3GB of RAM and 32GB of storage. So, if you’re looking for your next smartphone purchase, realme C21 is the best option for the amazing price and unbeatable specs you can truly rely on.
Pakistan on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Alibaba Group Holdings Limited to promote country’s worldwide exports by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) through e-commerce.
The agreement between Alibaba and Trade Development Authority of Pakistan (TDAP) was signed by Commerce Minister Khurram Dastgir and Michael Evans, President of Alibaba Group, and Douglas Feagin, Senior Vice President of Global Business of Ant Financial, on behalf of Alibaba, during the visit of Prime Minister Muhammad Nawaz Sharif to the headquarters of the company.
Alibaba Group’s Executive Chairman, Jack Ma and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif witnessed the signing ceremony.
Under the terms of the MoU, Alibaba, Ant Financial, and TDAP agreed to foster growth of worldwide exports of products by small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) in Pakistan through e-commerce.
Online and offline training programs for the SMEs would also be conducted by Alibaba in a bid to assist SMEs with on-boarding on to Alibaba’s platforms and optimizing exports through e-commerce.
TDAP will help identify suitable SMEs to participate in the training programs while Alibaba will be responsible for providing industry analysis to TDAP to assist them in their selection process.
In addition, Alibaba, Ant Financial and TDAP have agreed to promote the growth of financial services in Pakistan in areas such as mobile and online payment services.
The parties have also agreed to adopt cloud computing services to support the online and mobile e-commerce businesses of SMEs in Pakistan.
An asteroid more than 400 metres wide will pass close to Earth on Wednesday, zooming by at a distance of just over 1.8 million kilometres, but with no chance of impact, according to Nasa scientists.
Smaller asteroids routinely make closer passes to Earth, but 2014 J025, discovered in May 2014, will be the largest asteroid to come this near to the planet since 2004, flying by at only about 4.6 times the distance from the Earth to the Moon, 1.8m km.
“We know the time that the object is going to be closest within seconds, and the distance is known within hundreds of kilometres,” Davide Farnocchia, a mathematician at Nasa’s Near-Earth Object program, said by telephone on Tuesday.
Having several years of data on the asteroid’s trajectory gives scientists the ability to predict its path very confidently, he added.
The asteroid, estimated to be between 600-1,400 metres wide and twice as reflective as the Moon, won’t be visible to the naked eye, but sky watchers should be able to view it with home telescopes for one or two nights starting on Wednesday.
The approach of J025 will be the asteroid’s closest for at least the next 500 years.
In 2004, the 5km wide asteroid Toutatis passed about four lunar distances, or just under 1.6m km from Earth.
Amateur astronomers may be watching J025’s journey, but Farnocchia said he and his colleagues have moved on to tracking even closer encounters, such as asteroid 1999 AN10, an 800m wide rock predicted to pass only 380,000km from Earth, or slightly less than the distance to the Moon, in 2027.
Facebook wants you to sit in your bedroom wearing a headset and take a virtual vacation with faraway friends and family. Or use your smartphone’s camera to spruce up your dinky apartment, at least virtually.
The promise of augmented and virtual reality was a big focus of Facebook’s annual conference for developers on Tuesday.
CEO Mark Zuckerberg kicked off the gathering of programmers and other tech folks by talking about augmented reality tools he envisions on Facebook.
Augmented reality involves the overlay of computer-generated images into real-world surroundings.
Zuckerberg said new phone-based applications might let you create a three-dimensional scene from a single two-dimensional photo or splatter the walls of your house with colorful digital art. (You’d see the digital additions by looking “through” your phone at the augmented physical world.)
Making chores more interesting
Facebook executives stressed that the technology is still in its early stages, and that the “journey to the future of augmented reality is just 1 per cent finished,” as Deb Liu, vice president of platform and marketplaces, put it.
Zuckerberg envisions the marriage of augmented reality and Facebook’s camera feature enabling people to make even mundane chores, like doing the dishes, look entertaining with digital effects.
Of course, it could also result in people staring into their smartphones even more intently as they marvel at an alternate reality instead of their actual surroundings.
An attendee waits to try the newly announced Facebook Spaces virtual reality platform during the annual Facebook F8 developers conference in San Jose, California. ─ Reuters
“Over time, I think this is going to be a really important technology that changes how we use our phones,” Zuckerberg predicted.
Facebook also launched a virtual world, called Facebook Spaces, designed to let users of its Oculus Rift VR headset hang out with avatar versions of their friends in a virtual world.
It’s the first time the company has connected the Rift to its social network in a meaningful way, though it’s a development Zuckerberg hinted at when the company bought Oculus back in 2014 for $2 billion.
Coming your way… eventually
While the new tools and features are impressive, analyst Jan Dawson of Jackdaw Research cautioned that that “most of them won’t be in users’ hands anytime soon.” That’s especially true for the Spaces app, since relatively few of Facebook’s 1.9 billion members are using Oculus’s VR headset, which sells for about $500 and requires an expensive computer to make it work.
But Facebook could still have the edge on rivals such as Snapchat, which also launched some augmented reality features on Tuesday, likely to coincide with Facebook’s news. “Facebook has the resources to move fast in this area and the audience to spread those features much more widely than Snapchat,” Dawson wrote in a brief research note.
Snap representatives did not immediately respond to an email for comment on Tuesday afternoon.
Facebook’s focus on smartphones over high-tech glasses or headsets makes sense given how familiar they are, said Gartner analyst Brian Blau. “People already have cameras and are used to having fun and being creative with them,” he said.
“This will give people a chance to experience augmented reality in a way that isn’t so scary or off-putting.”
Until the past year or so, it seemed like it would be at least another decade before augmented reality would have a chance to become a widely used technology, said Ficus Kirkpatrick, Facebook’s director of engineering. But advances in image and object recognition, along with the ubiquity of smartphone cameras, “has put us on the course to bring augmented reality,” Kirkpatrick said in an interview.
Chatting with companies
Facebook also announced a bevy of updates to Messenger, its increasingly independent messaging app.
Messenger head David Marcus claims the app has become the de facto “white pages” of messaging, since people can find and chat with friends without knowing their phone number. Now, Messenger wants to do the same for businesses, creating a “yellow pages” of sorts that let companies communicate with their customers.
Messenger will also let people chat with outside businesses as a group.
That would, for instance, allow groups of friends to share Spotify playlists or to make a restaurant reservation through OpenTable that keeps everyone on the same page. The idea is simplify what might otherwise require a flurry of texts and sharing of links.
Cleveland murder
Zuckerberg also briefly addressed a tragedy that took place Monday, when a man posted video of a murder on Facebook. That raised questions about Facebook’s ability to monitor gruesome material on its site.
The Facebook founder said his company has “a lot of work” to do on this front.
Pre-orders for Samsung Electronics Co Ltd’s flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone have exceeded those of its predecessor S7, mobile business chief Koh Dong-jin said on Thursday, suggesting many consumers were unfazed by last year’s Galaxy Note 7 fires.
The S8, which began sales in South Korea, the United States and Canada on April 21, will be central to the South Korean firm’s recovery from the swift withdrawal of the Note 7 phablet.
The new device has been well-received, and some investors and analysts said it could set a first-year sales record for the smartphone giant.
“It’s still a bit early, but initial response to the pre-orders that have begun at various places across the world have been better than expected,” Koh said at a media briefing.
The S8 will be the safest Galaxy smartphone to date due to safety measures implemented to avoid the battery failures that caused some Note 7s to spontaneously combust, he said.
Analysts expect Samsung to record its best-ever quarterly profit in April-June, buoyed by strong S8 sales and a memory chip market boom that is widely expected to deliver record revenue for the industry this year.
The new device, equipped with either 5.8-inch or 6.2-inch curved screens, sports the largest screens to date among all of Samsung’s flagship phones due to a redesign.
Koh also said the firm plans to use the S8 to try to recover in China, where Samsung has been out of the top five vendors in recent years due to heightened competition from local rivals such as Huawei Technologies Co Ltd.
He said Samsung will aim to regain market share in China even if it takes time, without elaborating on specific strategies.
RAWALPINDI: Minister of State for Information Technology Anusha Rehman on Tuesday said Pakistan would be the first country in South Asia to test 5th generation cellular services for fast connectivity.
Speaking at the Information Communication Technology (ICT) awards ceremony, organised by the Rawalpindi Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RCCI), Ms Rehman said: “Pakistan recently won the GSMA award and ranked third in the list of mobile telecom operator groups.”
The government was working on a project to provide at least one mobile tower per 100 users in every village by 2030, she added.
Pakistan Telecommunication Authority Chairman Ismail Shah, RCCI President Raja Amer Iqbal, officials of the Pakistan Software Export Board and officials of other leading IT and telecom companies were present on the occasion.
Ms Rehman said information technology was booming in the country and broadband penetration increased from three per cent to 27pc in the last two years. “We are working towards making a digital Pakistan. Digital economy through IT, freelance, start-ups, e-commerce and mobile apps are the future,” she said.
RCCI President Amer said the ICT award initiative was taken to promote a healthy competition among organisations in the IT sector. “The awards aim at giving merit-based recognition to those who have displayed outstanding performance throughout the year.”
He said the ICT sector had a market share of approximately $3 billion in Pakistan but no step was being taken by the government to promote the industry.
Mr Amer said Rawalpindi and Islamabad had a 40pc share of the total ICT business in the country as many multinational companies had established their offices in the twin cities.
A lawsuit accused Yahoo of breaking a financial promise it made to Chinese dissidents almost a decade ago as penance for helping the Chinese government find and jail other activists.
The complaint, filed Tuesday in a Washington, D.C., federal court by a group of Chinese dissidents, contends that Yahoo mismanaged a $17 million fund set up to provide financial aid to activists.
Embroiled in China
Yahoo created the human rights fund in 2007, days after U.S. legislators roasted the company for providing authorities with information that led to the imprisonment of two Chinese dissidents, Wang Xiaoning and Shi Tao.
The complaint alleges that Yahoo allowed Harry Wu, a now-deceased dissident from China, to spend about $13 million of the fund enriching himself and pursuing other projects tied to his interests.
Only $700,000 has been doled out to Chinese dissidents who had been imprisoned for expressing their opinions online, the reason Yahoo bankrolled the fund, according to the lawsuit.
Yahoo declined to comment.
The plaintiffs want Yahoo to replenish the fund and to pay unspecified damages. The suit arrives at a delicate time for Yahoo, which is preparing to sell its online operations to Verizon Communications for $4.5 billion.
Lectured by Congress
The unflattering portrait drawn in the lawsuit represents yet another blotch on Yahoo’s record in China. Yahoo’s role in fingering Wang and Shi subjected the Sunnyvale, California, company to withering criticism that culminated in Yahoo co-founder Jerry Yang being grilled during a Congressional hearing.
“While technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies,” Rep. Tom Lantos, a California Democrat, told Yang.
Two days later, Yahoo announced the $17 million fund as part of a settlement that ended lawsuits related to its role in the imprisonment of Wang and Shi. “We are committed to making sure our actions match our values around the world,” Yahoo vowed in a November 2017 statement announcing the fund.
Alleged mismanagement
The new lawsuit argues Yahoo instead used the fund as “window dressing” to help shield the company from further ridicule and resolve other lawsuits.
Meanwhile, Yahoo turned a “blind eye” to Wu’s reckless spending, even though company executives had been warned about the abuses as far back as 2010, according to the complaint.
Among other things, the complaint alleges that Wu paid himself and his wife more than $1 million, spent about $4 million buying real estate in Washington and more than $800,000 on his own legal bills, including a case alleging sexual harassment.
Wu, who spent 19 years in Chinese labor camps, died last year.
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