Touchdown, Perseverance Rover Successfully Landed On Planet Mars
Mars Rover Perseverance successfully landed on planet Mars on Thursday and this becomes the awakening of a new era at NASA space station and around the globe for Space lovers
Perseverance Rover has landed on Mars
The good news for all the mighty outer space lovers that after a nerve-wracking seven-minute descent, the largest and most advanced rover NASA has sent to another world touched down on Mars Thursday, after a 203-day long journey traversing 293 million miles (472 million kilometers).
Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST (12:55 p.m. PST).
After executing a daring and beautiful landing which was called, “seven minutes of terror,” ‘Perseverance’ is now NASA’s fifth rover to land on Mars and is set to begin a two-year mission to roam its surface and search for signs of ancient microbial life.
Planet Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun and the second-smallest planet in the Solar System, being larger than only Mercury. It is also called as the “Red Planet”. It is called the red planet because of the effect of the iron oxide prevalent on Mars’s surface, which gives it a reddish appearance distinctive among the astronomical bodies visible to the naked eye.
Mars is a terrestrial planet with a thin atmosphere, with surface features reminiscent of the impact craters of the Moon and the valleys, deserts and polar ice caps of Earth.
The days and seasons are practically identical to those of Earth, in light of the fact that the rotational period just as the slant of the rotational hub comparative with the ecliptic plane is comparable. Mars is the site of Olympus Mons, the biggest Mountain of liquid magma and tallest known mountain on any planet in the Solar System, and of Valles Marineris, perhaps the biggest gulch in the Solar System. The smooth Borealis bowl in the Northern Hemisphere covers 40% of the planet and might be a goliath sway highlight. Mars has two moons, Phobos and Deimos, which are little and sporadically molded. These might be caught space rocks, like 5261 Eureka, a Mars trojan.
Mission Around Planet Mars
It is additionally the most recent of three new missions that showed up at the red planet in February. Recently, two other rockets dispatched by the United Arab Emirates and China ventured into Mars and moved into space around the globe.
Some interesting Facts About Mars
-Mars and Earth have approximately the same landmass.
-Mars is home to the tallest mountain in the solar system.
-Only 18 missions to Mars have been successful.
-Mars has the largest dust storms in the solar system.
-On Mars, the Sun appears about half the size as it does on Earth.
-Pieces of Mars have fallen to Earth.
-There are signs of liquid water on Mars.
-Sunsets on Mars are blue.
The Preservance Mission on Mars
The eagerly awaited Perseverance mission could respond to key inquiries concerning Mars’ set of experiences and advancement, but at the same time, it’s an essential venturing stone toward NASA’s objective of sending people to investigate the red planet.
The acting NASA Administrator Steve Jurczyk said, “What an amazing day, what an amazing team, the work through all the adversity and all the challenges that go with landing a rover on Mars, plus the challenges of COVID… just an amazing accomplishment. This landing is one of those pivotal moments for NASA, the United States, and space exploration globally – when we know we are on the cusp of discovery and sharpening our pencils, so to speak, to rewrite the textbooks.”
“The Mars 2020 Perseverance mission embodies our nation’s spirit of persevering even in the most challenging of situations, inspiring, and advancing science and exploration. The mission itself personifies the human ideal of persevering toward the future and will help us prepare for human exploration of the Red Planet,” he added.
This successful landing will allow scientists on Earth to study samples collected by Perseverance to search for definitive signs of past life using instruments too large and complex to send to the Red Planet.
“Because of today’s exciting events, the first pristine samples from carefully documented locations on another planet are another step closer to being returned to Earth,” said Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for science at NASA. “Perseverance [nicknamed as Percy] is the first step in bringing back rock and regolith from Mars. We don’t know what these pristine samples from Mars will tell us. But what they could tell us is monumental – including that life might have once existed beyond Earth.”
This is a great advancement in the world of Space science and definitely, a breakthrough as this mission might lead to the gates of something big, including signs of water or maybe life.
Team Invictus GIK Secures 2nd Position in Aeronautics, Astronautics Contest
Good news for Pakistan to be proud that team Invictus from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan University has secured 2nd position in the Proposal round of Aeronautics and Astronautics Contest 2021. Beating MIT & Stanford. The contest is majorly for Design Build and Fly.
Team Invictus GIK
Team Invictus from the Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute of Engineering Sciences and Technology has been the sole representative of Pakistan in the AIAA DBF (Design Build and Fly) Competition for the past 10 consecutive years. AIAA DBF is an international Remote Controlled(R/C) aircraft competition sponsored and organized by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Cessna Aircraft Company, and Raytheon Missile Systems.
Competing Through With A Dream
Around hundreds of engineering institutes send in their proposals, annually. Only 115 proposals were accepted out of them. Teams from all 5 continents took part, including many world-renowned engineering institutes, such as MIT, UC Berkeley, and Stanford.
The team during the contest are required to design and manufacture an electric powered R/C aerial vehicle which fulfills the annually changing mission statement. A 60-page technical report is submitted by each team followed by the fly-offs that take place alternately in Kansas and Arizona, USA.
Additional Challenges for GIK Invictus
2020-2021 COVID situations meant that the team faced the additional challenge of working remotely, and so digital collaboration tools were used for the first time.
2021’s mission required the Invictus to design an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) capable of carrying a remotely deployable sensor suite to carry out reconnaissance missions, as well as carry cargo-containers. Invictus set about designing a revolutionary plane, with advanced manufacturing techniques such as 3D-printed parts, and a pod and boom aircraft configuration.
Achieving the Dream
Utilizing the latest technology and a well-organized team structure enabled the team to secure its highest proposal score of 85.9. The team is excited and hopes to build on the ever-improving string of results. The team is looking forward to raising the nation’s flag even higher and hopes to bring further good news to the aviation industry of Pakistan.
US Embassy Congratulates Team Invictus
The United States Embassy in Islamabad has also lauded Pakistani students from GIK university Invictus for “beating MIT & Stanford” in an aircraft designing, building, and flying contest 2021.
The Embassy wrote on Twitter stating, “Congrats to Team Invictus, a group of Pakistani students from Ghulam Ishaq Khan Institute for winning 2nd place in the 2021 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (Design, Build and Fly) competition, beating MIT & Stanford!”
Invictus GIKI aims to be the face of the radio-controlled aircraft industry in Pakistan and use its national presence and international experience to help promote this hobby in the country.
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ACCA student Zara Naeem scores highest marks in the world
Pakistanis everywhere are striving to make the nation proud by continuously displaying their skills nationally and globally with their excellent acumen in the field of accounting by topping the global professional accountancy exams conducted by the ACCA, a girl made it through and that girl is Zara Naeem.
Zara Naeem Making Pakistan Proud
Zara Naeem, a student of ACCA from Lahore, has been deemed as the global award winner for achieving the highest score in the Financial Reporting examinations conducted by the institution in December 2020.
The ACCA certification is considered a premier qualification in the field of accountancy with acknowledgment and existence in more than 170 nations across the globe, opening new gates to highly revered and enriching accounting career opportunities across the world.
Zara dedicates this success to her parents who always motivated all girls in their family to chase their dreams and break all of the glass ceilings. Retired from serving in the armed forces of Pakistan, Zara’s father holds a master’s degree and is extremely proud and happy to see his daughter achieving big things for the nation.
Despite the drastic effects from the Covid Pandemic globally, ACCA was fully able to conduct more than 153,000 exams across the world. For its students’ health and safety, additional measures were ensured to follow SOP’s in lieu of relevant governmental policies.
Zara has quite a dream for herself and is dedicated to starting her own financial/management consultancy business after graduating and attaining her ACCA fellowship. She’s convinced that her potential business will be able to acquire international clients in its portfolio due to her widely accepted qualifications and worldwide references that ACCA certification offer.
The ACCA certification thoroughly tests the aptitudes and skills that a competitive accountant needs in today’s times along with a firm fundamental in principles and professionalism. It preps the students for a rewarding and satisfying career as a qualified and ethical financial accountant resource.
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz has also congratulated Zara Naeem Dar
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Tech Tuesday Startup of The Week: Botsify
What are Chatbots?
A chatbot is artificial intelligence (AI) software that can simulate a conversation (or a chat) with a user in natural language through messaging applications, websites, mobile apps, or the telephone. Chatbots excel at completing repetitive tasks and work around the clock. They can work alone or alongside humans, and are effective at completing 60-90% of an average human team’s workload, depending on the use case.
Why are chatbots important?
A chatbot is often described as one of the most advanced and promising expressions of interaction between humans and machines. However, from a technological point of view, a chatbot only represents the natural evolution of a Question-Answering system leveraging Natural Language Processing (NLP). They formulate responses to questions in natural language is one of the most typical examples of Natural Language Processing applied in various enterprises’ end-use applications.
How Chatbots work?
Usually there are two ways on which chatbots work
-User request analysis
-Returning the response
In User request analysis, identifies the user’s intent and extract data and relevant entities contained in the user’s request is the first condition and the most relevant step at the core of a chatbot. If you are not able to correctly understand the user’s request, you won’t be able to provide the correct answer. After this you get a Response in Return, once the user’s intent has been identified, the chatbot must provide the most appropriate response for the user’s request. The answer may be a generic text, any text with relevant information, data stored in an enterprise system, etc.
With Artificial Intelligence getting most of the attention from all around the world, Pakistan is no less than witnessing and making strides in AI. With Chatbots there comes, Botsify.
What is Botsify?
Botsify is a platform that creates AI Chatbots for people and businesses to make their own smart Chatbots without knowing how to code. Botsify is a brainchild of Sheikh Usama Noman, where he aims to change the conversation in Business, Education, and Human Interface with any tech gadget.
People themselves know their businesses better than anyone and as experts on business cases, they can automate tasks like FAQs, Customer support, filling up a form, and collecting data from people. Botsify aims to automate conversations/ use-cases so that a person can have a Computer talk/ show or take instructions from the person across the screen. Botsify also offers Chatbots in voice too.
What Botsify Chatbots Offer?
While building virtual assistance through AI for your websites, Facebook pages, and your messaging apps Botsify also offers,
Faster Response Rate
This attracts your customers by automating your chat and providing real-time assistance.
More Qualified Leads
Botsify helps your customers to generate qualified leads by asking contextual questions, by which you can reach faster to your prospects with a messenger chatbox 10x more effectively.
Create Multiple Chatbox
With Botsify you can create multiple types of chatbots and use them in different tasks, which is great for handling multiple tasks at once.
Customer Retention and Service
Chatbot helps you to engage your customers with your brands, builds relationships with customers through interactive and tailored content. And Botsify’s team is active and handles all kinds of customer problems dedicatedly!
Features of Botsify chatbots
Leads Generation
With Botsify you can generate more leads with conversational forms. To store user information in a spreadsheet or into your CRM you can use the customizable conversational forms, which are accessible on any platform.
Switching From Chatbot to Human Support
From the live chat feature, you can jump from Chatbot to Human Support at any point.
Multiple Languages
Botsify also features a multiple language feature that gives you access to converse in over 190+ languages.
With the world revolving faster everyday Artificial Intelligence makes this hustle easier and that too with faster conversations with chatbots, and Botsify gives a better solution in this tech race. As Usama also believes that, “Compete with no one, conquer yourself instead.” All it needs is an idea!
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Book Review: Make Time By Jake Knapp And John Zeratsky
The Busy Bandwagon
How did you spend your time last week? You think back does your week seem like a blur? Like a dream, you could barely remember? If yes, then it’s probably that you spend your entire week on the busy bandwagon. The busy bandwagon is a cultural belief that if you are not busy, that if you are not running around like a chicken with your head cut off then you are doing something wrong. At work when you ask how they are doing they would probably tell you that are ‘busy.’ People wear their business like a badge of honor so to avoid feeling left out you and I hop on the buys bandwagon and spend our whole day responding to emails and receiving work calls running from meeting to meeting and constantly adding tasks to our to-do lists. When we step off the busy bandwagon to relax infinity pools are waiting for us to pull us in their vortex. We are going to break down the book by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky step by step and give you an insight on how to give yourself the biggest gift ever, TIME!
About the Authors
Jake spent 10 years at Google and Google Ventures, where he created the Design Sprint process. He’s the author of the best-seller, Sprint and Make Time. Jake has also coached teams at places like Slack, LEGO, IDEO, and NASA on design strategy and time management, and has been a guest instructor at MIT and the Harvard Business School. Previously, he co-founded Google Meet and helped build products like Gmail and Microsoft Encarta. He is currently among the world’s tallest designers.
John Zeratsky is also a designer, investor, and an author, he has served as a design partner at Google Venture in Sprint, including GV support at Slack, One Medical Group, Flatiron, Blue Bottle, Coffee, Gusto, and Digit.
Make Time Review
The book Make Time How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky goes on the same line on how to manage your time and make time for yourself from your busy schedule. The book framework is designed to help you to create more time for your day, especially for the things you care about.
Make Time is 4 steps, repeated every day
Highlight: Set a single intention at the start of each day. You’ll be more satisfied, joyful, and effective. The highlight should take around 60–90 minutes and will define your day. Of course, it’s not the only thing you’ll do over your day, but it’s the most important one.
Laser: Do not rely on your willpower; create real physical barriers around distractions to focus your attention on your highlight. Delete all the social media apps from your phone.
Energize: Living somewhat more like ancient people will improve your psychological and physical energy. Float along with your DNA — move your body, converse with individuals, eat clean food, and less sugar.
Reflect: Lastly, treat each of the 87 tactics in this book as a small scientific experiment on yourself, and reflect at the end of the day on what worked and what didn’t.
If you are into productivity, health, and fitness you would be aware of them. Let’s dig deeper into these 4 main key elements
Choosing a Highlight
Choosing a moderate-sized project as you highlight and put all your focus into it until it gets done is something you can give your attention as well as do it in a lesser timeframe. Write your highlights, do yesterday again but with slightly different changes, jot down the most important things then select 2-3 from them to be done in a day, prepare a “might-do-list” select one from it. Schedule, highlight, and get the job done!
Be the boss of your Phone
Log out from your social media accounts once in a while for at least 2-3 days, stay in contact with your most important friends and family. Avoid notifications! DO YOGA! Take a walk, take a breather. Wear a wrist-watch that will replace the need to look at the phone screen again and again. Put a timer on your wifi, you will find it weird and bad in the first few weeks. But that will turn your time frame massively.
Find Flow
Sometimes all you need is to shut the door lock it from the inside and camp in for a few hours, even if you don’t play on some music, put your headphones up and close your eyes. Give yourself a deadline so that you would be able to complete your task in between that deadline. Set a visible timer. [It is helpful] `
Energize to make time more!
Increase your energy every day; take care of your brain just like you take care of your body, if you are done with your routine, go back to the basics. Keep yourself moving, eat real food, optimize caffeine, go off the grid, and, make progress personal!
In Conclusion
Lastly, with time management, take notes to track your results. Every day, reflect on whether you made time for your Highlight and how well you were able to focus on it. You’ll note how much energy you had. Jot down observations on what worked and what didn’t, and make a plan for what kind of tactics you will try tomorrow. Also, failure can be a part of your progress, if you fail at first. Give yourself a break and be calmer. Tweak and run again!
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Billionaire Jeff Bezos Steps down as Amazon’s CEO
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos announced he will be stepping down as the chief executive officer in a press release.
Jeff Bezos
Jeffrey Preston Bezos aka Jeff Bezos is an American internet entrepreneur, industrialist, media proprietor, and investor. He is the founder and CEO of the multinational technology company Amazon. He founded Amazon in late 1994, on a cross-country road trip from New York City to Seattle. The company began as an online bookstore and has since expanded to a wide variety of other e-commerce products and services, including video and audio streaming, cloud computing, and artificial intelligence. It is currently the world’s largest online sales company, the largest Internet company by revenue, and the world’s largest provider of virtual assistants and cloud infrastructure services through its Amazon Web Services branch.
Holding a degree in Electrical Engineering and computer science, Jeff Bezos is the first centi-billionaire on the Forbes wealth index and was named the “richest man in modern history” after his net worth increased to $150 billion in July 2018. He became the first person in history to have a net worth exceeding $200 billion and as of January 2021, was reported to be the second-richest person in the world, after Elon Musk.
He worked on Wall Street in a variety of related fields from 1986 to early 1994. Bezos founded the aerospace manufacturer and sub-orbital spaceflight services company Blue Origin in 2000. Blue Origin’s New Shepard vehicle reached space in 2015, and afterward successfully landed back on Earth. The company has upcoming plans to begin commercial suborbital human spaceflight. He also purchased the major American newspaper “The Washington Post” in 2013 for $250 million, and manages many other investments through his Bezos Expeditions venture capital firm.
Jeff Bezos Steps down as Amazon’s CEO
According to the recent press release, Jeff Bezos is stepping down as Amazon CEO and taking on the role of executive chairman of Amazon’s executive board, but the billionaire magnate is making it clear that he’s not ready for retirement just yet.
His official statement
“Amazon is what it is because of invention. We do crazy things together and then make them normal. We pioneered customer reviews, 1-Click, personalized recommendations, Prime’s insanely-fast shipping, Just Walk Out shopping, the Climate Pledge, Kindle, Alexa, marketplace, infrastructure cloud computing, Career Choice, and much more. If you do it right, a few years after a surprising invention, the new thing has become normal. People yawn. That yawn is the greatest compliment an inventor can receive. When you look at our financial results, what you’re actually seeing are the long-run cumulative results of invention. Right now I see Amazon at its most inventive ever, making it an optimal time for this transition.”
“As Exec Chair I will stay engaged in important Amazon initiatives but also have the time and energy I need to focus on the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post, and my other passions,” Bezos said in an email to Amazon employees, also called Amazonians.
He further said, “Being the CEO of Amazon is a deep responsibility, and it’s consuming. When you have a responsibility like that, it’s hard to put attention on anything else.” As executive chair, Bezos said he plans to “stay engaged in Amazon initiatives,” but also put energy into his “other passions,” like “the Day 1 Fund, the Bezos Earth Fund, Blue Origin, The Washington Post,” to name a few. “As much as I still tap dance into the office, I’m excited about this transition,” he said.
Leaving people guessing things on their own…
In 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bezos’ net worth skyrocketed, as the quarantined masses were stuck ordering goods from Amazon due to store closures. His $113 billion fortune nearly doubled to $203.1 billion in the last year alone, which is truly an incomprehensible sum of money.
Well, Amazon will still have Jeff’s input moving forward as he plans to stay involved with the company’s upcoming rollouts. Bezos said, “In the Exec Chair role, I intend to focus my energies and attention on new products and early initiatives.”
Who is Andy Jassy?
Jeff will be replaced as CEO by longtime lieutenant Andy Jassy, who made his mark as the leader of Amazon’s fast-growing cloud business; Andy an American businessman. He is also one of the minority owners of the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League. Jassy has led AWS since its inception in 2003. Jassy will replace Jeff Bezos as CEO of Amazon in the third quarter of 2021; Bezos will become executive chairman.
Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky said, “Andy has a chance to put his imprint on Amazon. Andy of course brings his own skill set. He’s a visionary leader in his own right, a great operator; he understands what makes Amazon such a special, innovative place. So we’re expecting a lot of continuity.”
He added, “We certainly have a transition to make on the AWS business, but we expect that will be handled well, as well. And we’ll look forward to this new leadership profile we have.”
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Instagram Now Lets You Recover Deleted Posts
The Popularity of Instagram
Instagram is all about giving visual treats to your followers and showing your work off of social media. It is one of the most used applications all around the world. The app turned 10 years in 2020 and it is safe to say that Instagram became extremely popular during the pandemic, and has changed many lives with its existence. The visual-centric platform that began as a photo-posting app has grown into a source of income for creators and a new sales channel for businesses. Instagram has been able to maintain its user base fairly consistently over the last year. In 2019, the percentage of US adults who use Instagram rose from 35% to 37% and the active-reported users have held steady around almost 1 billion people.
In June 2018, Instagram had reached one billion monthly active users, up from 800 million in September 2017. The app is one of the most popular social platforms worldwide and one of the four billion-user properties owned by Facebook.
Imagine clicking a great photo for your Instagram and get loads of appreciation likes and reactions for it, and then it gets deleted accidentally. It will be going to hurt for a while. Instagram has rolled out a new section on its app for iOS and Android, which allows users to restore recently deleted videos, photos, IGTV videos, reels, and stories.
Instagram Now Recovers Deleted Photos
The company as of late reported that the new ‘Recently Deleted’ from Instagram will presently save the posts for 30 days within the platform. With this new feature, the post will step by step continue to erase posts permanently after 30 days. The story is accessible on the Instagram blog post. Alongside the Recently Deleted feature, Instagram has likewise ventured up the protection process that prevents the deletion of posts on the record by hackers.
User Demands For the Recently Launched Feature
This new feature was a long time coming. And in major demands as well. Instagram users have been complaining about losing their deleted posts for years, coming up with all manner of incomplete solutions that claimed to solve the problem. It never really solved. The inability to recover content also made instances of hacking exceptionally upsetting, as there was no way to undo the damage. Getting hacked is always disturbing regardless of whether any content is lost, but at least it will be marginally less problematic now.
To get to the folder, users will have to go to Settings, trailed by Account and Recently Deleted on the most recent version of the Instagram application. Users then will have the option to get to the deleted content to re-establish, restore or permanently erase the content. In the event that the post is restored, it will begin showing up on the Instagram profile again and if that it was erased, then the restored content would again go to archives.
The new update, nonetheless, is turning out in a staged and settled way, which implies that only a set of limited restricted users would get the update for now on.
So now you can take a photo, without worrying if it gets deleted, because you can retrieve it back, keep Instagramming and channel your inner blogger, artist or anything you want!
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Tech Tuesday Startup Of The Week: Dastgyr!
Retail Business
What is a retail business, for many of us we might be familiar with the term but we do not know it completely? Retail, by definition, is the offer of merchandise or administration from a business to a shopper for their own utilization. A retail exchange handles little amounts of goods though wholesale manages the buying of products on a large scale. Retail exchanges are not to be mistaken for online exchanges; goods must be sold from a single point directly to a consumer for their end-users. A retailer is a person or business that you buy products from. Retailers commonly don’t make or produce their own things. They buy goods from a producer or a distributor and offer these products to purchasers in small quantities. Retailing is the distribution of a retailer acquiring market goods or services and then selling them to clients or customers for use. This process is clarified through the supply chain.
Supply Chain
Similarly, the supply chain is a process that is between the companies and suppliers in order to distribute the product to customers. It’s how easily the products reach the market and then to the users, while delivery. Retailers should understand their own supply chain to ensure they receive the right products that too on an affordable price within a reasonable timeframe. If something goes wrong, there might be likely an increase in product cost or delivery time during the given timeframe.
The B2B Commerce space in Pakistan has garnered a lot of interest from both entrepreneurs and investors. Over the course of time B2B commerce start-ups have taken place in Pakistan, one similar startup that has managed to stay on top is Dastgyr, the startup that has made B2B commerce through its retail setup.
Dastgyr
Dastgyr is the brainchild of Zohaib Ali and Muhammad Owais. Along with their team including Muhammad Awais Chaudhary, Haseeb Siddiqui, Asad Qamar, and Maaz Tariq, Dastgyr is a B2B E-commerce marketplace launched in May 2020 is designed to revolutionize the small, medium and large businesses operate across Pakistan through technological advancement and development. Dastgyr enables retailers and businesses to source goods from manufacturers, brands, and wholesalers on one single platform.
How Dastgyr Processes?
Buy and Sell
You can make a purchase with just a click of a button if you want to buy. If you want to sell you can post the details of your product. Dastgyr then facilitates and secures payments. They also handle all your logistics.
Opportunity to Grow with Dastgyr
Dastgyr provides the access to additional channels that will aid revenue with super-fast, low cost, low wastage with the highly reliable delivery system across Lahore and Karachi for its buyers and sellers
Great Value
Dastgyr also facilitates the marketplace for efficient and easy transactions while offering low and great prices, quality products, and the best selection for the retailers to run their business.
Dastgyr For Retailers and Suppliers
Dastgyr provides market competitive prices for a wide assortment of quality products for its retailers with free delivery within 24 hours, enabling them to grow their business with ease.
Dastgyr further provides access to a wide retailer base with absolutely no hassle for distribution of the products in the market as well as give proper insight on the customer purchasing patterns. This makes it a one-stop solution for all the suppliers making it easier to also keep a check on the process.
Achievements
Six-Figure Funding To Scale Operations During Covid-19
Dastgyr in August 2020 raised six-figure funding from angel investors in the United States, Pakistan, and the Middle East.
Dastgyr started its operations as the pandemic advanced and the globe succumbed to the pressures of an economic lockdown during which Pakistan witnessed most of the challenges. For an organization that is just three months old, Dastgyr claims it has figured out how to take on an impressive piece of the overall industry and has accomplished 133pc of its projected deals, making tens and thousands of deliveries to a large number of retailers inside the initial 90 days of its operations. The organization further claims that its exceptional outcome has situated Dastgyr as a genuine market pioneer as they had the option to tap the market potential in the little conceivable time.
Dastgyr Co-founder also shared that the early team at Dastgyr has always been motivated towards one goal, to do something that has a direct impact on Pakistan. With retail having one of the largest contributions to the country’s economy. All they want to “simplify” the current fragmented landscape so that Pakistan can grow to prosper.
B2B Commerce has gained a lot of attention from investors and retailers during COVID-10 where almost everything was shut online setups ran and made the most lives easier through their smooth and hassle-free business procedures.
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Book Review: The Alchemist By Paulo Coelho
Paulo Coelho was born on August 24, 1947, in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Coelho attended Jesuit schools and was raised by devout Catholic parents. He wrote song lyrics for Brazilian musicians protesting the country’s military rule. He was jailed three times for his political activism and subjected to torture in prison. Coelho’s most famous novel, The Alchemist, was published in 1988. It was his third book, following an unsuccessful first book Hell Archives (1982), and a nonfiction account of his spiritual awakening on the Camino de Santiago, The Pilgrimage (1986). The writing style, dialogues, and character plot are so eminent and well portrayed.
The Book In Review
Beginning
In The Alchemist, Santiago, the novel’s central character, is introduced as a shepherd and the writer quickly connects him with multiple dimensions. Santiago’s observation of sheep and realization about the adoption of their schedule is important, as the novel underscores awareness of the natural entities. Santiago lives a simple life and has simple desires; loves his sheep, and also likes a young woman. Later on, he will abandon his sheep and that girl too in order to pursue his personal legend. Santiago was attracted by the merchant’s daughter because she was impressed by his reading skills and storytelling ability.
Santiago used to travel constantly as his profession demands traveling with sheep, Santiago relishes his freedom, but sometimes, he also wants to settle down. Santiago identifies universal nature in his lifestyle that every wanderer wishes to settle down with other persons. Santiago’s thoughts about his responsibility for the sheep, the simple creature while Santiago will leave them because of his complex time. Santiago sought fulfillment through traveling. Coelho seems to prefer this sort of spiritual journey over simply following an identified path. Santiago’s discussion with his father is basically Coelho’s presentation of the two arguments for traveling versus finding a home and staying there. He will conclude that his village is truly where he belongs and also the most attractive and beautiful place. His father supports his idea of traveling and asks him to become a shepherd.
A Traveller’s dream?
Santiago felt that it was also his father’s dream as he himself wished him to travel and vicariously. Santiago’s traveling experience gave him spiritual guidance. He feels like he would not have been discovered God if he had not pursued his dream. Santiago learns meaningful lessons by observing his sheep and comparing them with humans who follow the monotony of life but do not think about the wider picture.
Life-changing patterns
Santiago seeks out the fortune teller to get to know the meaning of the recurring dream he had. He feels nervous around the fortune teller but gets easy by evidence of her Christianity. Santiago’s own faith is doubtful but he believes in God and the omens God gives him throughout the novel. Santiago is clearly a spiritual individual pursuing Christianity. The fortune-teller distinguishes between dreams that God shares in “our language and “language of the soul.”
The idea of the Soul of the World, a connection between all people and things that everybody can understand. The fortune teller’s interpretation of the dream provides no new insight into the quest. In the context of this novel, dreams often reveal important information about life. Santiago becomes irritated that the consultation with a professional added nothing new to his own information. There he identifies the factor of simplicity which will be later get related to the alchemist. The old man, king of Salem, met him anonymously and interpreted his dream, and led him towards the importance of personal legend. When that old man says to him that he has much more potential than being a shepherd, Santiago compares the fortune teller and this old man having the spiritual tendency. Here, Santiago gets confused that either he should stay with sheep or pursue his dream; a risk that everyone faces while taking a decision.
The old man gives strong evidence about his mysterious existence when his breastplate gets unrevealed. He gives two stones Urim and Thummim as an aid to help him in taking better decisions. He took them and went to Morocco in order to pave his way to the pyramids. Here, he meets an Englishman, and trusts him as a friend, handed over all his wealth to him and he appears to be a thief who robbed him in just seconds. At that moment, he caught attention towards stones and become comfortable but when those stones drop down from the hole of the bag, he started thinking that he should not rely on things, he should take his decisions himself. The next morning, when he wakes up, the candy seller gives him a candy ignoring the language barrier. He identifies a language that does not require words. On his way to Egypt, he passes by a crystal merchant who gave him the job and it’s the time when he again decides to give up his dream and should go back home. But then he decided to join a caravan leading Egypt.
Santiago finds love
When they finally arrive at the Al-Fayoum oasis – the home of the titular Alchemist; Santiago meets a beautiful girl named Fatima with whom he immediately falls in love. He soon discovers that love, like the Personal Legend, comes directly from the Soul of the World. While walking in the desert, Santiago has a vision of an upcoming battle. He rushes back to warn the elders at the oasis. The next day, 500 armed tribesmen enter the oasis as Santiago has predicted. The men, duly warned, kill all of the intruders. The chieftain of the oasis awards Santiago 50 pieces of gold and offers him a position as a counselor. Santiago considers staying at the oasis with his newfound love Fatima, instead of seeking the Pyramids. Fatima, however, tells Santiago that she understands his need to realize his goal. The women of the desert, she explains, are proud of their men’s freedom. This confuses Santiago, who is unable to separate love and possession.
The Alchemist Ending
The Alchemist finds Santiago and tells him that he will lead him to his treasure. While on the move, the Alchemist teaches Santiago that hearts can be treacherous, but the best way to keep them from fooling you is to listen to them intently, one must listen to the Soul of the world to find one’s treasure. Everything on earth, even minerals, has a Personal Legend. This is why alchemists can change any metal into gold; they are simply helping the metal achieve its Personal Legend. When the two travelers are taken prisoner by a warring tribe, the Alchemist in an effort to save their lives claims that Santiago is a magician who can turn himself into the wind. Santiago has no idea what he is doing but eventually starts to pray with acknowledgment that his heart and the Soul of the World are one. Immediately, the wind whips up, and Santiago disappears and reappears on the other side of the camp. The tribal chiefs are so impressed that they let the travelers go. The next day, the men arrive at a monastery. The Alchemist uses his piece of the Philosopher’s Stone to turn lead into a quantity of gold and some to Santiago and some to a monk. Santiago continues on to the Pyramids alone. There, he is overwhelmed with joy realizing he can turn back now that the real treasure is not gold or jewels, but the wisdom he has gained from his journey and his love for Fatima. His heart tells him to dig in a spot where he sees a scarab beetle. It’s the time when Santiago has learned lessons in a defined order; omen which he had saw. End suggests that Santiago will come to Fatima and Fatima also had waited long for him because their love is true. Santiago has learned many lessons and also had got the treasure. He can live happily forever.
Lessons
We have got some morals which are so meaningful. Firstly, the thing is if you do something faithfully with best efforts, it would obviously go great, so do everything with a pure heart. Secondly, if you do not achieve your target at once, give it another chance, do not give up too easily. Thirdly, it does not matter what you are doing but it’s very important to know that every single person is contributing to the world’s history so try to do great things for a great change. Lastly. Do not take simplicity as an ordinary matter. Simplicity is extraordinarily extraordinary and also the real beauty of the world.
So, do not let down your dreams and personal legend, fear of loss and thrashings, disruptions, already programmed inner mind, dreams and the instincts, your dream for your life, luck is a Karma, a myth.
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Bykea Leaks 400+ Million Files Over Internet
Well it looks that Bykea is in real trouble. The famous and prominent bike booking and delivery service company has faced massive data leakage resultant in millions of users database out in the open.
The Bykea Data Leaked
The Safety detective cybersecurity team has recently discovered the elastic server vulnerability during routine IP-address check on specific ports and found out that the Karachi-based company Bykea had exposed all its production server information and allowed access to over 200GB of data containing more than 400 million records showing people’s full names, locations and other personal information that could potentially be harnessed by hackers to cause financial and reputational damage.
The team further discovered that The Elastic instance was left publicly exposed, without any password protection or any type or any kind of encryption which means anyone in possession of that server’s IP Address could easily be accessed and that database can be removed or breached.
The Database Breach is Not A New Thing For Bykea!
Well, that’s not really new for Bykea, back in September 2020, Bykea suffered another separate breach, where unidentified hackers reportedly deleted the company’s entire customer database. The company stated that it was unaffected by the intrusion as they kept regular backups. On this account Bykea’s CEO, Muneer Maayr described the cyberattack as “nothing out of the ordinary,” considering it’s a mobility-based tech firm.
It is still unclear whether this recent cyberattack is a continuity of the last hack-attack of September.
Something About Bykea
Bykea was founded in 2016 by a Pakistani entrepreneur Muneeb Maayr. It is a transportation and logistics payment company. The company runs on a cash on delivery method and runs from Karachi. They are the first to introduce the concept of ‘Motorbike taxis’ for both transportation and deliveries. The app is downloadable through Google Play and App Store. The organization is an on-request logistics supplier that has accepted versatile interest and a universal web network to fuel its fast development in recent years. The organization raised nearly US$6 million from private financial specialists in 2019 and followed up by raising a further US$11 million this year. Altogether, Bykea has rounded up US$22 million in private value from striking speculation gatherings, for example, Prosus Ventures, Middle East Venture Partners (MEVP), and Sarmayacar since 2016.
What was Leaked?
The exposed data from the server contained API logs for both the company’s web and mobile sites. It also includes all the production server information. The almost “200GB data contained 400million records which included internal logs and user details.
Moreover, the leaked server contained PII Personally Identifiable Information for both the users and employees. The PII includes drivers and users details are follows
-Full names
-Phone number
-Email addresses
-Addresses
-CNIC
-Driver’s license
-Body Temperature
It was also discovered that the company server contained customers’ invoices showing full trip information (pick and drop) drivers arrivals and departures! LITERALLY EVERYTHING!
That’s not it, the company also found Bykea’s internal employee login and unencrypted password information as well. Moreover, the apps existing commercial relationship with other Pakistani companies, including K-Electric, EasyPaisa, and JazzCash. All the related information was stored on Bykea’s database and exposed during the leak!
What is the Impact of Data breaching of Tech companies and How to Prevent it?
According to our knowledge, this is one massive breach of data and exposure of a company’s full database, including each and everything. A large number of discovered records that are so vulnerable online could include heavy identity theft, fraud of different kinds, and scams. Full names and residential addresses and CNIC information could dangerously be exploited by evil identities and car registration and could potentially be used to conduct insurance fraud and other crimes with stolen identities. Also, user emails could be attacked by hackers who are in search of infusing leaked customer data into fake emails to blackmail and trigger click baits to malicious websites.
Now the main question arises, how to avoid this and stay safe? How to prevent your personal information from being exposed in a data leak and ensure security? You need to be cautious of what information you give and to whom you are providing that, you should always check that the website you are using is secure and the HTTP and locked. Also don’t give your number unless you are fully comfortable. Create strong passwords and do not click on faulty links and emails that you are not sure are safe. (Go with the GUT feeling!). Double or sometimes even triple check on any social media accounts that you no longer use to ensure that the personal details are not exposed to the public or strangers. AVOID CREDIT CARD information over unsecured WIFI networks. Internet is not safe.
Always keep an eye around you and what you share over social media regarding your personal life and information!
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