App Of The Week: Workflow Management
Workflow Management
If you work in a multinational corporation or even in a small local organization workflow management is important, if you don’t have a plan for your workflow management, you would be in trouble in front of your manager while giving any presentation. Studies show that 52% of businesses never or rarely measure the success or failure of their business processes, and 59% have any plan in place to analyze, design, or manage those processes even if they are measured.
Tech Tuesday Startup of The Day: Taleemabad
Education in Pakistan
As of now, Pakistan has the world’s second-most elevated number of out-of-school students (OOSC) with an expected 22.8 million children aged 5-16 not going to class, addressing 44 percent of the all-out populace in this age gathering. In the 5-9 age group, 5 million students are not taken a basic education at schools and after elementary, the quantity of OOSC doubles, with 11.4 million youths between the ages of 10-14 not getting a formal education. Disparities based on gender, socio-economic status, and topography are huge; in Sindh, 52 percent of the least fortunate kids (58 percent young ladies) are out of school, and in Balochistan, 78 percent of girls are out of school. Almost 10.7 million boys and 8.6 million girls are selected at the essential level and this drops to 3.6 million boys and 2.8 million young girls at the lower secondary level.
Gaps in service arrangement at all schooling levels are a significant limitation to access to education. Socio-social interest side barriers, combined with monetary factors and supply-related issues, (for example, accessibility of school office and facility for kids to sit or settle), together hamper access and maintenance of certainly underestimated gatherings, specifically young adult young girls. Setting up a valid data framework and checking measures to follow maintenance and prevent drop out of students is as yet a challenge. At the system level, lacking financing, restricted authorization of strategy responsibilities and difficulties in fair implementation reaching is reaching the most distraught. An empowering increase in schooling spending budgets has been noticed however at 2.8 percent of the total GDP, it is still well short of the 4 percent target.
Overcoming these challenges in Pakistan, there is a startup that aims to make education possible for the underprivileged kids and that startup is, Taleemabad.
Haroon Yasin – The man behind Taleemabad
Taleemabad is a brainchild of Haroon Yasin, a normal guy who spent his childhood playing with children who lived in the slums of Islamabad deprived of the privilege of getting educated and bound to work on low-paying jobs to run their households. Years after when Yasin returned to Pakistan after leaving college in Waterloo, Ontario, and encountered children living in such a state where they can’t attend a school or are below the poverty line. This became his turning point and pushed him to the point where he took the decision to dedicate his life to fight for the education of children who had born into the wrong households but still want to study. By the age of 18, Yasin started schools in slums and then completed his degree from Georgetown University in Qatar, and later co-founded Orenda in 2015.
Orenda then became a foundation for Taleemabad Edtech Project! Orenda aims to bring innovative education access to underserved communities around the world that are difficult to reach. The organization is engaging students through its mobile app Taleemabad, with a “gamified, localized curriculum” that is individualized for each student and delivered through an adaptive platform.
Taleemabad
The Taleemabad App is a by-product of the Orenda Project, which started out as a school in Bheyka Saidiyan, a slum in the capital city of Islamabad. The school was established to provide street children a safe haven and an education. As the team of Taleemabad taught in the school and traveled around the country they noticed that the problem of education was much larger than just one slum in one city. They also noticed that across Pakistan, Smartphones will be accessible to everyone, and during the pandemic, the world is converting from conventional to digital. Taleemabad’s mission is simple: to use technology to bridge these divides and provides engaging, high-quality digital education to the masses.
A Promise of Extraordinary Experience from Taleemabad
The Taleemabad apps have been designed to entertain and provide the smoothest learning experience to maximize learning gains for every child with needs. Their content is localized, contextualized, and available in both English and Urdu language for mass distribution among kids.
In the past, the Taleemabad brand of teaching has led to a 31% increase in test scores and a 70% reduction in dropouts. They aim to help children everywhere discover themselves and nurture their minds by using examples from everyday life so that whatever children learn, they can benefit from it in the present.
National Education Challenge 2020
Taleemabad also won the National Education Challenge, which happened on June 28th, 2020 among the 150 applicants who were selected for this challenge. To reimagining a post-covid world where education is not a luxury but a basic human right.
Waislitz Global Citizen Award for Taleemabad
Yasin also won the 2020 Waislitz Global Citizen Award in August and plans to use the $100,000 prize to produce educational content for higher grades, build Taleemabad broadcasting capacity to be available year-round, and expand the app’s mobile reach to teach 1.3 million at-risk children through a range of digital platforms.
Yasin shares a message, “I want every underserved child to have the opportunity of world-class education at their fingertips, regardless of their ability to pay regardless of where they are born and which religion they belong to, what socio-economic strata they belong to.”
This brings a positive image as people like Yasin have a goal to work for education through and through in Pakistan and making it an accessible right for everyone!
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Book Review: Atomic Habits by James Clear
Atomic Habits is an amazing book if you are looking for something detailed and full of motivation that will lay out a bunch of dos and donts for creating new habits and breaking the old ones. Atomic Habits is full of directly actionable advice. No matter what your goals are, the book Atomic Habits offers a perfect guideline for improving your life and your routine. The Author James Clear is one of the world’s leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach the readers exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the behaviors that lead to remarkable results.
About the Author
James Clear is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. The book has sold more than 3 million copies worldwide. He has appeared in Entrepreneur magazine, Time magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and on CBS This Morning. In addition to writing, he is also a motivational speaker and spoken at large companies and events. His previous clients include Capital One, Cisco, General Electric, Honda, Intel, LinkedIn, Lululemon, McKinsey & Company, Merrill Lynch, and many more.
The Book In Review Atomic Habits
The book revolves around five ideas
-Habits are the sole interest of self-improvement for any human.
-If you want evident results, then forget about setting goals. Focus on your system instead.
-The most effective way to change your habits is to focus not on what you want to achieve, but on who you wish to become.
-The behavior change laws are simple; cues-make it obvious, cravings-motivations to pursue to make a habit attractive, response-actions we take habits that need to made a little easy to start and reward-a satisfying feedback for yourself.
-Your surrounding is the invisible hand that shapes human behavior.
James starts the book with a convincing argument that people generally start with an idea with a goal of changed outcomes, usually, that becomes the case where people can’t sustain their habits. With changing identity first can be one of the basic goals for a change, it doesn’t mean that what people want to achieve, it’s all about what they want to become. He discusses that people focus on identity and they will use behaviors that are likely to act in accordance with that identity. Once the focus is on changing the identity, the changes in the process will fall in place, leading to the change in outcomes anyway.
The Surprising Power Of Tiny Habits that become Atomic Habits
He discusses that everything is an outcome of the lagging measure of your habits. For example, your net worth is a lagging measure of your financial habits. Your weight is a lagging measure of your eating habits. Your knowledge is a lagging measure of your learning habits. Your clutter is a lagging measure of your cleaning habits. You get what you repeat.
If you are struggling to build a good habit or break a bad one, it is not because you have lost your ability to improve. It is often because you have not yet crossed what James calls, “Plateau of Latent Potential.”
At the point when you finally are able to have the option to get through the Plateau of Latent Potential, people will consider it an overnight achievement. The reason for defining objectives or setting goals is to dominate the game. The reason for building frameworks is to keep playing the game. True long-term thinking is goal-less thinking. It’s not about any single achievement. It is about the pattern of endless refinement and persistent improvement.
Habits Shape Your Identity
James further elaborates that changing our habits is challenging for two reasons. Either we try to change the wrong thing and or we try to change our habits in the wrong way.
Here comes the “There are three layers of behavior change” a change in your outcomes, a change in your processes, or a change in your identity.
Outcomes are about what you get. Processes are about what you do. Identity is about what you believe.
How to Build Better Habits?
A habit is basically behavior that has been repeated enough times to become automatic. We discussed above the four factors on which you can change your habits, whenever you want to change behavior, ask yourself how can you make it obvious, make it attractive, make it easy and make it satisfying?
Habits are often attractive when we associate them with positive feelings and unattractive when we associate them with negative feelings. Create a motivation ritual by doing something you enjoy immediately before a difficult habit.
And do not forget to reward yourself after every milestone, because it helps you motivated! In some cases people don’t lack motivation, they lack clarity, so the first thing you do is to make a habit an obvious one, breaking the bad one for yourself and keep a changed habit a regular part of your life. Keep doing that and you will get automatic on it.
James, throughout the book, stressed the fact that Habits + Deliberate Practice = Mastery! If someone would run on these points, he or she will eventually be a part of the cycle and be able to maintain that particular habit. Your good habits are a part of your inner self!
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App of the Week: Telegram Messenger
The Dangers of Privacy Breaches
The danger of privacy breaches has expanded manifolds with the developing prominence of mobile applications in the current pandemic when many people are asked to self isolate and work distantly or maintain social distance. Cell phones have become a center of attention to lower down the pressure, oversee everyday tasks, access business-centric information, and so on. Video conferencing and related applications like Zoom, Skype, Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, and more noticed an enormous amount of users joining across the web and through their mobile phones. Other than fame, the COVID-19 pandemic has contributed extraordinarily in letting apps peak through your personal data causing worldwide disturbance through new digital danger crusades and also cyber threat campaigns. Similarly different apps disturbing your end to end encrypted chats, one of them which has disappointed users is WhatsApp, in contrast, we also have seen a massive surge of people shifting towards other safer options, we reviewed Signal for you last week and this week we are going to review everything about “Telegram” to you.
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Sehar Tariq Explaining The Misunderstood Whatsapp Privacy Update
How many times do you agree to the “Terms and Conditions” dialogue box in your phone? Probably 2 or 3 times a day? Or maybe less than that, but have you thought what is it, for me I barely read it until now. Yes, after the whole WhatsApp updated policies I have actually started to read what I am agreeing to. But what is this Terms and Conditions? Let’s find out.
Terms and Conditions
Terms and conditions arrangement (T&C) is a page on a site that sets out the rights and duties of anybody utilizing the site. It viably frames an agreement between the site and the client.
Terms and conditions incorporate a clarification or meaning of key terms utilized in the terms, and layouts the lawful restrictions of obligation of the site proprietor for any harms or hurt brought about during use of the site. It will incorporate what move might be made against a client who breaks the terms and may also detail the scholarly privileges of the site owner. You in all probability have seen terms and conditions alluded to by different names, for example, terms of administration (ToS) and terms of utilization (ToU). These different terms may confuse a few people and settle on them believe they’re totally various arrangements. Indeed – there is no distinction. Any of these three terms (now and then even alluded to as client arrangement) can be utilized as the name of the consent to demonstrate a similar record. This is shown by the way that significant sites utilize these expressions conversely. It is the data contained inside the page that is significant. In contrast to a protection strategy, terms and conditions are not a lawful necessity. Notwithstanding, it is suggested that each site incorporates one as it shapes the lawful premise of the site’s relationship with the client. Should to there be a lawful question, regardless of whether because of a client making a case against the site or the business suing a client in any capacity whatsoever, the courts will utilize terms and conditions as a reason for surveying the validity of complaint? There are 5 main reasons why you should have a Terms and Conditions agreement.
– It prevents abuses or spammers
– Own your content by informing the users
– Terminate accounts or temporary bans
– Set the governing law and rules
– Limit liability
To clear the air more, RJ Adeel Azhar in his show SAMAA Rise, invited Sehar Tariq the Public Policy Manager at FACEBOOK inc, all the way from Singapore to talk about the recent developments in WhatsApp’s updated policies and why everyone freaked out!
Sehar Tariq
Sehar is the Public Policy Manager for Pakistan at Facebook and works on policy issues related to the platform in Pakistan. At Facebook her work focuses on issues of economic growth, digital education and empowerment of underrepresented groups. Prior to joining Facebook, Sehar was the Pakistan Country Representative for the United States Institute of Peace where her work focused on the intersection of foreign policy, development and economic growth. She was also a founding member of Pakistan’s premier think-tank, the Jinnah Institute, where her work focused on issues of human rights, governance and national security. Sehar has over fifteen years of experience of working on issues related to Pakistan in the private and development sector with a particular focus on human development, governance and regional stability. Ms. Tariq holds a Bachelor’s degree from Yale University and a Master’s in Public Policy from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs.
She explained in length about how Terms and Agreement is a contract between two parties and how they will manage and handle your data, and we as a user can be benefitted from it. To agree to the terms and conditions is part of a standard practice.
Why People Misunderstood the WhatsApp Updated Policy Terms and Conditions?
Sehar clarified that with WhatsApp, since the app was already downloaded, the new Terms and Conditions had to introduced this way to make sure that the users are aware about the new developments and measures WhatsApp is taking. She thinks that was an honest move from the organization which unfortunately faced backlash because usually these type of updates are slipped in during app updates and no one really notices those changes.
Furthermore, for the listeners she elaborated what actually happened, we all know that WhatsApp has 3 products, one is what a layman uses for their normal day to day conversation, one is for businesses, small business on local level (your bakeries, local artisan online jewelry selling etc) the last one is WhatsApp Business API. These businesses receive thousands and thousands of messages in one day. The update is only for the latter part, for the “WhatsApp Business API” to give your access to a third party who can handle your queries and messages. And it could be Facebook as a third party because these apps are interlinked with each other. These updates will not affect a normal user with their conversations…
To listen to the full interview, watch the video below
RJ Adeel Azhar hosts SAMAA RISE, every Monday to Friday, 7:00 am to 9:00 am on SAMAA FM, you can also listen to the rest of the shows on SAMAA FM’s Soundcloud!
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Tech Tuesday Startup Of The Week: The Disrupt Labs
Before we move forward towards with Disrupt Labs let us tell you something about Prototyping first!
Prototyping
When I found out about hardware prototyping, it was a new concept for me, Prototyping generally alludes to an underlying phase of a product release either hardware of software in which formative development and item fixes may happen before a greater delivery is started. These sorts of exercises can likewise now and then be known as a beta stage or beta testing, where an underlying venture gets assessed by a more initial class of clients before full developments.
Prototyping, just as expansive range-testing and various programming discharges, is essential for a more definite cycle for creating complex programming items and administrations. The fundamental thought is that in any event, when code highlights are finished on a venture, the product, which is as yet being developed, may have numerous bugs and client issues. For large numbers of these to get resolved, it helps if the product is really being used, yet designers face the issue of delivering an item that end-clients can see as basically defective. Delivering the item to a more modest local area or in any case confining its improvement in stages can be an extremely powerful arrangement. Sometimes, prototyping may include volunteers, while in different cases, extraordinary customers or others with uncommon status might be engaged with prototyping. Advancement groups and tech organizations will regularly evoke input on an item during prototyping to fix issues before conclusive appropriation.
There are some accepted procedures for prototyping. These incorporate demystifying prototyping or making starting clients more educated about the product itself. Another guideline is to completely impart all exercises to deal with partners to guarantee that everybody is in the same spot. Organizations may likewise build up a more itemized methodology for group gatherings and different occasions around prototyping in a more controlled sequence that can likewise assist with making these exercises more powerful.
Hardware Prototyping is an iterative, multidisciplinary venture that may think about various equipment segments, firmware prerequisites, or modern plan contemplations, yet it is consistently important to discover some new information that will assist you with accomplishing your business’ offers and prepositions.
In Pakistan, among some there is a software house that is working for prototyping and providing coworking space to Freelancers, The Disrupt Labs.
The Disrupt Labs
The Disrupt Labs is a brainchild of Muhammad Umair, a professor at Bahria University Karachi, who founded it as a community of serial freelancers and start-ups hustling in a collaborative environment with a passion to technologically disrupt Pakistan’s landscape with their passion, innovative tech ideas, and a commitment of serious effort.
Coworking Space
The Disrupt Labs offers freelancers a desirable and useful feature and their co-working office space which is close to all local amenities. This is the perfect place for co-working space in Karachi. Whether you like to sit, stand or walk, they have you covered with their friendly different desk styles.
Electronic System Design And Prototype Development
The group at Disrupt Labs rejuvenates your innovative methodologies and thoughts by creating evidence of ideas or fast models/prototypes. Regardless of whether you need to exhibit your plan to make sure about venture, or to try and build up an item appropriate for market and for that creation they can offer an answer that best meets the prerequisites. The Disrupt Labs is also ready to offer the total help of hardware plan, firmware improvement, programming advancement and limited scope creation of your necessary arrangement. Their approach to prototyping is tailored on a project to project basis, and is typically governed by a combination of the following requirements.
Purpose of the prototype
Target Timescales
Target development costs
Target cost of the final product
Anticipated annual volumes of the final product
Training and Bootcamps at Disrupt Labs
Their training and bootcamps contains many opportunities and learning experiences which includes
Ecommerce Development
Mern Stack, PHP Laravel Framework, React Native, React.js, Python Django.
Artificial Intelligence
The A.I includes, Computer Vision, Machine Learning and Data Science.
Growth Hacking with Disrupt Labs
This includes Growth Marketing, and all of its related learning experiences.
Drones
Drone Programming
Free Bootcamps in Partnership with E-Belong
Their free boot-camps includes the opportunity to be a part of E-Belong Freelancing Team with their internships, opportunity to get hired for big Software Houses which eventually will lead your career grooming up a notch.
On-going Projects Of Disrupt Labs
Their on-going projects includes
OpenVent PK
An open-source ventilator is a disaster-situation ventilator made using a freely licensed (open-source) design, and ideally, freely available components and parts (open-source hardware). As of early 2020, the levels of documentation and testing of open-source ventilators was well below scientific and medical-grade standards.
Medicine Delivery Drones
Drones help give more productive medical services to patients from a good ways or while versatile. Later on, little indoor robots could convey medication to the bedside of a patient from the drug store, in this way wiping out some human advances. This would prompt more quick and less mistake inclined organization of prescriptions.
Smart Security Cameras
A brilliant surveillance camera is an independent, independent vision framework with worked in picture sensor in the lodging of a mechanical camcorder. It isn’t really bigger than a mechanical or observation camera.
A.I Camera Based QA Of Surgical Items
They are also providing A.I. camera based QA of surgical Items; the Ai based Quality assurance of surgical items to check it given parameters whether they are on track or not. Let’s just say it checks the needle lengths and assure if they are on standard size or not. This can create a massive change in the medical surgical world with precision.
Smart Water Level Control System
The water level pointers are utilized to check the water level of inside the water tank. The Smart water level pointer sensor is introduced straightforwardly on the tank. Brilliant water level pointer with a programmed cut-off switch, which turns off the water pump once the tank, is full.
This startup despite of all is creating definite change in the medical world, with inventions like these, these prototypes can actually help save plenty of lives and make a difference in the society and especially for Pakistan, where medical science with artificial intelligence is still making its marks.
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Book Review: The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
“Sometimes all it takes is a tiny shift of perspective to see something familiar in a totally new light.” – Dan Brown.
About the Author
Daniel Gerhard Brown is an American Author, most popular for his spine-chilling thriller books, including the Robert Langdon books Angels and Demons (2000), The Da Vinci Code (2003), The Lost Symbol (2009), Inferno (2013), and Origin (2017). His books are expeditions that normally happen over a time of 24 hours. They highlight repeating topics of cryptography, workmanship, art, and paranoid notions. His books have been converted into 57 dialects and, starting in 2012, have sold more than 200 million duplicates. Three of them, Angels and Demons, The Da Vinci Code, and Inferno, have been adjusted into films. The Robert Langdon books are profoundly drawn in with Christian subjects and authentic actuality and have created discussion accordingly. Brown states on his site that his books are not an enemy of Christianity and he is on a “steady profound spiritual journey” himself. He asserts that his book The Da Vinci Code is basically “an engaging story that advances profound conversation and banter” and recommends that the book might be u2tilized “as a positive impetus for reflection and investigation of our faith.”
The Book in Review The Lost Symbol
Dan Brown’s hotly-anticipated “The Lost Symbol” is really two books. The first is a spine chiller replay of Mr. Brown’s “The Da Vinci Code,” then again, actually it is set in Washington rather than Paris and Mason’s highlight as the star mystery society, rather than Opus Dei. The other book, inside “The Lost Symbol,” is a repetitive lesson, generally coming from the mouth of Mr. Earthy colored’s enduring hero, Harvard “symbology” educator Robert Langdon. He continues forever about how all religions are really a similar religion, so for what reason is strict individuals (that fundamentally implies Christians) so bigoted? “The Da Vinci Code” lectured that the Christian church has attempted to smother “the everlasting female” represented by Jesus’ alleged spouse, Mary Magdalene. In “The Lost Symbol,” the Christian church is attempting to smother the reality evidently a precept of Freemasonry that we as a whole covertly love the Egyptian sun-god Ra. Who knew?
As a spine-chiller, “The Lost Symbol” is energizing, despite the fact that readers of “The Da Vinci Code” will see that a portion of similar stock characters and creaky plot gadgets spring up during their read. There’s the lovely yet brainy female who turns into Langdon’s accomplice in-sleuthing. Here Katherine Solomon, a researcher at the Smithsonian institution work in “noetics,” a New Age part of material science that draws on string hypothesis and to attempt to demonstrate that “mind over the issue” is a logical reality. There’s a talking head to clarify all the fundamental esoterica, as well. In “The Da Vinci Code,” it was Holy Grail master Leigh Teabing; here’s it’s Langdon himself, in addition to Colin Galloway, a super liberal minister at the Washington National Cathedral who appears to have surrendered Jesus Christ for Ra.
The Three-Path Pursue
There’s a three-path pursue, in which Langdon and their female friend escape criminals, as well as law, requires. What’s more, there’s a genuinely unpleasant religion-fixated lowlife: a shaven-headed, vigorously inked Masonic start who calls himself “Mal’ akh” and who has practical experience in the inventively perverted killings of all who hinder him.
Recondite Intelligence
As the story opens, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is brought startlingly to convey a night address in the U.S. Statehouse Building. Not long after his appearance, the night takes an odd turn. An upsetting item — cunningly encoded with five images — is found in the Capitol Building. Langdon perceives the item as an antiquated greeting . . . one intended to usher its beneficiary into a tragically missing universe of recondite intelligence.
The Study of Noetics
At the point when Langdon’s dearest mentor, Peter Solomon—a noticeable Mason and altruist — is ruthlessly abducted, Langdon understands his lone expectation of saving Peter is to acknowledge this enchanted greeting and follow any place it drives him. Langdon is immediately plunged into a coveted universe of Masonic mysteries, concealed history, and at no other time seen areas—all of which appear to be hauling him toward a solitary, incomprehensible truth.
As the world found in The Da Vinci Code and Angels and Demons, The books of Dan Brown books are splendid embroideries of hidden accounts, little-known images, and puzzling codes. In this new novel, he again challenges perusers with a savvy, lightning-paced story that offers shocks every step of the way. The Lost Symbol is actually what Brown’s fans have been sitting tight for his most exciting novel yet.
There are the standard abnormal characters, bizarre events from the beginning of time that perhaps aren’t so odd all things considered, and a lot of interesting realities just as irregular likenesses that are featured between world religions. Dan Brown additionally discusses the study of Noetics which unquestionably causes you to ask yourself a lot of inquiries. It’s obvious that he’s done broad exploration around to make this story meet up so consistently.
In The Lost Symbol, you get a ton of data from Dan Brown about the Masons and Brown exposes a ton of misinterpretations about them as well. There are some unpleasant and upsetting scenes all through the story all strikingly told. He leaves numerous inquiries (not about the story but rather about history) unanswered and only something for the reader to consider or possibly send a few shivers down your spine.
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Leaked Audio Of Wife of Burhan Mirza for Digitonics Employees!
People might be wondering, what does Software House mean? A software house is a company that primarily provides software products. These companies may specialize in business or consumer software (either out-of-the-box or single-license software) or software-as-a-service (SaaS) products. But what if we tell you that there is one software house that has gone beyond with forgery and gathered quite a few eyes over them including the FIA, unfortunately, that software house is Digitonics Labs! And what the wife of Burhan Mirza, Digitonics has to say for her employees
FIR Against Digitonics
The FIR has been registered on behalf of the State at the Cyber Crime Reporting Center, blames the organization for falsification, money laundering, cheating, and various different crimes.
It is registered under the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act, 2016:
- Section 13 electronic forgery
- Section 14 electronic fraud
- Section 16 unauthorized use of identity information
- Section 20 offenses against the dignity of a natural person
- Section 26 spoofing as well as the Pakistan Penal Code:
- Section 34 common intention
- Section 109 abetment
- Section 419 cheating by personation
- Section 420 cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property
- Section 468 forgery for the purpose of cheating
- Section 471 using as genuine a forged document
- Section 500 defamation and sections 3 and 4 of the Anti-Money Laundering Act.
The FIR says the crimes were committed between 2015 and 2021. The inquiry has been registered based on a source report on worldwide con artists operating in Pakistan that the FIA received from the Islamabad Cyber Crime Wing. The report identified scams operating throughout the country, including harassment, fraudulent activities, identity impersonation, cheating, phishing, and extortion.
“It revealed the scammers have different websites offering various services which include app designs, web developing, etc. These websites are reported to blackmail and extort money from their customers after gaining their personal information by impersonating themselves as government officials of the US, UK, and UAE,” the report stated. The scammers guided clients to document brand names and store unfamiliar trade to enroll the brand names, as per the FIR, which noticed that the organization charged at least $100 to start the cycle. The scammers also impersonate government authorities and threaten clients to get their brand names enrolled or, in all trademarks they will confront a claim and have their organization/company closed down.
It also accused the company of forcefully shutting down customers’ websites and then charging hefty amounts for their restoration. “The impact of these scams is not only contributing to increase in the crime rate but will damage the reputation of Pakistan internationally.” After that the wife of Burhan Mirza connected to the employees of Digitonics.
Mrs. Burhan Trying To Be “Too Politically Correct”
The Wife of Burhan Mirza, CEO Digitonics also console the employees that how this has been a disaster for every one of them, and explaining how confused Burhan’s employees must be regarding the whole situation, she shows her concern and asked them to be calmed in this tough time. She also said that she won’t be saying that this is a time that they should not worry, this is the actual time where we all should worry, but we must not lose hope.
She further said that they are in close contact with the people who are arrested including Burhan who is under FIA’s custody, and also said how difficult it is to deal with the system as they can forge anything against us right now. She asked all her employees to pray so they will come out clean. According to the current development in the case the Owner Junaid Mansoor, CEO Burhan Mirza, business unit head Umair Siddique and others have been implicated.
How did it start for Digitonics?
The activity against the software house was started after investigation agencies from foreign nations filed an objection to the Pakistan government that the organization’s sites were coercing and plundering their citizens, said an FIA source, mentioning anonymity. He didn’t, however, uncover the names of the states. In the FIR, the FIA quoted that it was found that eight highly dubious sites were found in the wake of looking at pieces of evidence found from the Software House’s headquarters. These sites include designeminent.com, logocottage.co.uk, videocottage.co.uk, websitecottage.co.uk, videoproficient.com, octalogo.com, designproficient.com, perfecent.com.
The team of FIA visited the Digitonics Labs office on the 11th January 2020 and examined the server room, systems, and data. Incriminating material like credit card information of international clients, including security codes and forged certificates from the US Patent and Trademark Office has been seized. According to a few sources, current Digitonics employees and ex-employees of another IT company, where a similar kind of raid conducted by FIA in the past, were absent the day Digitonics Labs was raided. During the raid, the FIA team sealed the entry and exit points of the building. The raid conducted in the office for over 12 hours where the FIA team interrogated the staffers and recorded the statements of eight people.
FM Radio Signal Found Coming from Jupiter Moon Ganymede
New discoveries emerged as the Juno spacecraft orbiting Jupiter has discovered an FM radio signal coming from the moon of planet Jupiter Ganymede. The find is a first-time detection from the moon itself. According to the NASA’s Ambassadors to Utah Patrick Wiggins, he said that, “It’s not E.T.,” “It’s more of a natural function.”
Ganymede
Ganymede’s discovery is credited to Galileo Galilei, the first to observe it, on January 7, 1610. It is the largest moon in the solar system. It is composed of half water ice and half rock. This satellite of Jupiter is unique for its long, curved grooves in the crust that make it unlike any other planetary body ever seen. Areas of dark and light terrain with differing densities of impact craters suggest that the moon has gone through several periods of crust formation.
Ganymede has a diameter of 5,268 km (3,273 mi), making it 26% larger than the planet Mercury by volume, although it is only 45% as massive. It possesses a metallic core and has the lowest moment of inertia factor of any solid body in the Solar System and is the only moon known to have a magnetic field. Outward from Jupiter, it is the seventh satellite and the third of the Galilean moons, the first group of objects discovered orbiting another planet. Ganymede orbits Jupiter in roughly seven days and is in a 1:2:4 orbital resonance with the moons Europa and Io, respectively.
The moon is made out of roughly equivalent measures of silicate rock and water. It is a completely separated body with an iron-rich, fluid center, and an inner sea that may contain more water than the entirety of Earth’s seas consolidated. Its surface is made out of two primary kinds of territory. Dull areas, immersed with sway cavities and dated to four billion years back, cover about 33% of it. Lighter areas, crosscut by broad scores and edges and just somewhat less old, cover the rest of. The reason for the light landscape’s disturbed geography isn’t completely known; however was likely the after-effect of structural action because of tidal warming. Ganymede’s magnetic field is most likely made by convection inside its fluid iron center. The small attractive field is covered inside Jupiter’s a lot bigger attractive field and would show just as a local preturbation of the field lines. Ganymede has a meager oxygen air that incorporates O, O2, and conceivably O3 (ozone). Nuclear hydrogen is a minor air constituent. Regardless of whether Ganymede has an ionosphere related with its climate is uncertain.
The Signals Received From Jupiter Ganymede
Juno was traveling across the polar region of Jupiter — where magnetic field lines connect to Ganymede — when it crossed the radio source. Scientifically, it is called a “decametric radio emission.” Here on Earth, we know it as Wi-Fi, and we use it every day.
According to Britannica.com, the radio emissions of Jupiter were first discovered in 1955, and over the last 66 years, more and more discoveries have been made about how the signals work. “A member of the Salt Lake Astronomical society once built an amateur radio telescope that could detect the electromagnetic radiation from Jupiter,” Wiggins said.
Juno Spacecraft Probe around Jupiter Moon Ganymede
Juno is a NASA space probe circling the earth. Juno’s central goal is to quantify Jupiter’s composition, gravitational field, magnetic field, and polar magnetosphere. It will also look for pieces of information about how the planet formed, including whether it has a rough center, the measure of water present inside the profound climate, mass dispersion, and its deep winds, which can arrive at speeds up to 620 km/h (390 mph). Juno is the second shuttle to circle Jupiter, after the nuclear-controlled Galileo orbiter, which circled from 1995 to 2003. Dissimilar to all previous spacecraft shipped off the external planets, Juno is fueled by solar arrays, normally utilized by satellites circling Earth and working in the internal Solar System, while radioisotope thermoelectric generators are usually utilized for missions to the external Solar System and past. For Juno, be that as it may, the three biggest sun-oriented cluster wings ever conveyed on a planetary probe assume a vital job in settling the shuttle just as generating power.
Juno’s mission is to study how the planet Jupiter formed and how it evolved. “Juno will observe Jupiter’s gravity, and magnetic fields, atmospheric dynamics and composition, and evolution,” according to NASA.
What caused the radio emissions from Jupiter’s moon? Electrons, not aliens, caused the signals. The electrons oscillate at a lower rate than they spin, making the electrons intensify radio waves quickly. The cycle is called cyclotron maser instability (CMI). The electrons that produce the radio sign can likewise cause auroras in the far-bright range, a wonder additionally saw by the camera on Juno.
The spacecraft saw the moon’s radio emission for only five seconds. It was flying by at 50 km per second — a screaming 111,847 mph.
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