Huawei, HEC open registrations for Huawei Middle East ICT Competition 2021

ISLAMABAD, SEPT 20: Huawei in collaboration with the Higher Commission of Pakistan has opened registrations for the Huawei Middle East ICT Competitions 2021.

This is the 6th time the event is happening in Pakistan. Through the Competition, the company aims to provide students with a platform to compete and exchange ideas in order to enhance their ICT knowledge, practical and application skills, and raise their innovation awareness.

The competition is also a platform that facilitates connections between international talent as well as the collaboration between governmental organizations, higher educational institutions, training agencies, and enterprises, thus promoting the education, growth, and employment of ICT talent.

National competitiveness will be increased through developing ICT talent in Pakistan. Upgrades of teaching methods and connectivity with the industrial development will be focused upon. This will direct the students to perceive employer’s perspective by developing their ICT knowledge.

Throughout the Huawei ICT Competition stages, contestants receive the latest updates on emerging technologies that are reshaping Pakistan’s digital economy. These include Artificial Intelligence (AI), Big Data, the Internet of Things (IoT), and most importantly 5G broadband—seen as a crucial digital-service enabler.

The competition is a unique opportunity for students to test their abilities in these cutting-edge fields, and helps colleges and universities to better understand the talent requirements of today’s top businesses and government leaders.

Roadshows and awareness sessions are to be conducted at 50+ colleges and universities all around Pakistan. The number of registrations reached 15000+ last year, which was the highest record in four years, it was also the first time the competition was held online, due to the restrictions placed by Covid-19. Additionally, the Pakistani team won first prize in the regional competition.

Following the launch of the competition, the preliminary and national finals will be held in October, with the regional finals taking place in November of 2021. The competition covers an array of courses like Datacom, Security, Wlan, 5G, Cloud, storage and AI, to name a few.

The winners of the regional competition will win 20,000 USD, a Huawei certification trophy, internship opportunities and the Huawei Matepads.

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Whatsapp to allow users to convert images into stickers

ISLAMABAD, SEPT 19: The popular instant messaging application WhatsApp is going to roll out a new feature that will allow users to convert their images into stickers.

WABetaInfo reported that the Facebook-owned company is currently working on a new update for the desktop WhatsApp.

Once the feature is made available, users will be able to see a new sticker icon next to the caption bar. When you will select it, the image will be sent as sticker.

“This feature is very useful and it allows to quickly create a sticker from an image, without using any third-party app! At the moment WhatsApp is not working on the same feature on WhatsApp beta for Android and iOS,” WABetaInfo said. “This option is under development and it will be available in a future update.”

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Chery Introduces Mini EV QQ Ice Cream; We might see this car in Pakistan in future

BEIJING/ISLAMABAD, SEPT 19: The Chinese automobile manufacturer Chery Automobile Co. Ltd., has released images of its new mini electric vehicle called the QQ Ice Cream.

This electric vehicle (EV) is Chery’s first car in its iCar Ecology and will go up against manufacturers like Liuzhou Wuling Automobile Industry Co. Ltd.

It will be 298 cm in length, 149.6 cm in width, and 163.7 cm in height, with a 196 cm wheelbase. The QQ Ice Cream will also be extremely light, weighing around 700 kg.

Exterior

Compared to the Hongguang Mini, another small electric car that falls in the same category, the QQ Ice Cream is more luxurious with U-shaped Daytime Running Light (DRL) headlamps and tail lights. The lower intake has vertical cutouts, and blends into the black trim piece that has circular cutouts for the fog lamps.

Distinct creases on the side start on the fender, follow along with the doors, and blend into the rear. The back has a raised window near the rear pillar and circular reflectors on the bumper. The boxy-looking vehicle is dual-toned and will be available in at least seven colors.

The mini EV will have 12-inch wheels with 145/70 tires. Its greater wheelbase provides ample seating room for four passengers.

Interior

The released pictures of the QQ Ice Cream do not show the interior but it is reportedly more stylish than its competitors. The QQ Ice Cream will have a dual-layer dashboard and a digital touchscreen instrument panel with a two-spoke, multi-function steering wheel. Cherry will also use premium-looking materials for it.

Drive Train and Price

The QQ Ice Cream will have a 26.8 hp or 20 kW rear electric motor that will make 85 Nm of torque to give the car a top speed of 100 km/h. The motor will be paired with a lithium-iron-phosphate battery that will provide a range of up to 170 km.

Sources say it will be priced at 30,000 yuan (Rs. 0.77 million).

With Chery vehicles launching in Pakistan in recent years and with the recent launch of Pakistan’s electric vehicle policy, it’s safe to assume that we might see this car make it to Pakistan in the future.

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Huawei initiates digitalized green Pakistan in the World of Solar Power

 

ISLAMABAD, SEPT 17: Huawei Technologies Pakistan Pvt. Ltd. FusionSolar made their mark at the Solar Pakistan Exhibition held at local Hotel. They showcased products and solutions at the event to highlight their positioning of leading a Green Pakistan in this endeavor to empower a zero-carbon future.

At this Solar Pakistan Exhibition, the FusionSolar team signed 100+MWs of MOUs with leading and emerging EPC companies of Pakistan. 50 MW were signed with Ningbo Green Light Energy and the rest with Beyond Solar, Foton and Magnet.

The company chose this opportunity to award its partners for completing technical trainings and certification courses. Gifts and certificates were given to the first two engineers who passed the Huawei installer examinations, Mr. Saad Ahmad & Mr. Hussain Ibrahim. The candidates who received the certificates were from Renergy, Diwan and Uenery.

Ever since Huawei shipped its first solar inverters in 2013, the company has moved fast to become a leader in the global solar industry, climbing to the top spot in inverter shipments by 2015, gaining a reputation for rapid innovation.

This year, Huawei launched FusionSolar All-Scenario PV & Storage Solution, which offers the advantages of a “smart string” design, such as intelligence, modularity, multi-MPPT, high protection and so on, provides a completely new power electronics architecture, creating the world’s first Gemini ±1500V design. This architecture design can help to support larger sub-arrays and higher voltages, further reducing LCOE by up to 7%. It can even enhance the power grid and can also adapt to large-scale wind + solar + storage projects. It will redefine PV plant standards in various market segments.

About Huawei

Founded in 1987, Huawei is a leading global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) infrastructure and smart devices. We have more than 197,000 employees, and we operate in more than 170 countries and regions, serving more than three billion people around the world.

Our vision and mission is to bring digital to every person, home and organization for a fully connected, intelligent world. To this end, we will drive ubiquitous connectivity and promote equal access to networks; bring cloud and artificial intelligence to all four corners of the earth to provide superior computing power where you need it, when you need it; build digital platforms to help all industries and organizations become more agile, efficient, and dynamic; redefine user experience with AI, making it more personalized for people in all aspects of their life, whether they're at home, in the office, or on the go.

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WhatsApp Will Soon Let You Convert Voice Messages to Text

ISLAMABAD, SEPT 15: WhatsApp is working on a number of new features for the chatting app. We will soon get extra security for our chat backups on WhatsApp thanks to end-to-end encryption for cloud backups. More recently, the renowned WABetaInfo has spotted another upcoming WhatsApp feature in a new beta build.

According to their report, WhatsApp will soon let you transcribe audio messages into text. The messages will be transcribed using speech recognition AI and the transformation will take place at the smartphone level only. Meaning none of the data will be sent to WhatsApp or saved by them.

Once a message is transcribed for the first time, it will be stored in the local WhatsApp database so it does not have to be converted every single time.

But of course, if you need to use this feature, you will have to give WhatsApp access to your phone’s AI engine responsible for voice recognition. This may be a cause for concern for people who support the total protection of personal data.

This will also help your phone company improve its speech recognition technology since the conversion data will be sent to OEMs to process requests.

This feature is still under development so there is no possible launch date in sight just yet.

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