ITCN Asia 2025: a potential glimpse into Pakistan’s future
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Karachi just hosted ITCN Asia 2025, and instead of the usual dry tech fair vibes, it felt like stepping into a mash-up of Silicon Valley ambition and local startup hustle.
Picture AI that overlays onto NASA maps, VR headsets dropping you into surreal new worlds, and fintech founders arguing over who’s reinventing money the fastest. It was almost too much to keep up with.
Beyond the spectacle, the event showed how Pakistan’s IT and telecom industry is evolving, from homegrown startups trying to scale to the global stage to big names scouting fresh opportunities in the region.
It wasn’t just about gadgets on display with the 300+ global brands making their appearances, but about where Pakistan sits in the tech race, and where we’re headed next.
You WILL consume AI content. You WILL enjoy it.
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AI-generated content that people post is inextricably mixed into the real videos and posts people make. Sometimes you can tell them apart, sometimes you can’t, but Meta has made it easier for us now, for better or worse.
The Meta AI app has a ‘Vibes’ feed now, a dedicated home for AI-generated short-form content in the app and website. I’m not sure what possessed them to name it ‘Vibes’, because what does that have to do with AI, specifically?
The only vibes I get are bad ones, to be sure.
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If that wasn’t enough, Zuckerberg is saying that Vibes is an early form of some new products they’re exploring. We can expect more AI-generated, managed, and propagated content in the future.
The future’s looking bright, guys. Like the headlights of an oncoming car.
Skin in the game: Islamabad’s sci-fi burn treatment
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Pakistan has just unlocked a sci-fi leap in medicine: its very first skin bank at PIMS (Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences), Islamabad.
Instead of burn victims enduring painful grafts taken from their own bodies, doctors can now culture tiny tissue samples into life-saving skin, store them for years, and graft them when needed, much like a blood bank for burns.
Backed by SZABMU (Shaheed Zulfikar Ali Bhutto Medical University) and awaiting DRAP’s (Drug Regulatory Authority of Pakistan) green light, this breakthrough promises faster healing, fewer complications, and dramatically lower costs, marking a historic shift in how the country treats severe burn injuries.
