Dubai: Zoho, a global technology company, announced that in the five years since starting its operations in the UAE, which serves as its Middle East and Africa headquarters, the company has grown 10 times in the country, with a 5-year CAGR of 60%. On the sidelines of Zoholics Dubai, the annual user conference of the […]
Dubai: In a first for biometric payments in the UAE, Network International and Carrefour announced that they have implemented the Face Pay face verification platform for payments from consumer authentication service provider PopID. Customers of Carrefour stores in Deira and Amsaf are now able to purchase food, daily essentials, and more using Face Pay. Consumers […]
Samsung, the exclusive mobile photography partner at the event, will host a pop-up space at the venue to demonstrate its innovative mobile & TV products and deliver mobile photography seminars Sharjah: Samsung Gulf Electronics will showcase the photography capabilities of the latest Samsung Galaxy S23 Series and its widely popular television innovation- ‘The Frame’ at […]
USA: Twitter has rolled out longer tweets to Twitter Blue subscribers in the United States of America, with paying users now able to post tweets up to 4,000 characters in length. Longer tweets will be displayed in the main feed at standard length, with a ‘Show more…’ indicator pointing users to the remainder of the […]
Chennai: Officials of two space agencies – Indias ISRO and the NASA of the US – followed their respective traditions at the send-off ceremony of NASA-ISRO Synthetic Aperture Radar (NISAR) – an Earth science satellite being jointly built by NASA and the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). Outside the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California […]
World: Twitter has told businesses to pay $1,000 (AED3,673) per month for retaining gold badges and brands and organisations which do not pay the money will lose their checkmarks. The Elon Musk-run company, which is busy monetising its platform via various means, will also charge an extra $50 (AED184) per month to add badges to each […]
Dubai: The Dubai Astronomy Group (DAG) organised an event for the rare celestial of Comet C/2022 E3 passing Earth on February 4. Discovered by astronomers using the Zwicky Transient Facility’s wide-field survey camera in early March last year, the comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF) has been dazzling researchers with its impressive brightness. Also, read – A […]
Dubai: The Mohammed Bin Rashid Space Centre (MBRSC) revealed details of the second crewed mission of the UAE Astronaut Programme to the International Space Station (ISS) at an event held at the Museum of the Future. Scheduled for launch on February 26, 2023, at 11.07 AM, the mission will be the first long-duration Arab astronaut mission. […]
World: If you’re an Apple user, chances are you may not have stopped to think about what the ‘i’ in iPhone stands for. However, it turns out that this question was answered by Steve Jobs back in 1998 – and he revealed that the ‘i’ doesn’t just stand for one word, but five. The i […]
Dubai: Dubai Electricity and Water Authority’s (DEWA) virtual employee ‘Rammas’, which uses Artificial Intelligence (AI), answered more than 6.8 million enquiries since its launch in the first quarter of 2017 until the end of December 2022. Saeed Mohammed Al Tayer, MD and CEO of DEWA, said that DEWA launched Rammas as part of its strategy […]
Guangzhou: Chinese scientists from Sun Yat-sen University and Shanghai Jiao Tong University have started using artificial intelligence (AI) technology to detect visual impairment among kids via smartphones. The study published in the journal Nature Medicine described a smartphone-based health system, the Apollo Infant Sight (AIS). Also, read – The future of food security lies in […]
