Zurich: In line with the FIFA President’s Vision 2020-2023 to harness technology to further improve football, players at the FIFA World Cup 2022 in Qatar will be able to get insights into their on-field performance through the FIFA Player App. FIFA has developed the FIFA Player App, based on input from professional players, in collaboration […]
Dubai: Stardust, Canada’s first F-NFT secured music video, has been released publicly by the makers Bkreative Productions after lapping up 13 awards from its run at the festivals over the past year. The brainchild of UAE and Vancouver-based award-winning filmmaker Uzair Merchant, the music video release is the next logical step as an original soundtrack for the upcoming Black […]
Washington: NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has captured its first images and spectra of Mars that show a region of the planet’s eastern hemisphere at two different wavelengths or colours of infrared light. Whereas the images show differences in brightness integrated over a large number of wavelengths from place to place across the planet at […]
Beijing: Chinese automaker Changan Automobile has unveiled a new electric vehicle that resembles the Tesla Model 3. With a starting price of $26,000 (AED96,000), the newly launched Shenlan SL03 is a small electric sedan, reports auto-tech website Electrek. The front end of the vehicle, where the bonnet meets the fascia, and its dimensions look very […]
World: Google has started to roll out a new privacy feature that will allow people to directly make a request to remove Search results that contain their personal information. Google’s “Results about you” tool, announced during its annual developer conference earlier this year, is now rolling out to some users. With this new tool, if […]
World: Google has rolled out the ability to send multiple photos and videos simultaneously via its Chat. You can now select more than one image or video at a time when sending a message in Google Chat. This feature is now available across iOS devices and is rolling out on Android devices. “You can attach […]
World: A young scientist who worked in the jungles of Thailand has been awarded a national prize for his invention of a $2 (AED7) paper microscope that can be taken on field expeditions. Stanford University bioengineer Manu Prakash saw in his team’s $50,000 (AED184,000) microscope a serious contradiction. As well as being bulky and ridiculously […]
World: In a bizarre move, WhatsApp is venturing into the film industry with the premiere of its first original short film titled ‘Naija Odyssey’ on Amazon Prime Video and YouTube. The 12-minute short film tells the story of NBA player Giannis Antetokounmpo, who was born in Greece to Nigerian parents. The 12-minute short film signifies […]
Dubai: H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai, Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Dubai Future Foundation, announced the launch of the ‘Dubai Robotics and Automation (R&A) Programme’ to boost the development, testing and adoption of R&A, and accelerate the use […]
Washington: NASA’s InSight lander has detected impact sounds from four space rocks that crashed on Mars in 2020 and 2021. It marks the first time seismic and acoustic waves from an impact have been detected on Mars. A new paper published in Nature Geoscience details the impacts, which ranged between 85 and 290 km from InSight’s […]
San Francisco: Elon Musk announced that Starlink, the satellite Internet division of his rocket company, is now active on all the continents, including Antarctica. On the microblogging site Twitter, Musk wrote, “Starlink is now active on all continents, including Antarctica”. He also said “another batch with lasers reaches orbit” after the deployment of 54 Starlink […]
