Abu Dhabi: The United Arab Emirates announced that it is sending about 2,500 household generators to civilians affected by the ongoing crisis in Ukraine that has disrupted energy infrastructure and caused power outages, with the objective of helping them survive the harsh winter conditions. The assistance comprises 2,500 household generators, each with a power output […]
Zurich: Argentina has ascended to second place in the FIFA rankings, trailing only quarter-finalists Brazil, FIFA, the global governing body announced. Lionel Messi’s side, who lifted the trophy in Qatar, move up one place, as do runners-up France, who are now third, with Belgium dropping to fourth. The FIFA World Cup final was decided on […]
New Delhi: The scheme to “enhance soft skills” of prospective Indian migrant workers to the Gulf in terms of the culture, language and traditions of their destination countries has trained 121,596 overseas job-seekers, the Minister of State for External Affairs, V Muraleedharan, has said. He told Rajya Sabha, the Upper House of India’s Parliament, in […]
India: Amid an unabated rise in Covid cases in China, the Indian government is re-introducing Covid-19 testing-related measures at airports for international travellers, sources said. Following the Indian Union Health Ministry’s top-level meet to review the current Covid-19 situation in India, people familiar with the developments have been informed that the Indian government has directed to restart […]
New Delhi: Google announced an artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) model that can identify and highlight medicines within difficult-to-read handwritten prescriptions. This will act as an assistive technology for digitising handwritten medical documents by augmenting the humans in the loop such as pharmacists, however, no decision will be made solely based on the output […]
World: Shocked at his own Twitter poll result which decided he should quit as the CEO, Elon Musk took a U-turn saying that going forward, only Blue subscribers will be able to participate in polls organised by him. His Twitter poll revealed that 57.5 per cent of people wanted him to quit as the CEO […]
San Francisco: Uber has partnered with the US-based robotics company, Cartken, which will provide sidewalk robots to its subsidiary, Uber Eats, to deliver food. The company will be getting six-wheeled delivery robots, developed by a team of former Google engineers, mostly known for deploying their vehicles on college campuses. Uber claims that its partnership with […]
World: Twitter CEO Elon Musk launched a poll on the social media platform asking whether he should step down as head of the company, adding that he would abide by the poll results. The poll is scheduled to close around later tonight although the billionaire did not give details on when he would step down […]
World: The AI-based media intelligence solution Smelter.ai analyzed Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo’s media presence for World Cup 2022 to identify who has more public affection, media coverage, and online presence. It turned out that for the period from November 20 to December 12, 2022, Cristiano Ronaldo has been mentioned in the world media 268118 times, whereas Lionel […]
Doha: beIN MEDIA GROUP (“beIN”) has revealed its plans for the upcoming final of the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 including live, exclusive, and multilingual coverage of the finale between Argentina and France. The broadcast will be made available on beIN SPORTS’ free-to-air channel and as well as the entire day’s coverage will be available […]
Berlin: The 427-room Radisson Collection Hotel Berlin has quite a unique feature in its lobby, in the form of the AquaDom. This is a massive aquarium in the lobby that’s 82 feet (25 meters) high and contains 265,000 gallons (one million litres) of water. It is a cool feature for hotel guests, but it’s intended […]
