First student-built UAE satellite launch in June
RAS AL KHAIMAH 23 March 2020: A satellite that the American University of Ras Al Khaimah (Aurak), students are helping to develop, build and test is planned to be launched on a Soyuz-2 rocket from […]
Technology
Data key to achieving 50-year strategy: Hamdan
DUBAI 27 February 2020: H.H. Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Crown Prince of Dubai and Chairman of Dubai Executive Council, said that data is a key pillar in the strategy to realise […]
World’s first unmanned DC plant to serve 82 buildings
DUBAI 25 February 2020: Emirates Central Cooling Systems Corporation (Empower) has announced the full-swing operation of the world’s first unmanned district cooling plant at Jumeirah Village Circle in Dubai. The 3rd generation district cooling plant […]
Dubai starts to charge vehicles as they move
DUBAI 13 February 2020: Dubai’s Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) has launched the test-run of the dynamic wireless charging of electric vehicles and buses in motion using the Shaped Magnetic Field In Resonance (SMFIR) technology […]
2020 Cyber Predictions: What can we expect?
DUBAI 7 February 2019: As the 2020 budget meetings come and go – teams are forced to assess their current defenses by analyzing their historical attacks in order to anticipate/predict future attack trends. A difficult but […]
69% managers’ work will be automated by 2024
DUBAI 2 February 2019: Artificial intelligence (AI) and emerging technologies such as virtual personal assistants and chatbots are rapidly making headway into the workplace. By 2024, Gartner predicts that these technologies will replace almost 69% […]
MBR Solar Park phase 3 to be ready in April
DUBAI 19 January 2020: The 800MW third phase of the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park will be operational in April, the Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa), said on Saturday. The announcement was […]
Abu Dhabi goes in for retrofitting old buildings
ABU DHABI 16 January 2020: The Abu Dhabi Department of Energy (DoE), announced the completion of the emirate’s first Energy Saving Performance Contracting (ESPC), pilot project encompassing eight retrofitted government buildings. The Building Retrofit programme […]
Who delivered the fatal blow in group stabbing?
DUBAI 9 January 2019: Dubai Police has managed to identify a murder suspect in a multiple stabbing case in which a group of offenders used different bladed weapons. The forensic experts at the General Department […]
UAE’s first unified business communication service launches
DUBAI 7 January 2020: Etisalat has launched a cloud-based unified business communication and collaboration service, ‘CloudTalk’, for small and medium businesses and enterprise customers in the UAE. The UAE-based telecommunications services provider said that it […]