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Uber is planning to demonstrate a network of flying cars in Dallas-Fort Worth and Dubai by 2020, as announced by the ride-hailing company at the Uber Elevate summit. Similar to how Uber dispatches drivers and their cars, the company will not be manufacturing the flying cars, which will be vertical take-off and landing, or VTOL, vehicles. Rather, it will lead the formation of the network that will […]

3rd Internet of the Things Expo (ioTx) to highlight concerns in securing smart and connected cities Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to give visitors a sneak preview of high-speed, tube-based transportation system 25 April 20173rd Internet of the Things Expo (ioTx) to highlight concerns in securing smart and connected cities Hyperloop Transportation Technologies to give visitors a sneak preview of high-speed, tube-based transportation system Dubai, UAE – As […]

One of the major culprits in capacity fade of high-energy lithium-ion batteries has now been identified by a team of researchers. (via WSJ)

By Dan Levine | SAN FRANCISCO SAN FRANCISCO A U.S. judge on Tuesday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order that sought to withhold federal funds from so-called sanctuary cities, dealing another legal blow to the administration’s efforts to toughen immigration enforcement. The ruling from U.S. District Judge William Orrick III in San Francisco said Trump’s Jan. 25 order targeted broad categories of federal funding for sanctuary governments […]

Archaeological finds made on an island near the capital in 1959 proved pivotal in defining and promoting the UAE’s relics and antiquities. Sheikh Zayed, the nation’s Founding Father, was one of the first to spot their importance. In the spring of 1959, the Ruler of Abu Dhabi at the time, Sheikh Shakhbut bin Sultan, made one of several visits to an island 20 kilometres from his ancestral […]

A federal court has blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order on sanctuary cities on the grounds that it is unconstitutional, in another legal setback for the administration. The nationwide injunction granted on Tuesday by a federal judge in San Francisco will prevent the executive order, signed just days after Mr Trump’s inauguration, from being enforced while its legal merits are debated. “This is a very aggressive use […]

Several months ago, when it was still conventional wisdom that Trump wanted to replace Janet Yellen – at least until Trump’s famous WSJ interview in which he flipped on this and various other issues – with a hawk once her turn runs out in 2018, the financial punditry was busy coming up with potential replacement names, a practice which gradually faded away once it emerged that Trump […]

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BRASILIA Indigenous people and police clashed in Brazil’s capital city on Tuesday, as officers fired rubber bullets and tear gas while tribe members shot arrows in return during a protest against farmers’ encroachment on reservations. The demonstration was peaceful until police blocked some of the indigenous people, their bodies painted and wearing colourful headdresses, from climbing a ramp that led into the congressional building, according to a […]

Uber Technologies Inc has reportedly teamed up with officials from Dubai and Dallas to test flying cars within three years. The company aims to hold test flights in Dubai during the city’s Expo 2020 event, its chief product officer Jeff Holden said at a conference in Dallas on Tuesday. Holden was quoted as saying in media reports that the company’s models suggest flying cars could cost $1.32 […]

Uber is making its vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) plans more concrete, via new partnerships announced today during its Elevate conference focused on the VTOL industry. The partnerships are with established aeronautics and emerging VTOL players, including Aurora Flight Sciences, Embraer, Bell Helicopter, Pistrel Aircraft, Mooney and ChargePoint, and will focus on two markets initially, including Dallas in the U.S. and Dubai abroad. The partners will provide […]

BAGHDAD: A senior military commander says Iraqi troops have driven out Daesh militants from the largest neighborhood in the western half of the city of Mosul.Special forces Lt. Gen. Abdul-Wahab al-Saadi told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the sprawling al-Tanek neighborhood “is fully liberated and under full control” of the security forces. Al-Saadi didn’t provide more details.Taking sprawling al-Tanek on the city’s westernmost edge is a […]

A demo booth at Facebook’s annual F8 developer conference, Tuesday, April 18, 2017. CEO Mark Zuckerberg addressed recent violence on Facebook at the conference.(Photo: AP Photo/Noah Berger) SAN FRANCISCO — A distraught father in Thailand killed his 11-month-old child on Facebook Live, the latest in a string of disturbing incidents including suicide, torture and sexual assault that have reached millions on the live-streaming service, raising questions about Facebook’s […]

Located on Reem Island, Vida Beach Reem Island Abu Dhabi and Vida Residences Beach Reem Island Abu Dhabi will add to the portfolio of Emaar Hospitality Group’s upscale lifestyle hotel brand Scheduled to open in 2020, the iconic hotel and extended stay serviced residences overlook the Arabian Sea within a marina setting Vida Beach Reem Island Abu Dhabi will feature 262 guestrooms and suites, and […]

Dubai’s tourism sector sustained the momentum of its strong 2017 start, with the emirate reporting an 11 percent increase in overnight visitation in the first three months of the year. Dubai’s Department of Tourism and Commerce Marketing (Dubai Tourism) said in a statement that the city saw 4.57 million travellers in Q1, more than double the growth achieved in the first quarter of 2016. Among Dubai’s top […]

Australia’s National Broadband Network (NBN) company has attained speeds of 1.1Gbps download and 165.6Mbps upload across its fixed-wireless network during a series of live trials in regional Victoria in partnership with Ericsson, NetComm Wireless, and Qualcomm. The tests were conducted in March at a Ballarat campus of Yuille Park Community College, which is situated 1km from the fixed-wireless tower used for the trial. To attain speeds in […]

The Navy has since 2014 been testing a 30-kilowatt laser on one of its warships, the USS Ponce A sci-fi staple for decades, laser weapons are finally becoming reality in the US military, albeit with capabilities a little less dramatic than at the movies. Lightsabers—the favored weapon of the Jedi in “Star Wars” films—will remain in the fictional realm for now, but after decades of development, laser […]

Dubai master developer Nakheel on Monday broke ground on a new, 375-room hotel at Ibn Battuta Mall, with a total project value of AED240 million. The ground-breaking ceremony – Nakheel’s second in a week – was led by chairman Ali Rashid Lootah and comes a month after the company handed a construction contract to Dubai-based Parkway International Contracting to build the hotel, which will be operated by […]

25 April 2017 Government of Dubai Media Office – In his capacity as Ruler of Dubai, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum issued Law No (6) of 2017 pertaining to surveying activity in Dubai. The new Law governs land surveys, hydrographic surveys and seismic surveys. The Law aims to ensure surveying is conducted according to international best […]

As any good storyteller will tell you, the devil is in the details. Rose Balston, an art historian and lecturer who began a series of lectures this week covering the cultural connections between the Middle East and Europe in art across centuries, trains her audience eyes to hone in on aspects of artworks they might otherwise not notice. During the first part of her lecture she showed […]

After yesterday’s violent gap up in stocks across the globe in response to the “expected” outcome from the French election, today the risk on sentiment has continued if to a lesser extent, with stocks in Europe, Asia all rising while S&P futures point to a higher open. Yen, gold decline, while the euro traded as high as 1.09 this morning before fading some gains; oil is up […]

By Ahmed Aboulenein | MOSUL, Iraq, MOSUL, Iraq, Iraqi forces are using siege and stealth tactics to drive Islamic State militants out of Mosul’s Old City, an Iraqi general said, as his forces sought to minimise casualties among hundreds of thousands of people trapped in the cramped, historic neighbourhood. Explosions from two car bombs could be heard nearby as Lieutenant General Abdul Ghani al-Assadi spoke to Reuters […]

NASA’s Cassini spacecraft has had its last flyby of the moon Titan and is now on the course for its last set of 22 orbits around Saturn before it will make a deadly plummet into the ringed planet’s atmosphere. Last Close Encounter With Titan The spacecraft made its 127th close brush with Titan on April 21 just a little past 11:00 p.m. PDT when it passed at 608 […]

Visitors use their mobile phones as they walk in the dark at the Dubai Mall. AFP Photo Shoppers were plunged into darkness when The Dubai Mall experienced a two-hour power failure on Monday night. AFP Photo According to reports the electricity went out at 7.20pm and was restored just after 9pm. AFP Photo At 7.40pm Dubai Media Office said authorities were working to restore power in a […]

PARACHINAR, Pakistan A remote-controlled roadside bomb targeting a minibus killed at least 10 people and wounded several others on Tuesday in Pakistan’s remote northwestern tribal region bordering Afghanistan, an official in the region said. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack but Shahid Ali Khan, a senior regional Pakistani official, told Reuters militants planted a roadside bomb in the Kurram Agency in the Federally Administered Tribal […]

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