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In November of last year, Samsung announced that it was purchasing Harman International Industries for $112 per share, equivalent to around $8 billion. The company’s biggest ever acquisition, which was an uncharacteristic one for the South Korean conglomerate as it mostly preferred to develop its own technology or buy smaller startups, has now been completed after four months. Samsung Closes Harman Acquisition “Today is a historic moment for […]

By Jeremy Wagstaff | SINGAPORE SINGAPORE In today’s so-called smart home, you can dim the lights, order more toothpaste or tell the kids to go to bed simply by talking to a small Wifi-connected speaker, such as Amazon’s (AMZN.O) Echo or Google’s (GOOGL.O) Home. This voice-first market – combining voice with artificial intelligence (AI) – barely existed in 2014. This year, Voice Labs, a consultancy, expects 24.5 […]

Charlie Osborne | ZDNet Neural networking could pave the way for AI systems to be given a capability which we have, until now, considered a human trait: the possession of common sense. While some of us may have less of this than others, the idea of “common sense” — albeit a vague concept — is the general idea of making fair and good decisions in what is […]

AMMAN: A Jordanian soldier who killed seven Israeli schoolgirls in 1997 was released on Sunday after serving 20 years in prison, his family said.“The authorities released Ahmad Dakamseh this Sunday around 1:00 am after he finished his jail term. He is now a free man,” his cousin Mohammed Yahya Dakamseh told AFP by phone.Ahmad Dakamseh was released from the Bab Al-Hawa prison in Irbid, 90 kilometers (60 […]

  ABU DHABI // Police in the UAE are targeting young adult drivers after statistics revealed almost half of traffic accidents were caused by motorists aged between 18 and 30. The Ministry of Interior said 45 per cent of traffic accidents last year were caused by motorists in that age group, compared with 47 per cent of accidents the previous year. Road safety experts said the ease […]

Google’s self-driving unit, now called Waymo, is going after Uber, and it’s making it clear. It’s stepping up its legal attack on the popular ride-hailing company, most recently by asking a court to block Uber from leveraging technology, which it allegedly stole from Waymo to get ahead in the race for driverless cars. Waymo’s Uber Lawsuit The two, both Silicon Valley companies, are duking it out over […]

By Kawa Omar | MOSUL, Iraq MOSUL, Iraq After two and a half years under Islamic State control, all that is left in Mosul’s museum are the traces of looting and destruction. Inside the rubble-strewn building, where militants filmed themselves destroying ancient artifacts, the large stone wing of a statue of lamassu — an Assyrian winged bull deity — lies on the dusty floor among other broken […]

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11 March 2017 Kuwait – Kuwait Finance House (KFH) provides exclusive offers on 5 insurance policies for customers in collaboration with KFH-Takaful.  The offers encompass 6 customer segments; Awlwiya-Nukhba-Ruwaad-Tamayoz- Sundus and Rubban. This covers the Sanad, Youmnak and Supplementary insurance policies on comprehensive cars insurance, in addition to Sanad for medical insurance and the policy of travel insurance. The discounts reach up to 50% until end of […]

Alphabet’s Waymo is requesting for a preliminary injunction to keep Uber from pushing through with its self-driving car plans and thus stop the ride-hailing service from using allegedly stolen secrets. This move follows the lawsuit Waymo filed back in February against Otto, a self-driving truck startup, and Uber, the startup’s parent company. The case argues that the defending party has stolen more than 14,000 confidential documents, including info […]

U.S. used-auto retailer Carvana LLC, which allows customers to pick up cars they buy on the internet from vending machine-like towers, has tapped investment banks for an initial public offering, according to people familiar with the matter. The move comes as more consumers become comfortable with online used-car purchases. TrueCar Inc (TRUE.O), for example, a car-shopping service that matches buyers with dealers online, has seen its shares […]

DUBAI // Disability campaigners have hit out at motorists who illegally park in their spaces, after Dubai Police revealed that more than 1,200 offenders have been caught since the start of this year. Wheelchair users criticised the selfish and said careless drivers are making their lives more challenging. One disabled driver said it can take an hour to find a space if motorists who are not entitled […]

Samsung Electronics has completed the acquisition of Harman International Industries in a deal worth $8 billion, the company announced. Harman stockholders will receive $112 per share in cash, and the deal was approved by the US firm’s stockholders and local and foreign regulators, the Korean company said. Harman will be 100 percent owned by Samsung, while Dinesh Paliwal will remain as Harman’s CEO. The company’s workforce, headquarters, […]

In this May 13, 2015, file photo, Google’s new self-driving prototype car is introduced at the Google campus in Mountain View, Calif. Cars with no steering wheel, no pedals and nobody at all inside could be driving themselves on California roads by the end of 2017, under proposed new rules that would give a powerful boost to the technology from the nation’s most populous state. (AP Photo/Tony […]

The middle ground isn’t exactly a term that many sports-car manufacturers would like associated with their tarmac-gobbling wares, but that’s exactly how Porsche positions the premium on-road niche in its long-celebrated 911 range. But its pitch explains everything: the GTS is a notch below the try-not-to-get-killed madness of the GT3, marrying sporty intent with everyday usability, making it the most-aggressive 911 this side of its race-ready road […]

The tour to the city included a special preview on the first ever complete model of the Sustainable City to be showcased at the Future Cities Show 2017 Dubai, 9 March 2017: The UAE Minister of Infrastructure Development, His Excellency Dr. Abdullah bin Mohammed Belhaif Al Nuaimi visited ‘The Sustainable City’ – the region’s first sustainable and integrated project and the first residential project in Dubai that produces clean energy, […]

Heavy fog and poor visibility on Abu Dhabi-Dubai highway led to a 15-car collision on Thursday morning, resulting in major tailbacks on the expressway. “There is a collision of ten cars on the road towards Dubai from Abu Dhabi and it has led to huge traffic jam. There is heavy fog today,” a motorist on his way to Dubai said. Many accidents have been reported on Ras […]

Cisco’s Jasper is making a big play into connected cars, a sector the company currently sees as its largest growth industry in the Internet of Things (IoT) space. According to Jasper MD for Cisco ANZ Tom Fisher, Cisco’s cloud-based IoT platform Jasper is now powering nearly every connected car in the world. “Our largest vertical is the connected car market,” Fisher told ZDNet. “Practically every single car […]

Dubai-based online portal ServiceMarket analysed customer data on its car insurance comparison portal. Using a sample of 7,000 clients that have used ServiceMarket in 2017 to receive car insurance quotations and buy policies online, the startup identified five interesting car and insurance trends in the UAE: 1. Women Emiratis drive the most expensive cars: When looking at average car values the data shows that Emirati drivers own […]

Uber has pledged to end the use of its “greyball” system for blocking officials from booking cars with its app — less than a week after the tool was made public. An investigation into its employees’ handling of the tool, which Uber has insisted is fully legal and has other uses, follows several inquiries from regulators about the technology. Last week’s revelation that Uber offices around the […]

Today at the inaugural Udacity Intersect conference, the online education startup announced new robotics and digital marketing variants of its popular Nanodegrees — an effort to expand its corpus of  21st century skills-based courses. In addition to the new degrees, Udacity is adding 21 new hiring partners spanning the automotive, defense, tech, hardware and telecommunications industries. And, lastly, the company is partnering with Didi Chuxing for a new $100,000 competition to […]

As Abdelmonem Alserkal tours his latest architectural commission, his pristine white kandura stands in contrast to the monochrome building that broods in Alserkal Avenue – the warehouse creative community he has brought to life in Dubai’s industrial neighbourhood of Al Quoz. A muted study in steel, small mirrors, translucent polycarbonate and sprayed, shot-blast and polished concrete, the new venue is the latest milestone in Alserkal Avenue’s decade-long […]

A new system from CSAIL uses EEG brain signals to detect if a person notices robots making a mistake. Credit: Jason Dorfman/MIT CSAIL For robots to do what we want, they need to understand us. Too often, this means having to meet them halfway: teaching them the intricacies of human language, for example, or giving them explicit commands for very specific tasks. But what if we could […]

DUBAI // A fight between two rival gangs, captured on video, left one dead and one seriously injured, a Dubai court heard on Tuesday. A video shot by a tenant whose apartment overlooks the car park where the fight took place captured the moment dozens of Chinese men gathered at 9pm on March 23 last year armed with axes and metal bars. The fight lasted for 10 […]

Dubai has issued new regulations on the installation of electric vehicle charging stations as it looks to be at the forefront of environmentally-friendly cars. Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al Maktoum, chairman of the Dubai Supreme Council of Energy, has issued directive number 1 of 2017 which states that all public and private organisations and developers in Dubai must get approvals from Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) […]

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