Wafacash and Money Fellows have signed a strategic partnership at GITEX Africa in Marrakech aimed at digitising Daret, the traditional savings circle widely used in Morocco, in a move both companies say could widen access to formal financial tools while preserving a long-standing social practice. The agreement marks Money Fellows’ formal push into Morocco and places Wafacash, a subsidiary of Attijariwafa Bank Group, at the centre of […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Capital, liquidity and asset quality at the UAE’s largest banks remain robust, according to Dubai-based Al Ramz Capital, which says a ceasefire between Washington and Tehran has removed an immediate geopolitical overhang that had weighed on sentiment, valuations and foreign risk appetite. The firm said direct exposure to sectors most sensitive to conflict, including real estate, hospitality, aviation, transport and trade finance, […]
Service My Car and PlusX Electric have formed a partnership aimed at making life easier for households in the UAE that own both petrol-powered vehicles and electric cars, as mobility providers race to adapt to a market that is adding EVs faster than the after-sales ecosystem has traditionally been built to handle. The agreement links a mainstream digital servicing platform with an EV-focused charging and support business, […]
Beijing has pushed its reusable space programme a step further with the launch of an experimental spacecraft that state media described as a technology-verification mission, underlining how the country is trying to cut launch costs, raise flight tempo and broaden the range of missions it can carry out in orbit. The spacecraft was launched on 7 February aboard a Long March-2F rocket from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwest China, in what was the fourth publicly disclosed mission of this type since 2020.
Chinese authorities released only a brief account of the flight, saying the spacecraft would verify reusable-spacecraft technologies and support the peaceful use of space. No official duration was given, and no details were provided on the systems being tested, the orbit reached or the vehicle’s configuration. That secrecy has become a hallmark of the programme and makes it difficult to judge exactly how far the technology has advanced, but the pattern of repeated flights suggests a sustained effort rather than a one-off demonstration.
Chronology matters here. China’s first disclosed flight in September 2020 lasted about two days. A second spacecraft launched in August 2022 stayed in orbit for 276 days before landing in May 2023. A third mission, launched in late 2023, returned in September 2024 after 268 days in orbit. Those longer flights point to growing confidence in long-duration autonomous operations, recovery procedures and mission endurance. Outside observers have often compared the craft with the United States’ X-37B-style approach to reusable uncrewed orbital vehicles, though Beijing has not publicly confirmed such comparisons.
This mission also fits into a much wider acceleration in Chinese space activity. On 7 April, China used a Long March-8 rocket from the Hainan commercial launch site to place 18 internet satellites into orbit for the Qianfan constellation. On 11 April, it carried out a sea launch using a Smart Dragon-3 rocket from waters off Guangdong, sending up a test satellite aimed at supporting satellite internet technology. Taken together, those launches show a programme expanding on several fronts at once: reusable vehicles, commercial launch infrastructure and large low-Earth-orbit communications networks.
Beyond low-Earth orbit, China is tying these advances to a broader national space agenda. Beijing is aiming for a crewed lunar landing by 2030 and is developing the Long March-10 rocket, the Mengzhou spacecraft and the Lanyue lunar lander for that effort. At the same time, the Chang’e-7 lunar probe is scheduled for launch in the second half of 2026. That means the reusable-spacecraft programme should be viewed less as an isolated experiment than as one part of an expanding architecture that spans launch systems, spacecraft design, lunar exploration and space-based connectivity.
Money and industrial policy are also shaping the picture. Reuters has reported that Beijing is funnelling more support towards private launch companies as it tries to build capacity for large satellite constellations and reduce reliance on state-owned providers alone. CAS Space has targeted fresh capital for reusable rocket research, while LandSpace and other firms are also turning to capital markets. Separate policy changes have given reusable-rocket developers a faster route to listing, provided they meet technical milestones, showing how closely commercial launch activity is now aligned with national strategic goals.
Yet the programme’s momentum should not be mistaken for mastery. China is advancing, but it is still chasing a lead established by SpaceX in frequent booster recovery and reflight. On 3 April, Space Pioneer said the maiden flight of its Tianlong-3 reusable rocket had failed, and Reuters reported that no Chinese firm had yet demonstrated the ability to recover and reuse a rocket’s main stage. LandSpace plans another recovery test for its Zhuque-3 rocket this year, while the Long March-12B reusable rocket completed a static firing test in January ahead of later flight missions. Progress is visible, but so are the engineering gaps.
GitHub Copilot Chat has been shown to carry a serious prompt-injection weakness that allowed a researcher to demonstrate how secrets, private source code and other sensitive repository data could be siphoned out of trusted development workflows without planting malware in the victim’s environment. The issue, dubbed CamoLeak, was disclosed by Legit Security researcher Omer Mayraz after he said he found it in June 2025, reported it through […]
Google has begun rolling out a new Chrome security feature designed to blunt one of the most effective tools used by cybercriminals to hijack online accounts: stolen session cookies. The protection, called Device Bound Session Credentials, is entering public availability for Windows users in Chrome 146, with expansion to macOS slated for a later release. Google says the system is intended to make stolen authentication cookies far […]
Google has removed Doki Doki Literature Club from the Play Store, setting off a dispute over how major app platforms police games that deal with suicide, depression and psychological distress. The takedown affects the Android version of the cult visual novel, which had only reached mobile devices in December, and comes despite the game carrying a mature rating on Google Play and longstanding content warnings in its […]
Earth is becoming brighter after dark overall, but the shift is proving far less uniform than older global averages suggested, with fast-growing parts of Asia and Africa lighting up while sections of Europe and some older urban zones are dimming through efficiency drives, new lamp technologies and policies aimed at cutting waste and light pollution. The clearest picture yet, drawn from daily satellite observations between 2014 and […]
PEPE gave up ground after a sharp run-up ran into selling pressure near the $0.0000037-$0.0000038 range, with traders taking profits as excitement around a proposed US exchange-traded fund for the meme token failed to generate a lasting second leg higher. Market data on April 11 showed PEPE trading around $0.0000035, leaving it well below its 2024 peak and indicating that the latest burst of enthusiasm had not […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai Abu Dhabi will bring back its flagship infrastructure gathering in a larger format next month, with organisers casting the 12-14 May event as a platform to push smart, sustainable and people-centred urban development at a time when the emirate is moving ahead with one of the region’s biggest public project pipelines. The Abu Dhabi Infrastructure Summit, hosted by the Abu Dhabi Projects and […]
Enhanced Labs has raised $1 million in a strategic pre-seed round as the decentralised finance startup seeks to widen access to structured yield products built on options and derivatives, moving beyond large crypto tokens towards a broader set of on-chain assets that includes tokenised real-world assets. The round was led by Maximum Frequency Ventures, with GSR, Selini, Flowdesk and angel investors also taking part, according to company […]
Arabian Post Staff -Dubai RAK Ceramics has moved to reassure customers, contractors and distributors that its operations across the UAE and the wider region remain uninterrupted, saying access across its customer network is continuing without disruption across both retail and project channels. The statement comes at a time when businesses across the Gulf are paying closer attention to logistics resilience, input costs and delivery schedules amid wider […]
A Microsoft-tracked cybercrime group is using adversary-in-the-middle techniques to hijack Microsoft 365 sessions, bypass multifactor authentication and reroute employee pay into attacker-controlled bank accounts, in what researchers describe as a geographically focused campaign against users in Canada. Microsoft said the actor, tracked as Storm-2755, combined search-result poisoning, fake sign-in pages and session replay to move from account takeover to payroll fraud, causing direct financial loss for at […]
Dubai’s Al Mamzar Corniche development has moved into its closing stretch, with construction reaching 88% completion as the emirate pushes ahead with one of its most closely watched public beach upgrades. Dubai Municipality said the scheme is progressing in line with delivery schedules and is intended to open as a new coastal destination combining leisure, sport and community facilities. The project has drawn particular attention for including […]
By Nitya Chakraborty After getting political and diplomatic advantage from the latest US-Iran ceasefire, China has started its preparation for hosting the U.S. President Donald Trump in its crucial summit in Beijing on May 14 and 15 this year. Earlier the summit was scheduled for March 31 and April 1 but Trump postponed that after […]
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Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI has sued Colorado in federal court, opening a fresh front in the widening US battle over how far states can go in policing the use of advanced algorithms in decisions affecting jobs, housing, education, healthcare and finance. The complaint, filed on April 9, seeks to block enforcement of Colorado’s Senate Bill 24-205 before it takes effect on June 30, arguing that […]
Russia said on Thursday that President Vladimir Putin had ordered a temporary ceasefire in Ukraine over Orthodox Easter, casting the move as a humanitarian gesture and urging Kyiv to follow suit, even as both sides remained deeply sceptical that any holiday pause would materially change the course of the war. The Kremlin said Russian forces were to halt combat operations from 4 p. m. on Saturday, April […]
XRP could reach $1,000 by 2030, according to EasyA co-founder Dom Kwok, who has repeated the forecast in public interviews and defended it when challenged on valuation grounds. The call has reignited a familiar argument in crypto markets: whether XRP should be judged as a conventional token priced by circulating supply, or as a payments rail whose future worth could expand far beyond today’s market-cap logic. For […]
Circle Internet Group shares slid nearly 10 per cent on Thursday, closing at $85.10, after a fresh Wall Street “sell” call added to investor unease over the stablecoin issuer’s margins and over criticism of its handling of funds tied to the Drift Protocol exploit. Market data showed the stock ended the session down 9.89 per cent, extending a volatile stretch for one of crypto’s most closely watched […]
Tesla is developing a smaller, lower-cost electric sport utility vehicle in a move that could reopen its path into the mass market after years of focusing investor attention on autonomy, robotics and premium technology bets. People familiar with the plan told Reuters the company has approached suppliers in the past few weeks to discuss a compact SUV that would sit below its current line-up on size and […]
Air travellers in Germany faced widespread disruption on Friday after Lufthansa cabin crew staged a one-day strike that the airline and airport officials said would force the cancellation of more than 520 flights and affect about 90,000 passengers, hitting the carrier’s Frankfurt and Munich hubs during a busy holiday return period. The walkout, called by the UFO cabin crew union, ran from 00:01 to 22:00 local time […]
Amazon’s Sparrow robot is moving the company’s automation drive beyond lifting shelves and sorting parcels into one of warehouse robotics’ hardest jobs: selecting individual products of different shapes, sizes and surfaces from bins and placing them into totes for the next stage of fulfilment. Introduced as an AI-enabled picking arm, Sparrow marked a notable step in Amazon’s effort to automate item handling while keeping human workers in […]
Binance has joined Abu Dhabi’s “One Nation. One People. Together, We Protect What We Love.” initiative in partnership with Design Commission Abu Dhabi, linking one of the world’s largest crypto platforms with a state-backed civic campaign built around social cohesion, shared responsibility and public participation across the UAE. The move adds a corporate technology name to an initiative launched in March under the chairwomanship of Shamsa bint […]
OpenAI is projecting a steep new revenue path built around advertising, with the ChatGPT maker expecting about $2.5 billion in ad revenue in 2026 and as much as $100 billion annually by 2030, according to a report by Axios citing investor presentation material. The same projections indicate ad sales could climb to $11 billion in 2027, $25 billion in 2028 and $53 billion in 2029, underscoring how […]
