H E Hussain bin Ibrahim Al Hammadi, UAE’s Minister of Education, visited Rochester Institute of Technology – Dubai (RIT Dubai) earlier this week. He was given a tour of the facilities and introduced t…
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‘Data is the new oil’: UAE says energy executives should embrace A.I. to improve profits
Speaking at the ADIPEC oil summit in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday, Omar bin Sultan Al Olama, the UAE’s minister of state for AI technology said: “Data is the new oil.” “The opportunities are endless — some es…
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Free Wi-Fi in all Dubai taxis soon
A passenger takes an RTA taxi at Al Maktoum International Airport. The RTA had offered 300 taxi number plates to all taxi franchises through an auction. Image Credit: Zarina Fernandes/Gulf News …
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The Big 5 Solar: Bringing Solar to Dubai’s $279.4bn urban sector
After a successful launch edition in 2017, The Big 5 Solar will return under the Patronage of the Ministry of Energy & Industry, United Arab Emirates, to showcase solar energy solutions for the constr…
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GCC ‘on track to achieve 4.6GW solar PV target’
The solar drive will ensure the Gulf region reaches its 2030 target of a collective 4.6 GW PV in power generation to emerge as a global renewables leader, said an industry expert ahead of the upcoming …
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UAE, Finland keen to share synergies
“Our startup industry is very eager to explore the opportunities available in the UAE. We have observed young entrepreneurs dealing in new industries such as digital healthcare, artificial intelligenc…
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Construction Week In Focus | S02E27: Dubai’s MBR Solar Park – Dubai Video
MBR Solar Park is the largest single-site solar energy plant in the world with more than $13-billion of investment committed against it. The scheme was launched in January 2012 with the promise that t…
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Video: Construction Week In Focus | Dubai’s MBR Solar Park in 2018
RELATED ARTICLES: Dubai expands design of $4bn MBR Solar Park | Saudi Arabia’s $200bn solar park with Japan’s Softbank ‘shelved’ | Progress of Dubai’s MBR Solar Park 700MW Phase 4 inspected A design c…
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Watch Dubai Police fly a crazy Star Wars-like hoverbike
2018 The move comes a year after the Dubai Police showed off a Hoversurf Scorpion hoverbike at Gitex Technology Week in Dubai. The hoverbikes are described as a “first responder unit used to access ha…
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ACWA Power Secures 250 Megawatt Solar PV At 2.4¢/kWh!
The new project will be part of the iconic Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE). The Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (DEWA) and ACWA Power …
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UAE’s Leading Technologists and Security Experts Convene to Make Future Technology Week a Global and Game-Changing Dubai-Based Event
Some of the UAE’s most forward-thinking experts, charged with delivering technological innovation and security to the Emirates have met to mastermind delivering a game-changing tech event in Dubai. Fu…
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UAE to develop laws to govern self-driving cars and artificial intelligence
The UAE will begin developing laws governing self-driving cars and artificial intelligence to prepare the country to embrace the technologies of the future. Mohammad Al Gergawi, Minister of Cabinet Af…
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UAE issues new law to regulate future technologies
The President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, has issued a federal law authorising the UAE Cabinet to grant temporary licences for testing innovations that use future technologies an…
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UAE schools need to offer the ‘language of the future’ in regular lessons
Coding is used to tell a computer what to do in various situations and is the building blocks of informational technology and artificial intelligence. Omar Farooqui, founder of Dubai-based Coded Minds …
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UAE food prices among most affordable globally
According to Economist magazine’s Global Food Security Index 2018, food prices in the UAE are the fourth-most affordable globally, thanks to stronger dirham, improved domestic food production through …
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Global experts gather in Dubai for World Economic Forum meeting
Topics including technology, health, finance and energy will be discussed … health and energy will gather in Dubai on Sunday and Monday to help articulate how a new era of global co-operation should …
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UAE May Buy LCA Tejas Fighter Jets Due To Combined US, Russian and Israeli Technology
Why is the UAE interested in Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) Tejas, developed by the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL). One thing that might have attracted the UAE officials is that LCA Tejas has around …
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