“Dubai is a new city and this is one of the oldest things here … while modernizing the cabins to include the amenities expected today, such as flat-screen TVs, WiFi and coffee machines. “To see QE2 coming back to life after a decade of layup is wonderful …
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RTA Opens Registration for the Dubai World Challenge for Self-Driving Transport
This initiative will bring together prominent experts, specialists, policymakers, technology drivers, researchers and academicians. It will attempt to come up with the best ideas & visions that serve the Dubai Government’s drive, achieves RTA’s first …
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UAE confirmed as regional hub for digital start-ups
We are already seeing successful outcomes,” he added. “Arab and Middle East entrepreneurs and investors eager to capitalise on emerging technologies see Dubai and the UAE as a remarkable opportunity. With Dubai firming up its position both as a …
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Desert heat lights a fire under Dubai’s food delivery market
“With food delivery, Dubai is ahead of the curve,” says Harb … As a result, a race for novel ways to deliver has ensued. One trial by Exponent Technology Services at a corporate event saw over 900 burgers delivered via drone in one day.
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Dubai’s business appeal critical to ensuring a global role
Its years of building itself up as a hub for trade, shipping, retail, aviation, tourism and technology have sustained it while many other cities in the region have struggled with the effects of declining oil prices. However, what happens to UAE’s …
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AWS Summit opens in Dubai
The first Amazon Web Services (AWS) Summit in Dubai took place today … many ways that customers around the world and in the Middle East are leveraging cloud technologies to help their organisations innovate and scale. The keynote also included AWS …
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Dubai solar park enters Phase 3, adds 200MW more
Dubai: Shaikh Mohammad bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Ruler of Dubai, has inaugurated the 200 megawatt (MW) first stage of the 800MW third phase of the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park. The solar park is one of …
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Dubai Adds 200 More Megawatts of Solar Power in Renewables Push
Dubai took another step toward completing what it says will be the largest solar park of its kind, inaugurating a 200-megawatt facility with partners Electricite de France SA and Abu Dhabi-based renewables company Masdar. The third and latest phase of …
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Dubai adds more solar power in major renewables push
Dubai has taken another step toward completing what it says will be the largest solar park of its kind, inaugurating a 200-megawatt facility with partners Electricite de France and Abu Dhabi-based renewables company Masdar. The third and latest phase of …
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Dubai to tender 300MW solar plant by the beginning of 2019
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority will tender a 300 megawatt concentrated solar power (CSP) plant for the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Solar Park before the first quarter of 2019 as the UAE looks to meet 7 per cent of its power needs from the sun by …
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Emerging technology experts to descend into Dubai
More than 14,000 technologists from IT security, internet of things, artificial intelligence and blockchain industries are descending into Dubai to take part in the ‘Future Technology Week’. Taking place from May 1-3 at Dubai World Trade Centre, the …
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Registration open for second Solar Decathlon Middle East
Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) has announced that registration is now open for the second Solar Decathlon Middle East (SDME). SDME was created through an agreement signed between Dubai Water and Electricity Authority (DEWA) and the US …
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Dubai port operator puts name to hyperloop transport technology
The Dubai-based port operator DP World on Sunday put its name on the hyperloop technology it has already spent millions of dollars to develop, as work continues to make it operational. The cargo system, which is being designed alongside a possible …
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Dubai’s new innovation platform to facilitate conversations, collaboration
Space360, an innovation and knowledge-sharing platform designed to facilitate conversations between various entities and encourage collaboration has been launched in Dubai, it has been announced. Canon Middle East, a provider of imaging technologies and …
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DP World, Virgin Hyperloop One to build hyperloop system for UAE cargo
Dubai: DP World, the Dubai-based ports operator … Phase two refers to the next level of detail for the still untested technology, including a specific route, and a more thorough feasibility study.
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Dubai to transport goods, people at 1,200kmph
“Dubai is in the cutting edge of everything,” said Sir Richard Branson. “What we are looking at is technology that will remove all the misery of travel.” Highlighting examples of how this will be possible, he said: “Travel between airports that normally …
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UAE- How female entrepreneurs will boost Middle East economies
(MENAFN – Khaleej Times) Dubai’s well-earned moniker as a global trading hub is one of the stabilising pillars of the regional community. A robust economic environment not only helps create jobs and supports development but spreads technology and ideas …
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