SHARJAH, 13th September, 2023 (WAM) – Mohammed Hamad Al Kuwaiti, Head of UAE Cybersecurity Council, said the UAE is on track to become an artificial intelligence (AI) state by 2071. This will be achieved through promoting a cybersecurity culture and utilising various modern technologies with secure protection in cooperation with key partners, he added. He […]

Afghanistan and Saudi Arabia are known for their Shariah-based legal systems and authoritarian ways of governance. But the two Islamist governments are on divergent paths regarding women’s work and education. In the Saudi kingdom, where until a few years ago women were deprived of many social rights and freedoms, the women’s employment rate has surged […]

The billionaire has dismissed criticism over his refusal to help Kiev attack the Russian naval fleet in Crimea American tech billionaire Elon Musk has responded to criticism over his refusal to help enable a Ukrainian drone attack on Russian naval forces in Crimea by pointing out that he’s a citizen of only the US and […]

Among the extreme weather events we are now experiencing, including floods, severe storms and wildfires, heat waves are having the greatest impact on human health. Indeed, the deadliest weather event in Canadian history was the heat dome (abnormally hot temperatures that lasted several days) that hit British Columbia in 2021, causing at least 600 deaths. […]

DES MOINES, IOWA – The cost of building an artificial intelligence product like ChatGPT can be hard to measure. But one thing Microsoft-backed OpenAI needed for its technology was plenty of water, pulled from the watershed of the Raccoon and Des Moines rivers in central Iowa to cool a powerful supercomputer as it helped teach […]

BEIJING, China: To keep pace with the U.S. and other rivals, China will establish a new state-backed investment fund for the semiconductor sector to raise some US$41 billion. The new fund will be launched by the China Integrated Circuit Industry Investment Fund, also known as the Big Fund. It is likely to be the biggest […]

Ukrainian sea drones lost signal as they approached Crimea to attack the Russian fleet Elon Musk personally intervened to stop a Ukrainian attack on Crimea last year due to fears of a nuclear war, CNN reported on Thursday, quoting an excerpt from the upcoming biography of the SpaceX and Tesla founder. As Ukrainian drones approached […]

Government workers will reportedly no longer be allowed to use Apple or any other foreign-brand devices Beijing has reportedly ordered officials working for central government agencies to stop using iPhones or any other foreign devices for work or bringing them into the office, the Wall Street Journal reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the […]

New Delhi [India], September 5 (ANI): Union Minister of State for Electronics and Information Technology Rajeev Chandrasekhar has said that G20 Digital Economy Ministers reached a ground-breaking consensus under India’s Presidency on how to effectively shape digital public infrastructure (DPI) of the future. Addressing a press conference here on the outcomes of the meeting, he […]

© Provided by Xinhua TIANJIN, Sept. 4 (Xinhua) — Giant DC, a data technology company established in north China’s Tianjin Municipality three years ago, was previously a leading Chinese heavy machinery manufacturer with decades of expertise. “There was overcapacity in steel at that time, and with environmental pressure mounting, our company had to embrace the […]