Dubai / WAM Smart Dubai announced its plans to participate in the 40th Gitex Technology Week, taking place from December 6-10 at the Dubai World Trade Centre, where it intends to showcase the latest developments in terms of city-wide smart transformation and the positive impact digitisation is making on people’s lives. Furthermore, Smart Dubai will be highlighting collaborative efforts undertaken ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Ministry of Health and Prevention (MoHAP) announced that it conducted 132,374 additional Covid-19 tests over the past 24 hours, using state-of-the-art medical testing equipment. In a statement, the ministry stressed its aim to continue expanding the scope of testing nationwide to facilitate the early detection of coronavirus cases and carry out the necessary treatment. As ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Abu Dhabi Businesswomen Council (ADBW) in cooperation with the Council of Arab Businesswomen (CABW) has organised the 3rd virtual exhibition “First Choice” following the success of the exhibition in its first and second editions. HH Sheikha Dr Hessa Saad Abdullah Al Sabah, President of the CABW, attended the inauguration of the exhibition along with Maryam ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (TRA) warned of a security loophole in WhatsApp for iOS that could allow the execution of malicious code, memory corruption and crashes. In security update for WhatsApp, TRA another vulnerability could permit Siri app to interact with WhatsApp even after the phone was locked. TRA advises users to update the affected app ...

Dubai / WAM Dubai Electricity and Water Authority (Dewa) announced the inauguration of 20 new electricity substations in 2020, as part of its efforts to provide electricity and water services according to the highest standards of availability, reliability and efficiency. The move includes a 400 kV substation in Dubai South with a conversion capacity of 2020 megavolt-amperes (MVA) and nineteen ...

DUBAI / WAM Mattar Mohammed Al Tayer, Director-General, Chairman of the Board of Executive Directors of the Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) announced the arrival of all the 50 new Dubai Metro trains. 15 of these trains, he said, are designated for serving Expo 2020, and the remaining 35 trains are meant to improve the level of service of the ...

Abu Dhabi / WAM The United Arab Emirates sent an aid plane containing 12 metric tonnes of medical supplies, testing kits and ventilators to Jordan. The aid will assist approximately 12,000 medical professionals as they work to contain the virus. Ahmed Ali Al Balushi, UAE Ambassador to the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, said: “In continuation of the UAE’s efforts to ...

Dubai / WAM With the global oil and gas industry looking for improved efficiencies in a post-Covid world, exhibitors at Adipec 2000 Virtual, the world’s largest online industry gathering, say automation will be the key driver of future remote hydrocarbon operations. The forecast comes as the industry readies to probe how it can build for future business resilience through technology, ...

Coming into the US elections, Democrats dreamed of flipping all of the rapidly growing and urbanising Sun Belt states and having the kind of landslide election result they haven’t had in decades. With larger-than-expected losses in Florida and Texas, and a third straight defeat likely in North Carolina, it didn’t turn out that way. Georgia, where Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden ...

Jack Ma was right: You can’t use rules for a railway station to run an airport. Or, regulate a cutting-edge online lending platform like a traditional bank. Chinese authorities effectively took the founder of e-commerce behemoth Alibaba Group Holding Ltd to task for such views by suspending the $35 billion initial public offering of its fintech offspring, Ant Group Co, ...