Karim Husami

Journalist for 8 years in print media, with a bachelor degree in Political Science and International Affairs. Masters in Media communications.

Technological Innovation Determines Defense Capabilities, UAE Minister Says

The United Arab Emirates (UAE) Defense Forces are working on a rigorous investment program to modernize defense capabilities by allocating considerable resources to innovations that develop or regenerate powers, rather than just additional investment to replace conventional weapons.   In our times, innovation is the factor that defines the competitiveness and capabilities of the Defense Forces, […]

New Microsoft Initiative to Support 10,000 African Start-Ups

International tech powerhouse Microsoft announced Wednesday new initiatives to speed up the development of 10,000 African startups and quick-track investment in Africa’s startup environment during the next five years.     According to the tech giant’s announcement, the new initiatives will be responsible for its recently established Africa Transformation Office (ATO). As such, the Founders Hub […]

Apple Stops Al Product Sales and Exports in Russia, Limits Apple Pay

Apple announced on Tuesday that it is stopping all product sales in Russia in light of the country’s decision to launch an assault on Ukraine.   “We are very concerned about the Russian invasion of Ukraine and stand with the people who are suffering as a result of the violence. We are supporting humanitarian efforts, providing […]

Meta Removes 14.8 million Pieces of Bad Content in India

On Tuesday, Meta Properties – formerly Facebook – removed over 11.6 million pieces of content across 13 policies for Facebook and over 3.2 million details of content across 12 guidelines for Instagram during January, the company said on Tuesday.   In January, Meta received 911 reports through the Indian grievance mechanism and responded to all of […]

UAE to Become a Blockchain Superpower 

It has been 13 years since cryptocurrencies first entered the finance world, in the form of the Bitcoin white paper.  This period saw lots of innovation, including the creation of the entirety of the decentralized finance industry, the rapid rise of tokenized assets in the form of non-fungible tokens, or non-fungible tokens (NFT), and a […]

Intelligent, Cooperative Edge Computing in IoT

The combination of edge computing and artificial intelligence (AI) technology is essential for innovating the Internet of Things (IoT).  These two growing concepts face many issues for their integration, such as data storage structure, model generation algorithms, and cloud-edge collaboration mechanisms.  Edge computing cannot support AI and can be enabled via primary network functions related […]

Russia's Assault Gives Indian IT Industry, Upcoming IPOs Cold Feet

The Indian parity markets are witnessing one of the biggest crashes in history as Russia launched an assault on Ukraine.  As such, Indian markets, on Thursday, were wiping out $177 billions of investors’ money as Sensex plunged nearly 5 percent.  Indian IT companies do not have significant operations in Ukraine; they have large centers in […]

Qualcomm Announces "World's First" 5G AI and Wi-Fi 7 Chips

Qualcomm announced Monday the launch of a 5G AI-integrated modem-RF as well as a Wi-Fi 7 system-on-a-chip (SoC).  As such, both offerings are the first of their kind globally, the American semiconductor giant said.   Barcelona’s Mobile World Congress (MWC) returned to Fira for the first time since 2019.  “I see AI as an inflection point […]

How Digital Twins Impact Industries?

Digital Twins and the virtual replicas of devices, machines, or plants are usually used to perform popular simulations before physical implementation.   As such, the definition of Digital Twin is a real-time digital copy of a process, product, or system to be utilized for diagnostics, testing, and analysis even before physically creating the object represented.   Therefore, […]

Microsoft to Add More 5G-Centric Services to its Azure-for-Telcos Lineup

AT&T is changing its existing 5G mobile core network to Microsoft Azure’s hybrid cloud as hyper-scaler digs into intellectual property and engineering expertise to strengthen its telco offering — Azure for Operators.  Microsoft unveiled plans to create a “telco-grade cloud” with its September 2020 announcement of its Azure for Operators initiative.   The company had acquired […]