Deemed the jeweled project of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, NEOM, the crown’s $500 billion futuristic metropolis is attracting attention from the Kingdom and globally, bringing 10,000 steps forwards towards molding a city to incorporate human civilizations and modernization. Famous for its oil-based economy, with primal revenue dependence on natural resources, the KSA is making […]
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Make no mistake, the Metaverse is already here. It has been here for a while. No, it doesn’t look like what movies would have you believe, and it doesn’t involve people wearing headsets or augmented reality (AR) glasses at the office – yet – but it is here. Every time you see someone doing a […]
Kenyan tech-led consumer credit platform, Lipa Later, announced plans to reach different frontiers by widening its horizon to reach new markets in Africa, and be endorsed by a $12 million pre-Series A funding. Steered by Cauris Finance, Lateral Frontiers VC – one of the platform’s first investors – and GreenHouse Capital, the equity and debt funding round was also […]
On Wednesday, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) was struck with its Microsoft Outlook services outage. Several users went to social media platforms to shine a light on the events taking place, complaining that they could not access their emails, either by web or mobile browsers. The Big Tech titan was tagged in almost every post, […]
Google uncovered plans to bring forth an open-source application programming interface (API) standard called Ripple Project that would help bring multi-functional small chips to various devices, including electric vehicles (EV). Since 2015, Google openly revealed that it was entering the gates of chip-making with its tiny radar chips that can keep score of sleep schedules, […]
China said on Tuesday it would put in force new rules that will boost oversight over how its platform companies make plans to list abroad or use recommendation algorithms, in moves set to tighten Beijing’s grip over its sprawling technology sector. The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) said it would from Feb. 15 implement new […]
Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc revealed on Sunday its quarterly deliveries, marking a new reported record, exceeding Wall Street expectations as the globe battles through a semiconductor crisis. For Tesla, this signaled a six consecutive quarter following its report highlighting its high record deliveries. The electric vehicles (EV) company supplied in its fourth-quarter 308,600 cars, surpassing […]
2021 came, and with it came the wave of emerging technologies in various sectors, be it medical, sustainability, blockchain technology, and much more. And while 2021 wasn’t as intense as its predecessor, the year still brought with it some challenges that were quite an ordeal to overcome, or even avoid, for that matter. With this […]
Ex-TikTok video moderator is accusing parent company, ByteDance, of failing to take care of their employees’ mental wellbeing against a nearly endless barrage of traumatic footage viewed and filtered out daily throughout long working hours. Candie Frazier was subjected to viewing hours of disturbing content, including mass shootings, animal mutilation, child rape, suicide, cannibalism, gang violence, murder, […]
According to state-backed media reports, Alibaba Cloud Computing’s information-sharing partnership was put to an end on Wednesday by Chinese watchdogs, following allegations of neglecting to report and tackle a cyber threat. The 21st Century Business Herald reported that the subsidiary of the e-commerce giant failed to promptly report weaknesses in the famous, open course logging […]