Author: Emirates Insight
In a landmark step towards shaping the future of urban mobility in the UAE, Dubai Taxi Company, together with its strategic partner Bolt, has entered into a strategic alliance with Kabi by Al Ghurair, and Zed, the UAE’s homegrown ride-hailing app, aimed at enhancing the ride-hailing experience for residents and visitors alike. The partnership was formalized through the signing of an agreement between Mr. Mansoor Rahma Alfalasi, CEO of Dubai Taxi Company and Mr. Badr Al Ghurair, CEO of Kabi, Al Ghurair Mobility, marking a significant milestone in Dubai’s journey towards smarter, more accessible, and customer-centric transport solutions. Through this…
Al Ain Farms Group (AAFG), the UAE’s national food champion, and FoodTech Valley, Dubai’s government-backed food innovation center, have signed an agreement to develop a 260,000 sq.ft. logistics hub in Dubai. The facility will strengthen the UAE’s food security, accelerate fresher food distribution, and support the nation’s Net Zero 2050 commitments. Announced at the Future Food Forum 2025, held under the patronage of the Ministry of Economy and Tourism, the facility will enable faster deliveries and increased efficiency, ensuring fresher, higher-quality products. Situated strategically, the center will reduce delivery distances, cut CO₂ emissions by an estimated 2,500 tonnes annually, and…
The relationships between a population of people, their health outcomes, and their local contexts can be very complex. Nevertheless, developing an understanding of these population dynamics can be crucial for addressing complex social problems, such as disease, economic security, disaster response, and much more. Despite the importance, however, accurate predictions for these population dynamics have been elusive for decades and remain a challenge for researchers, policymakers, and businesses.Traditional approaches to understanding population dynamics tend to rely on data from censuses, surveys, or satellite imagery. While valuable, these types of data each have their own unique shortcomings. Censuses, though comprehensive, are…
The successful application of machine learning to understand the behavior of complex real-world systems from healthcare to climate requires robust methods for processing time series data. This type of data is made up of streams of values that change over time, and can represent topics as varied as a patient’s ECG signal in the ICU or a storm system moving across the Earth.Highly capable multimodal foundation models, such as Gemini Pro, have recently burst onto the scene and are able to reason not only about text, like the large language models (LLMs) that preceded them, but also about other modalities…
Dubai, the vibrant city of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), is known for breaking records and redefining experiences. Among its many world-class attractions, Deep Dive Dubai stands out as a must-visit destination for thrill-seekers, adventure enthusiasts, and diving aficionados. Opened in 2021, it is officially recognized as the world’s deepest swimming pool, reaching a staggering depth of 60 meters, making it a one-of-a-kind attraction in the UAE. Deep Dive Dubai offers more than just impressive depth it is an immersive underwater world. The pool is designed with a sunken city theme, complete with buildings, cars, and even a sunken helicopter, providing divers with a…
Ether prices fell to $3,994 during Thursday morning trading in Asia, its lowest level since early August. The asset was trading marginally above $4,000 at the time of writing, after shedding another 3.3% on the day. ETH is currently down 19% from its all-time high, and most of those losses have come over the past week. The sharp decline comes amid a general crypto market pullback that has seen total market capitalization shrink below $4 trillion. However, Ether is getting hit much harder following its epic 225% surge from April to August. Correction to $3,500 Possible Analyst ‘Sykodelic’ predicted a…
Willow: beating the thresholdOperating “below the threshold” has been a goal for error corrected quantum computing since its inception in the 1990s. However, after almost 30 years of advancement in device fabrication, calibration, and qubit design, quantum computers still hadn’t passed this landmark. That is, until our latest 105-qubit superconducting processor, Willow.Willow represents a significant leap forward in quantum hardware. It maintains the tunability of our previous architecture, Sycamore, while improving the average qubit lifetimes (T1) from about 20 μs to 68 µs ± 13 µs. The qubits and operations in our device are optimized with quantum error correction in…
It’s just shy of 20 years since US political satirist Stephen Colbert coined the term ‘truthiness’. He described it as “something that seems like truth – the truth we want to exist”. In corporate circles, there’s a fiscal truthiness where everyone’s wealthy and successful right up until the moment they lodge tax filings with the government. “Profitiness” allows company execs to tell investors they’re doing well and rolling in cash, while informing the tax office they’ve deeply in the red. There’s nothing illegal or dodgy about this parallel financial universe. As the late Sydney billionaire Kerry Packer told politicians in…
His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Ruler of Dubai, has launched “The Emirates: The Startup Capital of the World” campaign, a strategic initiative aimed at strengthening the UAE’s position as a leading global hub for entrepreneurship and innovation. The campaign seeks to provide comprehensive support to Emirati youth, enabling them to benefit from the UAE’s unique economic environment through an integrated ecosystem of initiatives, platforms, and specialised programmes designed to foster innovation, accelerate growth, and diversify the national economy. Supervised by the Ministry of Economy and Tourism, in collaboration with the UAE Government…
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