Scientists launch hub to channel quantum power for good
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Scientists will work to channel the huge emerging power of quantum computers for the common good at a...
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Musk says patient moves cursor with brain implant
The Neuralink startup, cofounded by Musk in 2016, aims to build direct communication channels between the brain and computers. The...
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World races to contain new Covid variant
Fears mounted Saturday that a highly-infectious new coronavirus strain was pushing its way into Europe as the world brought the...
- South Africa complained that it was being "punished" with air travel bans for first detecting the strain
- Scientists are racing to determine the threat posed by the heavily mutated strain, which is more transmissible than the dominant Delta variant
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UAE gets its first driverless autonomous vehicle
Khalifa University has thus become the first university in the UAE to deploy an Autonomous Vehicle (AV) on campus that...
- The driverless and 100 percent electric shuttle is the first-ever autonomous vehicles to be deployed in the UAE in a mixed traffic mode
- The Khalifa University AV can detect and avoid potential obstacles thanks to the onboard sensors, Light Detection and Ranging, cameras, GPS etc
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B.1.1.529 is ‘variant of concern,’ as WHO names it Omicron
WHO says the new variant ‘has a large number of mutations, some of which are concerning.’
- WHO said the Omicron strain was first reported officially by South Africa on November 24
- However, the first known confirmed B.1.1.529 infection was from a specimen collected on November 9
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UAE and Italy to scale up collaboration in bio-sciences
The UAE and Italy can join forces to lead the world through the "structural shift" underway in the biomedical sciences...
- "There is ample scope to work together in new areas, such as biomedical technology"
- UAE was able to respond to 80% of the global and regional demand for medical supplies and aid by distributing more than two billion doses of COVID-19 vaccines
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193 countries adopt first global pact on Artificial Intelligence ethics
All member nations of UNESCO adopted on Thursday a historical text that defines the common values and principles needed to...
- The Recommendation on Ethics of AI sets the first global normative framework while giving countries the responsibility to apply it at their level.
- Until the pact, there were no universal safeguards against ethnic bias, privacy threats, dangers of mass surveillance: UNESCO.
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Carbon capture tech finally gaining speed: IEA
For net-zero, carbon-capture tech cannot spend another decade on the sidelines of climate mitigation efforts, said the IEA.
- Carbon-capture tech and facilities say a stagnation, and even regression, from 2010 to 2017
- However, 2021 has seen many countries and organizations promising to scale up the technology due to their net-zero pledges
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Crisis a chance to green Lebanon: environment minister
Lebanon's economic meltdown presents an opportunity to improve the country's environmental policies and tackle its festering waste management crisis, says...
- Lebanon's economy has been in tailspin for two years, leading to a historic currency collapse that has sent poverty rates soaring
- Incompetence and corruption caused a spectacular waste crisis in 2015, when rivers of trash filled the streets and ran into the sea
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NASA launches spacecraft to kick an asteroid off course
The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much...
- The goal is to slightly alter the trajectory of Dimorphos, a "moonlet" around 525 feet wide that circles a much larger asteroid called Didymos
- Impact should take place in the fall of 2022, when the binary asteroid system is 6.8 million miles from Earth, almost the nearest point they ever get
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RAF claims world first flight using synthetic oil
Group Captain Peter Hackett completed a short flight in an Ikarus C42 microlight aircraft at an airfield in Gloucestershire, western...
- Britain's ministry of defense said it had the potential to save 80-90 percent of carbon per flight.
- The RAF is planning its first airbase to be net zero by 2025 and be carbon neutral across the service by 2040.
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Amazon had the highest deforestation record in October 2021
While Brazil takes international pledge at COP26 to end deforestation by 2030, the destruction of the Amazon rainforest keeps rising...
- Deforestation of 7,880 square kilometers of Amazon's rainforest was been reported in 2021
- Environmentalists blame the country's president for defunding environmental protection organizations
Scientists launch hub to channel quantum power for good
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Saudi Arabia enters a new era of tech and innovation
“The Kingdom advanced 15 places in the Global Innovation Index in 2022. Winning prizes and top ranks in international competitions...
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Saudi astronauts carry out experiments aboard ISS
The mission of Saudi astronauts Rayyanah Barnawi and Ali AlQarni involves 14 pioneering experiments in microgravity to further space and...
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Musk secures approval for direct brain-computer interface technology
Neuralink said clearance from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its first in-human clinical study is "an important...
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Humans must stay in control of AI, European trade union chief warns
BERLIN, GERMANY — No employee should be “subject to the will of a machine”, European trade union chief Esther Lynch...
- In the same way that EU treaties protect health and safety in the workplace, rules are needed to guarantee “the human-in-control principle” when it comes to AI, Lynch said.
- Lynch, general secretary of the European Trade Union Confederation since last December, will head the four-day ETUC Congress that kicks off in the German capital.
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End of COVID-19 emergency doesn’t end its threat
“The threat of another variant emerging that causes new surges of disease and death remains, and the threat of another...
- WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus warns of potential future surges from new variants and the emergence of deadlier pathogens
- The global health body chief also stresses the importance of readiness for future pandemics with decisive, collective, and equitable responses
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Soaring success: First Saudi astronauts reach space
A SpaceX capsule carrying two Saudi astronauts docked with the International Space Station on Monday, as part of a private...
- Rayyanah Barnawi, a breast cancer researcher, becomes first Saudi woman in space, joined by Ali Al-Qarni, a Saudi fighter pilot as Axiom Mission 2 begins
- The space team -- which includes former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and businessman John Shoffner -- will carry out 20 experiments on the ISS