Saudi Arabia unveils its man shaped AI robot Mohammad
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia - Saudi Arabia unveiled its first male humanoid robot ‘Muhammad’ during the second edition of DeepFast in...
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US lunar landing a ‘historic achievement’, says Biden
Washington, US - President Joe Biden on Saturday hailed the landing of a US spacecraft on the Moon as a historic...
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Saudi Arabia to ease Covid-19 measures from October 17
While the country has scrapped social-distancing, it has not done away with the mask mandate.
- Masks are not compulsory now in open places, but must be worn in closed places
- The authorities have allowed full capacity in gatherings, public places, means of transportation, restaurants, and cinemas
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Simulating Mars base in Israeli desert
The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a...
- The Austrian Space Forum has set up a pretend Martian base with the Israeli space agency at Makhtesh Ramon, a 500-metre deep, 40 kilometre wide crater
- The six so-called "analogue astronauts" will live in isolation in the virtual station until the end of the month
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Aramex vows to cut emissions
It has signed a deal with the Science Based Target initiative.
- Aramex has signed a commitment with the Science Based Target initiative to significantly reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 2030
- The SBTi is a partnership between CDP, the United Nations Global Compact, World Resources Institute, and WWF
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WHO unveils $8bn Covid-19 vaccination plan
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has said a reduction of cases in any one country will not be sustained over time...
- The strategy aims to make Covid-19 vaccines accessible to everyone, everywhere
- If implemented correctly, it will inoculate 40 percent of people in all countries by the end of the year, and 70 percent by the middle of 2022
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River delta bolsters search for life on Mars
The study in Science analysed high-resolution images captured by Perseverance of the cliffs that were once the banks of the...
- The study in Science analysed high-resolution images captured by Perseverance of the cliffs that were once the banks of the delta
- It is the fine-grained sediment of the base layer that will likely be the target of sampling for signs of long-extinct life -- if it existed -- on Mars
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Patrol robots to police ‘undesirable social behaviour’
From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an...
- From vast numbers of CCTV cameras to trials of lampposts kitted out with facial recognition tech, Singapore is seeing an explosion of tools to track its inhabitants
- Officials have long pushed a vision of a hyper-efficient, tech-driven "smart nation", but activists say privacy is being sacrificed
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Arab world warming up to data analytics: Expert
Data analysts are already helping businesses set marketing strategies, explains Jadd Elliot Dib, founder and CEO of Pangaea X.
- Through data analytics, SMEs can get a better understanding of their customers behavior
- Big Data has the ability to positively impact all industries in the region by creating new revenue streams
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Five billion could struggle to access water in 2050: UN
Already in 2018, 3.6 billion people had inadequate access to water for at least one month per year, and only...
- Over the last 20 years, the levels of water stored on land had dropped at a rate of 1 cm per year
- This includes water on the surface, in the subsurface, in snow and ice
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UAE spacecraft to explore asteroid belt beyond Mars
The United Arab Emirates will launch a spacecraft to explore a major asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, officials said...
- In September 2019, the oil-rich country sent the first Emirati into space
- The UAE also has plans to send an unmanned rover to the moon by 2024
Science
Nobel Prize in Physics rewards climate research
The Nobel Physics Prize has been awarded for ‘groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of complex physical systems.’
- Syukuro Manabe demonstrated how increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere lead to increased temperatures
- Klaus Hasselmann created a model that linked together weather and climate, thus explaining why climate models can be reliable
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Bahrain, Qatar in focus as UAE astronaut shares unique view of the Gulf from space
Sultan Al Neyadi, the UAE astronaut, honors Bahrain and Qatar from his orbital viewpoint 400km above Earth, describing them as...
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Saudi astronauts to conduct 11 experiments at Space Station
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia -– Two Saudi astronauts will conduct 14 scientific and research experiments during their ongoing space mission. The...
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Barnawi’s voyage: First Saudi female astronaut carries dreams of Arab women to space
Two astronauts, Barnawi and Ali Al-Qarni, said that they are fully prepared for their upcoming scientific mission to the International...
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‘Super-sized’ cosmic explosion dwarfs solar system
Astronomers have observed a fireball 100 times the size of our solar system that suddenly began blazing in the distant...
- The explosion is not the brightest flash ever observed in the universe and that record is still held by a gamma-ray burst in October that was nicknamed BOAT
- The only somewhat comparable bright cosmic event is a quasar, when supermassive black holes swallow huge amounts of gas in the centre of galaxies
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Rise of ChatGPT: GCC might lose 10 million jobs in 5 years
Its transformative power to reshape life has left people awestruck across the world, but the technology that powers ChatGPT might...
- According to a Goldman Sachs economist, more than 65 percent of occupations will be partially or fully automated in the coming years
- Critics of generative artificial intelligence that powers chatbots argue that it can never be able to replace the genius of human mind
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‘US needs $30bn to seal 14,000 unplugged offshore oil, gas wells’
The cost to secure thousands of inactive oil and gas wells in the US Gulf of Mexico could top $30...
- The authors of the study said both taxpayers and fossil fuel giants would likely be liable for the costs of plugging and abandoning the wells.
- The process includes encasing the opening in concrete to stop oil and the potent greenhouse gas methane from leaking out.