Author: dailyguardian.ae
I am, by every reasonable measure, a serial plant killer. I’ve lost count of the pothos, the peace lilies, the one very expensive fiddle-leaf fig that judged me silently for a month before giving up entirely. My problem was never a lack of love. It was that I’d either drown them out of guilt or forget they existed for a fortnight, with no middle ground. So when I started leaning on Gemini for the odd everyday question, letting it babysit my plants wasn’t some grand plan. It happened almost by accident, and now my flat looks like something a person…
New MOU expands access to optional comprehensive pre-fight brain health and performance assessments alongside mandatory MRI examinations for professional boxers across the UAE Dubai, U.A.E., 13 July 2026 – The Brain & Performance Centre, A DP World Company, has signed a strategic Memorandum of Understanding with the UAE Athletic Commission to strengthen athlete safety and elevate medical standards across professional boxing events in the UAE. Under the partnership, the Centre will serve as one of the Commission’s approved medical service providers for comprehensive pre-fight brain health and performance assessments. All professional boxers competing in sanctioned UAE events are required to…
If you use Samsung Health to track your sleep, workouts, or medications, you may have noticed a new consent toggle pop up in the app this week. Samsung is now asking users to allow their personal health data to be used for AI training and modeling. The catch is hard to miss: say no, and Samsung will stop syncing your health data and delete all data stored in your account (via Cybernews). ‼️ Samsung is forcing users to hand over their data for AI training by breaking core functionality of its Health app.covers activity, health records, medication, and menstrual cycle…
In Response to His Highness Crown Prince of Dubai’s Directive to Redefine the Role of Housewifes National Bonds Places “Generation Shapers” at the Heart of Its Year of Family Agenda Launch of a rewards package for Generation Shapers and their children, including quarterly incentive rewards, dedicated rewards for children, and year-round recreational and educational activities. Mrs. Rehab Lootah, Deputy CEO of National Bonds Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 14 July 2026: National Bonds, the UAE’s Sharia-compliant savings and investment company, today announced the adoption of “Generation Shaper” as the new designation replacing “Housewife” across all its digital and electronic transactions, alongside…
A generation of children is about to discover the thrill of calling a friend again. Pinwheel’s latest product will enable kids to have an actual conversation without sending 14 voice notes first. The company has launched Pinwheel Home, a retro-inspired household phone created for children aged 5 to 10 who may need a way to contact friends and family before receiving their first smartphone. It makes voice calls and nothing else, keeping social media, games, texting, and endless feeds out of the equation. The landline is back, minus the phone jack Pinwheel Home may look like a device pulled from…
I’ve been an AirPods user for the last four years, and one of the things that makes it genuinely hard to leave behind is the seamless, almost magical pairing experience across devices. Open an AirPods case near your iPhone, and a pop-up appears within seconds. Switch to your Mac and the audio follows. However, the experience is limited only to Apple devices. Doesn’t matter whether you have one of the coolest pieces of tech on the market right now; if it’s not Apple, it won’t get the same treatment. However, that might change for the Meta Quest or the Ray-Ban…
If you own a Pixel Watch, there’s a chance you have seen a stubborn permission prompt carrying the Fitbit logo on your wrist. It asks for access to your sensor data and refuses to leave no matter how many times you dismiss it. The frustrating part is that most people hit by this have already granted every permission the watch could possibly want. Everything is toggled on, and yet the warning keeps persisting. Several users on Reddit have also pointed out that the Health app is still recording their sensor data without any trouble, which suggests the error message is…
If you shoot RAW and edit on your phone, Google’s free photo editing app Snapseed just got a lot more useful. The app has received a fresh update on Android, adding support for a long list of RAW formats it previously couldn’t handle. What’s new in Snapseed v4.1 Expanded RAW support is the big change in the new release. In a post on Reddit, the Snapseed team says version 4.1 covers most of the major formats and cameras on the market, including Sony’s ARW, Canon’s CR3, Nikon’s NEF, Fujifilm’s RAF, Olympus’ ORF, Pentax’s PEF, and the generic DNG format. The…
ELYS Life Partners with The Empowering Women Middle East to Build Sustainability Into Dubai’s Everyday Wellbeing New advisory partnership ties personal wellbeing to Dubai’s Quality of Life Strategy 2033 and the city’s ambition to become the happiest place in the world Dubai, United Arab Emirates, 13 July 2026 – ELYS Life, the AI-powered nervous-system intelligence infrastructure founded by Renat Mansurov, today announced a strategic advisory partnership with H.E. Cláudia Pinto, Founder and CEO of The Empowering Women Middle East, and H.E. Maher Al Kaabi, Governance and Sustainability Advisor. The partnership moves ELYS Life toward a government-aligned wellbeing standard for the…
If you’ve ever felt like Claude gave you a completely different vibe on one day than another, you weren’t imagining it. Anthropic just published research confirming that its chatbot’s personality shifts depending on which model you pick and which language you type in, and the pattern is consistent enough that it’s worth knowing before you ask your next question. The model you pick decides how Claude responds The company analyzed 300,000 real Claude conversations and mapped the chatbot’s behavior across four traits, including how cautious versus accommodating it is and how encouraging versus rigorous its tone is. Its findings suggest…