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I didn’t cover a ton of keyboards at CES 2024 because, frankly, they’re not too exciting for the most part. Hyte made me do a double take, though. Its new Keeb keyboard is, without a doubt, one of the strangest, most exciting keyboards I’ve ever seen. And I can’t wait for it to start shipping. Hyte isn’t the name you think of when it comes to peripherals — in fact, this is its first peripheral ever. The company known for PC cases is expanding its horizons with the Keeb, and it seems focused on bringing the same unique design that…

Tourists with special needs or people of determination (PoD) can avail of free public parking across Dubai for up to three months. They can also get special permits to enjoy 50 per cent discount in taxis. These were confirmed separately on Thursday to Khaleej Times by officials from Roads and Transport Authority (RTA) and Dubai Taxi Company (DTC). Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. Speaking at the 4th Accessible Travel and Tourism International Conference, Osama Al Safi, RTA director of Parking Department and head of Friendly Organisation for PoD, said PoD tourists can…

The International Monetary Fund’s board has approved a roughly $700 million loan for Pakistan under a $3 billion bailout, the finance ministry said. The IMF’s completion of its first review of the programme allows for an immediate disbursement of special drawing rights worth around $700 million, bringing the total disbursements under the Standby Arrangement (SBA) to $1.9 billion, the ministry said on social media platform X. The South Asian country is operating under a caretaker government after the IMF loan programme, approved in July, helped avert a sovereign debt default. Ahead of the bailout, Pakistan had to undertake a slew…

AKCAF UAE, the All Kerala Colleges Alumni Forum, has been organizing several events over the years in the country. From community welfare initiatives to cultural events, AKCAF UAE has always brought people together. The members of this forum also take great pride in becoming the first organisation to introduce The Hundred, the newest cricket format where each team play 100 balls, in the UAE. “AKCAF Professional League is a cricket tournament we started in 1997 for all Kerala colleges’ alumni who are based in UAE,” said Johnson Mathew, a senior member of the organization. “We used to play in the…

Sending images as prompts to ChatGPT is still a fairly new feature, but in my own testing, it works fine most of the time. However, someone’s just found an image that ChatGPT can’t seem to handle, and it’s definitely not what you expect. The image, spotted by brandon_xyzw on X (formerly Twitter), presents some digital noise. It’s nothing special, really — just a black background with some vertical lines all over it. But if you try to show it to ChatGPT, the image breaks the chatbot each and every time, without fail. I tried to feed the image to ChatGPT…

Phoenix Group, a technology conglomerate revered for its cutting-edge blockchain and crypto solutions, announced its impending Initial Public Offering (IPO) on the Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange (ADX). Phoenix Group is co-founded by blockchain and cryptocurrency specialists, Bijan Alizadeh and Munaf Ali and overseen by a board including Tareq Alhosani Abdulraheem (who sits on the Board of several UAE strategic entities including being chairman of Global Aerospace Logistics LLC) and Elham Alqasim (who sits on the Board of Bayanat and Board Director at Amanat Holdings PJSC). This upcoming listing would represent an important IPO for the UAE, with Phoenix Group being…

It’s that time of the year when we bring out our planners and vision boards, in the hope of creating a brighter and better year ahead. In these times of information overflow, there are plenty of ways to visualise and manifest. Authors like Louise Hay, Rhonda Byrne, and Wayne Dyer have written about the power of our thoughts and beliefs when it comes to creating our reality. More and more people are familiar with the universal Law of Attraction of like attracts like. Simply put, this means that when we align our thoughts, intentions and actions to create a solid…

Rory McIlroy made a stunning start to the defence of his Race to Dubai title as a bogey-free 62 handed him a two-shot lead after day one of the inaugural $2.5 million Dubai Invitational. The Northern Irishman was teeing it up for the first time since being presented with his fifth Harry Vardon Trophy at the DP World Tour Championship in November at Jumeirah Golf Estates and he has returned to the UAE looking for a sixth career win in Dubai, the place where he claimed his first nearly 15 years ago. His nine birdies saw him lead the way…

Davos 2024: A window into the reorganisation of large-scale flows of capitalaround the transition Thomas Hohne-Sparborth, Head of Sustainability Research, Lombard Odier IM The new year is well and truly underway, the mountains around Davos have turned a snowy white, and the 2024 edition of the World Economic Forum is about to begin. What can investors expect? As in previous years, somewhere between 2,000 and 3,000 official guests will attend – many from the business community, as well as government and NGO representatives. Innumerable unofficial participants will round out the crowd, flocking to the countless satellite events taking place throughout…

One of the most common complaints about the first season of Paramount+‘s Halo is that it didn’t feel enough like the hit video game series that spawned a franchise. Thankfully, the new trailer for Halo season 2 seems to be addressing that by filling the screen with epic sci-fi combat that even extends into space. It also appears that the show has reached a pivotal moment in the history of the Halo universe: The Fall of Reach. Within the games and the show, Reach is the name of a human colony in the 26th century, and its devastation was one…