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Dubai-based retailer Union Coop on Tuesday announced discounts of up to 75 per cent on various products for the holy month of Ramadan. While sharing details at a media briefing on Tuesday, Mohamed Al Hashemi, CEO of Union Coop, said 11 various campaigns would be launched including discounts on 4,000 items between 50 per cent to 75 per cent. In addition, prices will remain locked on 2,000 products as well as 14 new cars to be awarded in a raffle draw during the campaign. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp Channels. There will also…

Reigning Australian Open champion Aryna Sabalenka suffered an opening round upset at the hands of familiar foe Donna Vekic, going down 6-7 (5/7), 6-3, 6-0 in Dubai on Tuesday. Contesting her first match since her successful title defence at Melbourne Park, Sabalenka blew a 7-6, 2-0 lead to succumb to her Croatian opponent in two hours and 22 minutes. The 31st-ranked Vekic, who now owns a 6-2 head-to-head lead in lifetime meetings against Sabalenka, was aggressive throughout the match and enters her next clash with big-hitting Romanian Sorana Cirstea searching for her first WTA 1000 quarter-final of her career. “At…

Snowflake to showcase telco AI innovations and enhanced ecosystem partnerships at MWC 2024 Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, will highlight enhanced offerings to its Telecom Data Cloud at Mobile World Congress 2024, including new innovations in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML), leading telco partner solutions and cross-industry collaborations to tackle some of the most challenging issues facing the industry. Partner solutions include smart CapEx optimisation, capacity planning, field operations, tackling carbon emissions, predictive and automated network maintenance and Open Radio Access Network (ORAN) data enrichment and management. With the new additions to Snowflake’s Telecom Data Cloud, organisations can…

Amazon’s Fire tablets are cheaper alternatives to the tablet deals that you can find online, but you can get various models of the device for an even more affordable price through an ongoing sale by Amazon’s Woot. There may be a lot of time left before these offers expire, but we’re urging you to complete your purchases as soon as possible because of the risk that stocks get sold out sooner than you expect. If you keep delaying, you’re going to risk missing out on the savings. What to buy in Woot’s Amazon Fire tablets sale The cheapest device in…

An app created by teens, for teens, and managed by teens, is gaining ground among youngsters in Dubai, for providing a safe space for the youth to tackle academic requirements and mental health. The sisters who developed it said they created the app because youngsters tend to be more comfortable talking to someone their age. A brainchild of Vaishnavi Jayanti, 16, and Visista Jayanti, 19, How Is Life (HIL) is an app where users share their concerns and worries “without being judged.” The sisters said HIL creates a supportive online community for teenagers who are undergoing physical and emotional changes…

The glittering diamonds sparkle the same but there are key differences: Mined natural gems are more than a billion years old, while laboratory-made rocks are new and cost less than half the price. Man-made gems are reshaping the $89 billion global diamond jewellery market, especially in the west Indian city of Surat where 90 per cent of the world’s diamonds are cut and polished. In Smit Patel’s gleaming lab, technicians drop crystal diamond “seed” slices into reactors mimicking the extreme pressure far underground. “Once the customer sees it for herself, they are sold. I believe this is the future,” said…

The rapid advancement of technology has given rise to the metaverse, a virtual world where individuals interact through avatars in three-dimensional online environments. While the metaverse holds the promise of transforming various aspects of our lives, it also presents challenges, particularly in the realm of crime. Law enforcement agencies are now grappling with the implications of this emerging technology and working to adapt their investigative techniques to combat metaverse-related crimes. “Law enforcement agencies can leverage the opportunities presented by emerging technologies to investigate crimes in the metaverse,” said Madan Oberoi, Executive Director (Technology & Innovation), Interpol, at the 13th Regional…

إنطلاق أعمال الدورة الاولى من مؤتمر الشرق الاوسط الدولي للسياحة العلاجية بدبي تم أمس إفتتاح الدورة الاولى من مؤتمر الشرق الاوسط الدولي للسياحة العلاجية في فندق موفنبيك -القرهود-دبي وذلك بحضور سعادة سالم الدرمكي وكيل وزارة الصحة ووقاية المجتمع وحضور سعادة البروفيسور توفيق بن أحمد خوجة رئيس المؤتمر والاستاذ لطفي الخليفي رئيس الشركة المنظمة للمؤتمر والشيخ. مشعل القاسميوبهذه المناسبة تم إفتتاح معرض السياحة العلاجية المرافق للمؤتمر بمشاركة حوالي 40 مستشفى وشركة سياحة طبية من الامارات وتركيا وتونس والهند وماليزيا واسبانيا متنوعة المجالات وبحضور اطباء من مختلف التخصصات الطبية في مجالات العلاج وجراحات والتجميل وزراعة الشعر.وتستمر ابواب المعرض مفتوحة للزوار مجانا حتى…

Peacock celebrated the streaming premiere of Oppenheimer by adding several other Christopher Nolan movies to its lineup for February. What Peacock declined to mention is that The Dark Knight trilogy, Inception, and Dunkirk are all leaving at the end of the month. So you only have a short time left if you want to curate your own Nolan film festival at home. Our picks for the three movies leaving Peacock in February that you have to watch only includes one of Nolan’s films, because it just wouldn’t be fair to give him the entire spotlight. Our other picks include a…

Students from the UAE have performed exceptionally well in India’s Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) Main, with Yatharth Samirkumar Shah, a Dubai resident, securing the position of ‘Outside India Topper’ with a 99.99 percentile mark. Considered one of the toughest exams in the world, the JEE is a standardised test that gives its applicants the opportunity to get into some of the premiere educational institutions in India. Yatharth Samirkumar Shah is now preparing for the JEE Advanced exam as he hopes to get into a college of his choice. “I want to study computer science at IIT Bombay,” he said. “I…