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President Volodymyr Zelensky replaced Ukraine’s popular army chief with his ground forces commander on Thursday, a huge gamble at a time when Russian forces are gaining the upper hand nearly two years into their war. The shakeup ushering in a new military leadership follows months of speculation about a rift between Zelensky and army chief General Valeriy Zaluzhnyi, who many Ukrainians see as a national hero. “As of today, a new management team takes over the leadership of the Armed Forces of Ukraine,” Zelensky said in a statement. Stay up to date with the latest news. Follow KT on WhatsApp…

Google on Thursday rebranded its ChatGPT-style chatbot to Gemini, giving it unprecedented prominence on its products, as the tech titan’s AI race with Microsoft heats up. The name change from Bard comes a year after the search engine giant rushed out its chatbot in a frantic bid to catch up with Microsoft’s Bing chatbot, which was released through its partnership with OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT. Since their launch, the chatbots have expanded into generating images as well as texts in answers to simple prompts, basing themselves on data trawled from the internet. Stay up to date with the latest…

One Wednesday night at The Psychiatry and Therapy Centre, a group of about nine men gathered to talk about a complex, but vital, species: mothers. “In the first two sessions, we didn’t have a particular topic but in the last session the topic was ‘Sons and Mothers’,” says consultant psychiatrist Dr Asad Sadiq, who hosts the men’s group. As they poured their hearts out and sought advice from each other, discussions were punctuated with booming laughter and suggestions to convert the conversations into a podcast were instantly, but playfully, shot down. “One of the men said, ‘Nah man, it’s brilliant…

The final countdown has begun and just over a week for l the start of the much-anticipated annual tennis showpiece – the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Championships. The fortnight long event promises a star-studded lineup for both its annual WTA 1000 tournament and the proceeding ATP 500 men’s event. Running back-to-back from February 18 to March 2, the non-stop action will as ever take place at the Dubai Duty Free Tennis Stadium, offering fans from across the region a chance to watch elite athletes compete for their chance to lift the Emirate’s two illustrious trophies. Among the confirmed participants for…

Metro Brazil witnesses 210 per cent sales growth in 2023, strategizes market expansion in 2024 The retail and eCommerce company report forecasts GCC addressable market to reach USD 3.5 Billion by 2028, marking a 1.83% growth UAE, February 08, 2024 Metro Brazil, a leading retail and eCommerce company for Brazilian shapewear products in the Middle East, witnessed a remarkable growth in 2023 fuelled by a 210 per cent increase in sales and a 161 per cent rise in the number of orders from GCC countries. The expectational growth is attributed to the company’s strategic collaborations, integration of advanced technologies and…

When NASA’s Psyche mission launched in October of last year, it had a special passenger on board: a test of a new communications system using lasers, named Deep Space Optical Communications (DSOC). That system sent back its first data in November, and now it has hit another milestone, with signals from the experiment being received by a hybrid antenna on Earth. The vast majority of deep space missions communicate using radio frequencies, which is a tried and tested technology that has been in use for decades. However, there are bandwidth limitations to radio communications, and as missions collect ever larger…

An accident on Thursday morning in Sharjah involving a school bus resulted in three students and two supervisors sustaining minor injuries. According to the Sharjah Police, the accident was caused when the school bus made a sudden turn, drifted, and collided with the pavement. The injured were transported to a hospital to be treated. The police have assured the parents of the private school that their children are safe and healthy after the accident. The authority has stressed the importance of careful driving of school buses, and the need to follow traffic rules. School buses in the UAE have a…

The UAE, Saudi Arabia and Qatar continue to rank among the world’s top 10 emerging markets for logistics, improving or holding steady in key areas while neighbouring Oman, Bahrain and Kuwait have experienced a decline in their rankings. Globally, the UAE secured the third position in the 15h annual Agility Emerging Markets Logistics Index, which ranked 50 markets around the world for overall competitiveness based on factors that make them attractive to logistics providers, freight forwarders, air and ocean carriers, distributors and investors. The UAE, following China and India, maintained its rank from the previous year, as did Saudi Arabia…

Legendary boxer Mike Tyson is all set to play himself in an off-beat superhero movie Bunny Man’. The film will be shot in Italy. According to Variety, the former heavyweight boxing champion on Tuesday attended a press conference held in the northern city of Turin with Italian producer Andrea Iervolino and writer Enrico Remmert to announce Bunny-Man, which will be entirely shot in Turin. Bunny-Man involves a multimillionaire superhero who strikes against evil forces in anonymity wearing a rabbit mask, according to a supplied synopsis. He is driven by the desire to avenge his sister who committed suicide after suffering…

UAE will host Scotland for a three-match T20I series at the Dubai International Stadium next month. The three night matches will be played on 11, 13 and 14 March. The two teams will compete in the ICC Cricket World Cup League 2 matches in Dubai before the T20I series. The two teams have so far competed in three T20Is with Scotland winning two and UAE winning one. The teams have previously played two T20Is in Dubai. UAE defeated Scotland by nine runs in the match played at the ICC Academy in 2016 while Scotland won the match played at the…