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Seven world-class destinations have been confirmed by The International Series as part of its ten-tournament schedule for the 2024 season. Boasting an increased prize pool of $23 million, the pathway series to the LIV Golf League, sanctioned by the Asian Tour, will once again commence the year in Oman before making further return journeys to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Morocco, and Qatar. The International Series is a series of men’s professional golf tournaments played internationally, as part of the Asian Tour. Following the announcement in November of the inaugural International Series Macau presented by Wynn, the $5 million PIF Saudi International…
Survival is key in Fortnite, and it all starts by picking the best starting location. Even if you’re an expert player, your likelihood of coming out on top is greatly diminished if you start off on the wrong foot — whether it be at a barren location with no loot or a hot drop that could lead to a swift death. As part of Fortnite chapter 5, season 1, there’s no shortage of fantastic landing spots, but which one you choose comes down to your skill and preference, and you’re going to want to pick the right one if you…
A total of 2,841 emergency calls were received by the Dubai Police on Thursday morning, from 5am to 10am, due to low road visibility caused by dense fog. Authorities also responded to 51 traffic accidents. Major General Saif Muhair Al Mazrouei, director of the General Department of Traffic at Dubai Police, said “motorists should always be aware of changing road-weather conditions, especially during these months of the year when low visibility tends to be more severe.” “Motorists are urged to exercise caution, adhere to safety rules, and reduce driving speeds during fog and unstable weather conditions. Cyclists and e-scooter riders…
To survive the 51 days she and three of her children spent as hostages in Gaza, Chen Almog-Goldstein had to stifle the tears over the killing of her husband and daughter when Hamas gunmen burst into their home in Israel on October 7. “Within seven minutes we were in Gaza,” said Almog-Goldstein. “I remember the looks on my children’s faces. There was shock and a great sadness that I couldn’t express because I was now in survival mode.” Almog-Goldstein, 49, a social worker, had to restrain her grieving for husband Nadav, shot point-blank in the chest by the gunmen when…
Dubai’s real estate sector, which accounted for more than half of the GCC’s transactions worth $171.6 billion in 2023, will continue to dominate the region’s buoyant property market in 2024, realty analysts said. The region’s real estate supply in most segments could quickly get sensitive to market wide headwinds in 2024, but frontline developers with strong liquidity, particularly in Dubai and Riyadh, should be able to calibrate swiftly to bring the right product types to the market, analysts at Kamco Invest said. Residential developers in Dubai and Riyadh “who possess dominant brand equity, an attractive product mix, and market sensitive…
“I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.” So wrote the immortal humorist P.G. Wodehouse in his brilliant novel The Code of the Woosters. Wodehouse, as a stylist, revelled in breaking the canons of the English language, and in this sentence he had done just that. He had poked fun at an unpaired word. “Unpaired words” are those that, on the surface, appear to have a clear counterpart — an antonym — according to conventional English language patterns, and yet don’t. What’s peculiar about them is their prefixes and suffixes suggest the presence of…
After a year of different iterations and programs promising the best in AI-generated art, the easiest way to access your next text-to-image masterpiece might now be to Google it. The brand’s Labs AI experimental hub has been available since the spring, and one of its most recent features allows you to input a query to generate an AI image directly into Google Search and have that image populate into results. Enabling Google’s Search Generative Experience (SGE) allows you to accept AI-generated results in your search and in pages while browsing. Setting the feature up is simple and can be done on…
The Emirates Draw recently announced its grandest cash prize ever — Dh200 million. This remarkable sum has captured the imagination and aspirations of people from diverse backgrounds. The prize can be won in the draw’s Mega7 category, and participants can join until 8.30pm on December 31. To get the jackpot, one has to match all the seven numbers that will be drawn on Sunday. This begs the question: What would you do if you hit this amount of money? Khaleej Times spoke to three individuals with different perspectives to learn what they would do if fortune smiled upon them and…
Sets of technologies that are empowered by artificial intelligence (AI) will dominate the technology stage in 2024, a senior official said. “We believe that AI is the defining technology of our time, and we are optimistic about what AI can do for people, industry, and society by revolutionizing the way we keep our organizations secure and make them more creative and productive,” Ihab Foudeh, General Manager, Microsoft Middle East, told Khaleej Times in an interview. More and more organisations in the region, most notably in the public sector, are already embracing these new technologies and tapping into large computation power…
Every now and then, Andrey Rublev adjusts his hair and tilts his head before making a point. This soft-spoken Russian never shies away from speaking up for what he believes in. Who can ever forget his act of defiance when he wrote ‘No War Please’ on the camera lens moments after winning the Dubai Tennis Championships final last year? It was a message from the son of a former Russian professional boxer that resonated with every sane mind. A few months after his Dubai triumph, Rublev made no fuss about missing out on Wimbledon due to the All England Tennis…