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Imagine sipping on a cup of hot chocolate as you watch the snow falling. Now imagine getting to experience this right here in the UAE. Dubai’s Rain Street located on Cote d’Azur Monaco Hotel on the Heart of Europe Islands — with its beautiful red-with-white-polka-dot awning — is temporarily transforming into the city’s first Snowing Street. From December 3 to January 7, visitors can have this exclusive experience on the 1km-long climate-controlled street as part of the offerings at the Cote d’Azur Monaco hotel, an adults-only haven and the first party hotel on an island in Dubai. “As the rooftop…
A married Indian woman who travelled to Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province to marry her Facebook friend Nasrullah returned to India on Wednesday evening. Anju entered India via the Wagah Border on Wednesday and flew to Delhi from there. Upon arrival in Delhi, she expressed happiness about being back but refrained from answering further questions from the media. “I don’t want to say anything right now,” she said as media persons approached her at Delhi airport. Anju had travelled to Pakistan via the Wagah-Attari border in July this year with a valid visa and converted to Islam. She changed her name…
Dr. Sahar Hashmi, Expert in AI for Healthcare, Business Enterprises, Digital Transformation and Technology Innovation, Offers Entrepreneurial Insights on Generative AI: Tackling Global Stressors and Their Impact on Mental Health Dr. Hashmi Explains: “As generative AI rapidly advances, I closely followed the updates from DevOpenAI Day this month. These included ChatGPT-4, the capability to create custom GPT models, fun facts about DALL-E, and discussions about the timeline leading to AGI (Artificial General Intelligence), although definitions of AGI naturally vary, among many other discussions. The past couple of weeks at OpenAI has been tumultuous, characterized by the dismissal and subsequent reinstatement…
China has released a set of images that show for the first time the entirety of its new Tiangong space station. Released this week by the China Manned Space Agency (CMSA), the images were captured from a few hundred meters above the structure by the Shenzhou 16 crew as they left the station to return to Earth at the end of last month. The images show the core Tianhe module at the center and two laboratory modules, Mengtian and Wentian, either side of it. Also visible are the Shenzhou 17 spacecraft and Tianzhou 6 cargo ship that are currently docked…
It will be a fresh start for more than thousand prisoners of different nationalities after His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE and Ruler of Dubai, granted a pardon ahead of the UAE National Day. Sheikh Mohammed ordered the release of 1,249 inmates in correctional and penal institutions in Dubai, on the occasion of the 52nd Union Day, the Dubai Media Office posted on X, formerly Twitter. Earlier in the day, Rulers in four other emirates announced similar pardons.
We’re all familiar with music-streaming platforms like Spotify and Apple Music. These streaming titans are tried and tested, but there are definitely more out there to choose from. And we have to ask ourselves: Is there any music streamer that goes the extra mile for its listeners, especially in terms of audio quality and personalized recommendations? As a matter of fact, there is, and it’s called Deezer. Deezer has actually been around for more than 15 years, and it’s the kind of streamer that prioritizes premium sound, but at a cost that most of us can wrap our heads around.…
The Ministry of Human Resources and Emiratisation has referred 113 private companies to the Public Prosecution for violating Emiratisation regulations in the UAE. This includes 98 private companies that appointed citizens in fake Emiratisation posts, and 15 other companies proven to be involved in circumventing Emiratisation targets. The total number of companies violating the Emiratisation decisions from the second half of 2022 to date is 894, while a total of 1,267 UAE nationals have been proven to be hired in fake Emiratisation jobs. The Ministry also took legal and administrative measures against companies proven to have evaded Emiratisation targets. These…
Negotiations between Israel and Hamas to extend the Gaza truce were overshadowed at the last minute on Wednesday by an unconfirmed claim by Hamas that a family of Israeli hostages including a 10-month-old baby had been killed. Shortly before the final release of women and children hostages scheduled under the truce, the military wing of Hamas said the youngest hostage, baby Kfir Bibas, had been killed in an earlier Israeli bombing, along with his four-year-old brother Ariel and their mother. Their father, who has also been held, was not mentioned in the statement. Israeli officials said they were checking the…
Google Chat — Google’s business-oriented messaging platform that is similar to Slack and Microsoft Teams — just got a big update for its Android and iOS apps. The update dramatically changes how you navigate the app and, uh, well, it sure is something. Google Chat’s mobile app used to be broken up into two pages: Chat (direct messages between you and other users) and Spaces (larger chat rooms for multiple people). As with most apps, you switched between these with a navigation bar at the bottom of your screen. The new Google Chat app now has four navigation buttons. These include…
Satinder Sartaaj, Indian singer, songwriter, and poet, will be performing live tonight at Dubai Duty Free Tennis stadium. This is his second appearance in the city and the excitement is high, just like his first concert. Satinder’s concerts are an experience unlike any other. The fans can request for their favourites during the concert using a unique QR code and Satinder chooses from the list of displayed songs on screen to perform a special “farmaish” for the fans. There’s also going to be special songs in the set list that have never been performed and some mysterious releases taking the…