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Abu Dhabi, UAE, 19 August 2026: First Abu Dhabi Bank (FAB), the UAE’s global bank and one of the world’s largest and safest financial institutions, has announced that Payit, its digital financialplatform, has launched Send Now Pay Later (SNPL), giving eligible customers greater flexibility and control over how they send money internationally. Whether it’s supporting family during an emergency, responding to an unexpected expense or managing finances between paydays, customers don’t always have the flexibility to send money when it’s needed most. Payit is addressing this everyday challenge by enabling eligible customers to complete international transfers immediately and repay the…

Here’s an uncomfortable question for the generative AI era: if an AI creates an image, can anyone actually point to the specific images that influenced it? A new study from MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory suggests that, for sufficiently large models, the answer may often be no. Researchers Dai and Gifford describe the phenomenon as “attribution decay” in their open-access paper, published today in Nature Communications. It refers to how the influence of any individual piece of training data becomes increasingly difficult to detect as the size of the dataset grows. The bigger the dataset, the fuzzier the…

IWC Schaffhausen congratulates its longstanding partner Mercedes‑Benz on its 140thanniversary, celebrated this year under the theme “140 Years of Innovation”.Sincetheinvention of theautomobilein 1886, Mercedes‑Benz has shaped the historyand futureof mobilitythrough pioneering technology, safety, comfort and design.To mark the occasion, IWC launches a limited-edition Big Pilot’s Watch featuring its newly engineered and highly innovative Perpetual Calendar ProSet. As the first perpetual calendar from IWC that can be adjusted forward and backward via a single crown position, it makes calendar adjustments as easy and intuitive as setting the time itself.On the sapphire-glass case back, the first joint logo of Daimler Motoren‑Gesellschaft and Benz &…

We have all been there. A deadline gets buried somewhere in a long email thread, life gets busy, and suddenly you are apologizing for a missed follow-up you completely forgot about. Avec, the AI powered email app built around swipe gestures and voice dictation, just rolled out a fix for this problem, and it might be the app’s smartest addition yet. the magic in this one is the due date detection: you just swipe left, and avec figures out when to remind you, without you needing to do anything more.i didn’t think we could make this work. and yet, it…

Google is currently behind OpenAI and Anthropic at the top end of the frontier-model race. Anthropic’s Claude Opus 5 and OpenAI’s GPT-5.6 Sol both rank ahead of Gemini 3.1 Pro on major independent benchmarks, while Google’s long-awaited Gemini 3.5 Pro remains in testing after reportedly falling short of internal performance targets. While Google works on closing that gap, it is also pushing Gemini aggressively toward a very different audience. Eligible U.S. college students can now get Google AI Pro free for an entire year, alongside a new Student Hub built specifically around studying, coursework, and research. What students actually get…

Apple may have accidentally given everyone an early look at its strangest AirPods yet, but the actual wait hasn’t changed. Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman reports that Apple’s camera-equipped AI AirPods remain on track for 2027, despite a leaked video from a developer version of macOS showing the earbuds in action The leak made them look closer than they are The leaked video appeared earlier this week inside a macOS update and showed the upcoming AirPods working with Apple’s Visual Intelligence feature. The technology uses the earbuds’ cameras to understand what’s happening around the wearer and provide that visual context to Siri…

Google is giving Gemini Live a pretty meaningful upgrade with the addition of Deep Research. The feature is rolling out today to all Gemini app users, letting you start a full research task through a voice conversation and come back to the finished report later. Deep Research has already been available inside Gemini for some time. Instead of giving you a quick chatbot answer, Gemini can dig through multiple sources, follow useful leads, and put together a much more detailed report with citations. The process can take several minutes, but you don’t have to keep Gemini open while it works.…

Meta has finally brought its Meta AI assistant to the Mac with a dedicated desktop app, giving users another AI chatbot to keep open alongside all those other tabs. The app can analyze a shared window, answer questions about what’s on screen, generate content, and accept voice dictation across macOS. Meta AI can actually see what’s on screen The most interesting part of the Mac app is its ability to look at a shared window and use what it sees as context. Users can ask Meta AI about something on screen, get suggestions, or have it help create content based…

You’ve made up your mind about trying out the new Gemini Intelligence features or the improved camera array on the Pixel 11 lineup. In the process, you’ve also noticed that the Pixels cost more than last year; they’re not cheap by any measure, and neither is breaking the front or rear glass. That makes a good case for a case less of an afterthought or an optional accessory and more of a sensible purchase.  To save you time, I’ve gone through over a dozen case listings on Amazon, only to narrow down my recommendations to five of the best, most…

Night Sight used to be one of those Pixel features I couldn’t wait to show people. Point a Pixel at a scene that you know would make any smartphone struggle, and watch the algorithm magic unfold. Google’s computational photography could pull out an image that seemed impossible for any phone camera at the time. Eight years later, night modes are everywhere, and I’ve largely stopped thinking about them. Every flagship I’ve used recently can brighten a dark room by stacking multiple exposures and producing a usable nighttime photograph–not to forget longer shutter speeds. But the Pixel 11 Pro made this…