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Programme capacity increased three times since launch; last chance to register over the coming days Dubai, United Arab Emirates – 14 August 2026: The Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) has announced a last call for residents to register for ‘A Dubai Invite’, following exceptional demand that has seen the programme’s capacity increase three times since its launch on 20 July. Approximately 20,000 successful applicants have already received their benefits, with more to be confirmed as visitors of successful applicants arrive. DET and its programme partners have expanded the number of available benefit packages in response to the strong…

If you have ever generated an image with Gemini and gotten annoyed by that stamped-on watermark, Google finally heard you. Gemini is rolling out a new setting called Media Watermarks that lets you toggle visible watermarks on or off across everything you create, including images made with Nano Banana, videos made with Omni, and music made with Lyria. Until now, that visible watermark was applied automatically with no way to turn it off. Rolling out over the next few days, you can decide if your image, video, and music creations made with Gemini will have visible watermarks. Invisible SynthID watermarks…

ABU DHABI: As the UAE accelerates the digital transformation of its tax ecosystem, e-Invoicing and its impact on businesses took centre stage at the UAE E-Invoicing Boot Camp 2026, hosted by the UAE Chapter of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Pakistan (ICAP) at InterContinental Abu Dhabi on Thursday, August 13, 2026. The event brought together finance, tax, compliance and technology professionals to examine what the transition to e-Invoicing will mean for UAE businesses from regulatory readiness and internal controls to technology integration and the way financial data will move between businesses and the tax ecosystem. A key highlight of…

Electric cars have become a pretty normal sight on the road, but replacing jet fuel with batteries gets considerably more complicated when you’re trying to lift thousands of pounds into the sky. Heart Aerospace has just shown that it can be done at a surprisingly large scale. The company’s X1 demonstrator has completed its maiden flight, becoming what Heart says is the largest battery-electric aircraft ever flown. The X1 has a 106-foot wingspan, stretches 76 feet from nose to tail, and weighs more than 25,000 pounds at takeoff. The piloted flight took place on August 12 at Plattsburgh International Airport…

Mark Rober has spent years proving that science and engineering don’t have to feel like homework. His enormously popular videos turn subjects such as physics, robotics, and mechanical engineering into spectacular challenges, ingenious pranks, and machines that kids immediately want to understand. CrunchLabs has carried that approach into the physical world with its Build Box subscriptions. Now Rober is taking it in another direction: children’s fiction. The first three books in the new CrunchLabs Mysteries series are Toy Store Trouble, The Arcade Thief, and The Stolen Bike. Each is a hardcover, heavily illustrated mystery starring a fictionalized 12-year-old Mark Rober. The stories are intended for…

Ferrari just unveiled a one-off supercar at Pebble Beach, and it’s called the CZ26. This isn’t a limited edition you can still hunt down. It’s a completely custom Ferrari built for a single client, and it took two years to come together. What makes the CZ26 different from a regular Ferrari? Underneath its new skin, the CZ26 shares its architecture and performance with the Ferrari SF90 Stradale. So mechanically, you’re still looking at a top-tier, ultra-high-performance hybrid supercar. But the Ferrari Design Studio, led by Chief Design Officer Flavio Manzoni, gave it an entirely new body and identity, inspired by…

Abu Dhabi, UAE – August 14, 2026: As a new school year approaches, Bawabat Al Sharq Mall is inviting families to embark on an unforgettable back-to-school adventure from August 21st to 30th, 2026, between 4:00 PM and 10:00 PM, where learning, imagination and family fun come together under one roof. Children can look forward to an immersive programme inspired by this year’s theme, “Big Dreams Take Flight”. At the heart of the celebration stands a spectacular giant hot air balloon installation, welcoming young explorers as they begin their journey towards a world of creativity, discovery and endless possibilities. The hot…

AI apparently doesn’t need to replace every biological system. Dogs are still keeping their jobs, at least for now. An Indian startup from Bengaluru, Karnataka, is training dogs with sensors and machine learning. Patients breathe normally into a face mask for about 10 minutes, ship the sealed sample to a lab, and let the dogs get to work. The dogs are trained to identify changes in volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, associated with cancer. Sensors meanwhile track signals including movement, respiration, brain activity, and body language, which Dognosis’ AI translates into standardized data rather than relying entirely on a human…

Six-week campaign pairs up to 50% off more than 1,000 products with a standing commitment to hold prices on 125 essentials all year Dubai, UAE: Union Coop has launched its ‘Back to School 2026’ campaign, running from 3 August to 13 September across its showrooms, app and website. The campaign offers up to 50% off more than 1,000 products, from stationery and school bags to lunch boxes, water bottles, food essentials and electronics. The offer sits on top of something that does not end when the campaign does. Union Coop holds fixed prices on 125 food and non-food essentials throughout the…

Keychron has built a 100-key macro pad for anyone who has ever looked at a keyboard and wished none of its buttons had jobs yet. The Keychron C100 8K costs $64.99 and presents a 10-by-10 grid with no letters, numbers, or commands assigned. Four corner keys are reserved for lighting controls and can’t be remapped, leaving 96 programmable positions. That’s still nearly an entire full-size mechanical keyboard devoted to shortcuts, except nobody has decided what any of them should do. How much can you program The C100 8K supports QMK and the browser-based Keychron Launcher, letting owners assign individual commands…