Tech

The number of cyber-attacks against websites in the UAE during the first four months of the current year reached 155, compared to 297 attacks during the same period of 2017, a decline of 48 percent. The decrease from January to April reflects the significant success of the “National IT Emergency …

Etisalat today announced its exclusive partnership with GSMA for Mobile 360 series-MENA conference in 2018 and 2019, a regional platform that attracts telecom leaders from across the global and regional mobile industry to address key challenges and opportunities in the mobile ecosystem. The three-day conference, scheduled to take place during …

The General Directorate of Residency and Foreigners Affairs in Dubai, GDRFA-Dubai, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with Samsung International SDS for the Middle East and Africa. The MoU is aimed at collaborating in building an innovation lab within GDRFA facilities for developing and testing new solutions and concepts …

Instagram is developing a new feature to show users just how long they spend on the app, its chief executive has confirmed. The move by the photo-sharing site, headed up by Kevin Systrom, is part of a wider effort from technology companies to get people off their phones. The “Usage insights” feature is …

The Dubai Health Authority, DHA, today signed four Memoranda of Understanding, MoUs, with cutting-edge international companies to adopt their inventive healthcare innovations, on Thursday during the fourth cycle of the Dubai Future Accelerator’s Programme. The MoUs were signed by Humaid Al Qutami, Director-General of the DHA, with the companies’ officials. …

Facebook is suspending about 200 apps that it believes may have misused data. The social media giant said in a blog post Monday that the suspensions resulted from its investigation into all apps that had access to large amounts of information before Facebook changed its platform policies in 2014. Those …

Elderly people need a guarantee from the government that robots and remote-monitoring systems will not completely replace human carers in the future, a think-tank has demanded. A report by the Social Market Foundation has raised serious fears that the introduction of technology from the “fourth industrial revolution” could increase loneliness …

Don’t expect a mainstream read like Hawking’s best-selling “A Brief History of Time.” The 16-page (including 3 pages of footnotes) paper isn’t exactly Science 101. To give it a read, it helps to be well-versed in physics and familiar with such terms as “gauge-gravity duality” and equations that look like …