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Huawei Releases Next-gen Smart City Solutions to Accelerate City Intelligence

City Intelligent Twins represent a future-oriented, next-gen digital city technical architecture During MWC 2024, Huawei released its next-gen smart city solutions at a roundtable event themed "Building City Intelligent Twins to Accelerate City Intelligence". Government industry experts from Asia Pacific, Latin America, Africa, and China gathered to discuss hot smart city topics, aiming to facilitate government digitalization and accelerate city intelligence.…

APIs in Agriculture: Farming Practices with Satellite Data Integration

Reshaping the way farmers, agribusinesses, and researchers navigate and manage agricultural operations As the world grapples with escalating food demand and decreasing arable land, the agricultural sector is turning to technology for innovative solutions. One tool that has demonstrated immense potential in driving agricultural modernization is the Application Programming Interface (API). Today, APIs are reshaping…

How Radix is Solving Today’s Device Management Problems for Businesses and Smart Cities

Nadav Avni (CMO): The world of smart cities is a priority for us and, as mentioned earlier, we’re currently involved in many projects” Today we are witnessing the emergence of several innovative technologies at a pace never seen before. One such technology is smart technologies, which leverages smart devices, systems, and machine learning to enable…

MWC24 opens its doors to the future

Lara Dewar, CMO of event organizer GSMA, expects it to be the biggest iteration of the show in half a decade and around 95,000 attendees are expected Dewar, at the organisation for four years, acknowledged the event is invariably compared to “our last best year” which was 2019 in terms of attendee numbers, but it…

Morocco and Egypt explore new avenues to strengthen tourism cooperation

The two ministers explored various strategies to strengthen cooperation in the field of tourism, highlighting the importance of promoting investment and the development of spa products as central axes for the growth of the sector In a key meeting to strengthen tourism ties between Morocco and Egypt, held on February 20, 2024 in Cairo, Moroccan…

Researchers and small businesses join forces against hackers

Improved cybersecurity defences for electronic commerce have emerged from EU-funded projects What do a Greek pharmacy, a Spanish multinational bank, a German foundation specialised in the digital economy and a UK university have in common? They all helped develop software tools with EU funding to counter cyber and physical threats to e-commerce in the European…

Digital Services Act starts applying to all online platforms in the EU

The EU’s landmark rulebook that aims to make the online environment safer, fairer, and more transparent, starts applying to all online intermediaries Under the Digital Services Act (DSA), EU users are better protected against illegal goods and content and have their rights upheld on online platforms where they connect with other users, share information, or…

A win for science, and patients, against brain injury ‘nihilism’

Hope for progress even after a 450-foot fall, trial shows, defying pessimism that hurts research and families New research may upend the widely held view of traumatic brain injury as a permanently debilitating condition. The findings indicate that electrical stimulation can reawaken quiescent brain circuitry, leading to functional improvements that have the potential to restore…

Sports tourism to reach a valuation of nearly $2 billion by 2030

The increase in sporting events will help the tourism industry attract more tourists to sporting venues, which will ultimately accelerate future demand for hotel and tourism services The global sports tourism market size was valued at US$323,420.0 million in 2020, and is projected to reach US$1,803,704.0 million by 2030, registering a CAGR of 16.1% from…

MIT researchers remotely map crops, field by field

The team used machine learning to analyze satellite and roadside images of areas where small farms predominate and agricultural data are sparse Crop maps help scientists and policymakers track global food supplies and estimate how they might shift with climate change and growing populations. But getting accurate maps of the types of crops that are…